Well, here we are again!
Some general thoughts about last week…I reckon I was a wee bit ill; I definitely was fuzzy headed, needed lots of sleep and felt a bit de-motivated. I went to the gym on Tuesday, and felt good…for about 1 hour and then knackered! So it was not a particularly productive time, and I certainly wasn’t in the mood for blogging.
It’s worth considering that there will be times that I’ll be feeling less than 100%, and therefore reflection & analysis will tend towards the negative. That’s OK as long I can look at them again later and laugh!
Anyway, the positives:
I worked well on my History essay with updated drafts produced on Tues, Thurs & Fri morning before the hand in. I had it at just under 2300 words, which was about the target…but then realised I hadn’t written about criticisms of the 11-plus, so back up to 2455. I could have taken out some unnecessary prose, but it seemed a shame and Evan won’t mind. Would a better essay plan have helped? Or I could keep a version for me, as I did with the Investigating Europe.
Spanish – Yup, I’ve got a general plan and some phrases sorted out.
Literature – Nope, wasn’t in the mood and it was not a priority.
French – Yup, I did a little revision probably not enough but sufficient for the course. Au revoir et merci Cedric!
Communication – I watched the “Age of Genius” programme as relaxation (ie not notes taken!), and damned good it was too…tied in nicely with the reading assignment. We looked at some presentation skills in class, which should be interesting & useful.
This week:
Mon – use tutorial time for quick review of my Spanish h/w, and maybe start the Powerpoint work.
Tues – see what Madelaine unleashes upon us! Go to Library 1pm;
45 mins working through Voila exercise to prepare for Deborah’s class
45 mins on Spanish presentation
45 mins on Philosophy of Language stuff, then meet Sara to go over it
Oh, got to find time to see Hamish at TLI see need to be at Haymarket at 5!!
Wed – 30 mins French revision, then 45 mins Spanish work
Thurs – Go to Library 2pm. Specific plan to depend on Tues/Wed success.
Although could be an idea to do some background for Historical Investigation, and revise a bit for the assessment!
Fri 9am – continue History revision: Read an essay & note key points.
Monday 25 January 2010
Monday 18 January 2010
Monday 18th
Here we go again!
Well looking at last week’s goals, I realise I’ll have to print them out and put them in my diary otherwise they’ll just get forgotten! Anyway
I have a diary and a Carlisle Utd calendar.
I spoke to Jordi, and reckon I’ll go with “El uso de los moviles telefonos en nuestea sociedad” theme. I also downloaded a lot of images of mobiles for the presentation.
Literature – nope…didn’t do the techniques stuff. The class just confused me a little, and I think it’s best to take a breather; my essay was fine so look at it later.
French – nope…didn’t do vocab work. I was a bit disappointed that we are losing our teacher, Cedric. Although I took notes to Dundee, I didn’t have time or sufficient sobriety to look at them!
History – yup, 1400 words written up, and that’s with reflections and rewrites! I’m now trying to get my message across within the 2000 word limit – the first 2 essays were nearer 3000, and that will cause problems at uni!
My evening class was interesting, but this whole Philosophy business…well, what does it all mean???? I did print out and read up a bit on Plato’s “Cratylus” text, Locke’s “Limits of Human Understanding” and Frege’s “On Sense and Reference”. I will try and read through them tomorrow before class.
So – for next week>
Spanish – read through my communication essay and translate some key phrases. Make a general plan for the presentation.
Literature – I don’t have to attend class, but I should rewrite my techniques section to include more quotations as evidence.
French – More specific – rewrite the past tense structures. Remember Dr Mrs Vadertrampp!!
OK food….more later!
Well looking at last week’s goals, I realise I’ll have to print them out and put them in my diary otherwise they’ll just get forgotten! Anyway
I have a diary and a Carlisle Utd calendar.
I spoke to Jordi, and reckon I’ll go with “El uso de los moviles telefonos en nuestea sociedad” theme. I also downloaded a lot of images of mobiles for the presentation.
Literature – nope…didn’t do the techniques stuff. The class just confused me a little, and I think it’s best to take a breather; my essay was fine so look at it later.
French – nope…didn’t do vocab work. I was a bit disappointed that we are losing our teacher, Cedric. Although I took notes to Dundee, I didn’t have time or sufficient sobriety to look at them!
History – yup, 1400 words written up, and that’s with reflections and rewrites! I’m now trying to get my message across within the 2000 word limit – the first 2 essays were nearer 3000, and that will cause problems at uni!
My evening class was interesting, but this whole Philosophy business…well, what does it all mean???? I did print out and read up a bit on Plato’s “Cratylus” text, Locke’s “Limits of Human Understanding” and Frege’s “On Sense and Reference”. I will try and read through them tomorrow before class.
So – for next week>
Spanish – read through my communication essay and translate some key phrases. Make a general plan for the presentation.
Literature – I don’t have to attend class, but I should rewrite my techniques section to include more quotations as evidence.
French – More specific – rewrite the past tense structures. Remember Dr Mrs Vadertrampp!!
OK food….more later!
Monday 11 January 2010
Monday 11th Jan 2010
Happy Bloody New Year!
I socialised on both a family and friend level over the Xmas break, and did no work whatsoever! Although, I did sign myself up for a Philosophy of Language course at the Lifelong learning centre, on Tuesday eves. Having dealt with all my college classes without too much difficulty, this course should provide more of a taste of the level of lectures I’m likely to get when studying Linguistics at Uni. I borrowed the set course book from the library, and it looks well heavy! I tried to have a flip through the intro, but it required a degree of concentration I was unable to supply at the time; I’ll wait until after the first lecture to have another look. Hopefully, it’ll make more sense then.
Gols for this week:
Beg, Borrow, Buy or Steal a diary!
Spanish – read through old essays, and consider a topic for my presentation. I should ask Jordi if I can do something about mobile phone usage!
Literature – try and write a short piece about the techniques used in Secrets; that’s what Madeleine said I was short on.
French – Read through old notes, and transfer them to new notebook. Well, start doing this at least!
Communication – We didn’t really have a full class last Thursday. Scott did return my opinion piece, which was fine although I did make a couple of typos and had too many exclamation marks!!!!!!!
History - I want to have at least 1000 words written on the Labour Govt. by the weekend. This could, of course, be altered by new assignments for other classes! I should also draw up a short list for potential subjects to investigate.
“Language Instinct” – shall we say read another 2 chapters? A lot depends on how I’m feeling; there’s no point in trying to read if I’m tired or unfocussed!
I socialised on both a family and friend level over the Xmas break, and did no work whatsoever! Although, I did sign myself up for a Philosophy of Language course at the Lifelong learning centre, on Tuesday eves. Having dealt with all my college classes without too much difficulty, this course should provide more of a taste of the level of lectures I’m likely to get when studying Linguistics at Uni. I borrowed the set course book from the library, and it looks well heavy! I tried to have a flip through the intro, but it required a degree of concentration I was unable to supply at the time; I’ll wait until after the first lecture to have another look. Hopefully, it’ll make more sense then.
Gols for this week:
Beg, Borrow, Buy or Steal a diary!
Spanish – read through old essays, and consider a topic for my presentation. I should ask Jordi if I can do something about mobile phone usage!
Literature – try and write a short piece about the techniques used in Secrets; that’s what Madeleine said I was short on.
French – Read through old notes, and transfer them to new notebook. Well, start doing this at least!
Communication – We didn’t really have a full class last Thursday. Scott did return my opinion piece, which was fine although I did make a couple of typos and had too many exclamation marks!!!!!!!
History - I want to have at least 1000 words written on the Labour Govt. by the weekend. This could, of course, be altered by new assignments for other classes! I should also draw up a short list for potential subjects to investigate.
“Language Instinct” – shall we say read another 2 chapters? A lot depends on how I’m feeling; there’s no point in trying to read if I’m tired or unfocussed!
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