So.. I've been at Aston for 6 weeks. I have not been home yet, although I am looking forward to having a weekend at home in 2 weeks. I have had 2 accounting exams/tests which count towards my first year grade, a marketing mock, and on friday I have a maths test which also goes towards my first year grade. I also need to write 3 pieces of coursework. All in all I'm a very busy lady! I have also been selected to become a 'student ambassador', doing work to convince other people that Aston is a cool place to live and study! SO if you are coming to an open day, you may just see me!!

People around this time want to know what the positives and negatives of going to certain universities are. I thought I would write my positives and negatives of my life at Aston. Note that these are all my own experiences, and someone else may have completely different opinions.

Positives>

Only having one 9am start

Drama soc. starting the year I joined

Ozren Despic

Organisational Behaviour lectures

Getting on with 2/3s of my flatmates

Being student ambassador

Accounting being the same as AS Accounting

The Heating in Stafford

Power showers

Family I hardly ever see living really close by

Roast dinners meaning more than they ever did at home

Tuesday's off

Discovering dryers which actually dry my clothes

Living a max. 10mins away from your lectures

Main building open 24/7

Aston E-Library

DJ Patrick Tissington

Watching the helicopter land outside your window!

Getting hundreds of emails a day, even if they are largely irrelevent

Changing your facebook status hundreds of times a day

Negatives

Economics, and the fact I have to do another economics module in the 2nd term

Tutorials- complete waste of time

Keysurf internet

Cooking for yourself gets so boring

Running out of milk

Quantitative techniques - I nobly gave away all my GCSE maths books to a charity shop, thinking I would never do maths again. Oh how wrong I was. :(

The bitter cold of Birmingham

Indoor TV aerials

When its too late to call your parents, but you really want to

Thursdays every other week

Rasheeda

The other 1/3 of my flatmates. VILE.

The showers. See above.

Not drinking

Steamy windows