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Pros and the Con: angewina_naguen's Journey Waddling Through Uni
angewina_naguen:
09/06/2020
Hey, everyone!
Hope you all had a great long weekend and have started the week off nicely! Super quick update for the night. I just submitted my 3000 word essay for EAM and I feel relieved. This assignment almost made me go insane but we finally got there in the end. For your enjoyment, I have put the three songs I analysed in the essay below if you wanted to see what I suffered through for the last few days to get this assignment done ::)
Japanese Music That Angelina Admires Aesthetically but is Also Now Lowkey Sick of
Only a few more days to go and I will be done for the semester :) Time for some well-deserved rest to help me get through my last exams ;D
Angelina ;D
angewina_naguen:
13/06/2020
Hey, everyone!
I'm finally finished with exams and done with my third semester of uni! ;D I had my last one yesterday and here are my thoughts on how I went for each.
Harmony and Analysis 3 was something else. I spent a little too much time on one section of the exam because my inner perfectionist got the better of me so I had to rush through the final section. I finished it with only two minutes to spare though so I'm just hoping I checked everything through properly.
My AP2 exam went quite well. I messed up the rhythm part of solfege but surprisingly got it correct for LAB (it's usually the other way around). I think I could've prepared a little more for it but I definitely passed it for the semester and I'm not getting graded anyway for it :) I'll definitely be trying a lot harder for AP3 to make up for it.
As for ClassRom, I don't think any amount of studying could've prepared me for that exam. I was really on top of everything with ClassRom over this semester, as you can probably tell from the journal, but I made a few silly mistakes and just had mind blanks left, right, centre throughout it. I'm certain I passed it but I don't know whether I'll be able to maintain my current HD average. I think my participation mark and essay might just keep me up there but we will have to see when results are out. It was also my first time doing a ProctorU exam which I'll talk about in my unit review for the course.
Overall, I'm feeling great now that it's all done! These are some of the many things I'll be getting up to during the break.
- Doing lots of lesson planning and resource development ahead for Tutesmart (and catch up marking for my students) ::)
- Preparing for the July HSC English Standard Lecture 8)
- Writing a suite of poems on the concept of closure for the newspaper society which will be published in the first edition for Semester 2 ;D
- Attending a wedding which will be my first big social event since quarantine :)
- Celebrating my birthday in August!
- Analysing more music in my musicology thread here on the forums!
- Recording a good number of covers and live-streaming some music (I miss doing gigs!) :)
- Arranging a song or two for Barbersoc (fingers crossed acapella society will be back on campus next semester).
Looking forward to being productive but also taking time for myself to recover :D I'll check in again soon!
Toodles,
Angelina ;D
angewina_naguen:
28/06/2020
Hey, everyone!
I'm currently a few stops away from Sydenham station ready for my singing lesson. I have been busy busy with lesson planning, writing a rather nasty Trials paper (good luck, Class of 2020 TuteSmart) and getting my slides ready for a jam-packed revision lecture in mid-July ;D I've been finding work far easier to do now that I'm not also juggling university simultaneously with it.
Two days ago, I received my marks for two of my assignments for Choir 3 and ClassRom. I'm really pleased to inform that I was awarded full marks for my Choir assignment and 27.6/30 for my ClassRom essay! I was over the moon! I also found the comments for ClassRom helpful and while I argued a really controversial point for one of my arguments, it appears David Larkin was okay with it! I'm feeling a lot more confident about my performance this semester compared to this exact same time last year so fingers crossed the rest of my results will follow similar success.
Last night, I added a new post to the MMME thread which you can check out here! I chose to analyse one of my favourite songs of all time and would highly recommend everyone checking it out. I'd love to hear your thoughts about the song and the analysis and observations ;D
That's all for today's update! Hope you all have a great Sunday :)
Toodles,
Angelina ;D
angewina_naguen:
02/07/2020
Hey, everyone!
Hope you've all had a great week so far! Super quick post today :) It's almost school holidays so I'm hoping the following fortnight, despite TS having Trials season and lectures, will be heaps more chill. I'm currently formatting the last of the papers for the English faculty in preparation for it. While I'm excited for the students to sit it, I'm sure they feel anything but the same ::)
In light of recent Black Lives Matter initiatives, I have recently started up a 31 day challenge to post music from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists. My tutor for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Music last semester really encouraged us to stream, attend concerts and support their music as a way to decolonise the music industry we have here in Australia. Although I'm sharing this day by day on Instagram, you can check out the full playlist of songs here! You might also consider donating to the following charities and causes in support of both national and international efforts towards racial justice!
As a final note, I'm very keen for Hamilton on Disney Plus and will hopefully get a chance to stream it some time this weekend. I will also be having friends over to do a home theatre watch party which I'm hyped for 8)
Hope you all have a great end of the week and will update with more exciting stuff soon!
Angelina ;D
angewina_naguen:
18/08/2020
Hey, everyone!
It's been over a month since my last update :D I've been really enjoying my holidays and taking a long break to ready myself for possibly the craziest semester to come. This week, I'm finishing off my poems for Honi Soit which will be published in the first week back's edition and getting a head start on the plentiful readings I have to do for university. This semester, I am taking the following subjects.
- MCGY2615 The Ultimate Art: 400 Years of Opera (Online)
- MCGY2004 Aural Perception 3 (Online)
- MCGY2011 Harmony and Analysis 4 (Online)
- MUED1009 Psychology of Learning and Instruction (Online)
- MUED2302 Classroom Management (Online)
- MUED2605 Children, Music and Educational Settings (Online Weeks 1-3/In Person Weeks 4-12)
- MUED3031 Teaching Jazz in Secondary Education (Online Weeks 1-7/In Person Weeks 8-12)
Some fun things to note!
- I chose MCGY2615 for my major this semester. I need to do a Historical Studies unit for my musicology principal study and was really inspired during the weeks we covered opera in ClassRom last semester. This elective unit is co-taught by three lecturers, two of which I have already had units with and thoroughly enjoyed, so I'm really looking forward to it! It may also be my last musicology unit because I am thinking of doing Honours next year and will be discontinuing my principal study if that's the case. I'm definitely going to make my time in it count 8)
- MUED2605 usually has our first professional experience integrated within the course but due to COVID-19, we will not be doing our prac until next year :'( I'm interested to see how the rest of the time that we would normally use for prac will be spent in the degree and how they will adjust between online and in-person teaching.
- MUED2302 is a new subject for all music education students and is why I will be overloading this semester with an added 3CP subject. I'm personally a little annoyed about having to overload, especially with COVID-19 already making learning more difficult than it has to be, but one of my favourite tutors from first year will be co-teaching the unit with one of our associate professors so I'm hoping it will be worth the extra work.
This is what my timetable looks like for the semester. I'm so glad I have two days free because the overloading will definitely need me to have off days as catch-up and relax periods. It'll be a packed three days in the middle of the week but I'm thinking of watching my pre-recorded lectures on Monday night to give myself a sleep in on Tuesdays. Hopefully it will all work out fine :)
2020 Semester 2 Timetable
Overall, I'm feeling excited as much as I am terrified at the thought of the workload I will be dealing with. I've decided that I will be taking a step back from my extra-curricular commitments with Barbersoc to help me manage everything. Although I am a bit disappointed that I won't be able to do any society activities this semester, besides perhaps the odd Honi Soit article here and there if I have time, I'm sure it will be the best move long term for my wellbeing. I look forward to sharing another semester's worth of adventures here and wishing you all a great week!
Toodles,
Angelina ;D
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