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I have been working on a thing for my sculpture class!
It’s based off of Thomas Dambo’s Isak Heartstone sculpture; part of the assignment was specifically to mimic another artist’s work.
I’ll put together a proper post once it’s finished! But I’m putting it on temporary hold for a few days to focus on other things, and I’m excited about what I’ve done so far, so here are a few progress images. :)
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I am so very close to done!! :D
My thesis is finished, revised, and published. Now I just have my final art project to finish by this afternoon.
HAH
I FINISHED
I mean
Sort of
I still have two art projects to finish and a few final exams to take?
But the art projects will be fun, and I’ll take exams over papers any day. So with the project that I finished tonight, the worst of it is over! :D
Finally worked up the nerve to contact my university about the possibility of setting up accommodations for take-home exams. Namely, making them *not* take-home and instead taken at a scheduled time at the testing center under supervision, please. It’ll be more complicated than that, but I offered some suggestions that are hopefully reasonable!
I don’t even know if it’ll be relevant? I might not end up taking a single other take-home exam before I graduate. I’ve only had like three in the past four and a half years. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But heck if I’m going to risk going through this on my own again, if I can help it.
Especially when I am apparently at risk of literally forgetting to do the exam when left to my own devices.
I mean seriously, I thought worrying about that possibility was just anxiety blowing what-ifs out of proportion but APPARENTLY NOT
/huffs
Anyway. If it was just the forgetting thing I might have brushed it off, I’m sure that’s happened to other folk.
But it’s also that talking myself into doing (long-answer) take home exams is like pulling teeth, forcing myself to keep working on them once I’ve started is also like pulling teeth, and even when I am somehow focusing I spend way more time and effort on my answers than I suspect (hope) the professors ever intended. Plus the fact that I feel 10 times more anxious about the whole thing than I ever feel about regular exams, because it feels too much like writing a paper and writing papers has gotten Bad these days.
....mmmyes.
Anyway.
That’s tonight’s vent / celebration of my choice to finally ask for help. :’)
In other news during a study session yesterday where I and one other student were the only ones who attended, the professor asked us how long the homework assignments usually took us. (He’s a kind soul and does a lot of work to check in with his students and make sure his class is both manageable and useful.)
The other student: “It varies a bit. One of the shortest took about 15 minutes, sometimes they take an hour.”
Me, hedging a bit: “I have focus issues, so for me it’s a bit more like one to two and a half hours.”
...what I would have said if I was being a bit more honest and talking about the amount of my day it took up rather than the amount of actual active work: “I have initiation issues, so it takes most of the day. Usually I can only get one or two things done in any given day, which is why I have been behind on assignments in nearly every class I’ve ever taken. Thank you for only assigning one thing a week.”
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Hnnnnnn I am very tired
Five hours of work later, and I have finally found a usable water chemistry dataset for a lake. Not even a specific lake. I was just looking for data from a lake, any freshwater lake. (Usable for my purposes means it has inorganic ion concentrations, temperature, alkalinity, and pH. Y’know. Fundamental water quality parameters.)
Was it from the USGS? The EPA? Nope. Either the databases available through those organizations don’t have that info, or I am fundamentally incapable of navigating them correctly right now. My bet’s honestly on the latter, but that doesn’t change the fact that they were useless to me at this current point in time with my current patience levels, time constraints, knowledge set, and site navigation skills.
Anyway, thank you Vermont state government. Your data might be questionably organized and labeled, and it might have file formats that are mislabeled and as such make me HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS, but at this point I’ll take what I can get.
Just two things left! :D :D
One of them is due tonight and it’s a large project I haven’t started yet and is probably gonna kick my ass.
But the other is an exam tomorrow afternoon that I have almost 0 concerns about.
Either way, I’m almost done! *victory dance*
Welp. I’m pretty sure that was about the worst I’ve done on a test in... a very long time. Several years at least.
It’s not surprising, because a) I never succeeded in dragging myself into studying for more than about 30 minutes total, and b) complete failure on the time management / impulse control front lead to me not even finishing all of the problems that I *did* know how to do, but...
Bleh. Not a great feeling. Even if it is self-inflicted.
