TUESDAY.
Tuesday's are my busiest day on timetable and I'm in uni from 12-6; might sound great as I get a lie in, but it's a long day and means I have lectures and seminars on each of my modules.
I'll usually meet my course mate Charlotte and we walk to uni together, as I've been here 6 months and still hate going anywhere on my own, on the off chance I might get lost! Luckily she lives across the road and both of our accommodations are about a 5 minute walk from the main campus buildings. For the first two hours we're in the sciences building - always thought that was a bit odd but never mind! We head down to our lecture room to meet our other friends and sit down, in the same seats every single time; it's kind of an unofficial seating plan in that sense! The first lecture of the day is Journalism Skills, so this can be anything from data journalism to multimedia skills. These lectures tend to go really quickly as they're always on super interesting topics and are engaging to everyone in the room. We'll sometimes play a group game of Kahoot, which gets so competitive so quickly.
After skills, we have our law lecture right away and in the same room. I quite like this as there's not much of a risk of being late; which is one of my biggest fears! Law and Public Affairs is by far the most difficult module because there's so much information to learn and retain so these lectures are almost always silent as everyone is trying to write as many notes as they can.
Then it's lunch - and by this time everyone is starving so it's all you'll hear about when leaving the lecture room! My group of friends and I usually will head to either the onsite canteen or into town to somewhere like Pret or sometimes Wetherspoons. We only have an hour gap for lunch, unlike another seminar group who have 3, but it's just enough time for a quick bite to eat before heading back.
For the rest of the afternoon, we're in Cantor Building. It's the faculty for media and communication studies and is where we're based for everything practical. Our first class is the Law and Public Affairs seminar, which follows on from the mornings lecture. I like that we have the seminar so close after the lecture because if there's anything we're unsure of, we are given the chance to ask questions in a smaller group. This does seem like a long session but we always leave feeling like we have learnt a lot!
Finally we head to the Journalism Issues lecture; my final module of the semester. We have a presentation and an essay due for this module and each lecture is based around one of the questions that we can choose to do these on. My presentation was on gatekeeping, which was chosen for me at random and I've just submitted my essay on moral panic within the media which was a topic I found really interesting. This lecture is only an hour, but they call it the 'graveyard shift' as it's right at the end of the day from 5-6 so it feels like you're in there for a long time! But when that's done, it's back to the flat and a catch up with my flatmates on the days events...
Hope you enjoyed reading this post, let me know if you'd like to see similar ones in the future!
Charlie x
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