All entries for Monday 31 March 2008

The Easter Break / Revision

So it's the beginning of the third week of the easter break at Warwick and the actual easter holidays have passed by for all those school kids and adults around the world. So what does that mean for me?

Hours of revision and sorting out annoying little problems sadly.

My parents are now back at work and all my old friends from college are either working or are staying at their own uni's for the break. So begins my first week of sitting in front of the TV with no prospects of seeing friends or being invited anywhere out of the ordinary. (Okay I lie a little; I've got a couple of gigs to go to next week and a few nights out with friends, but they're few and far between). I'm therefore left with this long and boring list of mundane tasks to carry out on top of the much larger topic of revision.

1. Student financing for adding an extra year to my course - This is becoming a wild goose chase at present with no one seeming to understand what I'm asking for or who is responsible for the change.

2. Tracing the origins of some mysterious bills to our house at uni - Where in similar fashion no one wants to take responsibility.

3. Switching my mobile contract - Not a huge deal but it requires a long trip to a shopping centre that I honestly can't be bothered with.

4. Trying to organise all my lecture notes, handouts and downloaded stuff for this year into a well-structured archive to aid my revision - Anyone who has ever attempted to do this for a 2nd Year Physics Course presumably understands the level of difficulty involved.

5. Lab report number 2 - Well, enough said. I'd like to finish this before term 3 so it's out of the way but progress is very very slow at the moment.

6. Millions of other little things, like treasury stuff for the foos society, bank account checking, applying for summer jobs, letter writing, phone calls to people I don't like, ordering stuff from the internet, train times etc etc etc.

7. In case I've already forgotten - REVISION.

So I've decided to come up with a plan to stop this list of tasks looking so menacing. It's completely based around TV which tells you a lot about me and tries to leave weekends free for actual fun activities. Of course in my eyes fun activities are rollerblading, which is entirely weather dependent, and ps3 playing, which could turn me into a hermet if done for long enough.

Plan

7am: Annoyingly get woken up when parents leave for work. Get ready and all that jazz.

8am: Make largest breakfast ever to fuel my day of work ahead.

9am: Quit watching Takeshi's Castle and Ninja Warrior and start 3 hours of revision. (I see the major flaw in the plan here of assuming I'll last 3 hours)

12pm: Lunch / PS3 / Guitar Hero / General laziness

2pm: Restart the revision and/or lab report.

4pm: Watch Miami Ink for tattoo inspiration.

5pm: Upon parents return from work do those annoying tasks mentioned earlier until someone decides to cook me a nice tea.

6.30pm: Eat said large tea.

7pm: This is where I know I should write something like "do more revision" or "organise this or that" but I realise that with my current level of motivation this will become "Have a beer and watch TV".

9pm: Either have a break from work or continue to basically do nothing.

11pm: Drag myself upstairs to get some sleep so I can repeat the entire process.

Reading that through just makes me feel so depressed with the deterioration in quality of holidays as university continues. The first year left you with a couple of pieces of work to finish over each holiday. The Christmas break in the second year wasn't too bad (although definately worse than the first year), with a computing assignment and maths sheet to do. Then we get hit with this Easter break! Replacing the word holiday or break with "continuation of course at home" isn't far from the truth.

Bring on the end of exams and a hopefully free summer. I get the feeling I'll be blogging frequently during the exam period in frustration, so happy reading.

: 31 Mar 2008 10:41 |  Tags: Easter Holidays Revision |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem