The end of the slacking season
For one of my modules, i am assigned 325 pages of text to read on the first week. I am supposed to cover 60+ pages by Monday. I have read a grand total of zero pages so far, not for want of trying but because i do not have the prescribed text. My plan thus far is to go to school early on Monday and hope to find that elusive text in the library and read 60+ pages before class starts. That is Plan A. Plan B is to go into class ‘cold’, meaning i have read nothing and pray that i will survive. Generally, i dislike going to class without having read a single thing because you are so dead if you are called upon. I can only hope that the tutor is the slacker kind, although i seriously doubt it. If you can bother to assign 300+ pages of reading a week, you are probably not a slacker prof.
And did i mention that that is only one module. The other modules have other stuff to read. Luckily my other modules are not that enthusiastic in assigning stuff to read. Yet.
This semester looks to be quite a killer. By some quirk of fate (and by that, i mean that the balloting computer hates me) i got my 3rd and 4th reserve choice. Basically that means my timetable sucks and my subject combination is killer. It also means that i inadvertently got the most difficult combinations of modules. I had initially planned to have 2 difficult (’xiong’) modules and balance it out with 2 slacker modules this semester. However, by bad luck coupled with poor strategic choices, i somehow wound up with 4 difficult and mentally draining subjects this semester. This is bad.
But since i’m so slack, i guess i shouldn’t worry too much. I’ll cross the bridge when i read it and i’ll read my text when (if) i get it.
