My First Lectures at Aston University (Round II)
It has been too long since I have been postponing this post. You would ask why is that? The Answer is hidden in the very title of this post: 'Round II'. The second year is, so far, the toughest year in my academic life (not that my academic life is so long, but still - now i know it gets much worse :P). Here are the simple impressions of an average second year student (and as seen by my results I am the very average of average students).
Lecture Number 1. Unbelievably for me, and everyone else in the lecture theatre, first day of uni started at 9 a.m. with my fist lecture, and by lecture I mean a full length, 54 slide, 98 minutes revision of Micro economic concepts. However, the lecturer (and my current dissertation tutor) not only had time to introduce himself and finish the lecture, but also do it with 2 minutes to spare.
Lecture Number 2. The second lecture was way too overcrowded; it was so hot that people started falling asleep (including myself); it was so full that you could hardly hear the lecturer. It has been sorted by now, though, so no worries.
Lecture Number 3. The third lecture was very, very disturbing। I got told that I am to be taking part in a simulation of a car-production company; later in the week got chosen for the Financial Management position; in the following weeks I believe I shall be very scr**d (actually, the Business Game is my all time favourite subject).
Lecture Number 4. The fourth lecture was finally just an introduction to a module, no information to remember, just half an our of the most stressful numbers in your life (and by numbers I mean stats on how poorly previous years have performed in the module). The second lecturer, basically told us that we are all doomed and will get low grades (I did disagree with her and was so appalled by her assumptions of absolute doom, as faith would have it my overall mark was exactly what she said it would be).
Lecture Number 5. The fifth lecture was the Business policy and I can openly say, the worst subject this year। It is basically a lot of obvious assumptions, put in a textbook. When you add the US influence on the textbook, the whole subject becomes bloody evil.
Lecture Number 6. I missed the sixth and final lecture because I got confused with time। Yet last week I managed to find out that I don't remember anything of my statistics classes and that I may possibly fail the test next week (I did not fail, I received 40% :P; to think that I am basing my dissertation on econometrics now would have seemed ludicrous).
So these are my first impressions from this year.
It has been too long since I have been postponing this post. You would ask why is that? The Answer is hidden in the very title of this post: 'Round II'. The second year is, so far, the toughest year in my academic life (not that my academic life is so long, but still - now i know it gets much worse :P). Here are the simple impressions of an average second year student (and as seen by my results I am the very average of average students).
Lecture Number 1. Unbelievably for me, and everyone else in the lecture theatre, first day of uni started at 9 a.m. with my fist lecture, and by lecture I mean a full length, 54 slide, 98 minutes revision of Micro economic concepts. However, the lecturer (and my current dissertation tutor) not only had time to introduce himself and finish the lecture, but also do it with 2 minutes to spare.
Lecture Number 2. The second lecture was way too overcrowded; it was so hot that people started falling asleep (including myself); it was so full that you could hardly hear the lecturer. It has been sorted by now, though, so no worries.
Lecture Number 3. The third lecture was very, very disturbing। I got told that I am to be taking part in a simulation of a car-production company; later in the week got chosen for the Financial Management position; in the following weeks I believe I shall be very scr**d (actually, the Business Game is my all time favourite subject).
Lecture Number 4. The fourth lecture was finally just an introduction to a module, no information to remember, just half an our of the most stressful numbers in your life (and by numbers I mean stats on how poorly previous years have performed in the module). The second lecturer, basically told us that we are all doomed and will get low grades (I did disagree with her and was so appalled by her assumptions of absolute doom, as faith would have it my overall mark was exactly what she said it would be).
Lecture Number 5. The fifth lecture was the Business policy and I can openly say, the worst subject this year। It is basically a lot of obvious assumptions, put in a textbook. When you add the US influence on the textbook, the whole subject becomes bloody evil.
Lecture Number 6. I missed the sixth and final lecture because I got confused with time। Yet last week I managed to find out that I don't remember anything of my statistics classes and that I may possibly fail the test next week (I did not fail, I received 40% :P; to think that I am basing my dissertation on econometrics now would have seemed ludicrous).
So these are my first impressions from this year.
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