Wednesday, January 10, 2007

second day in school

today wasnt a great day for me. i realised i have so many things not settled. i havent gotten my reading materials and no foolscap lor. and must really do research (i.e. go around and see first then buy.. but e minus part is e shops are SO FAR apart). i really got no much money left after buying some groceries and some necessities. i decided to save by not eating again and i got my faint spells back again.. sighh..

Anyway, the UCLA store sells foolscap pad (letter-sized 500 sheets of lousy rice paper) at $6 plus. i decided to persevere and managed to find one deal at Rite Aid Pharmacy (the pharmacies in U.S. are like supermarket. they dont just sell drugs but also groceries.. so funny) two pads (130 sheets) at $1. i grabbed 4 of them. But i got cheated too. i bought 10 clothes hanger for $3.29 at Rite Aid but CVS Pharmacy sells 30 of them for $2. arghh.. CVS and Rite Aid are located at Westwood Village and they arent exactly close to UCLA at all.. like NUS Science Fac walking distance to Business Fac.

And i walked this trip twice today. First time in the morning to buy some compulsory course compendium which costs $42 at the photocopy shop which UCLA works closely with but i dont know why it is situated so far away. Second time is evening period when i need to go buy a mouse and my foolscap.

And i got kicked out of my module today. there is this module which UCLA chemistry dept reserves for graduating seniors. they said i am not graduating so i was denied. their reasoning being "if u r a graduating senior this quarter, wouldnt u want to have priority for required classes". i told her this is a lousy system. i mean the seniors who want to graduate shld have the responsibility to take this module b4 hand and not at the last min. in any case, i also need this module to graduate! then they said i am not graduating here, so my point is invalid. all these conversational exchanges were done in a very rude manner. i didnt even get to my point that i am an exchange student then i was cut off. it is like they didnt care. wtf! now i am quite screwed. i need that lab module urgently. i have three options:


  1. take one module which covers the theory part of that lab module and hopefully my coordinator allows me to take that due to this lousy circumstances
  2. take another module next quarter but they said it is also reserved for graduating seniors (wtf)
  3. go back immediately after my exchange to make it on time for special sem II for that module. e quarter ends on 15 jun and special term II starts on 18 jun (end on 28 jul). so i must fly back on 15 jun and since i will lose a day on air, i will reach singapore on 17 jun and recover from jet lag and start lab on 18 jun. i dont want! because: i wanna travel abit more; i wanna work in my research lab and earn some money first in the month of july; changing my return date from 29 jun to 15 jun will costs me USD150!; i might have exam on 15 jun 8am and if i dont remember wrongly the return flight is 7am.

I dont want!!!! sighh... see how lor.. worry also no use..

blabbered by Jinzhan at 5:21 PM |

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