Tuesday, March 2
The Essay Of Doom is finally complete and handed in. I don't know how good it is, I don't know if I answered the "question" (in quotation marks as I never set a question), I don't know how successful it will be as I don't know the criteria it's being marked against. But it's done. And I feel so much better for it.
I've read two other people's essays, one about Cindy Sherman and one titled "When does Camp stop being Gay?" or something similar. The second was very badly done, it was full of spelling and grammar errors and was drastically in need of a good proof-read. Many concepts weren't explained and I felt that it was rather shoddy overall. This gives me hope that my work may, in actuality, be better than my critcal eye has deemed it.
There's a talk on Thursday about the Foundation Studies course which the college runs. I tried to find the page on their website so that I could post a link, but their website seems to be refusing to work. Hmm, not a good sign. Anyway, I know very little about Foundation Studies, so I'll probably come along to the talk, even though it's at the abominable time of 11am. I asked my tutor previously about whether I might be accepted onto a BA course here after finishing this A-Level, as I'd be applying as a mature student and thus won't need the usual application criteria. He said that I might be, but they would still heavily recommend that I take the Foundation course. I guess it's in my interests to at least find out about it, then I can properly gauge all my options.
In my life outside of college, I was at Swarthmore yesterday, and we were allowed on the potting wheels for the first time. It was scary at first but I was determined to not let it intimidate me, and I ended up having some fun. My pots weren't very successful, I pulled the top half off both my first two attempts, but I managed to salvage something from the second and made a very small but very cute dish. This made me happy and I'm looking forward to using the wheels more next week. I even managed to stay relatively clean whilst using them, until we cleaning up at the end and I poured a sponge full of dirty water down my trousers and boots. Ah well, it had to happen sometime.
I've been listening to some great music in the past few days. Current recommendations include
the Killers,
the Workhouse, and lots of other people I can't remember as all my music is at home and I'm in college. Damn.
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