potentially promising news...
Thank you to everyone for your lovely good luck wishes xx
I just found out that the person who will be making the initial assessment of my application to Brookes is the same person who accepted me to become an Associate Student. I may be getting over-excited but I think this is promising news as he has already given me an unconditional offer once before. However, being accepted as an Associate is quite different from being accepted into the University as a proper registered student, so I mustn't get my hopes up too high.
I have now completed my first ever History of Art essay with a minimum of anxiety as compared to every essay I have previously written. I still have a little editing to do, but to all intents and purposes, it's finished. Essay writing is usually an agonising process for me due to a combination of mental blocks and dyslexia, but I have actually been able to write this one with relative ease which is both wonderful and somewhat bewildering. Of course, I have absolutely no idea whether it is any good at all, but the experience has been at once liberating and inexplicable. The only [almost] explanation I can think of is that in the past I have almost always been writing English Lit essays which involve integrating quotes into my own language, and not having to do this may have freed me of some of the linguistic entanglement to which I am so vulnerable. I truly hope it's going to be a good essay, but I have absolutely no way of telling and nothing to compare it to. Even if it should go horribly wrong, I should be able to cope as it's only worth 20% of my Renaissance module. Still, I do need all the points I can get.
I just found out that the person who will be making the initial assessment of my application to Brookes is the same person who accepted me to become an Associate Student. I may be getting over-excited but I think this is promising news as he has already given me an unconditional offer once before. However, being accepted as an Associate is quite different from being accepted into the University as a proper registered student, so I mustn't get my hopes up too high.
I have now completed my first ever History of Art essay with a minimum of anxiety as compared to every essay I have previously written. I still have a little editing to do, but to all intents and purposes, it's finished. Essay writing is usually an agonising process for me due to a combination of mental blocks and dyslexia, but I have actually been able to write this one with relative ease which is both wonderful and somewhat bewildering. Of course, I have absolutely no idea whether it is any good at all, but the experience has been at once liberating and inexplicable. The only [almost] explanation I can think of is that in the past I have almost always been writing English Lit essays which involve integrating quotes into my own language, and not having to do this may have freed me of some of the linguistic entanglement to which I am so vulnerable. I truly hope it's going to be a good essay, but I have absolutely no way of telling and nothing to compare it to. Even if it should go horribly wrong, I should be able to cope as it's only worth 20% of my Renaissance module. Still, I do need all the points I can get.