Sem VI

Bidding for modules has been the theme of the week (starting last Friday). There were lots of scrambling, frantic e-mailing, and desperate phone calls to the admin office to get some things sorted out and cleared up. Days of waking up at 9 AM and checking my e-mail every five minutes until office hours ended at 5 PM were not fun, to say the least. At the peak of my frustration, I really wanted to scream, or -- at the very least -- blog, about it. But it seemed almost blasphemous to complain about module-bidding in the light of what's been happening in other parts of the world.

So here I am, after the madness, to tell you that all is very good. These are the modules -- if there are no major hitches in the next couple of days -- that I will be taking, come the start of the sem on Monday, with modular credits in parentheses:

• CN4118 -- Research Project in Chemical Engineering (8)
• CN4208 -- Biochemical Engineering (3)
• GEM1004 -- Reason & Persuasion (4)
• SC1101E -- Making Sense of Society (4)

Believe me when I say that I came close to having only two modules this sem. (For some reason, I can stay online all day bidding -- whilst doing many other things, like flipping through blogs and playing Neopets -- but when bidding closes and I only have to wait about an hour to know the results, I will always log off and switch off my computer. Go figure.)

In any case, these were my first-choice modules, and for reasons that I know not, I have them all; God is very good. :)

Sure, the philosophy module might drive me a little mad; the research project may mean hours of exposure to poisonous chemicals... but I'm actually looking forward to the sem to start. Insanity, I know.