Gosh. I finish uni and suddenly I seem to have even less time for blogging than before. Oh didn’t I mention that? I have finished university! And there was much rejoicing.
I will graduate on April 1, 2009 with a Bachelor of Business (International Business). Yes, April Fool’s Day. I’m sure there will be much hilarity over that little date for a long time. “Got a Bachelor in Funny Business, do you?” is what my dear old mum had to say about my graduation date.
So what does this mean I am qualified for? Well, here’s the thing. It qualifies you for everything and nothing all at the same time. It sure sounds impressive – wow, International Business– but at the same time it’s a very generic degree, so its not really clear what job you can go into. Say like a Bachelor in Accountancy is pretty clear; you go into an accounting job. But International Business is pretty vague. The main thrust of the degree has been about Economics, with a couple of Finance courses thrown in for fun. I also did a few electives in International Studies, which has been something I’ve been interested in for a long time. So if anybody is looking for someone with a degree in Economics with a fancy title, I’m over here!
The economics stuff was definitely interesting, although you wouldn’t think I found it so given that my grades for those courses were almost all lower than those I got for my electives. However, this can be easily explained by the fact that most of my electives did not have exams, and the majors did. Before exams, I would be sitting on grades equal to or even higher than my elective courses. I take this as evidence that exams drag my grade down.
(On a side note, one of my friends who was studying education, and has also now finished, took a course where the main topic was all about how exams don’t help you learn. There were studies and all sorts of fun stuff about it. How was it assessed? An exam.)
The finance stuff was not fun though, mainly because for both of the Finance courses we had a lecturer who was from India, and whose accent made understanding more than one word in three almost impossible. The poor guy knew that people had trouble understanding him – heck it would have to have been obvious when people started walking out of lectures after only 10 minutes, and then not coming back at all through the semester, and he did try to slow down and make himself clearer. Unfortunately he would get caught up in the moment and in the topic and before you knew it, we’d be right back at square one.
So… what else has been happening? Ah, yes, my birthday. Yup, that happened. I ate and drank far too much, but over all it didn’t get me down as much as I was expecting it to. We went out for dinner and drinks the night before at a Greek café/restaurant, and on my actual birthday we (well, ok, my dad) cooked up a lamb on the spit for family and family friends. But I got up at the crack of dawn to help! Surely that counts for something when I’d been out the night before!
We’ve (Mr Vexation and I) have also been trying to work out where we’re going and what we’re doing when it comes to his sister’s wedding next year. Its on Hamilton Island and we don’t think it worthwhile to just go up one day, the wedding the next and come home the third day. But then it comes down to do we go up earlier, do we stay later, it’s expensive to stay at Hamilton do we go back to the mainland, do we go on a little cruise type thing? So many questions, and only a matter of months to get it all worked out and booked.
The gym adventure is continuing, although there’s almost an element of why am I bothering this close to Christmas? I sometimes feel like I may as well wait until the New Year to get back into it properly, as there’s just food and drinks and gatherings and catch ups everywhere and every-when.
And I still haven’t gotten back into my cross-stitching. I have two projects that I would love to start, but there’s a little problem in that I can’t seem to find the right fabric for either of them. One project is of a tiger, the other a version of Da Vinci’s La Scapigliata (or La Spaghetti as I keep calling it because I can’t pronounce the real name). The tiger project I want to put on black (61x56cm 28HPI evenweave or 14HPI aida), the Da Vinci on white or off-white (46x46cm 28HPI evenweave or 14HPI aida), but I can’t find any that’s big enough! Pre-cut fabric seems to stop at 40x40cm, and I’m not patient enough to track down a customer service person to cut it for me, even in the event I have actually been able to find the right colour/fabric type/HPI (which I think has only happened once). I’ve had a look around at some online stores but still can’t seem to find a way to order the larger one. I also should probably stop trying the big generalised craft shops like Lincraft and Spotlight and try to track down smaller stores. Trouble there is that I don’t really know where to look! Gah!
So much going on, so little time. If I fail to get back on here before Christmas, have a wonderful Christmas and New Year with your families.
