So it's been a few months since I've written for this blog... would you believe I've had two posts in drafts for four months? I didn't even remember I had two posts in drafts until I checked out this blog when I thought about starting it again!
I didn't publish anything because in terms of timing, it wouldn't have made much sense to have written about the end of my first year in the middle of summer!
To summarise, I did a law assignment in one day (which is probably why I didn't do very well in law) but then I dyed my hair blue and went home for the weekend to help my mum move house. Then to finish off the year after the Easter holidays, it was a bit of a blur of finishing off assignments and having four deadlines due in a very short time span.
But my first year is done and dusted and I came out of it with a 2:1 so it bodes well for a good start to second year, hopefully.
Since the end of first year at the end of April and going back to second year at the end of September, a lot has changed - I've moved flats three different times, I've been to MCM ComicCon and Summer in the City, I've networked and worked a lot on my personal blog and I've started a brand new project called The Student Seat (links below, I'd highly recommend giving it a look!) where students can give blogging a try and share experiences - I'm really pleased with it and always looking for new writers!
I'm much more organised with my blogging life now - I write on Sophie Counts Clouds on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and I upload on The Student Seat on Sundays. I'm planning to update this blog on a Saturday, because blogging five days a week is a great idea in second year... I'll get back to you on how true that is.
I'm currently using a notebook to write all my ideas down in because I have so many ideas that I just need to write them down or I'll forget, so my blog is actually planned quite well in advance. I'm really liking the set up right now and I'm hoping it'll last!
Uni starts again in two days (Monday 26th) and I'm actually quite excited, in an appropriately apprehensive way I think. I'm looking forward to having a routine and a schedule again and I'm going to be documenting it on this blog!
First year was actually really fun, let's see how second year compares.
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Saturday, 24 September 2016
Friday, 1 April 2016
Week 23: Week 8: Going home for the first time since Christmas!
Hello!
Slowly getting to catch up with these posts - my new goal is to get up to date by the time I go back to uni after Easter and when I've written this post I only have one more to go! Almost back on track!
The Monday of Week 23, I actually made it in for my 9am lecture! The first time I made it in in quite a few weeks! But I was there, I then spent three hours in the library working on a law assignment and then went back for a seminar that afternoon. We have a guest lecturer for the next few weeks and it brings a different angle to my writing development unit, that's for sure!
It's a miracle... I also made it in for my 9am law lecture! It wasn't much use though - I have one particular lecture who isn't very good and my seminar wasn't very good either, but it was with a different not very good lecturer! Let's just say I'm not enjoying law all that much! After the seminar, I went for a tutorial with my level tutor and got to give my feedback on the year so far, which was useful I guess.
Wednesday was the traditional News Day but it wasn't the most interesting story - did you know March is National Bed Month? I didn't! And I don't know how much I care either but here we are! I left a little bit early (after handing in my video assignment five days early!) because I wasn't feeling very well... again... the end of term was breaking me a little bit.
On Thursday however, I went home for the first time in three months - I hadn't seen my family at all in that time but I came home to see my old dance school's show! It was so strange to be watching it and not dancing in it but it was amazing nonetheless, I'm not ashamed to admit I cried! I have a blog post planned on my personal blog but I'm yet to write it up - I'll link it on my Facebook page when I do!
Friday I may have skipped video... for convenience's sake... I was up at home and it would be 4 hours of train to get back for video at 1 to then come back up to Nottingham for a dance competition the next day! When my alternative was to stay at home and get a 1 hour train over to Nottingham on the Saturday... simple decision right? And it just happened to be that my old school that I spent seven years at were doing their production of 'Singin' in the Rain' that week as well... so I went to see that too... I wasn't skiving I promise!
Then that weekend I went to my last dance competition in Nottingham. I snuck away a bit early to get trains home because I didn't want to be arriving back home at 2am when I had a 9am the following day so the dance season didn't get a real conclusion. But we came 2nd and I think we scored really well so I'm still proud of what we achieved!
And now, only one more week till I'm home again for the Easter holidays... brilliant!
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Slowly getting to catch up with these posts - my new goal is to get up to date by the time I go back to uni after Easter and when I've written this post I only have one more to go! Almost back on track!
The Monday of Week 23, I actually made it in for my 9am lecture! The first time I made it in in quite a few weeks! But I was there, I then spent three hours in the library working on a law assignment and then went back for a seminar that afternoon. We have a guest lecturer for the next few weeks and it brings a different angle to my writing development unit, that's for sure!
It's a miracle... I also made it in for my 9am law lecture! It wasn't much use though - I have one particular lecture who isn't very good and my seminar wasn't very good either, but it was with a different not very good lecturer! Let's just say I'm not enjoying law all that much! After the seminar, I went for a tutorial with my level tutor and got to give my feedback on the year so far, which was useful I guess.
Wednesday was the traditional News Day but it wasn't the most interesting story - did you know March is National Bed Month? I didn't! And I don't know how much I care either but here we are! I left a little bit early (after handing in my video assignment five days early!) because I wasn't feeling very well... again... the end of term was breaking me a little bit.
On Thursday however, I went home for the first time in three months - I hadn't seen my family at all in that time but I came home to see my old dance school's show! It was so strange to be watching it and not dancing in it but it was amazing nonetheless, I'm not ashamed to admit I cried! I have a blog post planned on my personal blog but I'm yet to write it up - I'll link it on my Facebook page when I do!
Friday I may have skipped video... for convenience's sake... I was up at home and it would be 4 hours of train to get back for video at 1 to then come back up to Nottingham for a dance competition the next day! When my alternative was to stay at home and get a 1 hour train over to Nottingham on the Saturday... simple decision right? And it just happened to be that my old school that I spent seven years at were doing their production of 'Singin' in the Rain' that week as well... so I went to see that too... I wasn't skiving I promise!
Then that weekend I went to my last dance competition in Nottingham. I snuck away a bit early to get trains home because I didn't want to be arriving back home at 2am when I had a 9am the following day so the dance season didn't get a real conclusion. But we came 2nd and I think we scored really well so I'm still proud of what we achieved!
And now, only one more week till I'm home again for the Easter holidays... brilliant!
Personal blog: http://sophiecountsclouds.blogspot.co.uk/
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/SophieCountsClouds
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SophieALuckett
Thursday, 17 March 2016
Week 22: Week 7: Excited for the Easter Holidays!
Hello!
Let's get the ball rolling again! I definitely plan to have a more structured plan after Easter but my timetable changes a lot in May so I'll see what happens with these posts after that - something to think about I guess!
Monday - I may have missed my 9am lecture... again... but having just started getting over feeling ill, my boyfriend said I was perfectly within my rights to say I was ill and not go in. However I got a message at 10 asking where I was because I was meant to be filming for a News Day story! A bit late, but I did meet up and was filming until about half 3 and ended up having to only go to a tiny bit of my seminar. I went for the news quiz and to find out what I'd be missing that session but then had to go back to filming!
Tuesday I may have possibly missed another 9am lecture? My bad? But I did go to the seminar! Even though it was rubbish and we finished really early but even then I was back over to the main campus uni to finish off the News Day filming from the day before and with editing, I was at uni until half past seven! The latest I've stayed in a very long time... so I was justified in going straight to the pub for a massive burger right? Even then I went home that night and had to upload 10 videos for News Day and do more editing, so justified I think!
Wednesday was the first 9am I managed that week but with a struggle! I was put on an awful story that was completely unworkable and we were put on a new, slightly better story which I worked on, then went for lunch with my boyfriend and our friends and went back to wait to sign out. Dance that evening was really great though which made up for a questionable day!
Thursday was my day off and boy did I need it, unfortunately I didn't get it but for good reason! I went and got my lip repierced at long last, after it healed up at a dance competition. After that we went to Asda to buy food for a Roast my friends were doing that night and I made the most amazing apple crumble! I've been trying to replicate it since but with no luck! But it was a really good night none the less.
By Friday I was feeling much better than the week before so video was actually pretty productive! I wrote the script for part of my assignment and I managed to do a rough edit of most of the video clips too so actually useful. I was also assigned to a News Day story for the following week when I shouldn't have been, so I had to get equipment out for the next night and carry it home all by myself which wasn't fun!
But I went out and filmed on Saturday and it was nice because it was the first story I've done in a while that felt like a proper group which made me feel less reluctant about it. Then on Sunday I got the video assignment edited and I edited video and audio for the story, so productive day! And I tidied my room!
Everything's starting to come together a bit more but I'm more than ready for the Easter Holidays now!
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Let's get the ball rolling again! I definitely plan to have a more structured plan after Easter but my timetable changes a lot in May so I'll see what happens with these posts after that - something to think about I guess!
Monday - I may have missed my 9am lecture... again... but having just started getting over feeling ill, my boyfriend said I was perfectly within my rights to say I was ill and not go in. However I got a message at 10 asking where I was because I was meant to be filming for a News Day story! A bit late, but I did meet up and was filming until about half 3 and ended up having to only go to a tiny bit of my seminar. I went for the news quiz and to find out what I'd be missing that session but then had to go back to filming!
Tuesday I may have possibly missed another 9am lecture? My bad? But I did go to the seminar! Even though it was rubbish and we finished really early but even then I was back over to the main campus uni to finish off the News Day filming from the day before and with editing, I was at uni until half past seven! The latest I've stayed in a very long time... so I was justified in going straight to the pub for a massive burger right? Even then I went home that night and had to upload 10 videos for News Day and do more editing, so justified I think!
Wednesday was the first 9am I managed that week but with a struggle! I was put on an awful story that was completely unworkable and we were put on a new, slightly better story which I worked on, then went for lunch with my boyfriend and our friends and went back to wait to sign out. Dance that evening was really great though which made up for a questionable day!
Thursday was my day off and boy did I need it, unfortunately I didn't get it but for good reason! I went and got my lip repierced at long last, after it healed up at a dance competition. After that we went to Asda to buy food for a Roast my friends were doing that night and I made the most amazing apple crumble! I've been trying to replicate it since but with no luck! But it was a really good night none the less.
By Friday I was feeling much better than the week before so video was actually pretty productive! I wrote the script for part of my assignment and I managed to do a rough edit of most of the video clips too so actually useful. I was also assigned to a News Day story for the following week when I shouldn't have been, so I had to get equipment out for the next night and carry it home all by myself which wasn't fun!
But I went out and filmed on Saturday and it was nice because it was the first story I've done in a while that felt like a proper group which made me feel less reluctant about it. Then on Sunday I got the video assignment edited and I edited video and audio for the story, so productive day! And I tidied my room!
Everything's starting to come together a bit more but I'm more than ready for the Easter Holidays now!
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YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/SophieCountsClouds
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Wednesday, 16 March 2016
Week 21: Week 6: Exhausted
Hello!
Still a couple of weeks behind but let's catch up with the week commencing February 22nd!
After a week at Channel 4, a dance comp weekend, a week back at uni and then a day in my boyfriends home town, I wasn't really ready for another super early morning dance comp. We left at 5am to drive to London, got lost, ended up running into the arena with 8 minutes - eight minutes - to get changed and get onto the mat to perform and then everything was done by half past 8.
Right?
Then we didn't leave the arena till about 7 or 8 in the evening, got home about 10 or 11? It was a painfully long day and I was completely exhausted and not ready for the oncoming week (an attitude I stick by two weeks later when writing this!).
So I missed my 9am lecture the next day. I felt horrifically guilty, especially considering I've never missed a lecture before and I was already beginning to feel a cold coming on. Not a good start to the week!
But I pulled myself together a little bit and went in for my seminar, where we were looking at writing features and I ended up analysing the language used in The Sun and writing a story in the same style - somewhat exciting!
Tuesday... I missed another 9am lecture... however I have a betterexcuse reason this time! There were 3 fire alarms last night - quarter to 2, 3am and 5am. No. I don't want this (it's beyond the point that there were a further two later that day!). But again, I went into the seminar, got patronised by the law lecturer I don't like and then went home. I went to the pub with my friends that night and that's when I knew I was ill because I just turned and needed to go home early.
But I braved it and went to my 9am Wednesday - News Day! I've enjoyed News Days a lot more this semester and I did have an assignment to do today so I was running around getting video for a World Book Day story whilst also thinking about writing some of the copy for a story on the 80th Anniversary of the Spitfire! Two very different stories but felt good to be so productive in one day and be the last first years in the news room! Latest I've stayed so far.
I went home and crashed that day because I was not feeling well at all.
Thursday was meant to be my day off but what I did was go into town, still feeling very ill and we spent hours in town - browsing and doing jobs and I was no having a good time of life!
But I was determined to make up for my poor attendance at the beginning of the week! Despite being ill and bunged up and feeling very foggy, I braved it and went into video, to learn about filming and editing interviews and to be patronised by another lecturer about how ill I felt without being sent home. Just told that I shouldn't go anywhere near her in case I infect her! Definitely made me feel better. I did go home and collapse for the weekend.
I ended up having a really busy weekend but hey, what's uni without a few completely exhausted, ill weeks right? Right?!
Almost up to date now! Sorry for the many delays on this blog, hoping to make a more regular schedule after the Easter holidays!
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Still a couple of weeks behind but let's catch up with the week commencing February 22nd!
After a week at Channel 4, a dance comp weekend, a week back at uni and then a day in my boyfriends home town, I wasn't really ready for another super early morning dance comp. We left at 5am to drive to London, got lost, ended up running into the arena with 8 minutes - eight minutes - to get changed and get onto the mat to perform and then everything was done by half past 8.
Right?
Then we didn't leave the arena till about 7 or 8 in the evening, got home about 10 or 11? It was a painfully long day and I was completely exhausted and not ready for the oncoming week (an attitude I stick by two weeks later when writing this!).
So I missed my 9am lecture the next day. I felt horrifically guilty, especially considering I've never missed a lecture before and I was already beginning to feel a cold coming on. Not a good start to the week!
But I pulled myself together a little bit and went in for my seminar, where we were looking at writing features and I ended up analysing the language used in The Sun and writing a story in the same style - somewhat exciting!
Tuesday... I missed another 9am lecture... however I have a better
But I braved it and went to my 9am Wednesday - News Day! I've enjoyed News Days a lot more this semester and I did have an assignment to do today so I was running around getting video for a World Book Day story whilst also thinking about writing some of the copy for a story on the 80th Anniversary of the Spitfire! Two very different stories but felt good to be so productive in one day and be the last first years in the news room! Latest I've stayed so far.
I went home and crashed that day because I was not feeling well at all.
Thursday was meant to be my day off but what I did was go into town, still feeling very ill and we spent hours in town - browsing and doing jobs and I was no having a good time of life!
But I was determined to make up for my poor attendance at the beginning of the week! Despite being ill and bunged up and feeling very foggy, I braved it and went into video, to learn about filming and editing interviews and to be patronised by another lecturer about how ill I felt without being sent home. Just told that I shouldn't go anywhere near her in case I infect her! Definitely made me feel better. I did go home and collapse for the weekend.
I ended up having a really busy weekend but hey, what's uni without a few completely exhausted, ill weeks right? Right?!
Almost up to date now! Sorry for the many delays on this blog, hoping to make a more regular schedule after the Easter holidays!
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Wednesday, 9 March 2016
Week 20: Week 5: Back to uni!
Hello!
It seems that I forget to write these posts and then I write four in a row, but in terms of looking back on it or helping someone else in the future, at least I'm writing it? Right?
Monday was my first day back at uni after my week at Channel 4 and I was in the brilliant position where I was sat alone in the lecture! Normally I find someone I know but that day I couldn't find anyone or maybe less people like me than I hoped (fingers crossed it's not the latter!) but I sat through the lecture on writing style in news and then went straight to the library.
To work on an assignment. That was due that night. That I hadn't started yet.
I'm not a bad human being I swear! With the busy weeks I had leading up to this deadline and the dance competition the weekend immediately following, I hadn't had a chance to even think about this assignment so three stressful hours in the library were had! Then I went to a seminar where the only notes I have are on appropriately referencing in the assignment I'd just been working on.
Tuesday was a bit of a relief because my 9am lecture was cancelled (I was so grateful for the extra time in bed!) and then I went to a really useful law seminar on codes of conduct. I say 'useful' because it was interesting and also it was just copying notes and that's my favourite kind of lecture because I can just type without thinking too hard!
I like Tuesday's because my whole day is finished by 2 and that makes me very happy.
Wednesday wasn't as bad as last semester - I used to dread news days and now the only thing I worry about is whether I'll be on a good story! This week I was - I got to write about the upcoming Brit awards (they were that night!) and whilst I forgot my purse, my lovely boyfriend bought me lunch so I wouldn't starve. By the time I got back from lunch the story had been uploaded and there was nothing more for me to do, so another early (ish) day!
Thursday was my day off but it didn't feel like one because I didn't really get to lie in - my boyfriend started uni at 9 and when he left I was really awake so I went a tidied my room a little bit and then met him and our friends in town to go for lunch and do a few jobs that we all had to do. It ended up being a fairly long day and it definitely didn't feel like I used my day off to its full potential! Well, not in the way it's meant to be used anyway.
Friday led to my first session in video having missed two weeks of teaching, both of those being our lessons in editing using Final Cut Pro... I was a bit behind and struggling! Alongside that, I had to plan two video assignments, figure out how on Earth I was going to teach myself to edit on a program I wasn't familiar with and everything was a bit overwhelming! The stress is real and lasting, which definitely didn't help in trying to keep up all my blogs!
But now (in real life, a few weeks on from Week 20!), everything is starting to sort itself out a little and the looming Easter holidays is more than a welcome relief! Two weeks off - yes please!
For now though, going to try and stay busy and get as much uni work as I can before I go home for Easter!
Personal blog: http://sophiecountsclouds.blogspot.co.uk/
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/SophieCountsClouds
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SophieALuckett
It seems that I forget to write these posts and then I write four in a row, but in terms of looking back on it or helping someone else in the future, at least I'm writing it? Right?
Monday was my first day back at uni after my week at Channel 4 and I was in the brilliant position where I was sat alone in the lecture! Normally I find someone I know but that day I couldn't find anyone or maybe less people like me than I hoped (fingers crossed it's not the latter!) but I sat through the lecture on writing style in news and then went straight to the library.
To work on an assignment. That was due that night. That I hadn't started yet.
I'm not a bad human being I swear! With the busy weeks I had leading up to this deadline and the dance competition the weekend immediately following, I hadn't had a chance to even think about this assignment so three stressful hours in the library were had! Then I went to a seminar where the only notes I have are on appropriately referencing in the assignment I'd just been working on.
Tuesday was a bit of a relief because my 9am lecture was cancelled (I was so grateful for the extra time in bed!) and then I went to a really useful law seminar on codes of conduct. I say 'useful' because it was interesting and also it was just copying notes and that's my favourite kind of lecture because I can just type without thinking too hard!
I like Tuesday's because my whole day is finished by 2 and that makes me very happy.
Wednesday wasn't as bad as last semester - I used to dread news days and now the only thing I worry about is whether I'll be on a good story! This week I was - I got to write about the upcoming Brit awards (they were that night!) and whilst I forgot my purse, my lovely boyfriend bought me lunch so I wouldn't starve. By the time I got back from lunch the story had been uploaded and there was nothing more for me to do, so another early (ish) day!
Thursday was my day off but it didn't feel like one because I didn't really get to lie in - my boyfriend started uni at 9 and when he left I was really awake so I went a tidied my room a little bit and then met him and our friends in town to go for lunch and do a few jobs that we all had to do. It ended up being a fairly long day and it definitely didn't feel like I used my day off to its full potential! Well, not in the way it's meant to be used anyway.
Friday led to my first session in video having missed two weeks of teaching, both of those being our lessons in editing using Final Cut Pro... I was a bit behind and struggling! Alongside that, I had to plan two video assignments, figure out how on Earth I was going to teach myself to edit on a program I wasn't familiar with and everything was a bit overwhelming! The stress is real and lasting, which definitely didn't help in trying to keep up all my blogs!
But now (in real life, a few weeks on from Week 20!), everything is starting to sort itself out a little and the looming Easter holidays is more than a welcome relief! Two weeks off - yes please!
For now though, going to try and stay busy and get as much uni work as I can before I go home for Easter!
Personal blog: http://sophiecountsclouds.blogspot.co.uk/
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/SophieCountsClouds
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SophieALuckett
Week 19: Channel 4 Work Experience!
Hello!
It's been a busy few weeks since I got back from Channel 4 and I've only just realised that I've not updated this blog for about three weeks so time to try and remember what I've been up to!
However week 19 was fairly easy - whilst I missed uni for a week, I was at work experience and Channel 4 and I blogged every single day!
Day 1: My first day at Channel 4 was daunting, a little bit tiring but absolutely brilliant to be able to glimpse inside such a massive company!
Day 2: This was my first day in my department at the company - I was working in the Online department with some amazing people.
Day 3: The middle of the week saw a little bit of drama and disheartening as I was ill and wasted half a day of work experience - I still feel awful about it!
Day 4: After some food and a good night's sleep I was ready to make the most of my last day in department and make a good lasting impression!
Day 5: Today the whole work experience came back to work together and feedback on what we'd done this week and talk about the next step.
It was an amazing week and I got a lovely reference, hoping to work with Channel 4 again soon - would love to go back to the work experience lot and my department and everyone I got to meet!
And the Channel 4 canteen was amazing, good food (and free food vouchers!).
Thank you for reading! (There's going to be a few posts going up in quick succession, good or a bad thing??)
Here's to getting more work experience!
Personal blog: http://sophiecountsclouds.blogspot.co.uk/
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/SophieCountsClouds
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SophieALuckett
It's been a busy few weeks since I got back from Channel 4 and I've only just realised that I've not updated this blog for about three weeks so time to try and remember what I've been up to!
However week 19 was fairly easy - whilst I missed uni for a week, I was at work experience and Channel 4 and I blogged every single day!
Day 1: My first day at Channel 4 was daunting, a little bit tiring but absolutely brilliant to be able to glimpse inside such a massive company!
Day 2: This was my first day in my department at the company - I was working in the Online department with some amazing people.
Day 3: The middle of the week saw a little bit of drama and disheartening as I was ill and wasted half a day of work experience - I still feel awful about it!
Day 4: After some food and a good night's sleep I was ready to make the most of my last day in department and make a good lasting impression!
Day 5: Today the whole work experience came back to work together and feedback on what we'd done this week and talk about the next step.
It was an amazing week and I got a lovely reference, hoping to work with Channel 4 again soon - would love to go back to the work experience lot and my department and everyone I got to meet!
And the Channel 4 canteen was amazing, good food (and free food vouchers!).
Thank you for reading! (There's going to be a few posts going up in quick succession, good or a bad thing??)
Here's to getting more work experience!
Personal blog: http://sophiecountsclouds.blogspot.co.uk/
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/SophieCountsClouds
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SophieALuckett
Saturday, 13 February 2016
Week 18: Week 3: Exciting News!
Hello!
I'm determined to catch up with these posts, so let's leap right into writing my week 3 update!
Monday was a lecture that I felt was kind of pointless - it was about how much work journalists do which, at this point in my course, I was very aware of how much work I'm going to be doing in my desired career and I just felt somewhat patronised and belittled so wasn't a big fan! However, in seminar we were writing and doing practical, fun work so it was definitely much better. I hate to admit that I didn't go to shorthand again because I was feeling so awfully tired I'd been falling asleep already so I knew I wouldn't learn anything. I did go to sleep very early that night so I justify and stand by my decision not to go.
Tuesday was another good Law lecture with Kristian but I was still recovering from a very long day at a dance competition at the weekend (I went about 37/38 hours without sleep so was still catching up!) so being there for a 9am was challenging! My seminar in the afternoon was not taken by Kristian and I don't quite see the relevance of it either, but I went so at least I didn't miss anything important.
Wednesday was another really good news day - the third year we'd been working with the week before was the editor this week so put my two friends and I in a group because she knows we work really well together. We participated in creating a package with copy and two videos so we did really well! It was in regard to Valentine's Day and bad pick up lines and involved me and Aimee (warning both of our boyfriends) and downloading tinder to see what awful pick up lines we got! I got an awfully explicit one but we put some of the more appropriate ones in the copy! Have a read: Valentine's Day and Dating Apps: Can You Find The One? (we did the video with bad pick up lines and the awful dating stories, brilliantly edited by James!)
Thursday was my day off and I used it to go to London and see my favourite band, All Time Low, for the 5th time at the O2 arena! I'll be writing a review for the Solent Journalism website (going up Wednesday 17th!) and I wrote a post about tips for going to a concert on my personal blog: 5 Concert Tips!
However, whilst I was back at Waterloo station by 11.10pm, my train didn't leave till 11.35 and there was work on the lines between Basingstoke and Southampton.
So I was put on a replacement bus.
I didn't get back to the station until 2am and didn't get home till nearer half past. By the time I got back, sorted myself out and got into bed it was 3am and having suffered a panic attack and major anxiety due to travel disruption, I was not in a state to go into video the next day. So I emailed my tutor at 3am and spent most of Friday in bed. I missed learning the basics of Final Cut Pro unfortunately but I think I might have a little bit of extra time next week to watch some tutorials on YouTube.
Which brings me to my big news! I won't be going to university next week because on Tuesday, I got an email from Channel 4 (channel 4!!) saying my application for work experience had been successful! I'm going to be working in the online department of channel 4 for a week! My travel and hotel have been paid for, I get breakfast at the hotel and I get to work at a massive company that people have actually heard of for a whole week! I'm hoping I'll get free time in the evenings to work on an assignment that's due at the beginning of the week I get back but I'm going on work experience!
I'm going to be blogging every day on my personal blog next week to document what I'll be doing but I'm very excited! Also very nervous but it's going to be very exciting! Especially catching up with what I'm missing at uni at the same time!
Here's to Channel 4 (and hopefully making a good enough impression to get a job)!
(up to date with this blog at long last!)
Personal blog: http://sophiecountsclouds.blogspot.co.uk/
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/SophieCountsClouds
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SophieALuckett
I'm determined to catch up with these posts, so let's leap right into writing my week 3 update!
Monday was a lecture that I felt was kind of pointless - it was about how much work journalists do which, at this point in my course, I was very aware of how much work I'm going to be doing in my desired career and I just felt somewhat patronised and belittled so wasn't a big fan! However, in seminar we were writing and doing practical, fun work so it was definitely much better. I hate to admit that I didn't go to shorthand again because I was feeling so awfully tired I'd been falling asleep already so I knew I wouldn't learn anything. I did go to sleep very early that night so I justify and stand by my decision not to go.
Tuesday was another good Law lecture with Kristian but I was still recovering from a very long day at a dance competition at the weekend (I went about 37/38 hours without sleep so was still catching up!) so being there for a 9am was challenging! My seminar in the afternoon was not taken by Kristian and I don't quite see the relevance of it either, but I went so at least I didn't miss anything important.
Wednesday was another really good news day - the third year we'd been working with the week before was the editor this week so put my two friends and I in a group because she knows we work really well together. We participated in creating a package with copy and two videos so we did really well! It was in regard to Valentine's Day and bad pick up lines and involved me and Aimee (warning both of our boyfriends) and downloading tinder to see what awful pick up lines we got! I got an awfully explicit one but we put some of the more appropriate ones in the copy! Have a read: Valentine's Day and Dating Apps: Can You Find The One? (we did the video with bad pick up lines and the awful dating stories, brilliantly edited by James!)
Thursday was my day off and I used it to go to London and see my favourite band, All Time Low, for the 5th time at the O2 arena! I'll be writing a review for the Solent Journalism website (going up Wednesday 17th!) and I wrote a post about tips for going to a concert on my personal blog: 5 Concert Tips!
However, whilst I was back at Waterloo station by 11.10pm, my train didn't leave till 11.35 and there was work on the lines between Basingstoke and Southampton.
So I was put on a replacement bus.
I didn't get back to the station until 2am and didn't get home till nearer half past. By the time I got back, sorted myself out and got into bed it was 3am and having suffered a panic attack and major anxiety due to travel disruption, I was not in a state to go into video the next day. So I emailed my tutor at 3am and spent most of Friday in bed. I missed learning the basics of Final Cut Pro unfortunately but I think I might have a little bit of extra time next week to watch some tutorials on YouTube.
Which brings me to my big news! I won't be going to university next week because on Tuesday, I got an email from Channel 4 (channel 4!!) saying my application for work experience had been successful! I'm going to be working in the online department of channel 4 for a week! My travel and hotel have been paid for, I get breakfast at the hotel and I get to work at a massive company that people have actually heard of for a whole week! I'm hoping I'll get free time in the evenings to work on an assignment that's due at the beginning of the week I get back but I'm going on work experience!
I'm going to be blogging every day on my personal blog next week to document what I'll be doing but I'm very excited! Also very nervous but it's going to be very exciting! Especially catching up with what I'm missing at uni at the same time!
Here's to Channel 4 (and hopefully making a good enough impression to get a job)!
(up to date with this blog at long last!)
Personal blog: http://sophiecountsclouds.blogspot.co.uk/
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/SophieCountsClouds
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SophieALuckett
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