My class schedule I would give out to people but the labs change every week (some lab times switch every other week, while other labs have four different time slots it rotates on) and so I’m aware this kind of sounds confusing .. and I can assure you it IS very confusing ... I personally don't think they could have made it more confusing even if they tried ... but we're all managing to figure it out ... but for the most part i'm in class or lab or "studying" from roughly Monday 1-4, Tues 10-4, Wed 9-1, Thurs 9-1, and Fri 10-12...so not too bad at all! In total we have about 6 classes and about 16 in class hours a week, but the rest of the time we're suppose to be studying ;-) Also it's kinda different how it works because most of the classes go from October to June, and after we come back from our Christmas break we have a week or two of midtems and then the last month of school is the finals. So it's a bit of a different schedule than I'm use to ... but it will work out well.
Lectures are great because all my professors seem very down to earth and are all very easy to understand! My labs also have been great, the first one we just played with some single vision lenses, so it was very basic Opticianry stuff and then I had another two labs on Thursday which was an introductory lab and it looks like that will be very much like the physics labs I did at Waterloo, so should be fun, but a lot of work :P Then my other lab on Thursday was for Clinical Optometry was amazing because we actually started to use the ophthalmoscope to look at the retinas of some of our classmates. They taught us the basics of how to use the ophthalmoscope and what we're looking for and starting this Thursday part of the class will have to draw what they are seeing while my half is learning retinoscopy! I'm just amazed that the first week isn't even over and they already have us to Ophthalmoscopy and next week is Retinoscopy!
The only downside to all of my classes and labs is that most are in the vision science building, but two of the labs are in the main building and sometimes we only have 10minutes to get from our vision science building to our lab class. This doesn't really sound like an issue to most of you, especially since it's all of a 1-2min walk to get to the main building, but the problem lies in that there are roughly 3000 - 5000 students in the main building at anyone time, and all the classes end at the same time, as well our lab is on the 4th of 7 floors and there are only about 6 lifts (elevators :P) so we basically have to take the stairs since its impossible to do the elevator, but then it's 5 huge stories of jam packed stairs we have to climb to get to the 4th floor (yes 5 flights because they have the ground floor and then floor 1, 2, 3...) it's really shear madness, so it's always a bit tight getting to the labs on time. But I guess this way I won’t have to worry about joining the gym.
So that was basically enough of the school stuff for one week :P
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