High School & Reading Week

Hey,

So I was over in Holyrood High on Thursday night working a career fair there. It was the most successful one yet - there were a lot of really interested (and nice!) students looking to apply to the GSA. They must have a really supportive art department. It's nice to see the enthusiasm I remember having when I wanted to apply to art school. Always brings home how fortunate I am.

What else has been happening? I ended up buying a camcorder (in SO much debt now hehe) but split it halfers with my friends so its not too bad. Still got to do my dissection though! My friend Theresa (I share a studio space with her) is a biologist so she's offered to help me get into the chambers and stuff properly so I'm well chuffed! Try to get it recorded tomorrow.

So I've spent the weekend being totally in love with my new laptop which I was funded for by SAAS as I qualified for a Disabled Students Allowance because Im dyslexic. I'm so impressed by new machine (not to mention SAAS's policy on helping out people with disabilities in higher education).

Next week is reading week in the school but instead of getting some reading done for my essay which is due on March 19th, I'm going to dedicate my time to finalising and preparing my work for assessment which starts on Monday 23rd February. This term the work isn't graded, you just present your work to the tutors and talk them through it and they give you verbal feedback. I'm quite glad but at the same time quite gutted because I feel like I might actually get an acceptable grade this term (might even manage to push up to a low B!) But I'm not going to let myself get that optimistic!

Also, on Tuesday night I've volunteered to deliver a presentation with a current fourth year painting student to a group of students from Airdrie High (I think) at their exhibition opening. Im quite looking forward to it - Just need to buckle down and get a rough presentation draughted up with Michael. So a busy week ahead!