Posted by alexandra_k on January 27, 2014, at 2:04:11
In reply to Re: yay lorde, posted by alexandra_k on January 27, 2014, at 0:18:03
actually, that is sort of... being happy for the kiwi. some sort of... nationalism. i guess.
i found this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpdY8ueSCZU
calvin harris yay. actually... i discovered he did a bbc radio 1 essential mix - which sorta surprised me. i just knew him for his... nostalgia song that i like... i didn't realise he was... less... cheesy??
anyway... 2nd song... that is it. but of course i know the 3rd song, too.
nostalgia. for weltec. i guess... my time at weltec will go down as the time where i was the fittest i've ever been in my whole life. able to move the most weights etc. a serious competitor against the 18 year olds ha!! and in my early 30's...
i don't seem able to sustain more than one obsession at a time. and i'm back to academics. so... getting chubbier as we speak. holding onto the elusive chin up. but saying goodbye to multiples, indeed. and saying goodbye to close to a 2x bodyweight deadlift, too.
back to... the gym mostly being about trying to undo the damage i do by sitting all day.
sigh.
i've decided... i think i have about the best room in this whole tower block. any higher and... you lose some of the nicer perspective on the buildings. any lower... and you lose the privacy of people not being able to see when you are lying in bed. any to the left and you lose the harbour. any to the right and you lose the sky tower. which is a casino which i actually feel ambivalent about... but it is a city landmark. the city landmark. and it is nice to have the option...
i've been reading student blogs. a lot of them seem to be about coming to terms with... a 'work-life balance'. with... being a bit less serious about their studies than they had envisaged for themselves...
what i'm making of it now is that... well... most people really do want a balance. they want to find a life partner. they want to have a close social group. they want to have kids and stuff like that. they want a boat or to travel or whatever. they want a certain amount of money to send their kids to good schools...
and they start out uni thinking that they are going to work really hard and do really well...
and then...
for non-arts / social science subjects, at least... they find that they don't get so very much of a fresh start at all. it is more of high school curriculum - and a little bit more. so if you worked very hard at / did very well at high school physics / maths / chemistry / biology then you have a solid... foundation. most of it is repetition... with a little bit more. and you can focus on learning / understanding that little bit more - to do really very well. whereas if you didn't really master things at high school... you are still struggling to play catch-up.
and for most people... it simply isn't worth it. and also... you can't really do it. because it is a bit too much. and because uni isn't designed / for people to be playing catch-up. so... you missed the boat. thanks for playing. just as well you have *already* (most of you) decided that academics wasn't really your thing, anyway. you were (always) more into the social connections or whatever... than you were interested in focusing on your studies, anyway. that was why you didn't do better in school...
but some people... don't need a work-life balance. because some people... LOVE their work. if you really feel passionately about what you are studying... and you meet people who are similar... where your main social activity is... group study... well... you are almost a different breed of people. the ones who... do do well. because... you don't want very much of the way of anything else. it isn't about sacrificing what is important to you... it is more about finding what is important.
and about... other people supporting you to... allowing you to... do your thing.
and so... there about 2x as many people who start out wanting to do med than who ever are viable candidates (org chem, mostly, but that's symptomatic of ill preparedness from school more generally). then amongst those... well... i have started noticing people who you would... well... you would never (i mean never) put them in front of patients. and i'm fairly sure they wouldn't want to be put in front of patients either. honestly. and so... i think it is okay. just relax into whatever... and things will work out in the end.
poster:alexandra_k
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