Lectures

Hello!
So this morning incorporated the first early start that I've had in a while. As much as I wanted my slumber to be as eternal as possible, I awoke from my fort of duvets just before 7am. I know right, a first year getting out of bed anywhere before 12, what's going on?

Today marks the first set of lectures of our second semester and it was not one to be looked forward to. Starting the day off with a 9am-10am scientific writing and communication lecture, moving on to an 11am-1pm lecture on Brain and Mind, with us yet to face the challenge of the 3pm-5pm stats lecture which lies ahead.

Looking around our lecture hall this morning, it was pretty clear that everyone, including the lecturer was asleep in their own minds. Since it was our first day back after exams we were basically being given information about the module ahead and what awaited us. I think I made about 4 lines of notes in our 9am lecture, seeing as none of the information was useful. For our second lecture it was to be led by a man called Guillaume. Guillaume is a man who is famous for being very entertaining during an applicant day for potential first year students as he called us all "Little ducklings" when telling our parents how safe we would be and made a variety of jokes about the fact his is unmistakably French. We got told that it would be useful that if we wanted to answer his questions, then we should nod or put our hands up.

 He made us practise this to make sure we were awake. No word of a lie.

The actual lecture was really interesting though as he delved into the territory of perception and told us how things that change, even ones that are not at all discreet can be missed if you pay attention on something else. This was demonstrated with a few of those videos where you're given a task and are then asked if you spotted something random that happened at the same time.

Since that lecture, I went for a pancake lunch with Natasha where we had one with nutella and one with white chocolate. Currently we are in my room and she's just fallen asleep, she's been saying she's really tired today but I'll let her sleep for a bit and wake her up just before we have to go.

Speak soon, thanks for your time

Cheers
Tim