My degree results came in the post today, completely unexpectedly, and I got my first! Yay! The fact that it was all coursework and I already knew that doesn't detract in the slightest from having the final marks on paper and seeing it written down. The mark for my Writing Project, which was the bane of my life for months on end, is ridiculous - it ( Read more... )

Well, I promised myself I wouldn't post today until I'd finished my essay plan. And it's not finished. But I have an excuse - with impeccable timing, I've managed to screw my left elbow up again, to the point where it's hurting constantly anyway, and doing anything with it just makes it hurt more, so I can't write any more tonight. I can type with ( Read more... )

I worry about the English department. I got a comment sheet back for one of my portfolios today, which said "only one copy received", meaning that they don't have a spare copy to give back to me with comments on. But I handed two in. I always hand two in. It's department rules. I handed in two of the other one that was handed in at the same time, ( Read more... )

Got my first Writing and Place portfolio back today - the one with the story about Ely that I wrote after my field trip - got 71-4 as a provisional mark, which is not bad at all! Apparently I "write with great fluency and elegance". (Yes, I am just showing off now!) I wish he'd make his mind up though. In the first year he told me I had a tendency ( Read more... )

Reading Theory/Reading Text 1 (coursework only) - 73
Painting Words (Creative Writing, coursework only) - 76 :)
Restoration and 18th Century Literature (abysmal essay and even more abysmal exam) - 71 (!)

Unbelievable!!