Class has started

Yea....my four-month holiday has come to an end. Lectures start on 26th Feb 2007, and we'll have ACST (intro for actuarial) even on orientation week. Oh, my brain has gone rusty abit... to the extent that i need some time to recall all the maths principals n formulae which I learned in SAM last year. ACST is kinda interesting, and I hope it wouldn't get too hard as time passes. I think the lecturer is quite fun...hehe. Guess his name is, if i'm not mistaken, Professor John Pollard. He claimed to not receive any royalty from the book he wrote which we use as tectbook...but the book still costs AUD$79. Crap. Nevertheless his lectures are quite good and less boring than what I expected earlier.

If you would ever let the idea of "uni life is always fun n relaxing" to cross your mind, I'm here to congratulate you that you are absolutely right, unless you are an actuarial student. The four subjects that we're currently taking are considered 'easy' by many of our seniors, which goes to show that the subsequent semesters would be even more "terrifying", as some people term it. I have met several local students(but they are asians) who expressed their most intense admiration when i told them that I'm a first year actuarial student. They said that it's the hardest course on earth and I should feel grateful of I actually survive the three-year-stint. Hey, it's supposed to be a course whereby out of a sudden, you would realise that a class with 50 students would be reduced to less than 15 in few months time. Scary, rite?

I've bought some of my textbooks although they are priced above what I would call, an affordable level. Statistics textbook costs me $65.50, whilst ACST costs me $79 as mentioned before, and Macroeconomics is likely to leech another $90 something from my pathetic monthly allowance. Haih...

Well, I guess that's about it for time being. Need to learn how to use Microsoft Excel before I find myself lost in next week's lecture. Have a nice day!!