What Do You Mean That's Only Half!!
Evening Biplings,
Well I hope everyone has de-stressed somewhat after our exams and then realised that the exams & associated projects while important only concern themselves with the 3 subjects that make up HALF the course marks! Genius! Ah no matter we get marks now for sabotaging 'working with' host companies! Or for the innovators among us, you get to do a project of your own!!
But going back to the exams for a minute, I found the whole experience of getting back in an exam hall quite stressful, not least the damn invigilators hovering past your desk every 30 seconds. Now there are those among us that do have a shifty look about them but really cheating! I not unlike many of you, I presume, felt that Christmas became an almost unnecessary distraction 'en route' to the exams and what little spare time I had away from family and friends was taken up with studying or the thoughts of studying. I can guarantee that I am far from what one could call a 'swot' but being that bit older and some would say wiser than when last sitting down with pen and paper for an exam, I felt that my faculties would not handle a dozen cans of Coke and no sleep before an exam, so a bit of study was warranted.
Study!! a sudden and very stark realisation dawned that over the past 13 or so weeks I had not taken in one iota of information with any relevance, I new how to fold a T-Shirt (thanks Frank, if I am stuck in central China and need a few dollars a month!!) and also that I must disappoint somebody about something first, but after that it was all rather blurry! With that said I thought to myself surely the course notes I took and the slides on Moodle would be of some help!! Yeah right, I realised that I should be going to school with my kids to learn to write again for one, because my notes looked like they were written by an illiterate Panda and the slides made everything more vague, with pictures from films and diagram after diagram after diagram. At my wits end I decided to follow the topics and read a few chapters of the books. Four f**king books in which a single chapter is longer than your average Mills & Boon, I was at breaking point! If that wasn't enough every smart arse without a clue was posting on Facebook "Useful" titbits to help during the study! The more I read there, the more I felt like I hadn't even been on the same f**king course! But c'est la vie and I found a way through, Waffle!
We all got through the exams together and with the support of all our classmates, be it useful or not! But I can safely say now that they are over , was there anything really to be stressed about? Was it not down to each one of us and our own insecurities or fear about the exam more than the event itself! But seriously I am sure we all did well in at least 2 of the exams and in the marketing exam well we shall see. What do you mean marketing wasn't one of our course subjects!!! But hey that's a battle for another day!
Now we move ever closer to the end of the course and good old De Vito I mean Brendan takes us under his wing and guides us through helping somebody else make more money for free! Getting years of top class experience for a nod and a wink, we are all past being apprentices and to say this is a learning experience, I would debate that with anyone! But I am sure we will all put our best feet forward and muddle through! If some of you out there some of the theoretical content was sketchy during the year, the "Practical Project" is going to rub you up the wrong way altogether, some the host companies don't even know what they want from it, so if they don't know it's gonna even be hard to disappoint them!!
Now we are freed from the classroom I will try to get back here a bit more often and share with you my musings of the project experience and feel free to share yours, comment here or via twitter, the Blipping Students current followers are active and very engaging, a nod to @dvbsh, @ajocca (Poirot), @ofitzmaurice , @roismhuire, @andrewkinsella and of course @geraldinelavin. If i have left anybody out, thats probably because your not important!
Good Night
The Blipping Student
@dcublip3
Study!! a sudden and very stark realisation dawned that over the past 13 or so weeks I had not taken in one iota of information with any relevance, I new how to fold a T-Shirt (thanks Frank, if I am stuck in central China and need a few dollars a month!!) and also that I must disappoint somebody about something first, but after that it was all rather blurry! With that said I thought to myself surely the course notes I took and the slides on Moodle would be of some help!! Yeah right, I realised that I should be going to school with my kids to learn to write again for one, because my notes looked like they were written by an illiterate Panda and the slides made everything more vague, with pictures from films and diagram after diagram after diagram. At my wits end I decided to follow the topics and read a few chapters of the books. Four f**king books in which a single chapter is longer than your average Mills & Boon, I was at breaking point! If that wasn't enough every smart arse without a clue was posting on Facebook "Useful" titbits to help during the study! The more I read there, the more I felt like I hadn't even been on the same f**king course! But c'est la vie and I found a way through, Waffle!
"You are never alone in anything you do, unless you Think you are alone!"
We all got through the exams together and with the support of all our classmates, be it useful or not! But I can safely say now that they are over , was there anything really to be stressed about? Was it not down to each one of us and our own insecurities or fear about the exam more than the event itself! But seriously I am sure we all did well in at least 2 of the exams and in the marketing exam well we shall see. What do you mean marketing wasn't one of our course subjects!!! But hey that's a battle for another day!
Now we move ever closer to the end of the course and good old De Vito I mean Brendan takes us under his wing and guides us through helping somebody else make more money for free! Getting years of top class experience for a nod and a wink, we are all past being apprentices and to say this is a learning experience, I would debate that with anyone! But I am sure we will all put our best feet forward and muddle through! If some of you out there some of the theoretical content was sketchy during the year, the "Practical Project" is going to rub you up the wrong way altogether, some the host companies don't even know what they want from it, so if they don't know it's gonna even be hard to disappoint them!!
Now we are freed from the classroom I will try to get back here a bit more often and share with you my musings of the project experience and feel free to share yours, comment here or via twitter, the Blipping Students current followers are active and very engaging, a nod to @dvbsh, @ajocca (Poirot), @ofitzmaurice , @roismhuire, @andrewkinsella and of course @geraldinelavin. If i have left anybody out, thats probably because your not important!
Good Night
The Blipping Student
@dcublip3
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