Christmas time had rolled by quicker than expected and it was time to go back to the University.
I couldn’t wait to get the first year all over with. Now was the time to work really hard and finish all the work for reviews and feedbacks before the final submission after Easter vacation. More, assignments started coming our way. And the stress level this time around was really high. And I was very scared.
I was confident about the ideas that I put forward but I lacked a lot in my technical skills and still do as I am not confident about using different kinds of software and get used to them. The amount of software in the market is amazing but I stuck to Adobe software that the University computer has. In the meanwhile with all of the software to learn I was pilling on the assignments because I want to do them really well and that was not possible until I learnt the adobe.
Around two-three weeks after the start of university after Christmas, all the work from different subjects was given to us and since I had not started working on them immediately the pressure had built up on me. Slowly I started lacking behind in all my University work. Moreover, I was working simultaneously as well because few months back I had told my father confidently that I will pay my living expenses on my own, and my cricket practices had also started. I didn’t want to stop doing anything hence I carried on and the work pilled on at double the rate at which I was completing.
My tutors knew that I was lagging behind but I didn’t want to show to them that I was lagging behind so most of the time whichever subject we were talking about I made sure I had the idea of what I am doing and how I want to develop them. And yes this turned out to be very helpful as with their feedback I had improved all my ideas. The only thing that I wish this course had were tutorials to learn software it would have made my life so much easier. But since I was scared to face the tutors as I didn’t have as much material ready as the others I missed a few of my classes, which I later on realised was not a good idea because if I had attended I would have got more help and I made sure not to repeat that mistake again.
The tutors had confidence in me and helped me to focus on the work. They had told us that we were supposed to submit all our work before Easter, which scared me a lot because only 2 weeks were left for that. And there were a few drafts as well which we had to submit.
Well, I was not able to complete the work but luckily the submissions were after Easter and the tutors had done this so that we complete it on time and have time to reflect and improvise on our designs. In the struggle to get the designs completed I had forgotten about my drafts submission and missed it but luckily it was only the 1st draft and I knew I had missed out on valuable feedback.
Now, it was time for Easter and I was hoping that I would be able to catch up during this period with all my work. However this term was over now the last term was left which was full of reflective feedback and submissions. I will also tell you about the kind of assignments that I got in my coming up writings.
In the mean time away from studies Criminal Minds started getting a bit more interesting and The Mentalist program is really fascinating. And I didn’t mention earlier but I do realise I am writing a blog after 4 months I suppose, which is disappointing on my behalf because if you read this blog regularly you would not have had anything new to read. I just hope you will try and catch up with me through the blog.
