University update
Sep. 19th, 2006 03:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annabtgSo I went down to the Ilisia university campus for the enrollment and everything today. Dad took me with the car - it's really easy if you use Attiki Odos, the big road that was constructed a few years ago. I could do it myself, when I get a car. (Though it does cost 2.70 euros to use it. But anyways.)
We spent 2 hours there, first waiting, then in a classroom where they told us the basics and we completed some paperwork, and then waiting to get registered. I've already got my university student ID and pass to get public transport tickets for half the price and have other financial privileges (*g*), and also got the schedule - turns out that Medicine starts some of its classes sooner, and since we will be taking the Physiology I class in the Goudi campus, where the Medicine establishments are (with or without the Medicine students, I don't know, probably without), Physiology I starts on Monday. Tomorrow we're going there with Dad, to check out the available public transport to get there.
Books are free, but we're going to have to go pick them up - they're only available in certain bookstores, bookstores that OF COURSE have to be in the center of Athens.
I forgot to mention, there's a girl I know, Evgenia, who was also admitted to Pharmaceutics. We've been classmates for the past three years. Now, we're not friends, and I don't think we're ever going to be - she's got this attitude that doesn't strike me well, kinda snobbish, plus we don't really have much in common apart from our interest in the same field - but we know each other and we get along all right. After we were done with everything, we took the transport (bus, then metro, then train) to 'our regions', so now I know this way of getting down to Ilisia too.
I do wonder what I'm going to do in the PR department. Today I was with Evgenia and this other boy she introduced me to (a classmate of hers from her evening classes). And it's good not to be alone in these first few days, but it's never going to work out with them. I'll need to form actual friendships - but how? It's been a while since I found myself among so many people I didn't know. And I'm not one to strike conversations out of the blue.
I honestly hope I'll find some people to hang around with. I could deal with not knowing anyone, but it wouldn't be fun :( And when you have a three hour-long break between classes, it's better to go get lunch with a friend than go back home and to campus again when it's time.
And since I'm on the topic of people... We are about 135 Pharmaceutics students. Amongst them are TOO MANY FEMALES. *headdesk* Now, I'm not one to go after the boys all the time, but I can't not take a look for any interesting males out there. I found, like, one.
On the bright side of things, though, the Biology, Geology and Chemistry departments are in the same building, the Mathematics(must contact ex-crush and find out if he's going to attend it) and Physics departments in the next building, plus I'll be having two out of my six classes in the Medicine campus, so it's not too bad.
Mmm, and I think that's all from me. Sorry for the overabundance of information, but at least now, if I feel like it, I can rant without needing parentheses every other word to explain things as the two different campuses (plural of campus?).
Oh, and on another, completely unrelated note, when did the 'friends' in the userinfo turn to 'mateys'? (Heh.)
See ya,
Anna.
P.S.: Actually, I notice a general pirate-like feel on LJ, what with the LJ image looking like a sail, the 'Update Captain's Log' button and the 'Aye, aye!' showing up in the message after you update. Bet Cath's loving it.
We spent 2 hours there, first waiting, then in a classroom where they told us the basics and we completed some paperwork, and then waiting to get registered. I've already got my university student ID and pass to get public transport tickets for half the price and have other financial privileges (*g*), and also got the schedule - turns out that Medicine starts some of its classes sooner, and since we will be taking the Physiology I class in the Goudi campus, where the Medicine establishments are (with or without the Medicine students, I don't know, probably without), Physiology I starts on Monday. Tomorrow we're going there with Dad, to check out the available public transport to get there.
Books are free, but we're going to have to go pick them up - they're only available in certain bookstores, bookstores that OF COURSE have to be in the center of Athens.
I forgot to mention, there's a girl I know, Evgenia, who was also admitted to Pharmaceutics. We've been classmates for the past three years. Now, we're not friends, and I don't think we're ever going to be - she's got this attitude that doesn't strike me well, kinda snobbish, plus we don't really have much in common apart from our interest in the same field - but we know each other and we get along all right. After we were done with everything, we took the transport (bus, then metro, then train) to 'our regions', so now I know this way of getting down to Ilisia too.
I do wonder what I'm going to do in the PR department. Today I was with Evgenia and this other boy she introduced me to (a classmate of hers from her evening classes). And it's good not to be alone in these first few days, but it's never going to work out with them. I'll need to form actual friendships - but how? It's been a while since I found myself among so many people I didn't know. And I'm not one to strike conversations out of the blue.
I honestly hope I'll find some people to hang around with. I could deal with not knowing anyone, but it wouldn't be fun :( And when you have a three hour-long break between classes, it's better to go get lunch with a friend than go back home and to campus again when it's time.
And since I'm on the topic of people... We are about 135 Pharmaceutics students. Amongst them are TOO MANY FEMALES. *headdesk* Now, I'm not one to go after the boys all the time, but I can't not take a look for any interesting males out there. I found, like, one.
On the bright side of things, though, the Biology, Geology and Chemistry departments are in the same building, the Mathematics
Mmm, and I think that's all from me. Sorry for the overabundance of information, but at least now, if I feel like it, I can rant without needing parentheses every other word to explain things as the two different campuses (plural of campus?).
Oh, and on another, completely unrelated note, when did the 'friends' in the userinfo turn to 'mateys'? (Heh.)
See ya,
Anna.
P.S.: Actually, I notice a general pirate-like feel on LJ, what with the LJ image looking like a sail, the 'Update Captain's Log' button and the 'Aye, aye!' showing up in the message after you update. Bet Cath's loving it.
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Date: 2006-09-19 01:21 pm (UTC):P to toll roads.
And hoping you are able to find friends to hang out with and all. :))))
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Date: 2006-09-19 01:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-19 01:38 pm (UTC)And lol @ Frank!
I wonder why they did it. I mean, why especially today? It's well past PotC2 premiere day!
See ya,
Anna.
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Date: 2006-09-19 03:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-19 04:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-19 04:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-19 04:55 pm (UTC)*stops spamming Anna's LJ*
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Date: 2006-09-19 06:29 pm (UTC)And, Talk Like A Pirate Day, huh? It's a wonder what people think up... *g*
See ya,
Anna.
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Date: 2006-09-19 06:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-19 07:06 pm (UTC)*me is having fun*
See ya,
Anna :D
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Date: 2006-09-19 04:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-19 06:34 pm (UTC)Yup, attending the uni is free, so the books are free as well. Good thing *g*
See ya,
Anna.
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Date: 2006-09-19 04:32 pm (UTC)If you're in classes with a lot of the same people, making new friends should be a little easier. Though if you're *all* in the same classes... you lose the great opening line: "Hey, aren't you in my ____ class?" I'm sure you'll be fine. If you smile and look approachable, maybe someone else will strike up a convo. Otherwise, maybe make it a goal of yours to try being the conversation starter at least once?
Anyway, I wish you luck!! :D
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Date: 2006-09-19 06:51 pm (UTC)No, we don't pay tuition. Financially speaking, the university in Greece is a very good deal. You get all kinds of passes that allow you for half the price (or, anyways, very good prices) for public transport, going to the theater and other such stuff, you get medical insurance, free books... The only money you need to spend is the price for having four photos taken *g*
That's assuming you're not attending one of the private institutes, or a branch of a foreign college/university. But those are a different deal - for one, you don't need to have passed the final exams - it's just enough that you are a high school graduate. And the majority, if not all of the kids, take the exams (since they're obligatory) and if they fail them, or don't make it where they want to, examine the private education options (though they can choose to retake the exams next year, and many do just that). But it has to be mentioned that you can't find anything in private education - there are usually the specialties available in technical schools (which are easier to access anyway, because you need lower grades), and this year was the first time I saw some Engineering studies. I have yet to see a private institute/foreign college offering Medicine, Pharmaceutics, History & Archaeology, Physics...
I'm babbling. Sorry.
Thanks for the advice :) Yeah, we all begin with the same classes, so no chance of that line :p But I'll try to be hopeful :)
See ya,
Anna.
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Date: 2006-09-19 04:51 pm (UTC)Those concerns echo my own when I came to my university last month, but you're guaranteed to find at least two people you can relate to if you're at a big enough school. (And I believe you are.) Then you can band together and become a triumverate of
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Date: 2006-09-19 06:53 pm (UTC)Thanks for the encouragement, vea :)
See ya,
Anna.
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Date: 2006-09-19 06:14 pm (UTC)Now I see yer settin' sail on a new adventure, exploring the shiftin' waters of pharmacology university. But ye be needin' a crew to be sailin' with ye, and ye be findin' yourself in a strange new port. 'Tis vexing, I knows.
Most pirates'd tell ye to press-gang yerself a new crew. Bop 'em on the head, drag 'em onto yer ship, and sail off before they get their meager wits about 'em. I tells ye, you don't gets yerself a very hearty crew that way.
No, what ye wants to do is be the cap'n. Don't go lookin' to hire on someone else's ship, swabbin' their deck an' lettin' them set the course. Ye gots to go out there with a better attitude than that, me hearty.
"I'm smart, talented, beautiful, and just plain fun to be with. Who wants to be on my crew?"
Let them find ye, that's what I says.
(Or, you know, just keep your eyes open during classes and see who looks interesting.)
As for the ship's boy, I see ye'll be spendin' some time with thems as are lookin' to be doctors. Might be that ye'll be findin' a likely lad over in those waters, aye?
Oh, and before I set sail meself, I'll give ye one more word: 'Tis indeed "campuses." Ye do have a fine head atop those pretty shoulders, lass.
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Date: 2006-09-19 07:02 pm (UTC)Will try to be confident, and hopefully it would work out. I'll be happy if I find people half as wonderful as my online mateys...
See ya,
Anna :)
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Date: 2006-09-19 11:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-20 05:31 pm (UTC)I thought Moony would be happy with the many females. *brow raise*
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Date: 2006-09-20 07:32 pm (UTC)(who am I kidding?).(Seriously, though, if having a male as my alter-ego keeps bringing out awkward comments like this one, I'll adopt my Annabelle Crystal Valeria Bradford-Lupin persona and will never let go of it.)
See ya,
Anna.
Good luck!
Date: 2006-09-22 11:39 pm (UTC)I wish you the best of luck for the lessons to come!Oh and dont worry about friends. Since you're a social person, sooner or later you will meet cool people to come along with. But you know, as in every thing in life...it might take some time.
Regards,
DarkUSS
Re: Good luck!
Date: 2006-09-22 11:56 pm (UTC)Cheers,
~Anouk.