My Way

Enrolment can be summed up in one word: LONG. Or maybe BORING. It's basically filling out forms, then getting the forms checked, and then handing them in.

I came in early, and started filling out the forms. There are a whole bunch on enrolment, criminal checks and a whole bunch of notes on vaccination and whatnot. Filling them all out took around 20 minutes. I probably could have finished faster, but I was reading the forms carefully for info and mistakes. Apparently, my suburb is Rosehill. Had to change that.

Then it was waiting in line for the forms to be checked. So far the waits had been minimal. Then came the student ID card. One of the machines crashed and it was taking ages for cards to be processed. After waiting for 15 mins, without moving forward, I hopped out and paid my student contribution. $3000 a semester which is $6000 a year, which is $18000 for the entire 3 year course. Ouch. I hopped back into line, and then waited for an hour before I could get my ID.

You're standing there waiting, and its boring as hell. I struck up a few conversations, but they didn't last too long. So it was a broing wait.

*sigh*

Orientation is on the 1st of March, but since Cumberland is such a 'little' campus, the main USyd campus basically doesn't want to know about us (officially) and refuses to acknowledge our existence (unofficially). So all the cool O-week stuff on the USyd site is for the main campus, not us.

Timetables come out in the first week of February and the good thing for DiagRad is that for the first year I don't have to choose any subjects. The notes and stuff look so hardcore. I already know the Structure, Function & Disease A is going to be a bitch. Might as well start buying notebooks.

Is anyone else going to Cumberland or know someone who's going there. So far I know that David V is going (saw him at enrolment), Nam might be going (pure hearsay) and since Sophia is doing Speech Pathology she might be going as well (pure guesswork).

So give a shout if you are, so I can meet up with you all at Orientation.