The first time

Okay, so the first week of college is over and done with. I am now well into the second week and have time to sit down and evaluate how the hell this is going to work.

Monday the 11th - the first day.
Running late for the train, I trip on a glass bottle, regain my balance and literally jump through the closing doors. It's raining - great! Just what I needed.
5:50PM. I get to the entrance of the college - nervous as hell about the first night - chain smoke about 4 cigarettes (something I haven't done in many years) spray myself with deodorant and casually walk into the campus.
6:01pm. After the lift ride from hell in the "slowest lifts in surry hills" I get from the ground to level 3 and pour myself through the door of the lecture room. A dozen heads look up, then look back down.

"Oh crap, they're all healthy types" I say to myself as I take a seat at the back of the class. The lecturer walks in and proceeds to introduce herself, and begins her first method of humiliation - the "introduce yourself" talk. 20 minutes and a dozen "i'm better than you ares'" later I introduce myself as someone who loves food, and wants to teach others to love food.

The class goes fairly quickly with information overload - we get our assingment outline which isn't due for another month, alas it's going to be easy enough - PROVIDING I can figure out how the hell to structure a "modified essay".

For someone who hasn't done secondary education in a long long time, i'm going to have to fly by the seat of my pants for the first assingment it seems. We leave early that night - all newly educated in micro and macronutrients. I forget everything the second I leave campus.

I spend until 2am wide awake, wired and terrified.

Wednesday the 13th - Anatomy of Chemistry hell.

Very very tired - and it's only the second day. A smaller class of people - but a few regulars. Hmm, looks like a lot of keen potentials doing nutritional medicine like me.
We breeze through the first anatomy lesson, it looks pretty straightforward and fascinating. Things like the "body plane" should be easy enough to retain. One thing of annoyance is the lecturer not noting or hinting what will be in the exam. That causes me grief to think i'd have to re-read the whole bloody module the night before!

Then we get onto chemistry. Now, for someone who was never good at math - I freaked at the idea of calculations, especially moving decimal points around. Everyone in the class was shouting out the answers while I was still working out the first one... Fuck... i'm screwed!

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So that was the first week over with. I'm now into the second week, and oddly enough managed to retain a lot of information from Mondays nutrition lecture - I can now, in gory detail tell someone exactly what their digestive system looks like - and how that slice of pizza goes from their mouth, to the sewers below.

More when i'm awake... i'm off to Chemistry/Anatomy tonight and will no doubt spontaneously combust in flames - or by calculation 1.0=10^5000

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