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Nov. 25th, 2014
50 Day Meme Challenge 2014 - Day 14
Nov. 25th, 2014 12:06 pm14) Do you like to swim?
Yes, but I haven't done so in years. I live by a beach and I used to go bodyboarding with the kids, but they have all grown up now.
Yes, but I haven't done so in years. I live by a beach and I used to go bodyboarding with the kids, but they have all grown up now.
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Bluebeard - Reflective Commentary
Nov. 25th, 2014 06:07 pmBasically, I am reading the same 319 words and suddenly my vocabulary has dissolved into infinity. I feel like I am literally smacking rocks together. A form of "I can't 'brain' today, I have the 'dumb'". Trying to get across how I could have loused the PP up less, is depressing. I did well, but needed a stronger angle on what I needed to say. Very valid points - if I had slightly longer time to reconsider, I might have gone back to it and done exactly what had been suggested. Instead, I got so sick looking at it, I decided it was now or never.
Plus ::: We have been told that we have 12 days to get 2 essay drafts done (Victorians/Romantic module) as the date for final draft hand-ins is 5/1/15.Mine are on Charles Dickens/Hard Times and Mrs Gaskell/North and South; and a study on the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. I read Hard Times during the summer - I haven't even breathed on North and South yet. I have to read them through Marxist theory eyes as well. I have had to email our Film/New Tech lecturer to push our deadlines closer to the end of January - I know that there are some of us that can't jam this all in i.e. 2 rewrites and a PP on Tim Burton (which includes a 2,000 word seminar paper) all during the Christmas break. I think even if I just took Christmas Day off, I would be pushing it.
O_O
20:28
My problem is that I over-think things. I have written and emailed the reflective commentary. I vow to do better in the actually dissertation but I have come to a conclusion. I have proved time and again that I am worthy of a first, but I run out of stamina pretty quickly. Because of the time constraints and the amount of work, I really don't think that I can strive for so high for so long. I think I will aim to do my best and not go loopy in the process. Studying full-time eats into any life that you have and I want to still have my marbles in a jar when I get to collect the scroll, not burn out en route.
I am a little sad at this thought, but I need to be practical too. A few people are hitting a wall as we speak and one has dropped out already, due to commitments.
Plus ::: We have been told that we have 12 days to get 2 essay drafts done (Victorians/Romantic module) as the date for final draft hand-ins is 5/1/15.Mine are on Charles Dickens/Hard Times and Mrs Gaskell/North and South; and a study on the works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. I read Hard Times during the summer - I haven't even breathed on North and South yet. I have to read them through Marxist theory eyes as well. I have had to email our Film/New Tech lecturer to push our deadlines closer to the end of January - I know that there are some of us that can't jam this all in i.e. 2 rewrites and a PP on Tim Burton (which includes a 2,000 word seminar paper) all during the Christmas break. I think even if I just took Christmas Day off, I would be pushing it.
O_O
20:28
My problem is that I over-think things. I have written and emailed the reflective commentary. I vow to do better in the actually dissertation but I have come to a conclusion. I have proved time and again that I am worthy of a first, but I run out of stamina pretty quickly. Because of the time constraints and the amount of work, I really don't think that I can strive for so high for so long. I think I will aim to do my best and not go loopy in the process. Studying full-time eats into any life that you have and I want to still have my marbles in a jar when I get to collect the scroll, not burn out en route.
I am a little sad at this thought, but I need to be practical too. A few people are hitting a wall as we speak and one has dropped out already, due to commitments.