Teacup.

Wow, what a week! Not too sure if I blogged about it before but this week was my first week back at university. And who the hell invited the drama llama to the party?!

Right, I had my timetable all nice and tidy before university. I’ve arranged everything so that I qualified for student living allowance and loans from the government – really, the only qualification is that you have to be an equivalent full-time student to get the living allowance). In my second lecture (Introductory Biochemistry), I decided to pull out of that course and take an Information Systems to fill in that gap (so that I qualify as a full-time student). I heard a rumor that the IS course was fully booked, and the wait-list was huge, so I went and saw the course co-ordinator about this.

So here I am, in his office, hearing the rumor confirmation from his mouth, proceeded to plead with him that I really need this course, otherwise I’m thoroughly fucked by the government. Well, he held his ground.

After a lot of ‘this-is-the-end-of-the-world-for-me’ moments, I decided that I’ll not take the IS papers. In fact, I’m going to be a part-time student with only four papers this year. (Full time student must take a minimum of six, which I had originally.) The other paper which I dropped is a second year Psychology paper, which was a fill-in course as well.

With this, I’ll still get a loan, I just can’t get that weekly $160.24NZD from the government to sit in my bank and earn interest. I checked my student records just before 5PM today, Friday, and finally, finally, everything is done and proceeding to plan. Now I can give the green-light to the government to pay my loan.

It actually feels so…good now. I don’t feel that I might fail something, or I don’t have enough time to do things for my own self. There is no pressure. I’ve got time to dedicate to my studies, to my ~dream job~, to my own self. Perhaps this time, I’d finally get that elusive A for the first time since I’ve been at university.