Trials and tribulations of a budding biologist.

being a third year science student is tough...and i've completely underestimated its potential to ruin lives.

i'm in a bit of a situation now: the dates of some of the intensive courses which i will have to take over the winter holidays are confounding me to the max now. here's a lowdown of what's happening.

Winter break: 30 June - 22 July.

Intensive Course #1 - Marine Field Ecology: 2-9 July.

Intensive Course #2 - Aquaculture: 9-18 July.

Intensive Course #3 - Coral Reef Ecosystems: 13-22 July.


so here's where things get a bit tricky...

i would like to attend #2 and #3 but the commencement dates overlap therefore that option is currently out of the question.
hence i decided that i'd rather do #3 instead because it sounds so much more fun and interesting and cool!

however, i received an email today from my lecturer that i've been accepted to do #2 and the twist in this is that it's harder to get into #2 than #3 because it is more exclusive and is grade-dependant AND a lot of my friends have been accepted for that course too.

so i thought, sure, i'll do #2 instead...until i realised that the dates were smack in the middle of my winter break..so i'll have neither head nor tail of my break to do anything else (e.g. visit Melbourne..for shame, Melanie).

so then i thought, fine..stick with #3 la...but EVERYONE ELSE is in #2!!! grrr...peer pressure.

and then i thought...aiya, do #2 oni la...and since your vacation's gonna be spoilt anyway, might as well take #1 while you're at it. but then i've never had any intention to do #1 because the lecturer who's in charge of it is a bit...err...hands-on with his students.

ANYWAY...if i took #1 and #2...i'll be studying *koff*intensively*koff* from 2-18 July! which could potentially kill me because i'm not designed for intensive studying. however, it would also mean that for 2nd semester, i'll just have 2 regular classes in my timetable = more time to slack bludge conduct independant studying. but i really really wanna do #3 too!

so the real question is this: Should i go to Melbourne?

sighsighsigh...

and to top it all off, i caught 10 snails tonight...and they're all cramped into one plastic rectangular takeaway box. i feel like such a murderer because they will be part of 'The Scientific Cause for the Betterment of Mankind'. sigh...talk about confined spaces and cruelty to animals. there is a particularly active one which i have named Albert...hoho. and although i've already punched holes onto the cover of the box but i'm still uber paranoid that all 10 will suffocate to death through the night therefore i've proceeded to cut bigger airholes for them fellas.

now i'm paranoid that when i wake up tmrw morning, i'll find all 10 gone because they would've crawled out of the holes leaving their shells behind them and morphed into slugs.

sigh...i wish i did something easier...like a degree in Art History...or Engineering.