Classes for me began today after the bar night last night. I was a good girl and in bed by 1:30 to get up for my 10am class, however, living in residence finally took it's toll.
A few of my floormates who did not have an early class crashed in giggling around 4am. It's a good thing I love them dearly or my floor would be short a few students haha. Needless to say I was dragging my bum to class at 10am. I also got up way too early at 8:30 for fear that the shower would be occupied. Evidently I'm the only one stupid enough to have a class the morning after the regular Tuesday pub night, and was ready a full 40 minutes early for class.
My class is Journalism Internship which begins at 10am and finishes at 1pm. However, this class only runs for 4 or 5 weeks before we are set off on our own, meaning after that time I won't have anymore lecture, great! Unfortunately, my prof, making the most of his free time, has TRIPLE booked our class time. Meaning he teaches from 9:30-10:30, shows up to our class half an hour late, and then leaves another house early at noon for his other class. It was very frustrating and you could tell he was a flustered as we were about the whole situation. Not to mention my classroom is a little bit like this:
There was room for 20 of us, and 45 showed up! People we sitting on desks and the floor practically on top of one another. I guess it was a good unintentional ice breaker. The final cherry on top was that the prof proceeded to hand out 5 different sheets of instructions and then read them aloud to us. I find it so funny that we are assumed to be master's students that haven't yet learned to read. Sigh- the first week is always like this, hopefully next week will be better.
My last class was really enjoyable though, it's called The Working Journalist. All of our assignments (if they are good enough) will be published here: http://www.upstart.net.au/
I'll let you know if anything I do gets there. We get to interview several journalists (which we have to hunt down ourselves) and write about them. We have to turn in a piece of writing almost every week, but I'm up for the challenge and am looking forward to doing less academic and more practical writing.
My goal for the journalist interviews is to hunt down the big players that no one thinks will give an interview, hoping that they will throw me a bone- I am thinking of making my first target Rick Mercer- go big or go home! Plus I want to add some Canadian stars to the list of Aussies and Americans that have already been interviewed. Last semester someone interviewed a guy from RollingStone- highly impressive.
Well the days of sleeping in are officially over and I'll be sitting my over achiever bum in the library tomorrow morning! Wish me luck!
