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Is it just part of the human condition to never be entirely satisfied with the weather?  I struggled to drag myself to campus in the wet winter and now summer has made an appearance I alternate between complaining that it is too hot to think (on the 35 degree+ days) or thinking I should/could be at the beach (on all the other summer days).  I guess I should make my peace with it as this is the first proper hot day we've had (and I did I go to the beach? no of course not cos I have an assignment and a tute quiz to do)

Does anyone else get these Get Smart newsletters?  I must admit I didn't read the first few that came but now I'm sort of glad they arrive magically in my in-box!  Sort of like a pre-weekend study coach keeping me on the straight and narrow.  I think I signed up for them at a drop-in in the Library.  either way - they're pretty handy!

My last post detailed my...anxiety leading up to the exam results.  That seems soooo long ago now!  THankfully I passed everythign but puzzlingly I did better in one unit that I thought I would be lucky to pass and got an annoying 63 in a unit I thought I had kinda mastered!  That leads me to wonder about what units to pick in the future based on these results...I mean is there going to be things I'm not that crazy about but that I'm good at?  And what if I can't get ace marks at the things I really love?  A conundrum no doubt.

My last blog post seems so long ago as I am concentrating so hard on not tihnking about thinking about my exam results (quite the paradox as Katie@UniAccess says!).  But it's still only Friday evening.  Good job I'm off out tonight - hopefully that'll take my mind off it.  Although someone said that the results might come out earlier than the official date (Monday).  Does that really happen...?

Does that sound like a lot?  102 hours?  apparently that's when the exam results are *out*.  So my efforts to not think about it are completely not working despite my (small) logical brain telling me that there is nothing to be done about it now, the results were decided weeks ago blah blah (maybe i AM turning into my mother...).  Either way it sounds like an example of my logical brain being at war with my emotional one (and guess who's winning!?). 

Holidays are a funny thing.  Every now and then I panic that I should be doing an assignment or doing some reading but then I remember I'm on holidays.  I have a feeling that the minute I get used to relaxing it'll be time to get back into uni work.  People are talking about picking up unit outlines for next Semester already!  I didn't even know that was possible - I suppose it might be worth a go although then I might feel the need to start getting books out of the library again!  eek!

I've just re-read my post below and there are so many questions in it that reading it out loud will give you a high-pitched squeaky voice (just like mine!).  Mucho apologies readers!

I soooo know what Lisa is talking about.  It seems that I spent my whole life preparing to get INTO university and now I've been here for one Semester it has just gone by in a flash.  Have I really completed half my first year??