Friday 10 July 2009

Results

I've been quiet about my results this semester. I'm going to stop being so shy and share the news.

My average is a 2:1 which is awesome but the grades themselves just aren't quite high enough. I think one of the modules has been done wrong so I'm going to have to question it and I seem to be disappointing myself all the time with English Literature. It really is quite a challenge that subject.

The Victorian novels are hard to read and so I find it hard keeping up but I do it. I have to. My essay writing is terrible though. I love writing so much but I have trouble adapting a scholarly style. Its frustrating more than anything but thankfully a few higher marks in other modules have kept me in the 2:1 bracket.

I was over the moon with my Publishing elective. My overall grade was 71%. I have never had a first before! I was in tears of joy when I found out because I put everything I'm made of into that module. Myself and a group of other students worked really hard and published an anthology of poetry for local poet, Michael Molyneux. Publishing is definitely what I want to do when I graduate which is why I desperately want to keep getting 2:1s for my work.

Thankfully I have supportive people around me who will help me improve my essay writing over summer so that I can push my grades higher. For the first time in my life I actually feel passionate about something and really ambitious. I never thought I was one of those people but I am now. I want to do well, get a great job and just be as successful as I can. My intern job at the university has also given me some wonderful new opportunities that will make my CV stand out from the rest. I can't wait to get started on some of the projects that involve clan-u press and workshops for school children, to help them write a creative piece for a competition our faculty has set up.

Hopefully in two year's time I will be a copy editor's assistant and writing my own bestseller :)

2 comments:

  1. Congratulations - especially on the 71% :)

    (I'm Christine's daughter, by the way... she mentioned you when I was visiting & I saw you'd commented on her blog!)

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  2. That's my girl, blow your trumpet, grow in confidence, be determined to improve even more!
    Hope you're getting some research in on Victorian train travel, and not just train travel to Manchester!! lol :)xx

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