Studying again.

[chairman_wow]

Wednesday was enrolment day at UCL. I got what I'm pretty sure was superhumanly early (I shot out of bed the second my first alarm sounded at 7am because I was excited), and had registered, collected my ID card and picked up my email username and password by 9:30, leaving me with two hours to kill until anything was going on at the Institute of Archaeology. I am just ~*extra keen*~.

I met a few of the other students from my course, and they all seem pretty nice!

Thursday I went on a tour of the institute's collections.





Bone room!



The basement artefact store is kind of amazing and Indiana Jones-y. Shelves and shelves of wooden boxes with the occasional clay pot on a stand.

And after that I went to check out the student societies.


UCL has a huge Freshers' Fair ~Fayre~. It was twice as big as Durham's at least, and incredibly crowded when I was there. I signed up for the Sci-Fi and Fantasy Soc, techSoc, German Soc, and the LGBT (I always feel like not being straight is a bit of a silly thing to have in common, but they have a book and a film club, which sounded kind of cool? Idk). I don't know if I'll be able to participate in them much (I already have reading to do and there hasn't even been a lecture yet), but I'm most excited about the SFF Soc, so I'm going to try to go to at least some of their events. Definitely checking out the RPG taster session tomorrow. :D


I also picked up a mountain of leaflets and money-off vouchers. (And free condoms.) (And free packets of lube.) (Proper preparation is important, kids!)

I've also registered my final module choices*:

• Themes, Thought and Theory in World Archaeology: Foundations
• Themes and Issues in the Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East
• Evolution of Palaeolithic and Neolithic Societies in the Near East
• The Near East from Later Prehistory to the End of the Iron Age
• Topics in Chinese Art and Archaeology

I'm pretty sure that China one was not in the booklet I had when I was looking at modules before, but I'm excited for it! :D I'm going to sit in on some undergrad modules on Chinese archaeology, as well, to get a bit of background knowledge.

My first lecture/seminar is tomorrow, in Themes, Thought, and Theory. Kinda wish I could take the contemporary issues version instead of the history of theory again, but I have become a lot fonder of theory since I figured out how and why it's actually relevant and important, so I'm still looking forward to it.

*Online! An awesome thing about UCL: they seem to be about 10 times more IT-savvy than Durham ever was. POP/IMAP aren't blocked on the email service, I can change all of my personal details online, and most importantly most of the required reading for the courses is available in pdf format!