Dissertation Update #9

I guess I forgot to write this on submission day, but it's been all over for more than a month and I'm just now feeling the relief that it's all finished. My university career is over! Wtf?! The last few weeks before October 3rd were awful and some of the worst in my life, and …

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Dissertation Update #7

It's been a wee while between updates thanks to health stuff and not knowing what is causing me to still feel so ill. Anyway! I've been working away bit by bit and last night I hit the 10k words mark! Woohoo! Then today I started four new crochet projects because I'm procrochetenating finishing the excerpt. …

30 Day Blogging Challenge – Day 17

Your favourite blogs I don't know that I have any particular favourite blogs, more that I enjoy reading whatever appears on my feed, usually thematically - travel, languages, history. I do try to check out Realm of History and Dr Jennifer Wagner's Blog on ielanguages. e x

30 Day Blogging Challenge – Day 16

Thoughts on Education We've been here before on this topic! I believe in education as a means to progress, to move forward and upward - stepping out of the cave and into the light. But I also believe in education for education's sake. The reduction of learning to testing and scoring and grading really defeats …

Have you met Dippy?

Meet Dippy the Diplodocus. He's on tour around the UK having left the Natural History Museum in London for the first time since 1905. His show is on the road until 2020 and is next heading to Newcastle on 18th May, having just wrapped up a several month stint in Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and …

Another Day in the Library

First things first, my last post was officially my 100th post! Woo hoo! I think I'm happy with it, or maybe I believed I'd posted more. Anyway, here's to another hundred. Monday was the recommencement of the Monday study sessions in town. My Italian class starts back next week, so I used this time to …

First Study Day of 2019

Yesterday was the first day I finally felt better, and to crack on with my every growing pile of work. So, naturally a study-date was called for. Unfortunately, the uni is still in Christmas holiday mode, I arrived on campus and found the library open but no coffee outlets, no food, and empty vending machines. …

Don’t test me!

I'm not great at exams or tests, unless it's something I absolutely know - but even then there's a good chance my mind will space out and I'll get simple things wrong. I coasted my way through standard grades and even my highers... in all my years, just off what I happened to remember from …

30 Day Blogging Challenge – Day 25

Your Biggest Regret While it's not good to have regrets about things we can't change... what I do regret is all the times in my life where I took the passive route instead of being more actively involved in my own life. Times where I left early to go home and nap (I do love …