Whatever Happened To The Winter Months?

I said it last week, and I'm going to say it again - it's hard to believe that these are the last few weeks of the first year, and if the second year goes as quick I'm going to be sat here in what will feel like next week in a year's time saying the same thing. It'll be a shame to see it come to an end, becuase this has been the most learning I've ever done in education in my life. Strangely ironic, and quite sad, in the fact that it's taken me more than a decade of education to actually learn a skill that will be useful in my desired profession. That's of course not just the educational system's fault, that's also down to me not being entirely sure of what I wanted to do "when I grew up", but that's always the case.

It's difficult really to put into words how much I feel I've improved this year, unless I had a book and endless amounts of energy. I still remember how I felt in the first assignment where I was close to burn-out because of my apparent workload, and I think the basic skill of time management is something that I've consciously worked on for the whole year, after seeing this as one of my weakest points. I now feel like I do have a lot more self discipline, and it's only this course that has made me realise that I'm actually pretty poor at my time management.

I don't really know what to expect from the second year though, other than I know it will be a dramatic step up. I like the possibility of having a bit more direction in the blogs, as it would be nice to have a specific subject to write about. All my life I've written for a specific purpose, and it sometimes seems odd trying to write about your week in a general sense. It is however a nice tool to reflect on your past week of learning, which is why I'm not so keen on the possibility of having to do blogs on a Wednesday next year. I do genuinely think that it's nice to just sit back for five minutes and reflect upon your past week, because it gives your blog a bit of direction and purpose. I does have a plus point though: I won't have to read 15 accounts talking about how we had a lecture on Wednesday.

I'm still intrigued as to what this Administration Week is. Steve reckons he's gave us hints - which I've completely missed - but he did say it was an "Activity". Maybe this means it's something a bit more light hearted than what I was expecting? But then that thought was blown away when he announced that its actually serious. When Steve mentioned hints, maybe he has been asking about the assignment criteria quite a lot... But then again that will be passed by then and done for the year. I don't know. Looks like I'll just have to wait.

P.S. If you don't already have a del.icio.us account, I'd strongly advise one. Before I thought this whole Social Bookmarking stuff was a load of rubbish, but it's quite useful. I've got my work PC, laptop, college PC and my home PC and trying to keep all those bookmarks the same was near impossible. Now it's easy, and if you're interested in looking at other design studio's work like I am, you can see my list of design studios, currently consisting of 49 and constantly going up.