Uni stuff :o/
University: Coursework Results
Just got my two coursework essays back, and I can't say I'm very proud of them to be honest. I had trouble writing both of them, something of a struggle, and I wasn't enthusiastic about either (all my high marks have been in essays I've been, to some degree, enthusiastic about).
Still, as the chances of me getting 1st had already pretty much past, they're not going to damage my end mark in any way.
Kierkegaard: Social Prudence and the Aesthetic Sphere (64)
This is a good and insightful piece of work. However, you should have made more of a connection between the theory of social prudence and living life artistically. The aesthete doesn't just seek to avoid boredom, he wants to fashion his life into a work of art
Well, okay, not a horrible mark. It's still a good 2.1 by a number of marks. Obviously dropped the ball on the aesthetic approach as 'life as an artform', but then it wasn't honestly what I saw in the text that we were given to examine, so naturally it didn't really come up in the essay.
Imagination and Self-Conciousness: Satre (59)
I certainly appreciate your efforts to explain Sartre's claim of indubitability for the proposition 'I have an image' by reference to his phenomenological method. The effort was indeed what an answer to the essay question required. You also show some degree of familiarity with Sartre's and Descartes' terminologies. Having said this, I must say that there is more b way of repetition and going round in circles with vague concepts than one would like to encounter in an essay
Less good, but thankful held up by the other essay's mark.
She also wrote over the essay itself a lot, although I can't read it very easily and I'm not sure I care enough to put the effort in. The module as a whole hasn't impressed me and I haven't really taken much away from it, apparently Christine Lopez agrees... :o/
I'd feel a little less bad by the effort if I'd gotten that last point to make it a 2.1 rather than a 2.2 :o/
Plans: University
Well, I've found myself unable to conjure the required maths skills to work out how this affects what I need to get from now on (which is annoying because it came to me easily enough during a Imagination and Self-Conciousness lecture recently).
However, given that before these results I needed an average of 39.25 to get less than a 2.1 (that is, to get less than 60 overall), I can only assume that its' budged it down a couple of points. Either way I'd still need to average a fail on my dissertation and exams, which doesn't seem likely.
Having said that, my preparation for exams thus far has been very weak and I only have a couple of weeks left. Best get back to that, bad enough not getting the 1st I want, so I'd best be sure to get that 2.1.
Just got my two coursework essays back, and I can't say I'm very proud of them to be honest. I had trouble writing both of them, something of a struggle, and I wasn't enthusiastic about either (all my high marks have been in essays I've been, to some degree, enthusiastic about).
Still, as the chances of me getting 1st had already pretty much past, they're not going to damage my end mark in any way.
Kierkegaard: Social Prudence and the Aesthetic Sphere (64)
This is a good and insightful piece of work. However, you should have made more of a connection between the theory of social prudence and living life artistically. The aesthete doesn't just seek to avoid boredom, he wants to fashion his life into a work of art
Well, okay, not a horrible mark. It's still a good 2.1 by a number of marks. Obviously dropped the ball on the aesthetic approach as 'life as an artform', but then it wasn't honestly what I saw in the text that we were given to examine, so naturally it didn't really come up in the essay.
Imagination and Self-Conciousness: Satre (59)
I certainly appreciate your efforts to explain Sartre's claim of indubitability for the proposition 'I have an image' by reference to his phenomenological method. The effort was indeed what an answer to the essay question required. You also show some degree of familiarity with Sartre's and Descartes' terminologies. Having said this, I must say that there is more b way of repetition and going round in circles with vague concepts than one would like to encounter in an essay
Less good, but thankful held up by the other essay's mark.
She also wrote over the essay itself a lot, although I can't read it very easily and I'm not sure I care enough to put the effort in. The module as a whole hasn't impressed me and I haven't really taken much away from it, apparently Christine Lopez agrees... :o/
I'd feel a little less bad by the effort if I'd gotten that last point to make it a 2.1 rather than a 2.2 :o/
Plans: University
Well, I've found myself unable to conjure the required maths skills to work out how this affects what I need to get from now on (which is annoying because it came to me easily enough during a Imagination and Self-Conciousness lecture recently).
However, given that before these results I needed an average of 39.25 to get less than a 2.1 (that is, to get less than 60 overall), I can only assume that its' budged it down a couple of points. Either way I'd still need to average a fail on my dissertation and exams, which doesn't seem likely.
Having said that, my preparation for exams thus far has been very weak and I only have a couple of weeks left. Best get back to that, bad enough not getting the 1st I want, so I'd best be sure to get that 2.1.