Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Year 3 but felt like freshman and a rather lost one..

Today was my first day of school in UCLA. I only had a 9am to 10am lecture for the course (we called it module) Chem 153A - Biochemistry: Introduction to Structure, Enzymes, and Metabolism. It is not too bad. I like the lecture theatre and the projector screen. I like the buildings here the most.. all of them looks like catholic churches from outside. very colossal and magnificient! I like the lecturer so far.. but maybe i will reserve my comments on the pace of lecture for later when we are more in-depth.

That's all for the day! but tomorrow i will have classes from 9am to 5pm and so is most of my other days. i usually end on 5pm (cos of lab) and wednesday i start on 8am... goodness.. but even though my mondays are slack (i think i might self-declare monday free day.. haha) this monday i just had was super tiring..

the prob is qunxiong didnt like his housing assignment and xinhui is paying too much for her room. i am open to considering shifting to a cheaper place. so the three of us went down to find housing in e nearby nieghbourhood (a rather slopy one) and see any numbers we can dial and just call.. before tat i went to www.craigslist.com to find some info and make enquiries too.. it was a super hectic day. in e end, we decided to give our current housing assignments a shot.. see if e ppl is nice first.. and thats my initial suggestion lor... but someone just wouldnt listen.. =p

and i havent even gotten my course stuff yet. the books here are so expensive!! i think i will just not buy and just make do with e lecture notes. but even e lecture notes are expensive. Chem 153A has a set of bound lecture notes and it costs USD 42!. e funny thing is i can only get that printed stuff from e photocopier that is linked to e school that is located rather far away from e main campus. Also, its required text is USD113. madness.. And the people here just buy from e bookstore! all of them are so rich?! wow... i think i will just zap or read from e libraries.. another option is to go www.half.com to find some online textbook sellers. see how lor. i am not here to study. The prob is i have pre-empted this and i wanted to get my textbooks in singapore but i dunno what modules i will get so i cant just anyhow buy right?

summary: quite a bad day cos it is already first day of sch and i havent confirmed e roof over my head and i havent gotten any studies stuff yet. i also havent gotten my stationery yet. i bought my writing tools but i didnt bring any paper cos i heard the paper here is letter-sized and not A4 (slightly shorter and fatter than A4 - u know wad i mean) and they use 3-hole hole-puncher. well i shld just bring some paper so at least i can write.. and i think i shld bring some notebooks over lor. sighh.. i cant make notes at all now. =( but i think it is fine la. =) i dont die so easily.

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