The life update.

So in previous blogs I've mentioned various things I've been planning to do to improve my life at university, and various things I've suggested that you do to improve yours. So this blog is a quick update on how well I'm contributing to them.

Sleep.

So as mentioned in my previous blog http://bethweatherhead.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/students-are-nocturnal-creatures.html , I was telling you all about how I could not get to sleep until 4am, and how being tired all day long was lowering my quality of life. Now however I have got myself I great sleeping routine, it may have taken longer for me to achieve than desired but nevertheless I've managed to do so, which has resulted in me making my two hour 9am lecture this morning! I think a trip home last weekend has helped this, as I fell into the same daily routine as my family. There's also another factor which has definitely contributed to me getting a good night's sleep...

Societies.

I also mentioned in a blog post about starting university http://bethweatherhead.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/top-tips-for-your-first-week-at.html , that as a fresher you should join a society to make new friends and improve your time at university. I felt like a bit of a hypocrite for saying this as even though I had joined the management society in my first year I didn't really get involved with much as the social events seemed to have stopped as soon as freshers finished.

Now however I have joined the rowing society and I'm planning to launch myself into it as I've met some great people, the first social was fantastic, and I'll constantly have training which is a welcome new member of my once exercise-free lifestyle.

Food

I also wrote a blog about how to shop for food in order to save money and stay healthy http://bethweatherhead.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/student-vs-food-shopping-dos-and-donts.html . At the start of this year I wasn't really following this as I mainly picked up enough food for my dinner on the way back from clothes shopping and university, and rarely had any extra food in the house. Now I've done a big online shop shared with my housemate so my cupboards are filled and should stay filled for hopefully a long time!

On top of this I would like to personally recommend Quorn or meat-free alternatives. I'm not a vegetarian but by using these products I can still have the same amount of protein that I'd usually eat but without worrying about sell-by dates or defrosting, as I can just use this stuff straight out of the freezer and put any of the rest back without a care in the world! The prices may seem a bit dear at first but once you compare them with the prices of meat then it's pretty clear that this is the cheaper option.

Why do some people not know how to clean?

When moving into a house for second year I was hopeful that, unlike the first year, the people of whom I'd be living with would be clean and respectful of other people.

It seems however that either an individual or a few of the people who live here have also got the problem where they cannot clean up after themselves and therefore treat the place like a pigsty. I am currently writing this feeling rather hungry but unable to cook because I would literally have no space in our massive kitchen and considering the sink is consisting of floating utensils in grime infused water I would not be able to wash up my stuff afterwards.

I guess I'm writing this because I have a complete lack of understanding of why some people have a mentality where they can be completely happy to leave their mess in a public place for several days without any consideration about how it's affecting other people who also use that area.

I don't understand how some people just don't have the automatic reaction in them to want to clean up when they spill something, or how they don't figure out that if they cook more carefully then they will spill less.

I find the idea of uncleanliness a bit too immature for 19-20 year olds, and I long for the day where I can live with people my age who are actually considerate of others.