3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds!
Nov. 30th, 2007 04:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mhuzzellYou may be wondering why I haven't posted in so long.
I have just two essays for continuous assessment this semester. Big fuckers. Each is worth 50% of my grade, or 1/16th of my degree.
One was due last Friday. It was extremely difficult and confusing, but in the end managable, though I had to stay up all through the night before it was due in order to finish it. The other was due Wednesday, though I managed to get an extension until today.
I've never had so much trouble with an essay as I did with that one. It's a small, very small consolation that the entire class had trouble with these essays. Simon, our teacher, said he'd never had whole class so traumatised by essays as us. Hmmf. I'd say it was like pulling teeth, but actually, I've had a root canal that was less traumatising than that essay.
I don't know what it was about it, but it was difficult, okay? I took ages to even get started. I kept reading things that turned out not to be useful in the slightest (ended up with a Bibliography of only 4 items... :-S). Yesterday, after the lecture, I finally managed to pull myself out of the dizzying circle of logical loops and contradictions I'd been stuck in for weeks, trying to plan out the essay. So I didn't actually get started until last night. At 6 am, when I fell into involuntary slumber over my laptop, I had written about 700 words. By 4:30 today, when I finally handed the beast in, it was a good 56 words over the 3500-word limit. And what's more, it may not have been great, but I think it was at least decent, as essays go.
I am awesome.
And I have no more essays to write until next semester!
I have just two essays for continuous assessment this semester. Big fuckers. Each is worth 50% of my grade, or 1/16th of my degree.
One was due last Friday. It was extremely difficult and confusing, but in the end managable, though I had to stay up all through the night before it was due in order to finish it. The other was due Wednesday, though I managed to get an extension until today.
I've never had so much trouble with an essay as I did with that one. It's a small, very small consolation that the entire class had trouble with these essays. Simon, our teacher, said he'd never had whole class so traumatised by essays as us. Hmmf. I'd say it was like pulling teeth, but actually, I've had a root canal that was less traumatising than that essay.
I don't know what it was about it, but it was difficult, okay? I took ages to even get started. I kept reading things that turned out not to be useful in the slightest (ended up with a Bibliography of only 4 items... :-S). Yesterday, after the lecture, I finally managed to pull myself out of the dizzying circle of logical loops and contradictions I'd been stuck in for weeks, trying to plan out the essay. So I didn't actually get started until last night. At 6 am, when I fell into involuntary slumber over my laptop, I had written about 700 words. By 4:30 today, when I finally handed the beast in, it was a good 56 words over the 3500-word limit. And what's more, it may not have been great, but I think it was at least decent, as essays go.
I am awesome.
And I have no more essays to write until next semester!
