Feeling a Little Horse

Today is deadline day!

This is the first test on a serious 2 year journey that so far I am enjoying immensely. I am just thankful that I decided to hand in my assignment on the same day as the HND students as the Wednesday for me was the most crucial day so far.

I spent most of the morning letting people read my assignment and in return reading theirs for inconsistencies. What I thought was a submission ready piece of work turned out to be far from that. I still had too much information that was not needed so most of the day was spent editing and streamlining.

I got some very invaluable feedback from people who I least expected to get it from. I think this saved me from handing in a piece of work that was not meeting the criteria laid out, and mentioning no names, I thank the individuals involved.

When the assignment started I felt I was a bit limited to the word count that was set but after taking out all the jargon that was already in my sketchbook and in my evaluation I ended up with an essay that I feel proud of.

I was involuntary elected as a scrutineer in the morning as my peers seemed to think I had a knack for pointing out spelling mistakes, which I was slightly reluctant to do as I am not an expert and I am sure that my own piece will contain quite a few errors. I think my age was being confused with experience. At the end of the day I wouldn't be on this course if I was a professional in all the aspects of design.

I am excited now as to what lies ahead. The length of this assignment was just long enough to enjoy without getting tiresome. Other than a couple of Blog entries the next 2 weeks will be nice to just take a break from what feels to have been some intense studying.

I think from this assignment I have learnt many, many lessons that will go towards helping me with the forthcoming ones. The need to overly impress has gone (well subsided) and I now know what is expected of me.

This isn't going to stop my eagerness to learn but going from walking to galloping in the first 4 weeks Im now willing to get off the horse and learn to trot and cantor first.