As we build up for results day at the Solent University this coming Friday (ahhhhhhhh!), here's a few highlights from my time at uni. Starting today with Year 1, tomorrow with Year 2 and Thursday with Year 3!
YEAR ONE: Camellia antics, Meeting the course and fooking semiotics!
So here I went, into the unknown. My parents crammed all my stuff into the car and we headed on the journey to Southampton. A heavy night of drinkage on the night before meant I wasn't feeling too good all day! So if you first met me on the first Sunday in halls and I looked ill, that was why! I had no idea what to expect and being on my own sort of scared me but excited me too. Living with 9 others would be fun but added to that I would have to cook and clean for myself. I remember my first shopping trip alone thinking what the hell do I buy?! Ended up with microwave meals (plane food as claire calls it) and chips!
I settled into halls easier than I had expected and my housemates were luckily cool people who I could get on with pretty well. Camellia halls were pretty mad times and along with my housemates Roopa, Claire, Steve, Mari, Michelle, Meyrick, Ricky, Amellia and Mike, we got up to some crazy stuff! Roopa forgot that Amellia lived with us until she walked in on her telling us this, Steve had his food taken by the food snatcher (we still don't know who that was!), Mike came home to find his room scattered in male porn cards and we watched a very insightful documentary about Claire's home town of Brighton!
Away from Halls, I met my course mates for the first time (started out a course of 100 people, ended with about 30!) in a lecture room with more than a little awkward silences! But soon we got talking and got to know people though most people I spoke to on that first day I never saw again! I think Seamus must have scared them with the infamous "If I can get here from London at 9am, you can fucking get here for 10:30" speech. The other lecturers then gave a talk about their expertise and we instantly found ourselves some useful characters for future reference!
And so the actual learning began. Semiotics, culture...hold on am I on the right course?
Cue Ian McKay: "Today we'll be watching Eastenders for 3 hours"
Ah ha! Phew, thought I'd wandered onto the wrong course there!
Other Media Writing Year One highlights included the best quote ever to take place in an I.T. room when we were all introducing ourselves and our experiences with computers. Step forward Sir Alan Chung..."I'm Alan Chung and computers are sweet". I guess you had to be there!
And so with a backdrop of crazy Media Writers, I completed Year One with a pass (that's all we needed, only years 2 and 3 count towards the final mark).
Tune in tomorrow for more memories, this time from Year Two as the workload increases, Rick Hudson delivers his most memorable lecture and seminar ever and we somehow put together a radio show set around a fruit machine!
2 comments:
It brings it all back doesn't it.. ah it's wierd to have finished and I think it'll hit me in October that I'm really not going back this year, a shame but still we had some good times....
Is it wierd that I dont remember that Seamus lecture at all?
- Dave
It wasn't a lecture, it was the introduction to Media Writing! I have a weird memory, I can remember one quote from 3 years ago but ask me what someone said yesterday and I don't have a clue!
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