Long Awaited Update

With much happening, there has not been much opportunity to provide an update in the last months. Many items of work have been completed and many serious obstacles have been encountered with regard to workload and personal health.

To begin with however, is what has been covered to date. Since half term the Multimedia unit has been started with significant delay in both lectures and assignments proving to be a very uneventful and frankly dull unit so far and fast becoming my least favourite to date although assignment one has now been completed and assignment two is due to be set soon.

This has however, provided me with a major opportunity to seriously prioritise the course content. With the slow moving nature of multimedia, efforts have been more focused on the two units where work has been moving at a more acceptable rate. This has meant that work has been submitted and completed for networking and databases at a high standard with good results. However, this has also presented major problems to me personally and my personal health as a result of workload and short amounts of time between launch of an assignment and the first submission deadline for exceptionally large assignments meaning some work has not been completed to my personally desired standards.

This has resulted in a significant stress level resulting in some work falling behind schedule. In order to counter this, many prioritising lists have been drawn up on a regular basis identifying what work is due and when to help with time management. This has so far proved successful and has helped to reduce stress levels helping me to focus on pieces of work due in with a pressing deadline.

Despite this negative phase I am having, some good has come about from the much disrupted Web Design unit which has been marked to a Distinction which is much desired and a very pleasing result. Databases and Networks is not far behind this with a similar outcome expected after final marking.