I promised a post on everyday life here at the manor, and since I have some free time before lunch, I thought I'd let you know what goes on here in any given week!
Monday, the entire school piles into the Long Gallery for an hour lecture on whatever topic of British history that the British Studies lecturers have decided on for that day. For example, towards the beginning of the semester, we had a lecture on the Three Edwards, and more recently we had a lecture on Industrialization. We get there early in order to get the seats by the best radiator, since it's so cold in there! After lecture, half the school goes to their seminar, while the other half does whatever until their seminar starts. I usually head back up to my room and get some homework done in that period of time. Seminar (at least for me) is in one of the stone corridor rooms, meaning that it's warm in there. Seminar basically goes into a bit more depth on one point of the lecture from that day, often using primary sources. We all have an individual presentation to give in there, mine was on John Locke and his two Treatises on Government. We also do group work, where we have to meet outside of class to discuss things and make a handout for class. Lunch follows seminar, then it's afternoon classes. For me, this is Marketing, again in a warmer room, where I get to learn all about different aspects of marketing. Following that is Environmental Science (a gen. ed.) where we get to be depressed all class because we're talking about death and destruction all the time, though right now we're talking about the death and destruction of creatures, which makes it a Care of Magical Creatures Class. =) This is located in the State Dining Room, which means that it's cold, which doesn't help the sadness. Following ES, it's either down to the Bistro for free coffee/tea/hot chocolate or back up to my room to do more studying. Dinner is around 5-5:30, then it's usually back up for more studying before a snack and show and bed.
Tuesday and Thursday consist of getting up at a decent time in order to get some work done before lunch and my afternoon classes (Marketing and Environmental Studies). I try to get up in time for breakfast since I get more food that way, but sometime I just don't feel like going down there, so I have some dry cereal in my room, along with some cereal and nurtrigrain bars. There's no free drinks in the Bistro on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so I head back up to my room to do some work, sometimes making some hot chocolate myself. The same routine follows for the rest of the day.
Wednesday, all I have is History of Magic (British Studies) lecture and seminar in the morning, like on Mondays. Wednesday is usually the day that I go into town if I need anything after lunch since that gives me the most time. Usually it's just an hour+ trip in for the grocery store, though sometimes there's clothes shopping involved. I usually forget to go down to the Bistro in the afternoon, but Wednesday is the other day that it's open. Wednesday is usually the day that I stop procrastinating on work and get things done, because I am usually gone on Thursday night or Friday morning for my weekend trips.
If I don't go on a trip (which is only happening a couple of weekends this semester) I'll pretty much hang around the manor Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, doing some work, hanging out with friends, going into town for various reasons, ordering food so I don't have to eat the Refectory food all weekend. I have one of my last big projects to complete this weekend, but most of my papers were due last Thursday and this past Monday, which meant that I was hard at work! I'm looking forward to this weekend basically off.
So yes, that's my time here at Harlaxton during the week in a nutshell. Obviously it's a bit more filled out than that, depending on the week. Harlaxton is good about having different events for the students, which are fun to go to if you have time. And everybody knows everybody here since there's literally like 200 people here, including professors! So you never have to eat alone. More in a few days, this time about London!
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