Random thoughts...

Time to focus on the wider goal, the end is in sight.

Don't let distractions pull you down and let the big problems overthrow your thoughts.

Time to take a step back and focus on what really counts and is going to get you the results you need.

If things are going well, roll with them, and make them stick.

Yes good news here as my work for final year at University is going well, and everything is on track for a successful revealing of results in the summer.

Don't forget to take some time out of your busy day to have a good time, have a laugh, a quick youtube browse, or a gander here of course.

The end of a three year era for me is starting to sum up and I hope for you and for me new challenges arise.

Moan of the day!

Being on time for once...and everyone else is late.

Seems I trekked into a lecture only to have to wait over 45minutes to begin.
You try to be early, but when you do, no one else appears to be following behind you.

Just one of those days it seems.

Mulling around trying to work hard but with no success.

Seem to be stuck in a downward spiral of no inspiration to work...well this seems to happen a lot.

Whatever happened to learning for fun, without all these tests of coursework and exams, I am sure we would all be empowered by more knowledge.
However, I guess they want to control who has the information...yes you know who 'they' are.

The Government......da..da..daaaaah.

Irritant of the day!

Was expecting some nice coursework back today and didn't arrive.

I rolled up to the office to collect it, confidently whilst remembering the module code and it wasn't there for go sakes.

I guess I will be waiting a long time for it to arrive back to me now, considering the tutor said it would be back over a week ago.

Perhaps I am a tad impatient, but it is my thirdly year of University and temperatures are rising all over the place in one massive panic stricken class. 

Why do you taunt us and keep us waiting like animals in the zoo waiting for feeding time.

Why O why.

From now on I will only have 6 hours of Uni per week, due to independent study, I feel sorry for those students who will be paying higher tuition fees for 6 hours a week.

On brighter notes, I have the day off tomorrow so that will be fantastic 

Irritant of the day!

There was a rather frustrating moment today when I realised I had wasted a whole day in lectures and not learn't a single new thing.

Merely the reading of a booklet and rambling speech of lecture notes is not the productive learning in which I expect as good quality and interactive learning.

When will the teaching change? When will the assessments move away from coursework and exams towards classroom interaction and effort.

Stress levels up, fun levels down.

At least I was able to laugh all the way through with my friends. 

Topics of the day!

1.Tunisia
A country struck by sudden deadly loss of control, or regain of control to some. The violence and pain of grievers is seen on a global scale. American citizens being assumed as not being able to comprehend the problem or know where Tunisia is...seriously don't generalise the whole country as being unaware of its existence as that is an absurd opinion to suggest.


2. Film review
A review of film certifications has been bought to attention of the amount of sex and violence in films, and it looks like there are some unhappy folks suggesting we see too much of it.


3. A-Levels
The Government is thinking of bringing the dates of A-levels forward from the summer in order to let students apply to universities with there grades already.
This surely wouldn't work...leaving many without places to go and nothing to improve on.

Irritant of the day!

Today I suffered the most unbearable issue which many of you may have already experienced.

I had coursework to hand for tomorrow so I was planning to be organised and early for it, as otherwise you just miss that deadline (dreadline) completely.

I had sent my work to the printing queue and logged in to print it off.

As per usual there was no paper!
This is always a massive problem, and there is no one ever around to replace this resource when you need them. We pay high tuition fees as it is...and these universities up and down the countries cant afford to pay someone to simply just refill the paper tray.

Of course I would happily do it if I knew where this paper was, but I bet it is all locked up in a cupboard 3 floors down in a dingy and depressing stationary room where nothing ever leaves it except the hole puncher.

Today this has just really annoyed the hell out of me.
Thank god the deadline wasn't today or they would have been a mass panic.

PRINTING FAIL!

Moaning/Irritant of the day!

It may seem that the day has consisted of rain and wetness, which has reminded me that we have a harsh rainy winter to endure, full of darkness and gray...but hey lets not get  bogged down in that rather annoying topic (winter).

Today I bring to you the pain of essay writing.

I could write about this everyday here on how it ruins my free leisure time and haunts my thoughts at night, yet writing anything in a formal sense becomes such a challenge.

Whilst a formal essay means using none of your own opinions and spending the whole time writing references and citations, here you can write freely, with optionally bad grammar, and genuine wit and comedy.

How I miss the times of year 3...we sat in circles legs crossed, saying what we all liked. Circle time sure beats the essays of today, I bet they have year threes writing clearly stated arguments about global warming these days.

Has all the fun of education gone. When I graduate University I will have spent three years learning to write academic essays only to find I will never need to write one again in my career.
Surely there must be a more effective away of examining us all to increase our skill set.


When will I rule the country to success!

Irritant of the day. Work Work Work.

At University you are expected to do self-directed work to some extent. However it feels that most of the time this work is useless to my overall understanding of the module as it represents old school style of homework. When it turns from fun and interesting..(sometimes)...into highlighting and reading 50 pages of text that most of the time wont be discussed in class, due to vast amounts of peer talking.. I think why am I paying the lecturers for this. If they did anything less they would be on the sofa at home (a comfortable one for sure), sitting around in their large tuition fee fuelled wages. Lord Help the future generations who will be paying larger University fees just to get jack all from lecturers.

Bored at your lecture...probably.. I guess the Lecturer needed another coffee

Moan of the day!

So first of all I must apologise to all of my readers for not posting for several weeks. This has been down to the lack on internet.
Today's moan is being stuck without the internet and feeling lost and bored. Moving to University for the 3rd year I needed to set up a new internet connection with my flatmates. However, it isn't as easy as it sounds when you are stuck in an area unable to support fibre optic cables, and everything then has to go through the beloved BT service. As we registered for a 9 month contract with Virgin on the 26th, we have had to wait to today the 12th before our internet line was sorted out. It has been a testing time, full of old fashioned games, books and witty stories,
Surprisingly, I coped rather well without the internet, and found myself going to bed early and getting up early. Without the world wide web I found a routine, but was hindered in my activities, contact and work. I needed the internet to feel sane, and post and update my status. Thank god for mobile facebook, or it may have been a rather depressing period of my life.

Companies should be more efficient with setting internet up, and not tell you to track your order online when they know you haven't got the internet.