After many hours of procrastination and many days of the "I'll do it later" excuse, my dissertation is complete! Although not quite ready for submission yet, it's finally at the proof-read/referencing stage which pretty much means it's complete to me as proof reading and referencing are two things that don't require much brain action... For me anyway.
And a plus, it's above the minimum word limit, I was really worried I'd run out of content to talk about but a lot of thought and blabber can really get you somewhere. Overall, I thought writing this dissertation was fairly easy because it's a topic of interest to myself and because I work at snail pace averaging about 500 words a day for about a month.
With that said, I'm sick of bilingualism and executive function now. I never want to hear those words EVER again.
Can I go back to bed now?
Monday 22 April 2013
Friday 12 April 2013
HELLO EARTHLINGS.
It's been a long while since I updated so let's see what I've been up to in the past month or so...
I officially finished university about 2 days after my last entry (March 18th), last lecture and everything so I celebrated the end of a fabulous era with my uni pals over some food, drinks and jenga. It was a good night with one of my friends getting pretty drunk on tequila and proceeding to shout "bus wanker" at people from my car as I was shipping people back to campus and to the station. Oh good times.
Of course, I didn't start revising straight away, I'm afraid I wasn't that eager and wanted to at least enjoy a week or 2 of Easter break before I actually started anything. Actually I only spent one week and bit enjoying myself because I came to the conclusion that my dissertation wasn't going to complete itself over the course of the break so I had to do that first and foremost before I jetted off to Barcelona. So pretty much, I spent 5 solid days writing up 4000 words of my dissertation which was such an achievement for me because I work like a snail when it comes to big pieces of coursework. So in theory, I only have about 2000-3000 words left of it to write over the next 3 weeks. Woop.
As I may or may not have mentioned, I went to Barcelona for 5 days with my friend, her boyfriend and my boyfriend. I did feel a tiny bit bad about leaving revision behind to enjoy myself for 5 days but I did subject myself to work as soon as I finished university so... I DESERVED IT. Barcelona wasn't as pleasant as it might sound, the weather was... bearable, nothing amazing though, I didn't come back tanned, I didn't come back looking sun kissed, in fact, I came back glad to be out of the cold, rainy weather that hit Barcelona during our 5 day stay. Blub. I had fun nonetheless, 5 days is probably not enough to see everything in Barcelona for anyone planning to go. I guess you could say we saw most of the interesting sights though. Although I had a great time, I'm pretty broke now, experiencing broke times after the holiday. I'm actually broke until the end of this month, luckily interest was paid to my ISA so I have free monies, yay!
After the holiday I put my head down for revision straight away. It's going well at the moment, after the first day I realised how unrealistic it was for me to plan to study 3 lectures a day (pfffffffft) so I'm now doing a comfortable 1 lecture a day everyday. It doesn't sound like much but at university level 3rd year, it really does take between 4-6 hours to revise ONE lecture. No joke. I'm just so grateful that my exams are really spaced out, giving me time to revise everything slowly and comfortably, even though it means I finish exam period later than some other people.
The weather has been quite pleasant since I got back (besides the stupid April showers that have been coming and going over the past few days), I like these random bursts of sunshine. I can't wait till summer where I will be freeeeeee and graduated. I WILL FINALLY BE A GRADUATE, GUYS!
Next stop - Postgraduate. The studying never ends, does it?
I officially finished university about 2 days after my last entry (March 18th), last lecture and everything so I celebrated the end of a fabulous era with my uni pals over some food, drinks and jenga. It was a good night with one of my friends getting pretty drunk on tequila and proceeding to shout "bus wanker" at people from my car as I was shipping people back to campus and to the station. Oh good times.
Of course, I didn't start revising straight away, I'm afraid I wasn't that eager and wanted to at least enjoy a week or 2 of Easter break before I actually started anything. Actually I only spent one week and bit enjoying myself because I came to the conclusion that my dissertation wasn't going to complete itself over the course of the break so I had to do that first and foremost before I jetted off to Barcelona. So pretty much, I spent 5 solid days writing up 4000 words of my dissertation which was such an achievement for me because I work like a snail when it comes to big pieces of coursework. So in theory, I only have about 2000-3000 words left of it to write over the next 3 weeks. Woop.
As I may or may not have mentioned, I went to Barcelona for 5 days with my friend, her boyfriend and my boyfriend. I did feel a tiny bit bad about leaving revision behind to enjoy myself for 5 days but I did subject myself to work as soon as I finished university so... I DESERVED IT. Barcelona wasn't as pleasant as it might sound, the weather was... bearable, nothing amazing though, I didn't come back tanned, I didn't come back looking sun kissed, in fact, I came back glad to be out of the cold, rainy weather that hit Barcelona during our 5 day stay. Blub. I had fun nonetheless, 5 days is probably not enough to see everything in Barcelona for anyone planning to go. I guess you could say we saw most of the interesting sights though. Although I had a great time, I'm pretty broke now, experiencing broke times after the holiday. I'm actually broke until the end of this month, luckily interest was paid to my ISA so I have free monies, yay!
After the holiday I put my head down for revision straight away. It's going well at the moment, after the first day I realised how unrealistic it was for me to plan to study 3 lectures a day (pfffffffft) so I'm now doing a comfortable 1 lecture a day everyday. It doesn't sound like much but at university level 3rd year, it really does take between 4-6 hours to revise ONE lecture. No joke. I'm just so grateful that my exams are really spaced out, giving me time to revise everything slowly and comfortably, even though it means I finish exam period later than some other people.
The weather has been quite pleasant since I got back (besides the stupid April showers that have been coming and going over the past few days), I like these random bursts of sunshine. I can't wait till summer where I will be freeeeeee and graduated. I WILL FINALLY BE A GRADUATE, GUYS!
Next stop - Postgraduate. The studying never ends, does it?
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