Welcome to the September Wrap-Up. This month was a big month for me: I moved out for university and learnt to live on my own, I made friends and formed a friend group, and I officially started university.
Living on my own
I moved out for university and I’m learning to live on my own. Learning to cook for myself (at 20? That’s crazy, I promise I wasn’t a sheltered child I just never got the chance to cook at home before my school schedules lol). Going effective grocery shopping and not just buying random crap I don’t need.
I’ve been trying to find a new job after not being able to transfer branches,I applied to various places since the moment I moved in mid September. I’ve not gotten a single email back and I found it quite disheartening but I’m powering through.
Meeting and making friends
Back in July my university did this event for students with that uni as their firm, so I turned up and ended up leaving with a group of friends where we were all excited to (hopefully) see eachother again in September, low and behold we did see each other again! Now we’re a group of 8, 6 of which are on the same course / pathway (Software Engineering, Computer Science & Computing), where 4 out of that 6 even ended up in the same seminar group which is pretty cool.
The first two weeks: The Uni Experience
Week 1: There was a “street fair” prior to the week which a few of us went to but because of the rain it kind of dulled down what was on show. Following that the fresher’s week was a little interesting, for my course we had a fun little Code Jam where we were tasked to design an app to help with educating and promoting picking up litter / to stop littering. At the end of the week there was a “freshers fair” which for most of us wasn’t fun because there was such a large crowd.
Week 2: The first “real” week of university, it was mostly just an extended version of inductions to the course and setting up our spaces and stuff (because you know, computing students). Aside from the Friday lecture (Computer Fundamentals), there wasn’t a whole lot of learning that took place.