Just a short one today I think because uni this week started and ended with Monday but I wanted to write a post none the less.
Monday was a struggle - I woke up very anxious because I knew how much I had to submit. But I went to my 11am lecture (mostly to do some work) and I was the only one there for a while but got the first draft of my features done, I then went to town for lunch with my boyfriend (time I could have spent working but I definitely needed that hour just to chill a little bit) and went back to seminar. I got some feedback on my features and finished the final draft and this is where the intense work regarding the essay that was also due that day began.
I wrote the whole thing in 8 hours and it was all very close, you can tell the exact point I gave up on citing things and just kept writing, my bibliography probably wasn't laid out right and it was barely proofread, but with it being submitted with one minute and forty three seconds before the deadline, I definitely didn't have time to do any of that!
And then my eighth and ninth assignments were submitted and semester one was finished!
I still went to meet my friend for a work session at 9am the next morning and got some blog planning done, then went into town with some friends, went to one of those trampoline room things, realised how unfit I am then went on a night out. Tuesday was a very busy day.
Wednesday and Thursday I chilled a lot, I barely left the flat and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm slowly catching up on Pokemon. Then on Friday I finally came home for the first time since my birthday in September - it involved a seven hour journey with a drive into London, a train from Gatwick to Kings Cross and another train from Kings Cross to Peterborough then a drive from Peterborough to home via the Chinese.
I'm home now for two weeks then about another week at my boyfriend's house, but I'm very excited for some time off and some real relaxation - it's been a long semester!
I don't go back to uni until the 23rd January, so I'll resume then with what I think is week 16 or 17. Have a good Christmas and see you in the New Year!
Personal blog: sophiecountsclouds.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sophiecountsclouds/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/sophiecountsclouds
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Saturday 17 December 2016
Saturday 10 December 2016
Week 11: Lead up to Last Deadlines!
This week has been a difficult one so let's just start with Monday - always a manic day with little breaks, but managed to get a fair amount of work done and get to dance on time and remember to eat at regular intervals. I'd call that a fairly successful day.
Tuesday was a Mettricks morning, went and did a couple of hours of work in there, finishing a log workbook and submitting my seventh assignment before going to uni for a meeting about being on a social media team for open days and it was really productive, so at least I've got that to look forward to in the New Year.
I then got an email from someone at Campus Society regarding the student blog I run 'The Student Seat' about working with them and promoting their social media so that was quite exciting. And then I went to a pointless lecture at 4pm that literally made me want to claw my own eyes out.
On Wednesday I didn't have News Day, so I was planning to go to the library and spend the whole day working and I didn't do that. But I did go to the library to get out a few books and I did some research work at home and not too much else, productivity has been minimal. This week I've really struggled with motivation which is annoying because I have two massive deadlines due next week and I really need to be productive.
By Thursday I'd given up on forcing productivity - I went with my flat for a group road trip to Asda to buy food for our Christmas party at the weekend and then a quick trip to KFC before uni, where I did very little and chatted about YouTube and mindless gossip for two hours before returning home to do some work and then go to work at the university cinema in the evening.
Friday was even more lax - I went Christmas shopping (got nearly all of it done and finished the rest by placing an Amazon order that evening!) and then it was evening and I did a tiny bit of work but not enough.
I did write a blog post that I was really pleased with and uploaded my favourite Vlogmas video so far, so there's that.
So today has been very work heavy - I've done a lot of research and I'm ready to start writing but for some reason, my brain just can't function productively at the moment - I tweeted earlier about feeling like I'm looking through frosted glass, I just can't focus on any of the words on my screen.
Which is really inconvenient because I've not written either of my features or started my essay yet but I still can't bring myself to do it and I've only got two days left.
Yes, it's okay - I hate myself too.
Next week will either be 'my assignments are done I'm so happy' or 'my assignments are done they were awful' and at this point it could still go either way.
Personal blog: sophiecountsclouds.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sophiecountsclouds/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/sophiecountsclouds
The Student Seat: https://thestudentseat.wordpress.com/
Tuesday was a Mettricks morning, went and did a couple of hours of work in there, finishing a log workbook and submitting my seventh assignment before going to uni for a meeting about being on a social media team for open days and it was really productive, so at least I've got that to look forward to in the New Year.
I then got an email from someone at Campus Society regarding the student blog I run 'The Student Seat' about working with them and promoting their social media so that was quite exciting. And then I went to a pointless lecture at 4pm that literally made me want to claw my own eyes out.
On Wednesday I didn't have News Day, so I was planning to go to the library and spend the whole day working and I didn't do that. But I did go to the library to get out a few books and I did some research work at home and not too much else, productivity has been minimal. This week I've really struggled with motivation which is annoying because I have two massive deadlines due next week and I really need to be productive.
By Thursday I'd given up on forcing productivity - I went with my flat for a group road trip to Asda to buy food for our Christmas party at the weekend and then a quick trip to KFC before uni, where I did very little and chatted about YouTube and mindless gossip for two hours before returning home to do some work and then go to work at the university cinema in the evening.
Friday was even more lax - I went Christmas shopping (got nearly all of it done and finished the rest by placing an Amazon order that evening!) and then it was evening and I did a tiny bit of work but not enough.
I did write a blog post that I was really pleased with and uploaded my favourite Vlogmas video so far, so there's that.
So today has been very work heavy - I've done a lot of research and I'm ready to start writing but for some reason, my brain just can't function productively at the moment - I tweeted earlier about feeling like I'm looking through frosted glass, I just can't focus on any of the words on my screen.
Which is really inconvenient because I've not written either of my features or started my essay yet but I still can't bring myself to do it and I've only got two days left.
Yes, it's okay - I hate myself too.
Next week will either be 'my assignments are done I'm so happy' or 'my assignments are done they were awful' and at this point it could still go either way.
Personal blog: sophiecountsclouds.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sophiecountsclouds/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/sophiecountsclouds
The Student Seat: https://thestudentseat.wordpress.com/
Saturday 3 December 2016
Week 10: News Week...
Hello!
This week has been manic busy and a stark contrast to last week, so let's jump right into it! I've also been watching a lot of Phillip DeFranco.
Monday was the only day I had 'normal' uni this week - I had a lecture at 11, that a total of four people showed up to and then a seminar at 1 where there was only three of us! Such a great turnout, but more people showed up for my 4pm seminar and we all worked on our assignment deadline and it was stressful and I was nearly late for dance and then I uploaded my assignment and mentally prepared myself for news week.
I was both excited and dreading News Weeks, Newsdays have been really fun this year but also it's three very long days alongside me being very stressed right now about a variety of deadlines.
For context, I do multimedia journalism at uni and part of that is newsdays - where we essentially recreate an industry style news room where we have TV bulletins, radio bulletins, social media producers and news teams going out and making a full story package all inside of one day. News week (deceptively called a week) is three consecutive news days. I'm glad it's not a whole week because we would definitely all be dead by the end of it.
So Tuesday saw the beginning of news week and after just submitting my package on the new Pokemon game for my assignment, I was put on the story about the new Pokemon game! But it was okay - we found a different angle and we did an interview in the park and it felt like a really good package, probably better than my package.
But then I went to HMV to go to a Busted signing and I made a full package all by myself and I was so pleased with it, it all came together really well and the next day, apparently my lecturers and the third years were talking about how impressed with me they were, I was very happy. I put a lot of effort into going out of my way to do a extra work this year so it's nice that apparently it's being noticed.
On Wednesday, I was on the subbing team, which means I was proofreading other peoples work before it was being uploaded to the website which I was actually quite excited about, but there were five of us trying to read about twenty five stories and it just wasn't enough work for us. But I did get some other assignment work done, I wrote a blog post and I edited a little bit of my monthly vlog. So all in all, a nice day but not necessarily doing the job I should have been doing.
And then it was Thursday and we were having our last News Day of the semester! It was the first day of December, I was wearing my Christmas gingerbread dress and I donated my tree to the editors table and it was super fun. I worked at first on a Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them review, which I really enjoyed (more than I anticipated actually) and then I was on the radio bulletin team so I had to write a script and present the bulletin at 4pm and I really enjoyed it.
On Friday, I had a lie in and I thoroughly enjoyed it, I then got up and made a to do list and planned some Christmas videos because I'm doing Vlogmas on my second channel, spoofaloof (if you're interested), then I went into uni to collect some Amazon packages with Christmas presents which is very exciting, then I watched a lot of YouTube videos (I'm so close to catching up and Vlogmas videos are starting to pour in... I'm getting there!) and I convinced myself that having my computer open is the same as getting work done.
I'm working on it and the weekend is looking to be slightly more productive - my boyfriend and I slept in really late and it was blissful. Then I put my pyjamas back on, came into the living room and starting writing this blog post. It's been a very slow day but I've had YouTube videos on in the background and I'm only a couple of days behind now but so many people are uploading more in December that it's still a lot of videos.
Next week is due to be a quiet week at uni but an intense week of frantic assignment work so I'm not sure how next weeks post will go!
Personal blog: sophiecountsclouds.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sophiecountsclouds/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/sophiecountsclouds
The Student Seat: https://thestudentseat.wordpress.com/
This week has been manic busy and a stark contrast to last week, so let's jump right into it! I've also been watching a lot of Phillip DeFranco.
Monday was the only day I had 'normal' uni this week - I had a lecture at 11, that a total of four people showed up to and then a seminar at 1 where there was only three of us! Such a great turnout, but more people showed up for my 4pm seminar and we all worked on our assignment deadline and it was stressful and I was nearly late for dance and then I uploaded my assignment and mentally prepared myself for news week.
I was both excited and dreading News Weeks, Newsdays have been really fun this year but also it's three very long days alongside me being very stressed right now about a variety of deadlines.
For context, I do multimedia journalism at uni and part of that is newsdays - where we essentially recreate an industry style news room where we have TV bulletins, radio bulletins, social media producers and news teams going out and making a full story package all inside of one day. News week (deceptively called a week) is three consecutive news days. I'm glad it's not a whole week because we would definitely all be dead by the end of it.
So Tuesday saw the beginning of news week and after just submitting my package on the new Pokemon game for my assignment, I was put on the story about the new Pokemon game! But it was okay - we found a different angle and we did an interview in the park and it felt like a really good package, probably better than my package.
But then I went to HMV to go to a Busted signing and I made a full package all by myself and I was so pleased with it, it all came together really well and the next day, apparently my lecturers and the third years were talking about how impressed with me they were, I was very happy. I put a lot of effort into going out of my way to do a extra work this year so it's nice that apparently it's being noticed.
On Wednesday, I was on the subbing team, which means I was proofreading other peoples work before it was being uploaded to the website which I was actually quite excited about, but there were five of us trying to read about twenty five stories and it just wasn't enough work for us. But I did get some other assignment work done, I wrote a blog post and I edited a little bit of my monthly vlog. So all in all, a nice day but not necessarily doing the job I should have been doing.
And then it was Thursday and we were having our last News Day of the semester! It was the first day of December, I was wearing my Christmas gingerbread dress and I donated my tree to the editors table and it was super fun. I worked at first on a Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them review, which I really enjoyed (more than I anticipated actually) and then I was on the radio bulletin team so I had to write a script and present the bulletin at 4pm and I really enjoyed it.
On Friday, I had a lie in and I thoroughly enjoyed it, I then got up and made a to do list and planned some Christmas videos because I'm doing Vlogmas on my second channel, spoofaloof (if you're interested), then I went into uni to collect some Amazon packages with Christmas presents which is very exciting, then I watched a lot of YouTube videos (I'm so close to catching up and Vlogmas videos are starting to pour in... I'm getting there!) and I convinced myself that having my computer open is the same as getting work done.
I'm working on it and the weekend is looking to be slightly more productive - my boyfriend and I slept in really late and it was blissful. Then I put my pyjamas back on, came into the living room and starting writing this blog post. It's been a very slow day but I've had YouTube videos on in the background and I'm only a couple of days behind now but so many people are uploading more in December that it's still a lot of videos.
Next week is due to be a quiet week at uni but an intense week of frantic assignment work so I'm not sure how next weeks post will go!
Personal blog: sophiecountsclouds.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sophiecountsclouds/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/sophiecountsclouds
The Student Seat: https://thestudentseat.wordpress.com/
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