I'm not sure how capable I am of having a melt-down due to stress because I really can't say I've been stressed about much these past few months. That being said, I know myself to be capable of increased amounts of feeling overwhelmed [illiterate much? I know. :/ ]...
So here I am, trying to plan my schedule for this coming period [1 semester = 2 periods], without a place to live in Helsinki [Thanks student housing association! If I applied 4 months early, then who the hell got all the spots?] and without fully understanding how the system works. I don't know if I need to do this right now... but we're in grad school. I am not under the impression that I'm gonna go to orientation and someone will hold my hand and help me figure this out. Nor do I want to send people 100 emails asking questions which may be answered next week. But having learned from experience and some 'oh-so-helpful' advisors at McGill, if they're gonna do anything in the first week, they'll make you cry. [That man was evil. And I'm not the only person he made cry.] Okay so as this story gets progressively more confusing and you can tell I haven't been in school for awhile, I'm unsure about the point of this post haha.
Point being:
- I'm taking 2 courses in the first period. They are Mon/Tues at 8:30am and 2:30pm so I should make some friends asap so I don't hang out alone for the 4 and a half hour break.
- I want to join some clubs and actually get involved in school stuff this time around... not to mention a job. A job would be SOLID.
- I want to take a Finnish conversation course here in Tampere but it's on Wednesday evenings and my 2nd period will slightly resemble Satan's face...with and without that course... and even worse without an apartment.
- I'm trying to find other Finnish courses I could take but every website has its own hoops to jump through.
- I'm also looking for an active and a creative course to fill my time with... so any suggestions for places or even activities to give me a starting point would be greatly appreciated.
Kbye.
P.S. I heart The National.
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ReplyDeleteStress is a natural thing to feel when we go through a "change" but don't worry things will become clear and in a few weeks you will wonder what all the stress was about!!
Doesn't Hanken offer language courses? or if not is there another university closer that would offer you a cheaper course for being in the student union? Jyväskylä's courses are free to it's students and we have additional speaking and grammar courses on top of the normal language courses!
See if hanken has a facebook group too or a forum and someone may know someone looking for a flatmate, a stab in the dark i know!
I looked at the brochure for the Tampere course's too but the course book is the one text book that's not very good... so I decided to stick with the course I have for now!
You are lucky to have so few courses! i have lectures every day!!! well 2 lectures a week from most subjects... then language school 3 times a week. I'm not taking the speaking extra course until January as there is so much to do in the first semester I just want a bit of free time!
But don't worry things come together in the end