Carrera.

Carrera.

Race. 

Imagine a virtual race against everyone in your year, and specifically on your course, that begins at midday precisely, the outcome of which defines your happiness (and possibly grade) for an entire year. 

Welcome to online module enrolment. 

This week was module enrolment week; a process that's touted as being stressful and nerve-wracking. I've been lucky and never had any major problems with the system but I felt like I was about to run a marathon for the whole of Tuesday morning. I was an adrenalin fueled, anxious biscuit eater as I waited until 1 pm to log in and frantically click my module tick boxes. Some people lost their modules as the system failed to submit choices, the module guide for the English department could not be viewed on anything but a computer and then you couldn't copy and paste any of the reading lists because it's not a PDF and there's no timetables available for the modules, timetables which the university highly recommends you view to avoid any clashes...

Suffice to say the stress energy from whole process could have powered the majority of the national grid for a few hours. 

And that, readers, was, sadly, the highlight of my week; proof if ever that we are nearing the end of the course.