Infinity Crash Lands

[Infinity.Creates]

Let me know if I've flubbed this opening, the forum has changed a touch in the hot second since I posted outside of anything but my Battle Log ( and even that was intermittent at best ).

 

But yes! I'm here, crash landing, thumbs up outside the crater hole I've left in the front yard. Half-way through a challenge, in the midst of changing things, but when aren't things changing and challenging?

My final essay is due on Friday (3k, 99% unwritten), which is mad to think about. I joined the forums when I was starting this uni business (in philosophy), and I'm less than a week off from finishing it (unless I go down the Master's route,  probably in Journalism, which is looking more and more plausible).

I've realised I'm non-binary (they/them pronouns y'all please), I've had an internship, I got fired from a different internship, I've been diagnosed with ADHD (real recent - only a couple weeks back, have yet to start titration for meds), I've had my first experience with counselling, I lost some weight, I put weight back on, I truly only leave the house once a month, I'm learning to code and pentest, I built myself a dice box for my dnd games, I'm halfway through a playthrough of every Assassin's Creed game, I -

 

Okay, summarising major things from the past three years but also just since I last posted (I have no idea when that was) is exceptionally hard. The dice box is the most recent and the one that I'm most proud of, but I can't wait until lockdown eases and I can go to a makerspace and laser cut some wood to make a more permenant version (I've found out about this thing called a living hinge that I really want to experiment with).

 

The essay, for anyone interested, is on exploring the critcisms of modernisation projects which sparked revolution in Iran and South Korea in the 1980s by comparing the books Shah of Shahs and The Old Garden. Fascinating stuff. I just do not have enough time to finish it and I am getting stressed, despite how interesting it is. Whether or not I get a first in this essay sort of determines whether or not I get a first in my degree because of how close to the border I've managed to do it. Oops.

 

Which all goes to say that I cannot make challenge goals for myself just yet, as I'm still climbing out the crater hole.

Once my essay is done, we shall see how it goes!

[fleaball]

Your essay sounds fascinating. I hope it goes well!

[Infinity.Creates]

On 4/14/2021 at 3:45 AM, fleaball said:

Your essay sounds fascinating. I hope it goes well!

 

Thanks! It's been interesting to read and prep for, it's just the getting it all written part now that's the slog :/ I'd share an excerpt if that wasn't against plagarism rules :P

But, 24 hours and it'll be gone out my mind! I think I'm going to celebrate with a full day of gaming? 👀

[Infinity.Creates]

Essay Submitted after modifying the question and procastinating on it until the literal last minute, but it is off into the obscurities of the marking system, and I didn't even have to pull a single all-nighter!

 

Insane to think that I'm now finished with uni tho. Still gonna stay in town with my flatmates to encourage them (one doesn't finish till the 27th May eeek), and work on my own proejcts and do some gaming and basically the same thing that I've been for the past year 😅

 

There are some thoughts to be had but I will probably process them in a year, for now I'm breathing out a sign of relief for my final long essay, and going to bed

[Jules Andromeda]

CONGRATULATIONS with finishing uni!    And the essay, too, of course.