One unit, each semester. I have to call them and get them to agree that the politics unit I'm doing should be counted toward my degree because they've cancelled my one final core unit. I don't anticipate that being a problem ( Read more... )

No promises for coherency, just dot points.

( cut for length and coherency )

I hate the assessment plans for this unit - really hate them. I hated it more when I thought that we weren't being asked to use academic references in our fieldwork exercises. Turns out that the instructions were just unclear and they *do* want academic references ( Read more... )

Thesiswhisperer is one of the most interesting of blogs I follow via google reader, and though it primarily refers to people who are undertaking PhD work, I have found that some of the advice, some of the discussions are still relevant to me as an undergraduate. In particular, this one on feedback: Feedback from the Student Up the Back on the Left ( Read more... )

Tiny things I wanted to update about quickly ( Read more... )

I haven’t done a proper update in a while and so this is where I’m at currently ( Read more... )

I've handed it in! I'm confident that I did a good job, know I went overboard but apparently my only models for how to do this are for post grad theses etc, and so... it's kind of made in that image, but with less skill and experience, and over about two weeks as opposed to a year. So note that I'm not actually making a like/like comparison, just ( Read more... )

I've got 5 units in my Undergrad to go, and I've just enrolled. Second semester next year is going to be kind of terrible and I forsee being a bit hermitish as I'm doing 3 units, but I can't bear to stretch it out further. I'm so close I can taste it and I want it done ( Read more... )

Stuff in the realm of emotional and thinky processing from the week past, ( cut for interest/angst )

Not looking promising ( Read more... )