Yes, 13:00 today was an important deadline, all of my
course work had to be uploaded to the university web site. Term was over!!!
Time to relax. My absence from the blogosphere over the last few weeks has
perhaps been down to not relaxing. I found the process of essay writing
difficult to say the least. The information age is the student’s friend, but he
should be wary, the sheer scale of the information available is mind blowing.
For instance I was able to read unpublished university theses by subscribing to
a British Museum site. Distilling this down into a coherently argued 3,000-word
essay was challenging to say the least.
I have learnt much over the last ten weeks. The first
is that my note taking must be better and more consistent. I need to plan my
time better and probably get down to the assignments earlier. This will be
especially important next year as I must make the most of Marion’ absence in
the States to get a good start on the work. It is also very easy to disappear
down rat holes, I would see an interesting article and read it, even if it was
not directly relevant to the subject at hand. It has also been a humbling
experience, I thought that I was knowledgeable about Victorian Railways, it
turns out that I had a high level of ignorance. I am aware that I have also
become very boring on the subject. Apologies to my family and friends.
What is worrying is that the bug has taken me over.
So today even as term finished I am looking forward to next term’s reading list
and topics being placed on-line, later this week. I can then get down to
exploring the more dusty corners of Amazon’s offerings.
