Here we go! This week has been for me a tough and tiring week, the last week before the now dreaded Deadline Day! Wednesday morning I attended fully knowing that I had a lot of work to do to be able to reach the submission standard assignments for the following day, ready for the following Thursday D - Day.
This pressure almost boosted my enthusiasm to work however; I feel that this week has been my most productive week of the course so far. I have accomplished and gotten on top of so much work this week which has enabled me to relax slightly but still knowing I can’t put my feet up for the holidays yet! I have to give it one last push to reach next Thursday’s deadline, so it will take the dedication over the weekend from self study to enable me to relax and polish my work off for the day before the deadline, which is something I aim to do so hopefully I can produce the work in self study time to enable this.
The one thing that I have found this week is that no matter how much you think you are nearing an end to your assignments the more work you actually find that needs doing, it’s an endless process. Each time I collected all of my work together I realised id missed something out, or needed to complete something to hand in, it gets really tireless and I especially had a torrid time with PageMaker! Because of me finding pieces of information which needed adding, or taking out and then on top of the feedback meeting discussions I had amendments to make, and every time I made them I had to shift images about to the following pages, move references up and down, or to different pages. Add pages delete pages cut and paste here and there, it’s been an absolute nightmare that still isn’t over after a day of tinkering well two days of tinkering! It’s getting to be such a bore but I know that I have to stick with it or else I’m going to hit big problems next week so not to self – Keep it up and crack on!
I am aiming to pretty much get A3 out of the way this weekend with only minor adjustments to make so that next week I can fully concentrate on the A4 assignment which I need to do, as I can truthfully say and admit that it hasn’t been getting the attention that it needs from me, as for weeks I have been working on the A2 work. This is something that in future I really need to work on as if I had two running assignments both as hard and as large as each other I wouldn’t have a chance of getting both completed, I have been really lucky that the A4 assignment is fairly short and helpfully broke down into 4 tasks.
Overall a dull and boring week but at the same time so relieving, but I have to say I cant wait to walk out of the door and get my self home for a long sit down in front of the T.V or the X-box and relax, a well deserved break form work! Ready to crack on with even more work! Could it get any better!? One week till a big Christmas break better I believe...see you all next week. Jamie
5 comments:
Amazing how much your blog mirror's mine Jamie. Glad to see that I'm not the only one who had to grit and bear the constant shifting off work around in PageMaker.
"no matter how much you think you are nearing an end to your assignments the more work you actually find that needs doing".
Couldn’t agree with that more coming out of college I thought it was all under control opening my books and folders today I’ve realised theirs still a couple of solid days work to do on each assignment! So don’t worry I think most people are in the same situation.
Yeah I definatly think so, It does get quite annoying though when you keep having to go overthe same work, but it has to be done
I think you are absolutely right about how much more productive we seem to get as the deadline approaches. You don't really think you have got much to do and then before you know it the deadline is next week and there is still plenty to get on with! I have been frustrated with Pagemaker too, when you think that everything is in order but then you need to change something minor it seems to mess everything up! I am sure everything will be fine though for next week
Yeah, that's without doubt the most annoying part of the assignment's in my eye's.
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