Argh
Starting to stress about Uni.
I had an essay due today, have an assignment due on Friday, an essay and an assignment due Friday after that and a 'test' the Thursday after Ithat.
And then an exam on the 23rd.
I'm getting pretty pissy about this 3rd year essay that's due in under three weeks. I missed a few lectures this semester and none of this semester's lecture notes are up online, despite being told they'd be up weeks ago. This is also the course where we still haven't got our first essays back yet.
And I'm a bit worried about the 'test' in my other paper (So what's the difference between a test and an exam anyway? They don't need to give us any study time for tests?) because it's on the last day of term, so not in exam period, thus we have no study time - and in the same course, an essay and and two assignments due in the two weeks before. And we've just been given the rough outline of it.
In this course, we studied Cinderella, Aladdin, Wind in the Willows, Toy Story, Wall-E and Coraline. Our 'test' will consist of two questions:
One question expects you to focus on the nature of the children’s film and to illustrate your answer with at least five films studied;
the second question expects you to focus primarily on at least two written texts.
And we're not allowed to use the texts we wrote about for our essays (either Coraline or Wind in the Willows.)
So for the first question, we have to use every film we've studied bar one, which is just irritating - I'd much rather focus on a few that interested me - and for the second I'm confused because the only real texts we studied were Wind in the Willows and Coraline...one of which we're not allowed to write about.
This whole course has seemed extremely unorganised. In the first semester, we had an easy, short assignment to do. In the second, we've got an essay, two assignments and a test, all within the last three weeks of class.
We had four lectures on Coraline - and our Coraline essay was due in the day after the last lecture on the subject. Same for the Wall-E assignment. And I really think that any end of year 'tests' should be exams, which at least gives us time to study for them without worrying about the great heaps of work we've got from every other angle. If it's 2 hours long and worth 30% of your grade, it's a sodding exam!
*Breathes*
Okay. That's better.
I had an essay due today, have an assignment due on Friday, an essay and an assignment due Friday after that and a 'test' the Thursday after Ithat.
And then an exam on the 23rd.
I'm getting pretty pissy about this 3rd year essay that's due in under three weeks. I missed a few lectures this semester and none of this semester's lecture notes are up online, despite being told they'd be up weeks ago. This is also the course where we still haven't got our first essays back yet.
And I'm a bit worried about the 'test' in my other paper (So what's the difference between a test and an exam anyway? They don't need to give us any study time for tests?) because it's on the last day of term, so not in exam period, thus we have no study time - and in the same course, an essay and and two assignments due in the two weeks before. And we've just been given the rough outline of it.
In this course, we studied Cinderella, Aladdin, Wind in the Willows, Toy Story, Wall-E and Coraline. Our 'test' will consist of two questions:
One question expects you to focus on the nature of the children’s film and to illustrate your answer with at least five films studied;
the second question expects you to focus primarily on at least two written texts.
And we're not allowed to use the texts we wrote about for our essays (either Coraline or Wind in the Willows.)
So for the first question, we have to use every film we've studied bar one, which is just irritating - I'd much rather focus on a few that interested me - and for the second I'm confused because the only real texts we studied were Wind in the Willows and Coraline...one of which we're not allowed to write about.
This whole course has seemed extremely unorganised. In the first semester, we had an easy, short assignment to do. In the second, we've got an essay, two assignments and a test, all within the last three weeks of class.
We had four lectures on Coraline - and our Coraline essay was due in the day after the last lecture on the subject. Same for the Wall-E assignment. And I really think that any end of year 'tests' should be exams, which at least gives us time to study for them without worrying about the great heaps of work we've got from every other angle. If it's 2 hours long and worth 30% of your grade, it's a sodding exam!
*Breathes*
Okay. That's better.