Pretty bad week I had. I hate it when there's so much to complete for the week. :(
On Monday I went to the library to do my library research shit, and I took 2hrs plus to get most of the info I needed. And the bulk of the time was spent on walking up and down and library, going to all the sections, looking up and down the shelves, looking at charts to compare and convert citations and standing on stools to get those uber thick and heavy books which are potential murder weapons.
On Wednesday I went to the library again to look for the remaining books which were MIA previously and jotted down whatever I thought I needed. Then when I tried doing the citation for those cases and materials, I realised to my utter horror that I MISSED OUT OTHER RELEVANT INFO WHICH I THOUGHT WASN'T IMPORTANT. So I made rounds in the library and I nearly died. So I got the other bloody info I missed out and tried to get down to work. Then I REALISED THE CITATION BOOK I WAS USING DIDN'T HAVE THE ABBREVIATIONS FOR THE COURTS I NEEDED. Frantic search for the legal dictionary and it didn't help much. Found a super thick US legal dict but decided not to use it cos I was looking for UK Courts so not that relevant. Gave up looking for the abbreviations and decided to look for the NUS book I needed for my extra credit question. I kept going to the shelf where the book was supposed to be, but it just wasn't there! I was cursing the selfish person who took the book away. And it was not like the book was being borrowed or anything, so I imagined this selfish person lurking somewhere in a corner of the library having the book all to himself.
So by the time I had to go for my torts at 630pm my work was still obviously not completed. And since that library research thing must be handed in the next day, I went back to the library AGAIN at 8 after my tutorial ended. This time Lingy went with me cos I was desperate for help already. Lingy got the legal dict. for me which has the abbreviations and guess what IT WAS THAT US DICT WHICH I THOUGHT WASN'T USEFUL. And the NUS book was not on the assigned shelf cos it was put on a display by the library and the bloody display was at a place where I would surely spot when I entered the library.
WTH. You could have stabbed me on the spot. So much time was wasted on this stupid thing due to my own carelessness.
And on top of this stupid library thing I had to rush my tutorials and do readings for contract and torts before Wednesday cos BOTH TUTORIALS WERE ON THE SAME DAY. Not to mention I had to read SLS too and SLS is on TUESDAY. And all these stuff take a hell lot of time to complete so I couldn't take a break cos all these things either come together or come one after another (which is like no diff from coming together anyway cos they follow so closely). Just constantly remained in the high-strung mode.
And my contract tutor dropped yet another bomb on me when he announced that there will be tutorial AGAIN NEXT WEEK. Contract tutorials fall on alternative weeks and I've been seeing my tutor for the past consecutive 2 wks already so by right I dun have to see him next week. But no! Just when I thought next week will be better since I will have more time to do other stuff without the tutorial.
To sum it up, this week was a major :(
One funny thing though. On Monday my LAWR tutor asked us if there was tutorial today and obviously we lied and said no. She actually believed us and didn't come to school today.
One thing you should never ask your students is whether there are lessons. And you must always double-check to confirm.
My tutor is just damn slack lah I tell you. All of us had to do this thing called research binder/memo which is major shit (though I think the concept is interesting cos we're acting like real lawyers). Other tutors spam their students and upload stuff on the IVLE for this research thing but I get zero from my tutor. Nothing I tell you. While other tutors will inform their students what to do for the next tutorial, I just go for her tutorials without knowing what we're going to do. If she does tell us our plans for next lesson, she will just forget about it and do some other things during the next tut.
So while other TGS are busy with research/presentation/ST, my TG is doing nothing. And it is very frustrating cos you will have less time than others to complete the equal amount of work. Well we can actually kinda start researching on our own first but there is simply no time. If you spend your time doing research, you have no time for other tutorials and seminars. And tutorials are very important cos there's class participation points. And can't possibly go unprepared that is suicidal.
But one good thing is my tutor is very lenient.
So you can see how sucky my life is. I don't have any life anymore! Everything is devoted to schoolwork.
What's more scary is this sucky life will CONTINUE EVEN AFTER I GRADUATE.
Sigh.