THINGS TO LOOK FORWARD TO

I have a lot going on at the moment. It feels as though even when I have no plans for the day, I am still busy. I just wish I could have a week vacation to catch up on some much needed 'me' time.
These are the following things that I am looking forward to.

• HAWTHORN VS ESSENDON: This Friday night I am going to the football with my family. It isn't often that we do things together so I am really looking forward to it. I also have never been to a night match before!
  

• END OF EXAMS: On Thursday the 24th of June, I will be walking out of my Journalism exam, my last exam for the semester. I can't wait for exams to be over. No more exams = no more dreadful study.

• OPEN DAY: I am volunteering at Monash Open Day this year on July 31st. I volunteered last year and it is a lot of fun. And the best thing is you get a $95 debit card ;) lol.

• BABY SHOWER: My older sister is having a baby in September and on August 1st we are throwing her a baby shower. I love organising things like this.

• BABY BABY BABY: My sister is due on September 2nd and my best friend is due October 5th. I am so excited to be an aunty. I can't even remember the last time I held a baby in my arms.

• 21ST BIRTHDAY: I turn 21 in December and have already booked in a venue to hold my party on December 11. I hate that I am growing up. I don't want to be 21, and it doesn't help that I won't get of my P plates til I am 23...but I am excited for my party! :)

I am certain there is going to be a lot of other fun stuff going on this year, but these are the things I am most looking forward to at the moment. So far 2010 is shaping up to be one of the most promising years yet!

OFF CAMPUS STUDY

Today is the day that we get to put in our preferences for our class times for next semester.
I was hoping that I would have some room to play with my timetable, in the hope of fitting all my classes into a few days. I could never be that lucky!

I have class Monday-Friday and they are all auto-allocated which means I don't have the option to change them. It is so annoying considering I only have a couple of hours of class per day. In total I've only got 11 hours of class, that could easily be squeezed into a few days. Whoever makes the timetables is really bad at organising.

On Monday I have a one hour Public Relations lecture, with the one hour tutorial being on the Tuesday. How inconvenient. I have decided that I am going to take Public Relations off campus next semester. At first the thought kinda scared me, but I really think it is a smart move.

Off campus study is so much better than studying on campus, what's not to love when you get the exact same information as the on campus students. All of the lecture powerpoint slides are uploaded to the internet and there is an online discussion board to chat to other people studying on and off campus. The only thing is that you don't actually have to rock up to lectures and tutorials, which means added sleep in time! :)

My friend Kirsty is also going to take Public Relations off campus next semester as it clashes with one of her seminars. I think we might meet up once a week to go over the PR material, which I think would be really helpful!

I've thought about studying more units by distance education but I actually like going to uni. So we'll see how I go next semester studying one unit off campus and maybe in 2011 I will consider taking perhaps two units by correspondence.