Let's have a catch up - at uni last semester I did three units, Concept to Commission, Producing the Package and Who's the Boss. I've now finished those three units and I ended up with a 1st and two 2:1s overall so I'm very happy and now I"m starting three brand new units, a compulsory one called Production and Content Management (which is a continuation of Producing the Package) then my two optional units that I chose, which are Lifestyle PR and Music Journalism. Now we're all up to speed!
The other piece of news I have is that on January 13th I was offered a two week work experience placement with BBC Three! I'm still waiting for HR to get in contact with me and provide more details but it's all very exciting and I wanted to share (I'll be sure to document it here or on my personal blog sophiecountsclouds).
So let's get in to my first week back at uni!
Monday is my busiest day for seminars, with both of my new units on those days - first was Lifestyle PR which was brilliant, PR is definitely an industry I'd love to get into in the future and I'm really excited that my assignments involve presenting a PR campaign and designing a press pack. My group are doing a campaign based on a new hotel resort opening in the Maldives so I get to write and make content regarding travel as well, which is really fun.
Music Journalism I'm in two minds about - the assignments and the unit itself seems fine but the lecturer is so creepy. In our first lesson he gave off the impression that he loves Donald Trump and teenage girls, he refers to his pseudonym as a separate person, he swears all the time and he was talking to us about when he lost his virginity and it all just feels a bit inappropriate. I'm focusing on the assignments - which are an assessment report (analysing the work of three critics and comparing them to each other, to my understanding) and producing a portfolio of music journalism content.
Then Tuesday was actually my boyfriend's birthday, so I spent the morning with him as I'm not in uni for Production and Content Management until 4pm (in future, most Tuesday mornings will be spent in my favourite cafe doing work, just like now when I'm writing this post).
Production and Content Management is fine - the lecturer is absolutely brilliant and I'm really motivated to keep improving as I started to at the end of last semester so I'm not worried about this unit.
Wednesday was the only kind of 'chilled' Wednesday I'm going to have for a long time - it was a News Day planning day, so we were given stories to work on before a live News Day next week and eight more live News Days in the weeks after that.
This week I get to do a story about how bin collections might be changing from weekly to fortnightly and students aren't happy about it. I volunteered to do the video and pictures on this story so I'll include a link to the story when it goes live in next weeks post.
I'm very lucky this semester in that I get a four day weekend and I'm using this to the best of my ability - at the moment, I'm trying to organise and secure a house for the next academic year so I spent the end of the week at house viewings, I did a couple of home workouts and I was baking for the little birthday party we were having for my boyfriend on Thursday evening, alongside doing a few bits and bobs of uni work in the odd hour or two I had spare.
And then the weekend I was working - I have a job now! It's in the clothing store Saltrock and so far I'm really enjoying it and it's nice to have a little extra money coming in, especially when my money situation is so tight at the moment.
I also uploaded a new cover to my YouTube channel - I've been making weekly content again for four weeks consecutively now so if you'd like to have a look at my YouTube channel it would mean a lot!
My amazing friend Nikki also wrote a post on my student blog 'The Student Seat', called '10 Ways to Help Your Mental Wellness' and it's brilliant so I thoroughly recommend giving that a read!
Today, I've just uploaded a blog post called 'top 4 tips for starting a health kick' because of the diet I finally got myself on so I'd recommend that too, but I may be a bit biased.
These posts will go back to being uploaded on a Saturday from now, with being back at uni, haven't lots of dance training, a job and a fairly busy schedule I need to manage my time to the best of my ability but with starting a bullet journal this year I'm finding ways to make this as easy as I can for me.
I'm excited for second year and can't wait to see if it ends as brilliantly as it started!
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