Chronicles of a First year Foodie

#1: 19/09/2021 - BERRIES AND CREAM

Good afternoon!!!!! How to start this update... Oh yea I had a fun time with my friend who I met up with before I came back to uni - we ended up wandering about my hometown, we met up with another mutual friend and then ended up getting tea from a local cafe

It's been a week in my new place which has been awesome so far. I've pretty much fully unpacked (minus a few things like decor which I've ordered in)
My shared home feels like home already - it feels much better especially for the MH compared to being at home where one of my parents would come home from visiting my Nan and unload all their anger and worries and stuff onto me. I just feel so lucky everyone in my accommodation gets on so well. It does feel slightly weird not calling home as much like I did last year because they're so busy now.

The lowdown on news:
- I've set up my printer (and AirPrint ofc bc I'm extra )
- All my flatmates are all moved in so we're officially a full house a few days ago we watched the Spongebob squarepants movie
- We have maybe had some drain shower clogging issues which I won't go into details about but it was a bit we managed to sort it though
- There are loads of lovely cycle lanes across and around my campus which is awesome as I didn't know this last year because my halls last year were situated on the opposite side of the university, getting to campus will take no time at all by my bike
- A LOT of cleaning has been done so the house is pretty functional now
- I don't need to book before I need to go to the uni library like I did last year, and it's back to its old 24-hour opening
- I eventually found the welcome week timetable. I only know it existed because of last year, have had no communication at all so had to find the timetable myself online which looks like a big long list (which doesn't make sense to my brain either).
- I looked at my timetable which looks alright at the moment I'm SO excited for a couple of them. I STILL can't do the module selection until this coming week though. Neither do I have a clue where any of the places are on my timetable

Me when I see the word 'online' on my timetable


- I've had another DSA software training session, this session I was learning how to use the Sonocent AudioNotetaker which looks like it's going to be so helpful already
- I tried phoning my GP practice to book a repeat blood test that I couldn't book because of the national shortage of blood vials
- My fyp on Tiktok is full of berries and cream remixes make it stop pls

I think that's it for now!

Tagzz

#1: 19/09/2021 - berries and cream, berries and cream, berries and cream

Good afternoon!!!!! How to start this update... Oh yea I had a fun time with my friend who I met up with before I came back to uni - we ended up wandering about my hometown, we met up with another mutual friend and then ended up getting tea from a local cafe

It's been a week in my new place which has been awesome so far. I've pretty much fully unpacked (minus a few things like decor which I've ordered in)
My shared home feels like home already - it feels much better especially for the MH compared to being at home where one of my parents would come home from visiting my Nan and unload all their anger and worries and stuff onto me. I just feel so lucky everyone in my accommodation gets on so well. It does feel slightly weird not calling home as much like I did last year because they're so busy now.

The lowdown on news:
- I've set up my printer (and AirPrint ofc bc I'm extra )
- All my flatmates are all moved in so we're officially a full house a few days ago we watched the Spongebob squarepants movie
- We have maybe had some drain shower clogging issues which I won't go into details about but it was a bit we managed to sort it though

This is great that you've settled in so well to your new accommodation, and everything is sorted so quickly. It means you can concentrate on the important stuff, ie. your course, without having to worry about living arrangements. 'Blocked shower' makes me think of 'hair in plug holes', which actually makes me gag a bit.

What a great post - this all sounds really positive - well done on settling in so quickly

PS If it was hair in the plughole you can get a 'plug hole hair-catcher' which stops it going down - really useful. [just google]

sounds lovely and i'm glad to hear you've settled in now! i moved in 5 days ago and it already feels like home to me

Ah i think ik what you mean have one back at home for the bath
Annoyingly we have a grid type drain in the floor so i don’t think it would work very well

06/10/2021 - 12 days +unnecessary character development

Well this feels like it's been the longest (almost 2 weeks I think?) of my entire life If you have been tagged and are you're not on my regular tag list, you've probably been wondering where the heck I've been

Uni has literally been amazing so far - everything in my course is awesome, the modules, the people, the buildings, and my flatmates (as always) At the moment I've got 5 modules on the go, but I'm so glad I did the foundation year, last year in my group chat for my course loads of people are saying they think its too much work already On the 24th Oct, I did some top secret TSR planning which is as I said top secret, but it was v interesting experience oh yeah did I mention I kind of overpacked
Freshers flu has cleared up at last and its no longer making me feel like a four letter word beginning with s Good thing too cos I was getting tired of switching between Vicks vapour rub, nasal inhalers and throat lozenges It definitely wasn't covid as I was testing daily at that point just in case, luckily I didn't really have anything on during that week so I could just rest.

I'll get the depressing stuff out of the way first, basically same second week of uni I probably had the worst flu in my life, my Nan passed away on the weekend of the 25th Sept

T/w anxiety, grief, funerals etc. you don't have to read this bit if you don't want to




Modules 'n' stuff


Random stuff
Lecturers all seem pretty friendly This morning we all had to do some kind of diagnostic English test thing testing very basic grammar which was pretty easy in the end and only took a quarter of an hour. I think it was just to check if you need any academic support if English is your second language

So far I've had 2 practicals! The first was my Human physiology module which was all about blood pressure and we were in pairs using the blood pressure machines in the lab. My second practical tomorrow is all about coffee dehydration kind of excited despite not liking nor knowing much about coffee

Also, my international flatmate went back to Italy a couple of weeks ago as they completed their course They got a replacement tenant for us and he's alright. The other day when the Facebook network went down we all went to Aldi to get some much-needed shopping However we didn't realise it was down until we came back so we ended up deep cleaning the kitchen and mopping the floor
I attended freshers fayre and signed up for a couple of societies - the film, chess, and arts and crafts society saying that I haven't felt able to go to any of them because of the above

Will update again soon

awesome peeps

06/10/2021 - 12 days +unnecessary character development

Well this feels like it's been the longest (almost 2 weeks I think?) of my entire life If you have been tagged and are you're not on my regular tag list, you've probably been wondering where the heck I've been

Uni has literally been amazing so far - everything in my course is awesome, the modules, the people, the buildings, and my flatmates (as always) At the moment I've got 5 modules on the go, but I'm so glad I did the foundation year, last year in my group chat for my course loads of people are saying they think its too much work already On the 24th Oct, I did some top secret TSR planning which is as I said top secret, but it was v interesting experience oh yeah did I mention I kind of overpacked
Freshers flu has cleared up at last and its no longer making me feel like a four letter word beginning with s Good thing too cos I was getting tired of switching between Vicks vapour rub, nasal inhalers and throat lozenges It definitely wasn't covid as I was testing daily at that point just in case, luckily I didn't really have anything on during that week so I could just rest.

I'll get the depressing stuff out of the way first, basically same second week of uni I probably had the worst flu in my life, my Nan passed away on the weekend of the 25th Sept

T/w anxiety, grief, funerals etc. you don't have to read this bit if you don't want to




Modules 'n' stuff


Random stuff
Lecturers all seem pretty friendly This morning we all had to do some kind of diagnostic English test thing testing very basic grammar which was pretty easy in the end and only took a quarter of an hour. I think it was just to check if you need any academic support if English is your second language

So far I've had 2 practicals! The first was my Human physiology module which was all about blood pressure and we were in pairs using the blood pressure machines in the lab. My second practical tomorrow is all about coffee dehydration kind of excited despite not liking nor knowing much about coffee

Also, my international flatmate went back to Italy a couple of weeks ago as they completed their course They got a replacement tenant for us and he's alright. The other day when the Facebook network went down we all went to Aldi to get some much-needed shopping However we didn't realise it was down until we came back so we ended up deep cleaning the kitchen and mopping the floor
I attended freshers fayre and signed up for a couple of societies - the film, chess, and arts and crafts society saying that I haven't felt able to go to any of them because of the above

Will update again soon

awesome peeps

28/11/2021 - the one with no boiler, no hot water, heating, and fridge

Howdy guess who has returned not disappeared completely
Lots has happened since my last update

Uni stuff
- lots and lots of deadlines I think there putting most of the deadlines before Christmas instead of afterwards
- had quite a few practical lab sessions and they were really interesting. One was for my microbiology module and we did a series of experiments on how to do streak plates, isolating bacteria, food samples, abd using gram stains
The other practical I found pretty interesting we were timing how long heomolysis took in a sample (of which we were given 10, like urea, glucose etc) in horse blood, and had to compare it to a control sample
- so many Blackboard tests

Other stuff
- I had my flu jab a couple of weeks ago - ofc I got the v grumpy nurse and didn’t really speak to me at all which just made me more nervous (more of a distraction tbh), but hey I’m jabbed now
- today our boiler broke no hot water, no heating we’ve all wrapped up warm
- we’re awaiting a new fridge/freezer to be delivered bc the fuse broke on that, but luckily the landlord sent someone to come and look at it to confirm its broken, but for the meantime 6 people are sharing one fridge
- the funeral went ok although you could cut the tension in half with a knife, and there’s a lot of arguing going on with my Mum and in-laws atm because they can be quite narcissistic so when they were sorting out stuff from my nan’s house they just wanted to chuck everything away without sorting it and dump it because they don’t believe in climate change/recycling etc.
- In relation to the post above I’m on anxiety medication now which I think are helping. When I was at home (cos of the funeral) my uncle phoned quite a bit and it would always end up in lots of tears / them arguing
- no idea when I’m going home for Christmas yet bc my other Grandma on my Dad’s side has had shingles although she’s much better now thankgoodness
- my room is a mess and I need to clean it
- Did some more top secret Chat and Entertainment planning a couple of weeks ago now which was pretty funnnn but yea its top secret so I can’t say
- is anyone watching the new series of Doctor Who? what did you think?

Tw anxiety/panic attacks


Thanks for all your support from my last post

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