You join me on my 5th day of University life in the sleeping suburbs of Greater London and I'm feeling more like a student than ever. Having recovered from a fairly meaty hangover I'm now cooking myself a fine meal consisting of, well, Super Noodles. Yum.
Adding that to the fact that I have eaten pasta for the last 5 nights I think its time for some more food-shopping to be done. Think I'll take a walk into Kingston after lunch with a flat-mate who also needs food and supplies.
While I know the train goes past every 2 minutes almost 24 hours a day I thought I'd check how many actualy stop at Surbiton - my nearest station. Turns out most of them do, as trains to London Waterloo are about every 6 minutes or so and take 15 to get to central London.
Just checked the time, can't believe how early it still is...I've been up since 7:30 - yeh, that was difficult - and had two classes from 9 until 11 so I still have most of the day left, which is nice. I've spent the last hour or so chatting with a friend over Skype and recording this week's Tuck In To Tech podcast, I'll edit it later.
A few of us from the last 2 nights out are meeting up again later to go see a hypnotist, should be a laugh watching fellow students believing they are chickens...
That'll be my 6th night out in a row - and this is coming from someone who probably hasn't been out 6 times all year...I guess thats what uni is all about. Last night was especially heavy although not overly late - got in at about 1am - although I fear someone in the flat upstairs may have had a several pints too many. To sum up, there was no trolley in the corridor at 1 am. And as of 8:30 this morning there is indeed a Sainsburys trolley in the corridor.
The Sainsburys is 15 minutes walk away so I'm not taking it back for fear of looking like a complete spanner. I may have to move it outside, its in the way some-what...
OK well my noodles are about ready so I shall hence forth and eat.
Alistair
Oh, and lectures and learning and all that stuff too, thats kind of important.
Tuesday, 23 September 2008
Friday, 19 September 2008
1st day at university
Ok so yesterday was my first day at Kingston-Upon-Thames University, London and I thought I'd share my experiences here for anyone who might find themselves in the same situation over the next few days, or just for those who want to know what I'm up to.
I arrived at about 11am yesterday morning and was shown to my room and told where the laundry services, common room and reception are. After my mum left I began unpacking, obviously heading straight for the laptop and router - which, a note left in the room said, would not be allowed. Well its working just fine and I'm getting an 8MB connection which is great!
I set off to enrole with 2 others after the bus didn't turn up - hope that gets better next week - and, after a 15 minute walk, found ourselves at the main Penryn Road buildings and at the back of a very long queue of fellow enrolers. A couple hours later I left with my student card complete with dodgy photo.
I spent the rest of the afternoon unpacking and getting my laptop etc setup and started to wonder why the other 3 students in my flat were being rather quiet. Turns out, after some door-knocking, there wern't any more students in my flat.
Hmm, could have sworn it was THE moving-in day.
After accepting that it was a dinner-for one- I went to put on some pasta but was stopped by a random buzzing which turned out to be, well, a buzzer-intercom-type-thing.
Turns out it was the amusingly named 'Freshers Angels' who were a group of 2nd year students rounding up the freshers to take us to a bar...perfect.
So after taking a 15 minute guided walk feeling like a group of school-kids we reached a cool bar on the bank of the Thames - felt rather good sat out on a fairly warm evening by the river having a few drinks.
Made some new friends - obviously - and it turns out most people were also on their own in their flats, which made me feel much better about my isoltion.
Woke up this morning with a hell of a hangover and will go and explore Kingston and Surbiton later, I need to find a supermarket and the Apple store...
Alistair
I arrived at about 11am yesterday morning and was shown to my room and told where the laundry services, common room and reception are. After my mum left I began unpacking, obviously heading straight for the laptop and router - which, a note left in the room said, would not be allowed. Well its working just fine and I'm getting an 8MB connection which is great!
I set off to enrole with 2 others after the bus didn't turn up - hope that gets better next week - and, after a 15 minute walk, found ourselves at the main Penryn Road buildings and at the back of a very long queue of fellow enrolers. A couple hours later I left with my student card complete with dodgy photo.
I spent the rest of the afternoon unpacking and getting my laptop etc setup and started to wonder why the other 3 students in my flat were being rather quiet. Turns out, after some door-knocking, there wern't any more students in my flat.
Hmm, could have sworn it was THE moving-in day.
After accepting that it was a dinner-for one- I went to put on some pasta but was stopped by a random buzzing which turned out to be, well, a buzzer-intercom-type-thing.
Turns out it was the amusingly named 'Freshers Angels' who were a group of 2nd year students rounding up the freshers to take us to a bar...perfect.
So after taking a 15 minute guided walk feeling like a group of school-kids we reached a cool bar on the bank of the Thames - felt rather good sat out on a fairly warm evening by the river having a few drinks.
Made some new friends - obviously - and it turns out most people were also on their own in their flats, which made me feel much better about my isoltion.
Woke up this morning with a hell of a hangover and will go and explore Kingston and Surbiton later, I need to find a supermarket and the Apple store...
Alistair
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