Week Five!! (Oh my God it’s Week Five?!?!)

Today I learned two valuable things.

Number one: the fastest way to sweat out a hangover is to get up on a soapbox in front of over a hundred people and give a two minute speech on welfare systems you had to come up with for a fictional country.

Number two: I am apparently quite good at public speaking, even with hastily prepared notes and the aforementioned hangover.

Today myself and my group for Public Admin presented our poster on our LULITMI assignment (setting up a fictional country just come out of 100 years of hibernation) at the Marketplace of Ideas, an event run as part of the Limerick Spring Festival of Politics and Ideas. This presentation was the result of five weeks of working our butts off, and while at times it did feel a little like I was dragging my group along with me, I can honestly say today was worth it. We finish up with our fictional LULITMI citizens next week, and I can honestly say I will miss them just a little.

This week has been a full week of learning new things. Having studied journalism and media previously, there’s quite a bit on this course that I’m familiar with, but this week I learned HTML, InDesign, gender and power structures in early modern European courts, and that you cannot trust everyone in the library cafe because it will turn out that two of them are not students and they will steal your bag off your table while you go and queue for food. Thanks to a combination of eagle-eyed fellow students, the guards, and two lovely boys living in Elm Park, my bag and laptop were safely returned to me within three hours of being stolen. On the advice of an Garda Siochána, I shall be much more careful in future, and I have also bought a lotto ticket. Just in case.

Roll on Week Six!!

(Not for RAG week though, I’m too damn old for RAG week…)

Week Four!

Week Four is here and Oi Vey! have the assignments come on hard this semester. I do feel more on top of it this term though, I feel I’ve gotten back into the swing of being in full time education. Starting this degree is my first time back in education after five years, but I know I’ve made the right decision in doing this course.

I’ll admit this conviction has been tested with the group project for my Public Admin module… I’m loving the project outline, which is setting up the public service of an imaginary country, and I am LOVING the theme set for my group, which is setting up welfare services in said imaginary country. It’s all due by week six, and trying to get all the members of my group in one place and working together (I seem to have inadvertently become group leader) is like herding freaking cats but hey, it’ll all be over by week six!

(send help, I really may not make it that far…)

Me when the project is due next week and no one’s go their work for the poster in…

Everything else so far though, loving it all. History: on top of that essay question! Radio Journalism: got that radio package all pitched out! Sub editing and layout: gotta practice that but we good! Writing for new media: well, you tell me!