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Right, so ‘Just Doing It’ didn’t happen! 2 weeks later and I still haven’t written on my supposedly second chance blog. I actually find it quite scary - I don’t know why writing like this seems more intimidating than any other way, maybe it’s all the publicity around blogs and how many good ones there are out there, starting out and making a go of it isn’t as easy as I thought.
I think that what would be appropriate now would be to use this as a reflection on my second year at uni and use it in my portfolio for a number of things, adding in things that i find interesting in the media along the way. Reflecting on my life at uni will get me writing and hopefully make my less wary of the whole blogging experience.
My tutor the other day mentioned using my blog as my whole portfolio and having a completely electronic version. I didn’t take him up on this, as I have an art background and the presentation of my portfolio is something I like to take a lot of time over. However he did suggest using pages for different articles. This is something I think I will still do, but for things such as the rationales for the portfolio and my work placement log.
Something that hit me very early on at uni is that there is obviously no one pushing you to do things like at school and college. This is something that I thought was going to be difficult for me as my time management isn’t what I would call amazing. I always come out of deadlines having stayed up all night the night before finishing it off, and telling myself that next time it won’t be like that, that I will start sooner. Usually I never learn from it and still sit up for 24 hours getting things finished off (this is also something to do with me being a perfectionist!) but this year I have seen a change in me. I counted the pieces that I had already for my portfolio the other day and I had 6 without really realising I’d done them, which was a great feeling and really pushed me to get on with the rest.
Over this Easter I have cracked on with a little bit of work so far, and having done some I wrote a list of what was left. Even though the list is quite daunting it has shown me where i need to head and instead of having it all cluttered in my head has given me some motivation to head forward. Motivation is most definitely the window to success and searching for your personal way to find it is the first step.
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Here it goes…my second attempt at a blog! The previous was purely as a means to an e
nd for my first portfolio, and this one I suppose could be classed as that, but I also want to make an actual go of it. I read other peoples blogs all the time, so why shouldn’t I have my own?
I’m a definite late starter to the blogging world, purely for the simple reason that I much prefer talking to people. I think that simple communication is definitely on the decline with social networking sites such as facebook and myspace not helping the situation.
A first hand example that I experienced the other week whilst on some work experience, was that colleagues would email each other whilst sitting on just the floor below. This is something that they were talking about minimising, but it made me think that technology, as useful and opportunity rich as it is, may be detrimental to the ways in which we communicate.
Don’t get me wrong I am the first to use facebook and send a lot of emails, but I am still very much a telephone person. I love a good natter, and definitely use more minutes on my mobile than I do texts. (Not only for the reason that the buttons on my new phone are so minuscule that you cant see them.)
A lot of people see the phone as a scary thing and find it daunting ringing possible placements and employers. My tip is; Just Do It. I’ve been putting this blog off for ages, but this morning I told myself to just get on with it. So here is it, who knows where it will go…
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