I recently started off my new chapter in life by entering university. Being a child who has not stayed away from home for more than 3 months, I was excited and thrilled by the thought of being independent and all the events which are about to unfold throughout my entire undergraduate course. I have been partially independent since Monday (yesterday) and here's my experience so far. Also, I think I will be writing more about my daily life as a university student living off home from now on. Hopefully, I do have the time to write down my accounts once class commences.
So, one of the biggest takeaway from university on day 1 is that I had to push myself out of my comfort zone and mix around with people. I spent most of my time socialising, meeting new friends, attempting to find friends from my course who come from my residence (which I failed badly at, I am not giving up tho!) and trying to be more prepared for my course which is commencing next Monday (which I am currently struggling with as well). Although I may be mistaken as a friendly and talkative person, I tend to get tired after talking for a long time but I had to force myself to just constantly make conversations with whoever I made eye contact with. Well, the next challenge was that the university phase is sort of like an adulting phase in life where I learn to deal with problems all by myself. Things, or to be specific, informations, will not be given easily. I had to ask around and figure out things by myself. But it's not all that bad, I am sure that I will be fine (or at least I hope) once I get use to this in the near future heh.
Oh, also, one last thing regarding living off home. So, the place where I study at, transportation is pretty expensive. So, the best way to save up is by walking. On my first day, I left my room in the morning without turning off the switch where my laptop was charging and had no choice but to switch it off after my entire day of induction in the evening. Why not just walk back to your room and do whatever you were supposed to do but forgot you may ask, but the problem here is that my campus is situated quite far from my residence (3.6 miles), so I had no choice but to take the public transport daily. And even when I take the public transport (bus), it takes me 45 minutes to reach campus. Thus, lesson learnt: check, double check, triple check before I leave my room. Unfortunate for me, I have motion sickness and every time I get on a bus or a tube, I feel uneasy and I actually felt like I was going to throw up at any minute in all my rides previously. I hope I will get used to this as soon as possible, just like how I got used to the train (LRT) back in Malaysia. So there's this unforgettable experience which wasn't really pleasant but I thought I could mention it briefly here. I travelled to my high school daily by train back then. On the first day of school, my motion sickness kicked in and I couldn't resist and ended up throwing up at the station where I was supposed to get off. But after weeks of travelling, I got used to it and by the time I graduate from school, I could even read and write in the train without any problem! (hopefully this is the case here in my new environment as well *fingers crossed*)
I guess I have written pretty much about my university experience, I shall stop here now, and start checking out the new kettle I just bought and bath before it gets too late. Before I end, I just want to talk about this cute incident which happened after I bought my groceries at Sainsbury's. My hands were full and there were a few kids standing at the exit. I asked to be excused and this lil' kid (about 4/5 y/o) moved aside, smiled and said "sorry, young lady" which sort of made my day heh :)
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