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2km

Apologies for starting on a negative note readers, but this week hasn’t exactly been amazing. I’m sure others feel the same way as well. I’ve seen things online like “We wanted to live during something extraordinary, but this isn’t what we meant”, and I feel that sums up this time in our lives perfectly.

While I am aware that online learning is a necessity at this time, I am not a fan of online lectures. I struggle to pay attention. It is not the lecturer’s fault; my ability to tune into something for a period of time isn’t great at the best of times, but I have found that watching my lectures on a screen doesn’t help that. I’ve been struggling with the website for Technical Writing. I still don’t have a concise idea of what I’m doing mine on, and I’ve been finding the actual setting up and creating the website difficult.

Since I do not have many assignments due for the rest of the semester (and this is going to make me sound a bit annoying), I haven’t got much to occupy my time with. I find myself running or watching YouTube videos. Although I did plant some seeds in a greenhouse I got, so at least that’s productive.

I really hope the speculations that most of the seclusion will be over by June. I’m not the most sociable person, but actually having to stay at home and only being allowed move within a maximum distance of 2km from my house is really stressing me out. I’m running 5km today so I’ll have to loop back after my first 2km down the same stretch of road, which I can’t imagine is going to be much fun.

I made the mistake of watching War of the Worlds for the first time last night. Experiencing it for the first time in this current climate was not a great idea, and my mother ended up switching it off and putting on an episode of Schitt’s Creek after seeing the nervous wreck I was about half an hour into the film.

Anyways, I hope everyone is keeping themselves busy one way or another. if you didn’t you’d crack up. In a few weeks hopefully this will all be over, and will exist only as a topic in the Leaving Cert in years to come.

Alison

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The Beginning

Hello there,

So far, the semester has been going well I feel. Making the decision to keep on top of assignments from the get-go has really eased off some of the worries about deadlines (a decision that may have benefitted me last semester). This will be very effective as I mainly have continuous assessments, which involves a lot of assignments before Week 13. Like Hamlet, my biggest weakness is procrastination (however my inaction has not led to tragedy, so I’ve one-upped him in that regard.

At the moment the most challenging assignment so far has been for Public Administration. The fact we were doing Public Admin itself alone was enough to confuse us, as we had been doing Politics. I digress. the students were put into groups, and each given a topic regarding a recently re-established country called ‘LULITMI’. The question my group was given was about the oversight of policing, and how it should be completed in LULITMI. We each had to do an individual essay on an aspect of our question, mine was about district policing. I found the most difficult part of the essay was the research into various country’s district policing, which involved more fact-based information.

I aim to get my assignments for all my modules done as efficiently as possible, to reduce stress at deadlines and allow me to actually enjoy free time I have without the impending assignments looming over me. I believe the image below perfectly encapsulates that feeling. I decided in January that 2020 would be a productive year for me and combatting my habit of getting into a panic over assignments will be a part of my New Year’s resolution. I know it’s all well and good saying that now, but I will keep you updated on my progress of revamping my academic methods. If I don’t work on my procrastination I will at the very least increase my water intake.

Until I post again,

Alison

X out Procrastination

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