Feeling a bit flat now. I've found the final arrangements for submission quite frustrating.
We were originally told submission was Tuesday 16 May for essay and report. So some of us (me and Gareth) booked our respective holidays for 20-27 May. Then in early May we are told the essay hand in will be 25 May! Gareth and I carried on working for 16 May deadline, to submit both. Then on 10 May, our essay tutor Joseph asks to see our essays (no tutorials offered before this!) "so we can take on board feedback and make amendments"!. Neither of us were prepared to do this - as far as we are concerned, our work is finished. Gareth sent a copy to Joseph and his feedback was "awesome". I sent mine and cannot remember what he said - something very brief.
The day before hand-in Gareth arranged our room, and ensured we had enough tables to lay out work, set them out to accommodate all of us. He worked very hard and I was very grateful - saved me a lot of energy and back pain!
The day of submission, Tuesday, was its usual shambles, but turned out ok. I was first to class, so managed to get a favourable position - at the back of the class, so people entering the room saw my wooden piece "This is not a blue drawing" from a distance, to best effect.
At this masters level, we are meant to be self-evaluating our work. I think mine will be assessed between 60-69%. It's quite good, and there is a lot of research, but I'm not getting the analysis robust enough. And the supporting exercises that we do in class, just don't focus on what I am interested in, and are very unstructured. We had an exercise looking at different venues to display work - and I'm not sure I want to exhibit my work; and another exercise about utopian venues - and I don't believe in utopia.
I would have liked a briefing session before the end of term, so I could get started on the final module's work, but it looks like we don't meet up again until 8 June.
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