Day 19

Today I finally purchased my textbooks after a week of worrying about budgets and hating Australia for not having an Amazon. My two textbooks added up to almost $300, which makes me thankful that my other two classes don't have textbooks. Speaking of money, I also decided to set up a budget for myself seeing as I've blown almost a thousand dollars already, and it's only been 3 weeks. Mind you it's been necessary, I haven't bought a single piece of clothing or souvenir except for a postcard at Eureka Tower. It's still really sad to see the money quickly fade from your account, especially since I worked so hard to get it up to that amount. But the budget I set for myself is surprisingly reasonable and I think I can even take some vacations throughout the semester and still get by. I'm sad I'll have to miss out on things like the huge MUSEX surf trip coming up, but 180 dollars for one weekend just doesn't exactly fit in the way I would like it to.

I also had my final class today, Genes and Genomes. My professors voice is so monotone and boring I almost fell asleep while she was just going through basic genetics. There is absolutely no way I am going to miss a single class because if I just listened to the lectures online, I don't think I'd make it through 10 minutes without falling asleep.

I made it to the gym again today! I'm already doing better than I do at Wooster. Maybe since it's only an elevator flight away I'll be more inclined to go visit it more often. Also the lack of Organic Chemistry studying and internet access may also lead to excess free time with nothing to do EXCEPT work out so maybe I'll be super buff when I come back (most likely not). Staying in tonight as I have a 9am tomorrow. My first back to back class across campus, which I initially was worried about but now realize that in a class of 150, the professors really don't care if you're late by a couple of minutes.