Hello everyone,
It's been a while... as it always is at this point. I've been busy, to say the least, BUT results for Year 2 Sem 1 are officially out. I'll give you the low down on what's been happening with everything. First things first, living on campus. Is it bad I want to move off-campus now because I'm absolutely sick of my housemates as they're all first years, still wanting to get partying out of their system. I find myself drained of the social energy to do such a thing now that I'm somehow busier, maybe I could attribute that to my job and being halfway through my degree. They don't know how to clean either which is quite annoying. Now for my sem 1 subjects
Construction Technology 1 - 82
Yes, it has a 1 on the end, meaning I'm going to have to do the dreaded course again in much more detail but that is thankfully next years issue. Let's just say I did not like this course at all. This was the course that I said was close to Engineering studies, which made it quite easy plus it was a first-year course.
It mainly had assignments and the lectures were still all on zoom, so I essentially turned on the lecture (For our compulsory 80% attendance), camera off, muted, got back into bed and went back to sleep. And this is how it went for 12/13 weeks that I did the course. I'm quite happy with how I went considering how it was all online.
Communication in the Built Environment - 86
A HD! I didn't expect this one. 40% of our grade for this course was a group assignment which we astoundingly got 93/100. The highest mark I had even gotten for a written report. I was allocated as chairperson, so I had to keep everyone on top of everything and such. Extremely proud of everyone that I worked with cause we only met online and never face to face.
Studio 3 - 75
There were a total of three assignments for this course. THREE. One being worth 10%, fine, another being worth 40% then another worth 50%. Meaning you could entirely mess up the course on one of the big assignments. I didn't but barely scraped into the Distinction range. I was 0.4 marks above 75. You have no idea how relieved I was.
I wonder how many people failed this course due to the assignment weightings. I helped another person through the course by just working with them since he got a 38/100 on the second assignment, he literally wanted to drop out. But I was like you can do it! He passed as well. This course was HARD.
Overall my semester was good, stressful but good. I am officially halfway through my university degree which is shocking. Only three semesters to go then I'll be done. Then I can choose if I want to do Masters as well, I'm thinking of doing it part time so I can spread it out a bit.
I am also doing one of my electives at the moment during Winter Term. It's called AHIS2600, Women and Children in Ancient Greece and Rome. It is really interesting and I've got about a week until I've finished the course. Its an accelerated course so I've had to finish the course within three weeks which was slightly daunting but I think it'll be okay. I chose to do this elective during the holidays so I only had to worry about two courses next semester (30units) and could relax a bit before heading into final year. I honestly wish I could do more ancient history electives but I'm going to do a studio elective next year.
On the agenda next semester is:
History & Theory in the Built Environment 2 - Low key keen for this course so it should be good.
Studio 4 - The mid year entries from last year are going to join us again for this semester, they're going to come from an easy semester to a hard one. Rip them.
Goodluck everyone for the next semester and enjoy your holidays!