Start of University

Good day, dear readers!~


Finally this week my life at university started! I must confess, it is A LOT and when you see the semester program of every single class, you ask yourself how you shall manage with everything in time... And moreover the final exams are approaching and you need to have so much background knowledge for passing them...
It is much more self-organization in school: You need to check wheter you have signed in for all classes, you need to check where you have to go next in such a huge building, with so many more strangers...
Then you sit at university quite long until evening, the lectures can become quite long if your professor talks slowly and time extends like chewing gum...
Suddenly you fall into a full time job of lots of work - just an example for calculating the amount of work you need to do:

You're studying for three years, de facto six semesters (if you manage with the regular time and don't need longer). Every semester you need to earn 30 credit points so that you reach 180 at the end. In average you need to put 30 hours of work in earning one credit point, so 30x30 makes 900 hours of work in these three and a half months...

As a next step you need to buy lots of obligatory literature - just this week I've spent more than 200€ just for the learning books, and that still aren't all I need. For example the Oxford dictionary still misses, and maybe you can imagine how much that costs...

The classes are huge, everybody learns for him- or herself, it's hardly individual where you can communicate with each other. Moreover my university has huge problems concerning the lecture halls; they're way too small for so many students and most of them need to stand or to sit on the floor in the last row.



...Sounds deterrend?

yes, it is.


BUT


I also have realized: You can manage to handle with it. At first you need to get into the learning process again and get used to the stress, but if you encourage yourself you can be successful. Of course the first year is the hardest because you're forced to do all the dry and theoretical stuff nobody would do voluntarily, but when you can focus on your interests from the second year on it will gradually become better.
I try not to loose my head of confusion and of the huge amount, I already have started to work eagerly as good as I can. I think in a few weeks it really will make fun, also when you get to know some people more closely and get used to the new surroundings and society. Just never give up, whatever you're doing (appeal to everyone of you!!)~


See you another time with more interesting news, hopefully ^___^

Junsui