Learn You're Lesson

My last week of the holidays are now coming to an end, with only two days left of my own, it's time to gain a work mind set, ready to start and complete the remainder of the course, and the remaining assignments that are left.

Looking back at the first half year, I would be in denial if I was to say that I was completely happy with my performance, and that there wasn't much that I could improve on. I have mentioned many times before that I desperately need to improve my attitude to self study, I simply didn't do enough, and I was extreamly lucky and it took a lot of effort to get my last two assignments in on time. But in the same manor not trying to make excuses as to why this happened, I experienced computer troubles for a while, and it was this that set me quite a fair bit back, but I Know that it was up to me to make that time back up, and I simply didn't.

I desperately want to improve on this in the near future, as I believe it would make the second half of the year run much much smoother, as the work will get harder. At the moment I am in the process of attaining something that will help me in achieving more self study time, as I have finally come to my senses and gotten rid of my dodgy machine, and instead of relying on my sisters machine I am going to purchase a new one for my self to replace the infamous one in which I blame my downfall. This should be happening in the coming week, and I am hoping that this will free up self study time and allow me an opportunity to do self study in short bursts whenever they are possible, rather than waiting for a full day to open up, to beg and borrow my sisters PC.

Before I began to write this blog entry, I had a little scan of my Formative Statement that I completed in September. I have no doubt that I chose the right option in joining this course, as it's been a great experience, and I believe that a University or a full time job, would not of been a much greater choice. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time in studying on the HND Interactive Media course, and long may it continue. I have come a long way from the time that I wrote that statement, I wrote that I was eager to start the course properly and start my first assignment and now three assignments on I still have that eagerness to receive new assignments, as I no that I gain so much, new skills and tricks and also knowledge of new and exciting software, that I have previously never even heard of.

In my statement I wrote that for the future I wanted to successfully complete the Interactive Media course, to the best or to exceed my best ability, unfortunately so far I am not exceeding my ability and in my opinion I'm not even reaching the level of work that I could, which is really disappointing to me. But I feel that an advantage of knowing this is that I have alot of time to change it, and I hope that I will keep my place and have the chance to do this. I already believe that so far I have changed alot from when I first walked through the door of the classroom. I believe that I have gained a level of professionalism in my works appearance, which I was never taught to have as a skill before and a skill which I am glad to have, as the assignments that I have handed in, I look at and can't believe how different they are to my previous college assignments from years before. But the most important to me are the skills I have picked up in the software we use, when I first used the likes of "Adobe Pagemaker and Photoshop" I didn't have the slightest clue what to do, I would go as far as saying I didn't even know how to open up a new page, and know I can create pieces of work in both of them, all be it, to a novice standard and I do realise that the skills I know are nothing to what is still to learn, but this only makes me more eager.

Overall the past months I have completed on the HND Interactive Media course are a mixture of many emotions, and I've had many ups but many downs, all of which I believe have added to me as a person, I have made mistakes and I hope that these mistakes will be me a stronger pupil for the remainder of the course, as I firmly believe there is much more to come from me, and I have much more to learn. Jamie