Gridlock!
I've been in Uni for about 4 hours now and so far have attended 0 lectures and 0 tutorials. Blessed be the organization of my fantastic uni! =]
The first lesson was a Contract Tutorial. I had changed my timetable so as to let me attend the tutorial instead of the other one I was signed up for as I get on very well with the tutor, Edwin Shorts (yep thats his last name). Anyhow I turned up and it turns out that it was cancelled. Fan-smegging-tastic. It would be nice to be e-mailed about this kind of stuff. Its odd because the tutors and individual lecturers will often email you with information but the university as a whole seems entirely incapable of such organization :)
Anyhow I then spent about 2 hours waiting for my next tutorial - Torts.
I got myself an Uber expensive sandwich from Pret a Manger and worked out that the "secret sauce" in the beef baguette was salad cream mixed with english mustard.
So anyhow. When we all got our timetables every student realized that they all had to take the same one Criminal Liability lecture, 1 lecture for all the full time students put together. Worse, it was on monday from 4 to 6 pm! Immediately students went online to find out what they could do to soften the blow. They must have seen the 14:00 - 15:00 Torts 2 lecture and had their eyes grow really big, with cartoon character style $'s in them. Except the $ was probably replaced by a suitable indicator of every University students favourite commodity - extra sleep.
If they could go to that tutorial then they wouldn't have to come in for a Torts 2 tutorial on some other day which made them go into uni for only 1 hour on one day or like the Criminal lecture would result in a huge grand-canyon like chasm in their schedule where they were forced to sit around on campus. That Torts 2 tutorial was Gold dust, which I realized as I shared the tutorial room with 40 other students. Understandably the tutor said he probably couldn't really teach that many people in a tutorial - it would just have been a lecture so like the others I left as the tutorial wasn't the one prescribed on my timetable.
So now I have to sit around for another 2 hours whilst I wait for my next period. Which is the aforementioned Criminal Liability lecture at 4. Madness! =]
later
John Swaine
Posted by John Swaine at February 10, 2003 02:33 PM