Day 18

My actual class went better than the morning thus far had been. My coat was still in the same place I had left it and so I was easily able to grab that without looking like a complete idiot. Comparative Animal Physiology actually seems rather easy. I'm tentative to say that but we only have 5 papers throughout the semester, 2 of them are 1-2 pages, 2 are 3-4 pages, and the final one is 10-15 pages. All of them are lab reports, and I'm used to doing multiple 10-15 page lab reports throughout the semester so these 1-2 pages seem easy. The syllabus also seems rather basic, and today we went over things covered in BIO 202 in even less detail than we did then, so I'm actually a bit nervous that this class will be TOO easy. I guess only time will tell.

My second class, Human-Animal Interactions, was canceled since it doesn't exactly make sense to have a lab before you have your first lecture. However, I only found this out once I already walked across campus to the building, got lost in the building for about 20 minutes, and finally settled in next to the classroom to check my email on my laptop. I now had 4 free hours before my next class, so I decided to find out how to print. I went to the IT center and found out you could print from your laptop to a printer on campus, and followed the instructions only to get extremely confused and ended up deleting every printer off my computer's memory. Even after all of that, I'm not quite sure if it will actually print. After a quick lunch back at home and a trip to the market (I had 4 hours to kill after all), I decided to try and put money on my uni card in order to eventually be able to print. After wandering around the library for a good 15 minutes I finally found the machine, then spent awhile staring at it wondering how it works. It wouldn't accept my money, and my card got stuck in the machine. As I was trying to scramble and claw at my card to get it out of the machine, I looked behind me to see a line of about 10 people waiting for the machine. I finally was able to put all of my coins in the machine, a whopping total of $1.10, and apologized to everyone in line for my incompetence.

Printing at Melbourne only got worse from there. I went to try out my now paid card and print off the practical for tomorrow's Comparative Animal Phys lab. I went through all the motions, trying to figure out how to print double sided and more than one slide on one page (I never did and eventually gave up), and put my card into the machine to print. It got stuck. So again, there I was, trying to claw my card out of the machine but it refused to budge. I eventually went to go get help from a man at the front desk who was obviously extremely pissed at me for breaking his precious machine and told me he better never see me again, at which point they had to call someone else to come open the machine and get my card out. I never want to print ever again.

The night ended with a trip to RMIT to see our long lost friends...who we saw yesterday, but still. I wish we all lived in the same building, it certainly would make things a lot easier and more convenient. I hope tomorrow (now today) goes better!