ADAPTING TO MY NEW LIFE ON CAMPUS.

Is it hot in here?
Is anyone else's palms sweaty and hairline a little damp?
Have you suddenly turned mute when someone (mostly a lecturer) asks you a simple question to answer in front of a handful of people?

If you answered yes to the above questions - then I'm not as crazy as I thought I was. You, in fact - are crazy also. Or possibly normal and completely overwhelmed by the first couple of weeks of Uni and with understanding how it all operates. We'll go with the latter option. Seems legit.

I do, however, feel a particular drive in myself that I had not yet felt for quite some time. And as for my course - so far so good! I'm loving our lecturers, and the new friends & our intellects combined.

I'm beginning to find my way around campus, though at the start felt like I'd never find the SU twice, and would imagine myself often re-enacting the scene from Grease where Sandy attends a new school and is late to her first class. Everyone stares at her and she feels like a complete idiot. Horrible reference, I know. Unlucky for me, I look nothing like Sandy. Luckily for me, however, I'm punctual with my time and I'm nice and early, securing a spot in the front row to capture the lecturers attention. And to maintain my own, because if I sit up the back I'll spend two fifths of the class scoping out the talent and picturing them as a potential partner, envisioning the activities we'll engage in together. 'Easily distracted' I believe my teachers wrote on my reports.

The LMS page I'm still wrapping my head around, and I haven't even looked at the 'Harvard' referencing tool as yet. Although Mr John Benson (not intimidating at all) re-assured us it was easy.

The cafeteria has pleasantly surprised me too, with an array of fresh options for the health conscious (me) and an array of hot, fatty food for the not so health conscious (me).

To say the least, I am beginning to really enjoy my time here at Bendigo La Trobe, and am finding a sense of relief that I am finally heading in the right direction to where I'd like to be career wise.

Hope you are all adapting to semester one as positively as I am, It has been nice meeting you all and I look forward to getting to know you as well.

Jess