Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Day Two at School

Yes, and with some FSV content finally. Even my Audio Tech lecturer thinks IS is "crap".

So once again, it's early in the morning, 8:25AM on my watch, waiting for my 9AM Social Psychology lecture... I was so frickin' tired after surviving the trip home (with the help of my aunt), I slumped on the couch at 7-plus and woke up at 8 for dinner, went to print some lecture shit until 12-plus then settled into an uneasy sleep. I'm sure you understand now why I didn't blog, didn't go on MSN, etc. etc. etc.

Okay so about yesterday: first lecture in the morning was Audio Technology Production, usually just referred to as Audio Tech. And first lecture in the morning my lecturer proceeded to scare us with some scary stuff. Stuff like how other schools can slack off the first week, but we can't in FMS, how all the content in the Audio Tech module is equivalent to an entire diploma course in the same field, how we are the "flagship school" and the "only legal media school" in this country and etc., etc., etc. . and after all the scary details, he then tells us that all the equipment have enough buttons to scare off a tyrannosaurus rex because that's what it's supposed to do, scare people by looking scarily complicated. He assured us that those equipment were actually easy to operate. Then immediately, he starts teaching us technical jargons half of which I have already forgotten! Thank god for downloadable slides from the portal. Overall the lecture was.... pretty interesting. About 50 times better and ∞ times more relevant that *shudders* IS...

Next lecture was Location Production... and the content of this lecture is completely unrelated to the last. (Of course, we're talking about two different modules!) So after we're done with dealing with some audio tech concepts and jargon (which the lecturer likens this job to teaching a blind man about colour), the Location Production lecturer (who is short, plump, bald, and Spanish to boot) then educates us, the blissfully ignorant bunch of spoon-fed kids, all about cameras. ƒ-stops, depth of focus, lenses, exposure and other technical jargon that I, too, can't remember. His English isn't bad but sometimes he speaks too fast or too softly and I had to rely heavily on the slides to understand what's going on. And I thought I could find some information on the portal... all I found was a document on rules and regulations and a compulsory book list.

Speaking of books, don't think just because I'm "in ur poly bloggin on ur puter" means I don't have to bring books altogether. WRONG. I have to buy BOOKS. I have lists of books to buy (or borrow, steal, rob, etc.) for some modules. And they're (as my Audio Tech lecturer puts it) "not very expensive" at around $20-$30 (HELLO?!!?!?!!!1111!11!1!!!1oneone We don't earn as much as you do!).

After lunch with Clarice and Wei Ning (YIPPEE! But poor them, they didn't like their classes), we went for a combined lecture on Written Communication, which I seriously liken to a more sycophantic form of English classes with the Ow. It's seriously boring. Seriously. And I do realise why both of them hated their classes... those motherfuckers really laughed at every single lame joke the lecturer tells. Even worse than the sexual innuendoes that my IS lecturer uses. Seriously.

Okay shit class is starting gotta go KTHXBAI