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Head full of rocks
May. 3rd, 2004 07:53 pmEver felt like your brain has been dragged out your left nostril, pounded on with a hammer, and forcibly replaced via your right eye-socket? I have...
On one hand, I think I'm learning more fancy things to do with spreadsheets. And slowly picking up the basics, too... rather slowly, though. On the other hand, I'm really not sure how much else managed to penetrate my brain, today - all sorts of things went whizzing over my head, in the latest round of coursework. Five days of Igneous Geodynamics and Magmatic Ore Deposits, this week... plenty of interesting stuff concerning sulfide ore deposits for nickel, copper, and platinum-group elements, and a day on diamonds. I can't help but feel like I'm being left behind, though.
I left the house at a little after 7am, and I got home at about 7pm - with about another 3+ hours of work tonight. To avoid the end-of-week avalanche of work, everything is due at 9am the day after it's taught - problem is, that leaves a fair bit of stuff to do overnight between days. The Melbourne group are the only Honours students in the course, it seems - everyone else has at least a year or two of experience in the specific field we're covering. I can only hope that I know as much detail/trivia after the end of this year...
On the bright side, my latent Monash-uni direction senses haven't abandoned me. I can find shortcuts to the most obscure little buildings... it's largely a matter of trying not to think about where I'm headed. Turn left here right here, pick a random door, and suddenly you're standing in the classroom, with a lecturer saying "I wasn't sure if anyone would find this room..." :-) It's a handy trick, but if this is my only Secret Mutant Power, I feel like asking for a genetic re-shuffle...
On one hand, I think I'm learning more fancy things to do with spreadsheets. And slowly picking up the basics, too... rather slowly, though. On the other hand, I'm really not sure how much else managed to penetrate my brain, today - all sorts of things went whizzing over my head, in the latest round of coursework. Five days of Igneous Geodynamics and Magmatic Ore Deposits, this week... plenty of interesting stuff concerning sulfide ore deposits for nickel, copper, and platinum-group elements, and a day on diamonds. I can't help but feel like I'm being left behind, though.
I left the house at a little after 7am, and I got home at about 7pm - with about another 3+ hours of work tonight. To avoid the end-of-week avalanche of work, everything is due at 9am the day after it's taught - problem is, that leaves a fair bit of stuff to do overnight between days. The Melbourne group are the only Honours students in the course, it seems - everyone else has at least a year or two of experience in the specific field we're covering. I can only hope that I know as much detail/trivia after the end of this year...
On the bright side, my latent Monash-uni direction senses haven't abandoned me. I can find shortcuts to the most obscure little buildings... it's largely a matter of trying not to think about where I'm headed. Turn left here right here, pick a random door, and suddenly you're standing in the classroom, with a lecturer saying "I wasn't sure if anyone would find this room..." :-) It's a handy trick, but if this is my only Secret Mutant Power, I feel like asking for a genetic re-shuffle...
