An update, university year 2

It seems to have been fore­ver since I added anything remo­tely worthwhile to this site. My jour­nal has lac­ked and I have yet to even men­tion my new house and its con­ti­nuing chro­nic­les. I have been rea­ding over my past entries for just over a year now, crin­ging at the lite­rary skills I pos­sess. I guess I am fore­ver critical.

Right now I am in my second year of uni­ver­sity (War­wick, UK) stud­ying elec­tro­nic engi­nee­ring. Last year was easy and I was uncha­llen­ged, the exams were trouble-free and my ave­rage 81% mark that I achie­ved without chec­king through my exam papers clearly illus­tra­tes this. This year’s course seems to be follo­wing in the same vein. I am not being cha­llen­ged and I really feel like I am was­ting time. I’m stud­ying 4 out of 10 modu­les this term; “Soft­ware Deve­lop­ment” (aka C++, something I have spent eve­ning clas­ses lear­ning prior to uni­ver­sity), “Ana­lo­gue Design” – the inner wor­kings of semi­con­duc­tors and such, “Applied Linear Alge­bra” – math’s and lots of com­pli­ca­ted matrix work and finally, “Star­ting a Busi­ness” which is pro­ving quite interesting.

My time­ta­ble has sche­du­led me with a whop­ping nine hours a week, com­pa­red to my girlfriend’s bioche­mistry 22 hours and a mate’s 24 hours of math’s plus hor­des of assess­ments. Life is awfully hard. I don’t know, maybe they will pile on the work next term. The most idio­tic part of my time­ta­ble are the lec­ture times – on Mon­day I have a 9–10 lec­ture, a 10–11 and then a 5–6 in the eve­ning. That’s a 6 hour gap. On Thurs­day I have a 9 o clock and I finish the day with a 6–7 lec­ture. Mea­ning I leave for uni at 8 in the mor­ning and get home at 8 in the eve­ning, pro­vi­ding I don’t go to the stu­dent cinema or various society groups.

I now live off cam­pus, so I tra­vel in each day by bus. It takes about an hour each way and the bus is usually full and stuffy. Howe­ver this time does give me a moment to sam­ple new music on my iPod, two albums a day. I paid £190 for my three term bus pass that entit­les me to unli­mi­ted tra­vel on Sta­ge­coach buses.