Results are in.

I'm pretty sure that I would barely cotton onto any of these kind of things if it wasn't for Facebook.
Pretty chuffed though, and doesn't it sound good? Perhaps not quite as good a 'First class' but it's still pretty bangin'.
'Honours Degree of Bachelor of Arts in Photography with Upper Second Class Honours'. ♥
I picked up the final bits for my grad-ball outfit in Kingston today, I think I'm far too prepared, all I'm currently worried about when it comes to graduating is the potential to fall over and what nail polish to wear - decisions, decisions...

Half a result?

So for some reason we're not getting our marks for our dissertation back until the 3rd of March, but they generously decided to hand out our 'provisional' Set Brief marks today. This annoyed me on a few levels but the main one being that on the sheet of paper with my results on it says that they assessed my work on 29th January, which is quite a while ago really. I really let myself down a bit in the end.
I did get a solid 2:1 though, which seems to be the story of my University life. Don't get me wrong, a 2:1 is great but it isn't a 1st. I know it's a fair mark but I also know that I could have done better. I'm really willing for my dissertation to at least match it now though because otherwise, what is the point of this year? I would have no friends to fall back on if I had to retake anyway.
So I could have actually pushed for a first in this project but the final presentation let me down and I only got a 2:2 in it, which paired up with the 2 1sts and 2:1 brought it down to middle ground. I hate that they show you where you went wrong, I only want praise, I still got a good mark.

So this week has been one huge slack in terms of the fact that I should at least be doing research even if my idea isn't particularly solid. I'm going home tonight to sort my head out, plus I'm seeing Russell Howard at the O2 on Saturday. I think being in London doing things will allow me to come back to my work as a fresh on Monday. I hope so anyway...

Dissertation Proposal.

2:1, I am happy enough with this.
I'm glad to have been advised not to write it over the summer as well, just a plan, I can handle a 'plan'.

So very nearly finished with all my work for this semester and have confirmed that I definitely have no Project Report to do, which I feel takes away a bit of the academic aspect of the unit, but I'm happy to have 2,000 words less to write. I think if Daniel has eliminated all Project Reports that I will be sad to tell people who think my course isn't 'proper', at least before I could say, "Yeah, well, on top of doing all my other work I have to evaluate it in 2,000 at the end", now, at least for this unit, I cannot. I'm sick of defending my course anyway, I know how hard I work.

I have voted already, I'm quite excited to see the result tonight, I'm unsure whether to choose BBC One or Channel 4, it's obvious which one will be more funny and entertaining.

Semester 1 of Two.

Got my results back, I'm going to throw it out there that I'm more than pleased.

Documentary Practices: 61% - 2:1
Issues in Contemporary Media: 72% - 1st
Project Management 2: 75% - 1st

I just hope that next semester goes as well, I didn't even think I'd do that well, I'm really quite proud of myself.