{"id":2852,"date":"2020-01-22T16:18:36","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T16:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2852"},"modified":"2020-03-06T10:32:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T10:32:08","slug":"a-day-in-the-life-zala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2852","title":{"rendered":"A day in the life: Zala"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Zala is a Year 1, BSc Creative Computing student at Goldsmiths, University of London.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Progressing from the well-established secondary\nschool routine to a completely new independent and self-initiated university\none, is a rather big change, but so is moving from a town of 100 000 people to\na city with a population 4-times the size of my whole home country. Here is how\nI spend an average weekday in my new life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Establishing a morning routine<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Although my days differ due to my varied timetable, having an established morning routine gives them some structure, which I believe is vital to maintain my productivity and motivation. Since this term none of my classes begin before 12 and I live nearly on campus, I do not have to rush to wake up early in the morning and usually wake up around 8 after, hopefully, a good amount of sleep. I put on a jumper and head straight into our flat kitchen to make some breakfast. After changing and stretching a bit, I opt between going to the library or staying at home to catch up with lectures or work on projects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lectures, labs, tutorials<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Then come the lectures. After spending the majority of the first term learning the fundamentals of computing and programming, we\u2019re now starting to specialise by taking classes such as Generative Drawing, Graphics, Sounds and Signals and developing an independent creative project, which seems like it\u2019s going to challenge us and our way of thinking quite a bit. As we\u2019re just at the start of the new term, I\u2019m not quite sure what\u2019s in store for us for each specific module, although after having the first lecture of Generative drawing, I\u2019m positive it is going to be one of my favourite classes. For a visual person as I am, Graphics sound interesting as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finishing the Day<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As most of my classes finish in the late\nafternoon, that does not leave me with much time before the evening. On days\nwhen I do have extra time, I might head to the campus gym, attend a society\nmeeting\/social or go to any event that Goldsmiths\u2019 organises and I find\ninteresting. By the time I get back, my flatmates are in as well and we spend\nour evenings eating and chatting in our kitchen, which serves as our main social\nspace. We also might head to a pub or on occasion a party. I end my day by\nreading, watching a movie or talking with friends and family from back home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, we repeat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zala is a Year 1, BSc Creative Computing student at Goldsmiths, University of London. Progressing from the well-established secondary school routine to a completely new independent and self-initiated university one, is a rather big change, but so is moving from a town of 100 000 people to a city with a population 4-times the size of my whole … Continue reading A day in the life: Zala<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Student-reading-in-Whitehead-Building_15110.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2852"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2930,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions\/2930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}