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[bliumchik]

One unexpected thing about short hair is you have to cut it a lot more often. I used to go to the hairdresser once every four months, tops - now it seems like I just cut it last week and it's already shaggy. Boys must spend so much on haircuts. I've been trying to grow it out all my life, so this is a change. When I was a kid I really wanted that Ukrainian hairstyle with the plait pinned across the top of the head. It's very cool, but I never got my hair long enough to do it properly, and it's really too unruly for that to have worked anyway. Maybe if I'd straightened it. Anyway, I think this style suits me better, but I'm still not used to going into a hairdresser's without worrying they'll take too much off cos I'm growing it out. Hell, the shorter the better, means I won't have to come in again too soon. That's really odd.

I am in the process of enrolling at UTS - this involves reading a lot of waffly documents about appropriate use of uni computer and email facilities or: You And Your Subpoena. Ah, bureaucracy.

Items recieved:
1 Student ID.
1 unit of waffle from Vice Chancellor re: UTS Embracing Divertingly Diversity.
1 enthusiastic message from UTS Union to remind me that there is more to life at UTS than just study.
1 declaration of whatnot for my records.
1 confirmation of enrollment.

Whee, higher education!

Comments

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Enjoy this moment of coherent, because it's all motion blur and nausea from about this point on. (Don't get me wrong, it's a blast, but it's also sensory overload.)

Though it would be a much better world if the waffle were actually a form of stationery.

Also, I think you overestimate the degree to which men actually care about hair. The only problem with me is I go from Greg House to Jim Halpert in no-time flat; apparently my biology is specially-designed to convert coffee and sarcasm into hair. I typically have to wait for a three-nag day: if three different people ask me if I'm getting it cut in the same day, then it's time.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Yes, but nobody nags girls to cut their hair. Is my point.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank God you never met my mom.

[avis-noctis.livejournal.com]

A lot of people seem to nag girls not to cut their hair.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I get that one :P

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

There needs to be an official document called the 'Declaration of Whatnot'. I have no idea what it'd actually be about, but still.

And, um, yes. Find out if your café charges extra for a double-shot. Identify the loose flippy-tables in lecture theatres before they take away your notes and, more importantly, your caffeine. Learn well how to manipulate the system, especially if the system involves internet usage quotas. Start your research as early as you can, because then you get the good books, not them. Anyone who says they don't care about citation style usually does.

There's probably other things, but that's what stands out at the moment. Also, remember to hand stuff in; that's the bit that got me.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Thank you. That last one is a bit of a recurring theme for me, actually.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

And for me, which is what makes it so very important. Hand stuff in. On time, too, unless you're absolutely sure you can find more extra marks than you'll lose to the late penalty.

[kayloulee.livejournal.com]

*jumps in* Also, if it somehow turns out that you just can't turn stuff in on time, make sure that you know the % they take off for being late. So if you've got more than one thing due, you can prioritise.

And learn your way around the forms-for-filling-in-if-you're-sick, because it's really useful to know what you need to do. EG: the Arts faculty at USyd is pretty easy about it, but the Science guys were totally insane. I got sick last year, and ohboy, it was crazy picking up afterwards.