College: Complete! & Coraline
May. 14th, 2009 06:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI am home :-)
I have done all the lessons of all the units of all the semesters in this college year
yaaaaays!
I no longer have to get up at 0630 at all at all, at least before next October ish.
Others who started their degree the same day as me just finished it.
I am... optimistically half way through. More or less.
Next year the only other person doing part time will be doing cultural studies and modernism, so I guess I will too, or else there will be All New People, which is the always annoying bit.
Also I talked to the teacher today and ... you know, I still have feeling of impending doom (which she at first thought was my essay title, which, er, well, I can see how that would work, sorta), but instead of a blank page I have a quote and an idea. And she knows I'm all wah, and says to email if I'm still stuck later. Cause I really am. I think because I've had 7 years practice on essays that answer questions and know how to do the bubble diagrams and all that, but this annotated anthology is like, make up your own question, choose your own texts, and then make some answers! ... actually, put like that, I can *do* that. Huh. Doh.
ANYway
Teach also had feedback on the poetry exam. I got 79% so I was sort of thinking I'm doing okay there. And, yeah, I got the usual feedback about academic language, but teach today said that the unspoken assumption behind English courses is they're fitting you to be a grown up academic, doing research and essays and stuff forever. Which she says I could do well. But it's not my best thing. I am going to write scripts. And she likes the way I write, so that's okay. I just want to polish it because I want control over my language, I don't want to be being informal and not academic and it being on accident. So, will practice.
Also, other teachers have more of a Thing about it.
So after that I went to college library (still no Branagh Hamlet, had to get Mel Gibson instead cause I've seen the others now) and then wandered around town, bought Torchwood audio, bought a cheap shiny thing for End Of Term Award, bought a new notepad and some gel pens, then went to see a film.
Coraline is cool. And creepy and freaky. And well worth seeing in 3D. The trailers before it left me a bit *raised eyebrow*, because they were being all HEY WE'RE IN 3D and I didn't really want to be ducking hamburgers or something all afternoon. But Coraline tells the story first and uses the 3D second. And the story was cool. Also the end credits were cool too. I stayed right to the end and then they had a bit of freaky floaty 3D IS COOL bit, but that was fun.
The 3D glasses are not cool. Not just to look at, though, yeah, severely, but because they got smudgy faster than my normal glasses, which is pretty fast. I will next time not try to clean them on my shirt, they just went a bit odd. But aside from that, does the job, cool.
Now I am home. And tired. I shall probably sleep now.
Or think about it loudly while checking my LJ.
I have done all the lessons of all the units of all the semesters in this college year
yaaaaays!
I no longer have to get up at 0630 at all at all, at least before next October ish.
Others who started their degree the same day as me just finished it.
I am... optimistically half way through. More or less.
Next year the only other person doing part time will be doing cultural studies and modernism, so I guess I will too, or else there will be All New People, which is the always annoying bit.
Also I talked to the teacher today and ... you know, I still have feeling of impending doom (which she at first thought was my essay title, which, er, well, I can see how that would work, sorta), but instead of a blank page I have a quote and an idea. And she knows I'm all wah, and says to email if I'm still stuck later. Cause I really am. I think because I've had 7 years practice on essays that answer questions and know how to do the bubble diagrams and all that, but this annotated anthology is like, make up your own question, choose your own texts, and then make some answers! ... actually, put like that, I can *do* that. Huh. Doh.
ANYway
Teach also had feedback on the poetry exam. I got 79% so I was sort of thinking I'm doing okay there. And, yeah, I got the usual feedback about academic language, but teach today said that the unspoken assumption behind English courses is they're fitting you to be a grown up academic, doing research and essays and stuff forever. Which she says I could do well. But it's not my best thing. I am going to write scripts. And she likes the way I write, so that's okay. I just want to polish it because I want control over my language, I don't want to be being informal and not academic and it being on accident. So, will practice.
Also, other teachers have more of a Thing about it.
So after that I went to college library (still no Branagh Hamlet, had to get Mel Gibson instead cause I've seen the others now) and then wandered around town, bought Torchwood audio, bought a cheap shiny thing for End Of Term Award, bought a new notepad and some gel pens, then went to see a film.
Coraline is cool. And creepy and freaky. And well worth seeing in 3D. The trailers before it left me a bit *raised eyebrow*, because they were being all HEY WE'RE IN 3D and I didn't really want to be ducking hamburgers or something all afternoon. But Coraline tells the story first and uses the 3D second. And the story was cool. Also the end credits were cool too. I stayed right to the end and then they had a bit of freaky floaty 3D IS COOL bit, but that was fun.
The 3D glasses are not cool. Not just to look at, though, yeah, severely, but because they got smudgy faster than my normal glasses, which is pretty fast. I will next time not try to clean them on my shirt, they just went a bit odd. But aside from that, does the job, cool.
Now I am home. And tired. I shall probably sleep now.
Or think about it loudly while checking my LJ.