Roar!

In the words of the great Katy Perry, 'you're gonna hear me roar!'.  Because as I head faster and faster to the finale of this course,in the hope that a new studying chapter will commence in September, I'm reminding myself that I've fought hard to get this far and I will be buggered if I'm going to drop the pace now.  Someone told me that this would be one of the most intense years of my life, and boy were they right!  This course, and all that I've learned whilst on it, has changed my life.  I really mean that.  It has re-ignited my passion for education.  I have loved each and every minute! Each low has just spurred me on to work harder, and the highs (like this weeks) make me float on air!  This week I got both my disastrous, or so I thought, English presentation mark back alongside the mark for my double unit Psychology report.  I got a distinction in both!  I am chuffed to bits and in a state of disbelief!  Studying, whilst I love it, does not come easy. I have to earn each and every single mark.  But truthfully, I wouldn't have it any other way because if it was easy I wouldn't get the same satisfaction for achievement.  The weeks are really flying by now, I only have one week left until I hand in my dissertation.  That's worth nine marks!!! Worth more than any other single or double unit on the entire course.  I just hope and pray that Margie will like mine or I'm totally screwed! The way I see it, my last two essays I have time to fine tune, to hone and edit them to make them the best that they can be.  My dissertation I have slaved over since February, maybe even earlier than that.  But my last exam is where I'm most concerned.  It's Shakespeare. And it's only one hour and fifteen minutes! I like to have time to analyse a text, I like to be able to read through with my glossary of terms and see what literary techniques have been used, I can take time to develop a point, and edit as I go along.  In an hour and fifteen mins with no glossary to refer to, my thoughts become jumbled, I can't remember the names of the literary terms, and my writing when rushed is very very difficult to understand.  I have emailed Chris and made him aware of my concerns and Im hoping he can steer me right, he has so far. I just have to keep knuckling down, doing my best and hope to god that it pays off.  I know I don't need to get distinctions to get into the UEA, but I really want to get them if I can.  I guess time will tell.  In the meantime I am paddling fast, there's a current going against me, but I can see the finish line, and can picture Larry and Meg at the line spurring me on all the way.  There's no way I'm going to let them down now, so listen out because hopefully it shouldn't be long until you hear me roar... X