Journal no. 3

feeling relieved because i managed to complete my assignments. after this week, i am done with school! no exam for me! wheeeee!

last week was awful because i had a lot of 'work' work - 5 hours on Mon, 3.5 hours on Wed, 6.5 hours on Thurs, 9 hours on Fri and 8 hours on Sat. and that's not including travel time, which adds up to 1 hour each day.
this left little time for me to do my draft dissertation and project proposal, which were all due this week - today and tomorrow.
photography assignment was due this week too, but i finished that early because i had to prioritize.

my video project was simple - i built a story around forbidden fruit after seeing a video of a horse trying to eat candy. i uploaded that last week.
my photography assignment required us to choose 2 genres and produce 4 photos for each one. i chose portrait and street. the lecturer liked my street ones, she said i had an eye for it. she liked the ones of old salarymen. but my portrait ones were crap. :/ i don't think i'll get the hang of portrait photography. i printed the 8 photos after work on Thurs and wrote the rationale quickly.

then i spent all of Sunday and Monday doing my draft dissertation and project proposal. was very disciplined and did a lot of typing from 8.30 am to 1 am on both days, then edited them for grammar and spelling this morning.

draft dissertation was hard because the tutor is very rigorous and unforgiving. he is all about the theories and concepts and intellectual stuff. for the draft drafts i showed him so far, he always managed to find big holes in my arguments and many bits of confusing writing. i emailed him on Sunday for advice because he said he wanted to help as much as possible but he didn't reply or acknowledge it. >_> hopefully, my argument is better now. i handed it at 2pm today.

the project proposal was hard because the lecturer only gave us the rubric for this assessment 2 weeks ago. and only last week he confirmed the requirements to us. i am glad that the other classmates decided to stage a coup and demand that he give us a rubric, because he didn't seem to care that he was legally required to let us know how we will be assessed. in fact, he wanted us to assess each other as a team and come up with a marking scheme ourselves. so that's why some classmates got so fed-up that they took over the class and led a discussion in producing a rubric for the final assessment. but, i like the lecturer because he seems to like my premise and gives me good feedback for my practical project, which makes me feel less shitty about my dissertation. this one is due tomorrow and involves a presentation component as well.