New targets:
>Finish the assignements due this week.
>Do all the homework.
>Organise my notes.
I know it doesn't sound like much, but after las weeks fiasco, I'd rather do the most important stuff, and if I can, tackle on some more, but not try to do more than I can handle.
Tuesday, 30 September 2008
Monday, 22 September 2008
Reviewing my last week's targets
Well, last week (week starting on the 15th) I didn't set up many targets for my own self, and i did do them Okish.
1) Coming back to class> Achieved! (I know it sounds silly, but experience tells me that once you start missing classes, inspite of how justified the absences were, it becomes harder and harder to go back to class)
2) Set up a study area> done, but could have done more. I just need to finish clearing everything up, and getting a comfy seat, everything else is in place now.
3) Memorising an italian poem> Done, got asked in class, and did fine.
4) French essay due on Tuesday the 16th> Done, I handed it in in advance.
So, all and all, I did alright. I could have done more, but at least I did what I set out to do (not much on the setting the Study Area though)
1) Coming back to class> Achieved! (I know it sounds silly, but experience tells me that once you start missing classes, inspite of how justified the absences were, it becomes harder and harder to go back to class)
2) Set up a study area> done, but could have done more. I just need to finish clearing everything up, and getting a comfy seat, everything else is in place now.
3) Memorising an italian poem> Done, got asked in class, and did fine.
4) French essay due on Tuesday the 16th> Done, I handed it in in advance.
So, all and all, I did alright. I could have done more, but at least I did what I set out to do (not much on the setting the Study Area though)
Monday, 8 September 2008
My study plans for the week
Well, my study plans for the week are simple.
1> Come to class.
2> Do whatever homework is required.
3> Do some french/spanish language exchange.
4> Decide what to do the Investigating Europe assesment about, and look a bit into it.
Pretty much, that's it!
1> Come to class.
2> Do whatever homework is required.
3> Do some french/spanish language exchange.
4> Decide what to do the Investigating Europe assesment about, and look a bit into it.
Pretty much, that's it!
There must be a better song to sing
Last week on IT Skills we got to see a movie called "Educating Rita". At a certain point in the movie Rita, a mature student trying to better herself by taking up higher education, sees her own dissatisfaction with her life put into words by her mother, when see said "there must be a better song to sing". Funny that.
A better song to sing. Once you've seen the movie, you realise that it is not so much a better song to sing, but a different one that Rita is looking for. For some, that particular life, that particular song was not just good enough, but all they wanted. Now, that problem is, when you come accross people sucha s rita and her mother. You have reflected there the two ways you can face this dissatisfaction, you can either try to move on, move away from that life, as Rita did, or you can go along with the motions, do what is expected of you and stick by it as Rita's mother did.
A better song to sing, or just a different one. I think it is all about finding the right one for you. It might take a while to find the right tune for you, but once you've found it, you just have to dare it, and try it, sing it, and see if it feels good, if it feels right. I believe that us, as mature students, same as rita, now a thing or two about this from our own personal experiences. We probably didn't like our song much, or we want to try a new one, and here, this is how we prepare and tune our instruments foe us to play along.
A better song to sing.
A better song to sing. Once you've seen the movie, you realise that it is not so much a better song to sing, but a different one that Rita is looking for. For some, that particular life, that particular song was not just good enough, but all they wanted. Now, that problem is, when you come accross people sucha s rita and her mother. You have reflected there the two ways you can face this dissatisfaction, you can either try to move on, move away from that life, as Rita did, or you can go along with the motions, do what is expected of you and stick by it as Rita's mother did.
A better song to sing, or just a different one. I think it is all about finding the right one for you. It might take a while to find the right tune for you, but once you've found it, you just have to dare it, and try it, sing it, and see if it feels good, if it feels right. I believe that us, as mature students, same as rita, now a thing or two about this from our own personal experiences. We probably didn't like our song much, or we want to try a new one, and here, this is how we prepare and tune our instruments foe us to play along.
A better song to sing.
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