Hurrah.
I've been putting this off for about 5 days now. Everyday it was pretty much like, "ok today I have too much to do, so I'll start tomorrow..." and tomorrow became tomorrow which became tomorrow... Etc. But FINALLY, I've forced myself to make a start at least, despite having notes to do after lectures, dates to see people, work to go to, AND fitting in precious 'me' time... It's really no joke when people say juggling work, school and social life is difficult because it really is - especially when you're aiming to do well. I have a classmate who juggles all of that PLUS childcare for her 2 kids. Respect out there to all those studying and working mothers.
So my first piece of coursework is my economics based one. Not really one I would like to start my masters degree with =/, economics is so new to me, I've never touched on anything to do with economics before so it's a really grey area. I have to conduct some STEEPLE analysis on a supermarket of my choice. I chose Waitrose because I know everyone will do Tesco haha. Waitrose is more interesting in terms of environment, ethical and social factors anyway. So this is due 11th November, I have 3 other pieces of coursework due AND I need to consider what I'm doing for my project as well... Masters is really no joke. It's so tough already T___T.
Today I had a really crazy day, the rain made travelling to uni really stressful, my tube came like 10 minutes late and so I barely made it into class. Luckily I have a classmate who lives in the same area and I happened to bump into her on the platform. After the 1st 3-hour lecture, I had 30 mins to grab some lunch - which happened to be just some chips from McDonalds. Headed to my next 3 hour lecture which ended early, got back to Hounslow and bought some crisps from Tesco - I was starving at this point and it would take another 10-20 minutes to get home by bus so desperate measures had to be taken even if I was sacrificing my health for junk food. Got home finally and made myself some dinner, showered, ate, then sat down with some green tea and powered on with my coursework. So I pretty much had a non-stop day today. I slept ridiculously early yesterday so I guess I have heaps of energy right now after a 12 hour sleep. Only now am I satisfied with the amount of work done so I have a few hours of 'me' time which I'm really glad about.
TL;DR - Masters is hard and I'm failing at keeping to personal deadlines to start my coursework - I need more self-discipline or else I'll be in trouble!
Wednesday 16 October 2013
Tuesday 8 October 2013
I hate mornings.
I've accepted long ago that I am no way a morning person. I just have some sort of silly inability to sleep early or wake up early for that matter. Last night I only managed to get 4 hours sleep before having to drag my ass out of bed and get ready for my 10am lecture.
Getting ready when I'm half asleep has never really been a problem for me but for some reason everything just went badly this morning. I managed to burn my neck with my straighteners and because I was so tired, the pain didn't even sink in until I left the house an hour later. On that note, as my bus was approaching the stop, I realised I forgot my damn Oyster card meaning I had to go back and get it or else I'd end up having to pay an awful lot to travel for the day in cash fare. If any of you have ever visited London or live in London, you'll know that cash fare is like, the biggest rip off ever. As I got to my changeover stop, I find out that my connecting line is closed due to some fire alert which was being "investigated", I had to take the bus to uni from Piccadilly which took me 30 mins because London was so chock full of traffic in the morning. As a result, I was 20 mins late to lecture and had to do that embarrassing walk into lecture midway through the lecturer talking about market competition. At least 2 others arrived after me, I guess I wasn't the only one dependent on the bakerloo line to get to uni. To make matters worse, my lecturer caught me falling sleep LOL, she was like "ok let's move on before people start falling asleep" and then she looked at me and smiled. Oh dear.
I was so glad to get home later on in the day, I made myself some lunch and went straight to bed. Had the best nap until 8pm. Now it's 1am and I'm preparing the reading and materials for tomorrow's lecture. My horrid 2:30-9am day is tomorrow *cries*. Actually Friday is probably worse, I have a law workshop from 10-5 and then work straight after. Oh, this must be what it feels like to be a working student - no weekends and all other time is invested into studying because the weekend is for working.
My boyfriend treated me to my birthday present early yesterday, he bought me the iPad mini because my old netbook was becoming a brick to carry around. Especially when I have to lug it around with me when I see my boyfriend after uni. He's the bestest boyfriend ever, cares so much about my well being and making my life easy :D I was so happy afterwards.
So here I am being conflicted between doing work and playing on my new iPad. First world problems.
Getting ready when I'm half asleep has never really been a problem for me but for some reason everything just went badly this morning. I managed to burn my neck with my straighteners and because I was so tired, the pain didn't even sink in until I left the house an hour later. On that note, as my bus was approaching the stop, I realised I forgot my damn Oyster card meaning I had to go back and get it or else I'd end up having to pay an awful lot to travel for the day in cash fare. If any of you have ever visited London or live in London, you'll know that cash fare is like, the biggest rip off ever. As I got to my changeover stop, I find out that my connecting line is closed due to some fire alert which was being "investigated", I had to take the bus to uni from Piccadilly which took me 30 mins because London was so chock full of traffic in the morning. As a result, I was 20 mins late to lecture and had to do that embarrassing walk into lecture midway through the lecturer talking about market competition. At least 2 others arrived after me, I guess I wasn't the only one dependent on the bakerloo line to get to uni. To make matters worse, my lecturer caught me falling sleep LOL, she was like "ok let's move on before people start falling asleep" and then she looked at me and smiled. Oh dear.
I was so glad to get home later on in the day, I made myself some lunch and went straight to bed. Had the best nap until 8pm. Now it's 1am and I'm preparing the reading and materials for tomorrow's lecture. My horrid 2:30-9am day is tomorrow *cries*. Actually Friday is probably worse, I have a law workshop from 10-5 and then work straight after. Oh, this must be what it feels like to be a working student - no weekends and all other time is invested into studying because the weekend is for working.
My boyfriend treated me to my birthday present early yesterday, he bought me the iPad mini because my old netbook was becoming a brick to carry around. Especially when I have to lug it around with me when I see my boyfriend after uni. He's the bestest boyfriend ever, cares so much about my well being and making my life easy :D I was so happy afterwards.
So here I am being conflicted between doing work and playing on my new iPad. First world problems.
Friday 4 October 2013
Low immune system. Bleh.
Ill for the 2nd time in the space of a month.
London has too much bacteria, pollution and diseases floating around. I feel like it's taking a toll on me. Was sick during induction week, recovered for a week and now I'm sick with the same thing again. Oh, I have 8 hours of work tomorrow as well. Cries.
At least despite being sick and wanting to just crawl into bed and lay there until my illness disappears, I've made it to all my lectures AND have kept on top of reading. I just finished updating my notes for this week's set of lectures woohoo. So Sunday is DEFINITELY my relax and do-nothing day. Last year it was read for one lecture every day, this year is read for two lectures a day... Since I have other commitments like keeping my relationship up which means seeing my boyfriend 2 evenings a week and working on the weekends. It's tough, no shit, but I feel much more productive doing things and getting things done rather than sitting at home and lazing around. I feel like since completing my undergrad, I only allow myself to relax and do nothing when everything else is truly completed to the best of my ability. Oh man, the routine of studying has become my way of life /facepalm.
Good news is I'll be going on my 3rd holiday of the year when I get Christmas break. Yay yay. But it also means I'll have to do a lot of overtime during Christmas break when I get back to make up for the difference. My £61 a week earnings isn't going to cover my holiday cost, though my lovely boyfriend said he's willing to pay for the hotel side of things but I don't really want to grow dependent on him that much yet. I'll work hard for my money hurhur. I just can't wait to get away with him because since I started working/education and since he's started working full time, we haven't had any relax time apart from the 4 hours we see each other on the 2 days during the week. When we think back to our first holiday to Barcelona we really miss it. We want to go on holiday once every 6 months haha. Not sure how realistic that is though. Relationship maintenance.
Other than that, things have been great. I'm looking forward to my boyfriend's birthday at the end of this month, he'll be turning 22, the big boy. I just can't wait to plan his birthday and stuff, I've started to save for things like cake and dinner ^___^, need to buy and decorate the card too and make the present I bought him presentable. This will be the first birthday I've celebrated with him, I'll be sure to make it the best birthday he's ever had muhahahaha. I'm too good of a girlfriend sometimes, but it makes up for all those times I bully him and make him obey me LOL.
London has too much bacteria, pollution and diseases floating around. I feel like it's taking a toll on me. Was sick during induction week, recovered for a week and now I'm sick with the same thing again. Oh, I have 8 hours of work tomorrow as well. Cries.
At least despite being sick and wanting to just crawl into bed and lay there until my illness disappears, I've made it to all my lectures AND have kept on top of reading. I just finished updating my notes for this week's set of lectures woohoo. So Sunday is DEFINITELY my relax and do-nothing day. Last year it was read for one lecture every day, this year is read for two lectures a day... Since I have other commitments like keeping my relationship up which means seeing my boyfriend 2 evenings a week and working on the weekends. It's tough, no shit, but I feel much more productive doing things and getting things done rather than sitting at home and lazing around. I feel like since completing my undergrad, I only allow myself to relax and do nothing when everything else is truly completed to the best of my ability. Oh man, the routine of studying has become my way of life /facepalm.
Good news is I'll be going on my 3rd holiday of the year when I get Christmas break. Yay yay. But it also means I'll have to do a lot of overtime during Christmas break when I get back to make up for the difference. My £61 a week earnings isn't going to cover my holiday cost, though my lovely boyfriend said he's willing to pay for the hotel side of things but I don't really want to grow dependent on him that much yet. I'll work hard for my money hurhur. I just can't wait to get away with him because since I started working/education and since he's started working full time, we haven't had any relax time apart from the 4 hours we see each other on the 2 days during the week. When we think back to our first holiday to Barcelona we really miss it. We want to go on holiday once every 6 months haha. Not sure how realistic that is though. Relationship maintenance.
Other than that, things have been great. I'm looking forward to my boyfriend's birthday at the end of this month, he'll be turning 22, the big boy. I just can't wait to plan his birthday and stuff, I've started to save for things like cake and dinner ^___^, need to buy and decorate the card too and make the present I bought him presentable. This will be the first birthday I've celebrated with him, I'll be sure to make it the best birthday he's ever had muhahahaha. I'm too good of a girlfriend sometimes, but it makes up for all those times I bully him and make him obey me LOL.
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