My first day in University and my thoughts.

So today I went to Greenwich University at Medway Campus for the first time, on my own. My course is Environmental Science as I want to make changes to systems to become more environmentally stable to help with various problems we are causing to the environment. I made my video on Facebook about it and got quite a few comments and likes. Along the journey, a friend of mine who works for the government called me and said he'll be here if I need any help.


After a visit to a petrol station to get fuel, I managed to arrive to find the Campus to be all but void of energy. There weren't many people around and when I parked my car, forgetting to pay for parking but getting it resolved, thankfully. I ended up wandering around the place, not knowing where to go, despite asking a couple of staff members.


It turns out to be a warm-up week, and it turns out that many lectures are to take place online. I managed to a look around in the Library with my card, but without someone to help me to find out what to do, I just spent the majority walking around the campus. I managed to get another bag to take home. This "Goodies" bag has a couple of pens, a reusable coffee cup, a face mask, and some kind of circle thing I don't really understand its function.


I was told that it was an induction day and therefore I could go home. I have been contemplating now on whether I should've gotten accommodation at the Campus but my parents insist that I did the right thing by not doing so. There was supposed to be a movie night event at the campus, according to the website, but with the new regulations of social distancing being placed by the government, I wouldn't have thought staying was going to be worth it, nor going back there to check it out. I would prefer to get in touch with the community. To that end, I need to write an email to someone who can give me the Whatsapp groups. I did contemplate having lunch at the campus restaurant called The Deep End and they had an app for me to download so I could see the menu. Unfortunately, the app wasn't working and so I decided not to eat there and head home instead.


When I got home I did find a lecture on something called a Moodle. An educational online program designed to help you create content online, linking Youtube Videos and how to produce instructions on the internet. After going through the course of how the Moodle works, I was given two tests and I finished them with all questions answered correctly. I'm sure I can rewatch the videos at any time. In any case, I was to be rewarded a badge for it, but I can't seem to and it won't show up on my profile. During that lecture, I saw plenty of profiles in forum boards but I could only see the names of them and that's it. There is a way to search by putting the first letter of your forename and your surname and when I tried it with my name, I'm the only one who's got my name, curious.


I did make some small chat with a couple of students but I'm hoping that more social events will give me the opportunity to make new friends.

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