summer holidays are for iced coffee and modern classics

had a busy library day today, tried to motivate myself by fully embracing some kind of warm autumnal academia spin off🍂🥀

back at my uni house! so good to be back and getting lots more work done, which is a relief since exams are nearly here! newcastle weather means blue skies one minute and heavy rain the next, but i’m enjoying being able to go for walks more often than last term now the evenings are warmer and lighter🌸

🌱🌸module selection for stage three is creeping up, so i spent most of yesterday trying to wrap my head around the very specific regulations and pick modules to balance my credits properly! finally managed to put together a balance that will work and i’m so excited for preregistration to go ahead, there are some great options that i’m so excited to take!!🌸🌱

ive had a nice little break between deadlines which has given me a chance to really focus on my last exam of the year, for my soviet experiment module. i’d always take a coursework style essay over an exam (even open book like this one will be), but at least getting a choice of questions means i get to pick the areas to focus on in revision. as you can tell (if you can read my handwriting), i tend to be drawn to social histories more than anything else, so i’m hoping some good questions come up!

exams are coming up!! spent most of today enjoying the sun (16° and sunny in england in april?? practically barbecue weather) and drawing up a plan of the next few months until the end of the semester to help visualise how long i have until deadlines. naturally this stressed me out so i spent an hour or two looking at past papers and guidance for one of my exams to feel a bit more prepared! how are other people feeling about exams?