I must say that I am happy with all the units I take here, even though I suddenly remember very clearly why I like natural sciences a lot more than social sciences....
All due dates are piling up on me now, so this week will be spent in the library and if I’m productive enough I’ll go with a bunch of other exchange students on a camping trip to Cape Raul this weekend. It’s supposed to be really beautiful there. Last week we went up on Mt. Wellington, which is very close to Hobart. It shares some of the same dolomite bedrock as the Transantarctic mountain range, which Lisa and I found really exiting at the time, especially since we’d read about it in the marine & antarctic unit the day before. On the up side of the due dates is that the library is nice & warm and the fact that the week after is mid semester break, so we’re planning on travelling up to mainland Australia for some sun. (It’s really cold here at the moment.)
The structure of the classes here are somewhat different from home, partly because the amount of lecture hours are decreased by maybe 2/3 and also because there is one tutorial for each class every or every second week, for which one have to read and answer a bunch of questions. I like them because we get to discuss what we’ve read a lot and it is a good way to find out how the Australian and the other exchange students look at things.
The assignments we got are actually very interesting, but it’s definitely a disadvantage to be foreign for some of them. I don’t have the same basic knowledge about Australia’s rules and such, which many of the other students don’t event have to think about. But I guess that’s partly what I’m here to learn ;P
The assignment I worked on today was for the unit “Conserving Nature in Landscapes”. I’m supposed to write a grant proposal for a trail or similar along the east coast of Tasmania, this is where I feel I lack basic knowledge. Just to select a site for my imaginary project I had to research the whole coast, which I must admit added too many places on the “where-to-go-while-here-list”.
Well well, tomorrow I’m starting my assignment for the Global Political Ecology unit.
Wish me luck!
All due dates are piling up on me now, so this week will be spent in the library and if I’m productive enough I’ll go with a bunch of other exchange students on a camping trip to Cape Raul this weekend. It’s supposed to be really beautiful there. Last week we went up on Mt. Wellington, which is very close to Hobart. It shares some of the same dolomite bedrock as the Transantarctic mountain range, which Lisa and I found really exiting at the time, especially since we’d read about it in the marine & antarctic unit the day before. On the up side of the due dates is that the library is nice & warm and the fact that the week after is mid semester break, so we’re planning on travelling up to mainland Australia for some sun. (It’s really cold here at the moment.)
The structure of the classes here are somewhat different from home, partly because the amount of lecture hours are decreased by maybe 2/3 and also because there is one tutorial for each class every or every second week, for which one have to read and answer a bunch of questions. I like them because we get to discuss what we’ve read a lot and it is a good way to find out how the Australian and the other exchange students look at things.
The assignments we got are actually very interesting, but it’s definitely a disadvantage to be foreign for some of them. I don’t have the same basic knowledge about Australia’s rules and such, which many of the other students don’t event have to think about. But I guess that’s partly what I’m here to learn ;P
The assignment I worked on today was for the unit “Conserving Nature in Landscapes”. I’m supposed to write a grant proposal for a trail or similar along the east coast of Tasmania, this is where I feel I lack basic knowledge. Just to select a site for my imaginary project I had to research the whole coast, which I must admit added too many places on the “where-to-go-while-here-list”.
Well well, tomorrow I’m starting my assignment for the Global Political Ecology unit.
Wish me luck!