tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54154791087501491202024-03-28T06:58:28.639+00:00KeltyPGCE PrimaryUniversity of Greenwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879701446496502511noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415479108750149120.post-13967127405417656152013-10-25T10:33:00.000+01:002013-10-25T10:38:56.178+01:00Well it’s been a while…<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="line-height: 18.18181800842285px;">Okay, so I know it’s been a while since I've last blogged (okay a LONG while) but it’s honestly not my fault!! Lots has been happening since I last updated you all, and I promiseeee that over the course of the next two blogs I shall update you soooo much you’ll be sick of me by the end of it :P (well I hope you won’t actually be sick…but you know what I mean :P).</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.18181800842285px;">Okay, sooo, after I finished my degree I started looking for jobs pretty much straight away. I think I averaged applying for about 10-15 jobs per day, and I literally must of only heard back from about 2% of those :(. It did get really disheartening after a while, as I worked so hard throughout my degree to get my First, and I tried to work as many jobs alongside it as well to try and build up my experience, yet I still wasn't hearing back from jobs I was more than qualified to do :(. I did hear back from two jobs though, the first was an amazing PhD Scholarship at the University of West London, in my specialist field of eyewitness testimony! It was such a great opportunity, but unfortunately it was offering too little money for me to live on (£7000 a year!!) so even though I didn't get the job/scholarship in the end I wasn't too upset as due to financial circumstances I would have probably had to turn it down anyway. </span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.18181800842285px;">The other job I interviewed for was for an equally amazing job at the prestigious Anna Freud Centre. I was a bit surprised that I actually got an interview for this position as I only applied by mistake lol :P!! Basically, I thought I was applying for a Research Assistant Job (for which I was qualified), but I accidentally applied for a Senior Research Assistant position (which I definitely was NOT qualified for), I rectified it straight after and applied for the lower down position, but I strangely only heard back about the Senior position. I went along to the interview for the senior job anyway (despite knowing I wasn't qualified), as I thought it would be good experience (and I would recommend you guys go to as many interviews you get as its all practice!), but despite the interview going very well, I unfortunately didn't get that job either in the end :( The interview team were really nice though, and they gave me such good feedback which I intend to utilise within my future interviews, but they said I was the only one that they interviewed which didn't have a PhD so they had to go with the more experienced candidate. As rejection reasons go, I’d say that’s not a bad one :P</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.18181800842285px;">So after trying miserably to get a Psychology job for months and months, it got to the point where I was starting to panic about my future, as my job working in the Enquiry Unit was due to finish September/October time, and I was really getting worried about paying rent after that :(. Soooo long story short, I decided to take a change of pace and get into teaching. Whilst Psychology is (and always will be) my one true passion, teaching is something which has always interested me and was something I planned to do much later on in my life (think mid-fourties, grey hair, kids, etc…that kind of later on), due to me not having much luck in the Psychology field job-wise, I decided to move my teaching aspirations forward a couple of decades LOL. </span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.18181800842285px;">And that’s what I've been doing for the last two months :P it’s going really well so far, and I’m about to start my massive 8 week placement in a few weeks, but as I can already see this blog is dragging on a bit, I think I’ll leave all of my training-teacher tales for my next blog (which I’m going to write really soon, PROMISE), I’ll also talk you through the process of applying for the PGCE as well as my tips for tackling those damn Skills Tests, so hopefully that’ll be of use to some of you :P</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 18.18181800842285px;">But for now, I wish you adieu :)</span><br />
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University of Greenwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879701446496502511noreply@blogger.com299tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415479108750149120.post-62459290128090886672013-04-29T15:04:00.002+01:002013-05-02T14:00:50.077+01:00Dissertationnnnnnnnnnnn (part two) :)<span style="color: #3d85c6;">So here it is, as promised, the second part of my dissertation blog, designed to give you an insight into what a psychology dissertation is really like!! I’ll focus my next blog more on personal thingy and how me submitting my dissertation went :)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">So last time I finished off by talking about applying for ethical approval, so once you been granted ethical approval, you are then able to start conducting your study.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Depending on your design of your study/when you get the approval you may be able to start collecting data straight away. A few of my friends opted to do online studies, as then once they had set up their questionnaire online they could just Facebook/tweet/email the link over, and those that got approval early managed to start in summer and get lots of participants very quickly!! Although one con associated with doing an online study, as those that were conducting studies specifically using student participants found it slightly more difficult, as getting the students to actually complete it did prove challenging especially if the questionnaire was quiet lengthy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Alternatively you can go down the traditional route of booking a lab, and inviting participants, through the participation scheme, to book a time to come down and complete the study. Although again, this can be slightly problematic, especially in term two, as there always seems to be a shortage of willing first years to complete the studies. However, if you do get your ethical approval quickly you’ll be able to have access to booking the labs sooner, and subsequently make an earlier start on collection (notice a theme here :P the EARLIER THE BETTER!!)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Although to address some of the problems people experience this year in terms of data collection the lecturers are now looking at ways to promote participation in order to make it easier for students to collect their data, so hopefully by the time you guys need it it’ll be easier :).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Now once you have your data, they next step is inputting it and analysing it. If you did it online you’ll probably be using a programme called qualtrics, which very handily allows you to extract the data to SPSS without much difficulty.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Whereas, if you've collected your data by hand (questionnairres etc…) you’re going to have to input it on SPSS yourself…This really isn't as tricky as most people think, especially if it’s just a standard questionnaire. Say for example it had 5 questions, the easier way to input it would be to label the columns in SPSS as follows: participant number, participant code, gender (dummy coded, 0 &1) age, and then Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4 and Q5. The participant number would just start at 1, and then each participant after would be 2, then 3, then 4 etc…as by adding this extra column whatever you do to your data, you still have a way to quickly sort it back to its original format. Just remember to save it at every possible moment, as SPSS is notoriously unreliable and with crash and erase your data without notice…you have been WARNED :P</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Once you have all your data nicely inputted the next stage is the analysis. This is the part which strikes fear into the heart of many, as soooo many people don’t realise that statistics plays a large part in psychology. I was fortunate as I have always liked maths (the geek that I am :P) but I know this is the part that most people in my year struggled with.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Your supervisor is always on hand to help if you’re not sure about anything, but they do prefer it if you at least attempt it yourself first. My top tips to make this section a breeze is to first of all find the appropriate test for your data. To do this you’ll need to know what your IV and DV is/are and whether the are categorical (e.g. female/male, yes/no etc.) or continuous (e.g. IQ). Once you know this you can use handy little websites like this: http://www.whichtest.info/ which can help give an indication of what statistics you need to run :)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Once you know that, the BEST thing you could do is to refer to a really good statistics book!!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">The other book which most of my lecturers recommended throughout my three years was this one:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">By Andy Field, which is a really good overall statistics book, (with a few amusing anecdotes) and quiet a lot of my friends found it a great help :) </span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">I was also contacted a few months ago by a lovely gentleman who has also written a psychology book and was kind enough to send me a copy of it to read:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Unfortunately due my super strict spam filter I only received the email the other day, but thoroughly enjoyed reading the book and it does also have some really good tips on statistics (amongst other things) if you want to give it a read :)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">So, once you've done your statistics, you can move on to the write up. This pretty much follows the same layout as every single lab report you would have had to do in first and second year, so I won’t go into too much detail :P but I will say make sure you read the guidelines/marking criteria, just so you don’t lose marks over stupid little errors!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">But yeahhhhhh, that’s my explanation to writing a psychology dissertation! I hope it has helped at least one of you!! If you have any questions feel free to leave a comment and I’ll get back to you as soon as :)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Byeeeeeeeeeee xx</span>University of Greenwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879701446496502511noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415479108750149120.post-64831925948501896992013-03-26T09:24:00.000+00:002013-04-11T17:44:12.403+01:00Dissertationnnnn (part one)<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sorry for the delay in getting this blog to you guys, I've been swamped with my dissertation, which coincidentally is the topic of this blog :). I've touched on what this involves before but I've never really gone into detail about what is expected from a psychology dissertation, so here it is :)</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s important to note that what I'm talking about here only applies to what I've had to do this year for my project but it may change in the years to come. Also in psychology they refer to the dissertation as 'final year project' and those terms are used interchangeably though out both the course and this blog :).</span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The beginning of the process actually starts towards the end of second year. Within the research methods module, we had a mini presentation from the psychology lecturers who explained a little about the past research they've conducted and what their main areas of interests are. From this it's normally pretty obvious who you’re going want as your supervisor and you can then set up an appointment with them to discuss your ideas for your project before officially requesting them as your supervisor.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few weeks later you have to submit a form detailing a rough outline of your project and who your first and second choice of supervisor would be. They usually try to accommodate your first choice as much as possible, but sometimes they can't, hence the reason behind also selecting a second </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">choice.</span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My top tip would be to pick a research area that you're really REALLY interested in, as it really does help you, in term of motivation, if you're genuinely interested in it, otherwise working on your project can begin to seem like a chore! Additionally, it's always a good idea to pick your supervisor based on their research area, rather than which lecturer you get on best with. It may seem silly but lots of people have done it in the past and then struggled in terms of finding previous research as their supervisor isn't familiar with the research topic they've chosen. Obviously having a good balance of the two is the ideal situation :)!</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For me making this choice was pretty straight forward, as where I had done research work in the past, into face recognition and eyewitness testimony, I was pretty set on having this as the topic for my dissertation. There was only one main lecturer who specialised in this area, so everything sort of fell into place for me :)</span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next aspect of the dissertation is getting ethical approval, and this process is slightly more complicated as what it involves varies depending on what you're doing for your project and the risks associated with it. Unlike most other university courses, a psychology dissertation isn't just writing a loooong essay, it actually involves designing and conducting a piece of research, then analysing the results before writing it all up. Because this process involves the testing of participants, you need to get ethical approval before you're allowed to begin.</span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As previously mentioned this process can vary greatly. The majority of projects only need to get approval from the department's ethic board, but if it involves some sort of risk, or is intended to be conducted on 'vulnerable' people such as children under 16, this needs additional approval before it can be given the green light to go ahead.</span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In order to get ethical approval, you need to provide a project summary, risk assessment form, and the actual ethics forms themselves. As well as those, you also need to provide copies of all the forms and measures you intend to use within your study, such as information and consent form, debrief from, and all your questionnaires. (It’s not as easy as it sounds, trust me :p)</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This year there were numerous opportunities to submit your ethics forms, starting in July right though till like October. My advice, GET. THEM. IN. EARLY. I really really can't stress that point enough, and you have no excuse not too as you have the wholeeeeeee summer to work on them!</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I managed to submit mine late August, which meant when September rolled around and all the new first year students started I was able to swoop in and collect the majority of my data before September was even finished. Where as some people I know left it till like the last submission date and they're still struggling to collect data now, even though our project is actually due in 3 weeks!! The problem with submitting later on in the year is that the majority of people's projects involve getting the first and second year psychology students to participate in the studies and after a few months of doing all of the third years' projects they just get bored and don't want to do anymore!! So try to submit your ethics as soon as possible and you shouldn't have a problem.</span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lastly, once you submit your ethics you'll get it sent back to you with some type of pass. Either it'll pass straight away (very rare), or be sent back with a conditional pass (most common) which just means you need to make a few minor changes, normally it's just things like spelling or correct layout/format etc and your supervisor can just sign off these changes without it having to go to the board again. OR it could come back rejected, which means major changes need to be made, and it need to be resubmitted again before it'll get approved.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mine luckily came back with conditional changes, as I needed to change the term 'participant number' to 'participant code' and correct one of my questionnaires as the last question got cut off when I formatted it, so luckily they were simple to change, and tbh as long as you put the work in before hand, the majority of them come back like that :).</span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wow, I actually can’t believe how much I've written, and I’m not even halfway through talking about the dissertation!! Well done if you've managed to read all of that so far, but I think I’ll have to leave it there for now, and in my next blog I'll continue talking about the dissertation, particularly more about the actual testing procedure and write up of it :)</span></span><br />
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nice but slightly stressful as the weather decided it </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">didn't</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> want to cooperate and
snowed heaps the day before. This meant that one of my best friends Caitlin,
who was coming up from Cardiff, got completely snowed in so she </span></span><span style="color: #00b050;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">couldn't</span></span><span style="color: #00b050; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> make
it in the end :(. My mum </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">wasn't</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> very well at the time either so there was only
a few of us there, although it was still good fun :) so not all bad!! To make
up for it, Caitlin came up a couple of weeks later, and the two of us, plus my
other best friend Denise, had a day out in Bluewater instead :). It was really
good as we managed to get free tickets to see Wreck it Ralph, which was
actually really really good, despite Denise’s insistence that it </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">wouldn't</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> be.
And then we went to TGI’s for a meal, which was yummy, but it </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">wasn't</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> as nice as
the previous times </span><span style="line-height: 18px;">I've</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> been as they were super busy and we only got our starter
halfway through our main!! Luckily I had a couple of vouchers with me (as
always) so we got the starter and a dessert each for free, which did soften the
blow after the long waiting time!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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A few weeks ago, my colleagues in the Enquiry
Unit held a bake sale to raise money for the British Heart Foundation. Some of
us made cakes to be sold, and the others just paid to eat them instead, I did
both and probably ate more cakes then I actually made, but it was all for a
good cause (or that’s what I’m telling myself anyway! :D) overall we managed to
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this year :) my boyfriend and I decided to go out on the Tuesday instead to
avoid paying the ridiculous amount they charged on the actual day. It was
really good though :) we went to my favvvvvourite Turkish restaurant (the same
one I went to for my birthday) and had lots of yummy food :) I also got some
lovely surprise presents, such as an orchid and a back massager. So I was happy
bunny indeed :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you had a good valentine’s day :) My next blog is going to be more
academiccccc, promise!! Talk to you laterrrrr x<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Now these are, as the name implies, free :) which definitely makes it one of my
favourite money saving tips! These freebies aren't enough to live on, but they
certainly help provide a treat or two along the way!! The majority of freebies
I tend to get the most are kindle e-books, cinema tickets and, most enjoyably,
food :D. These freebies are usually gained in one of two ways; either you enter
your details and get sent the freebie (by post or electronically), or you get
given a voucher to print out to exchange for the free products. You'll be
surprised at just how much companies are willing to give away to help promote
their products, especially around the holidays (Xmas/valentine’s day etc.). For
example, last Christmas, Pringles (the crisp not the clothing brand :P) had
this advent calendar on Facebook, and every day you could open a ‘can’ and
potentially win a prize...I did it most days whilst on the bus as it literally
took 2 seconds to do, and as a result I won a variety of prizes including a
Pringles speaker, a £10 iTunes voucher and an e-book voucher (to buy books for
my kindle with). All of which came in very handy...not bad for a couple of
minutes work, eh?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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freebies I've got recently include: Christmas tree anti drop spray, a Brother
Cider sports bag, £25 organic mini skin care starter kit, £20 train fare
vouchers, 80 drink aware plastic cups (which went to the cheerleading club) £30
worth of takeaway, XXL BBQ papa johns pizza, Thornton’s chocolate Santas, 15ml
Lacoste perfume, mini speakers, free cinema tickets to see: The Hobbit, Les
Miserables, life of pi, I give it a year, and the list goes on and on….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you get the wrong idea or anything, these things weren't gained by spending
hours and hours searching for them (I don't have time for that :p); all I would
do, when I was bored in lectures or on the bus, was quickly browse Facebook and
see posts about these things via bargain pages like '10 ways to have more money
as a student', or the company's facebook page directly, put in my details, and
voila free stuff!! It really is as easy as that and anyone can do it!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Bromley a little bit too early for the cinema, so decided to look around the
shops for a bit. Since neither of us had much money we decided to see how much
we could get for free in the space of like 20 minutes...the results are below:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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things were gained by signing up to their Facebook site/using the codes on O2
priority moments! Again, not bad for 20 minutes work! These went down perfectly
when we went to the cinema/restaurant...(where coincidently the restaurant had
a 50% off deal on).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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moving on to the updates about meeeee (I'll stick to the academic updates for
now, and I'll do the personal stuff in my next blog, promiseeeeeee)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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term is well and truly underway and although I only have 2 lecture/seminars
this term (Law and Psychology and Advance Statistics) it seems like I'm busier
than ever!! I think it's because I have the ever present thought of my
dissertation looming over my head! My draft is due in in a mere few weeks and I
still have soooo much to do in terms of the write up!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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courses are going okay though, the Law and Psychology module is really
interesting and ties in with my dissertation really well as we're currently
looking a lot at the unreliability of eye witness testimony. Advanced
Statistics is okayy, it's kind of been a repeat of what we did in second year
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yeahhhh, that's all I have time for now!! In a while, crocodilessss x<o:p></o:p></span></div>
University of Greenwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879701446496502511noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415479108750149120.post-57725559276925225792013-02-01T09:51:00.000+00:002013-02-01T17:25:57.360+00:00MONEY again :)<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Following on from the theme of my last blog, regarding
budgeting I decided to write this one about my top money saving tips!! One of
the main things you’ll hear students go on about is having no money, yet very
few are actually savvy about how they spend it. I know I wasn't in the beginning either, yet
after some family problems, money began to get really tight for us and so I
began to look for ways to save money wherever possible, and now I've decided to
share them with youuuuu :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These are really really handy if you like to eat out a lot,
as just by going for one meal a week can cost anywhere from £50-£70 a month
depending on where you go. Yet a lot of the big chains frequently have special
offers on where if you just print out the vouchers and hand them over, you can
instantly cut a huge chunk of your bill! These can include, BOGOF, 50% or a
cheaper set menu. Most of the biggest chains such as Pizza Express, Zizzis, GBK
etc. offer the biggest discounts and have now expanded to using mobile phone
apps, so in some cases you don’t even need to print out the vouchers!! This was
particularly handy the other day when my friend and I had planned to go to a
restaurant (and had a voucher for it) but when we got there, it had a sign in
the window saying they had unexpectedly closed early for the day and so we were
stuck as neither one of us could really afford to pay full price for a meal…we
then luckily went onto the o2 priority app and they had an offer on there for
Zizzi, where you could get two courses for £10.95, so I got a calamari starter
(£5.95) and steak and mushroom salad (£11.95) for the bargain price of £10.95,
saving me a grand total of £6.95 :) woooo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you a certain amount off an item or gets you the item for free, and you hand
these over at the checkout (usually in supermarkets) and they take it off the
money for you. I love to use these but many of my friends feel
ashamed/embarrassed to use them, sometimes because they’re worried about what
the cashier thinks….Having worked in a supermarket before I can honestly tell
you they really don’t care…In an average 3 hour shift I used to serve anywhere
from 100-150 people and I would struggle to remember a single one….As long as
you’re not stupid with them and try and use 100 of them etc they really don’t
mind. You can often find these in supermarket leaflets/newsletters (or in
certain supermarkets such as Sainsburys they give them out at the till) and
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be surprised just how much money you save just by doing a quick Google search.
Like for example, I was shopping in Dorothy Perkins and they had these gorgeous
boots which I fell in love with, but unfortunately they were out of my size and
suggested I buy them online…So I went online added them to my basket, added my
student discount which took 15% off, then I did a quick Google search for
‘Dorothy Perkins codes’ and like the third or fourth vouchercode site down had
a 20% off + free delivery code which saved me an extra £10!! Not bad for a few
minutes searching :D so every time you’re about to buy something online, if you
just do a quick search and if you find something it can save you money, and if
not all </span></span><span style="line-height: 18px;">you've</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> wasted is a couple of minutes of your time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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common sense but you’ll be surprised just how many people don’t do some of
these things. And these tips will definitely
save you some money, especially you were planning on buying certain things
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involve talking about another money saving tip… FREEBIES :D as well as various
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University of Greenwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879701446496502511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415479108750149120.post-89882278965106345952013-01-10T09:15:00.001+00:002013-01-10T09:15:17.958+00:00Money, money MONEYYY!! <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What with it being Christmas and all, money was even tighter for me than usual :( and I know the same also applies to my fellow students! Never underestimate when a student says “WE ARE POOR!” as it is so true!! As a student, you are lulled into a false sense of security with a hefty sum of “free money”, but once you take out things like rent, bills and travel, what you’re left with is often JUST enough to cover the essentials like food and nights out! And being a uni student is totally different than being in sixth-form/college, as you have to pay for more!!! When I was in sixth form, I got free bus travel, free medical prescriptions, free eye checks/glasses, free dentist visits, as well as getting my £30 EMA from the government each week….what do I get out of that list now?! Nothing. NADA. :’(<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">So my advice? Budget and get a job! As you all know I work for my university in the Enquiry Unit – getting a job for the university has been ideal for me, as the work is term-time and fits around my university schedule. In addition, as it is a university job, the manager is very understanding about exams and coursework deadlines, so it provides some degree of flexibility if I desperately need time off. This is a luxury you may not get working for an external organisation, so if you’re looking to earn a bit of money while you study it is definitely worth taking a look at what your university has to offer (the pay is often better too :P).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It’s also useful working within the university, as you gain a deeper insight into the university as a whole; as just a student it is easy to become detached from some university affairs. Working at the Enquiry Unit has allowed be to become very familiar with the university’s website and intranet, and I feel more involved with the university’s policies and activities as they not only affect my academic life, but my pay too!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">So third year is still proving to be quiet challenging…but it hasn’t got too overwhelming as of yet!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’m really enjoying my Social Psychology module, but there is just so much information to take in, and the only assessment we have for this is an essay worth 100% of our grade! So I’m worried if I get it wrong, this module could really bring down my overall marks!! :/<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were giving the chance to complete a practice essay though if we wanted too, which I did, so I’m hoping I’ll get some useful feedback from this which (fingers crossed) might help me improve my skills in time for the real essay.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">One of my other modules, Exceptional Human Experiences is equally interesting, but for some reason this module is turning me into a bit of a sceptic. I have always had a keen interest in all things supernatural but after hearing various different accounts of people seeing spirits, having out of body experiences and people who believe they have supernatural powers, I really have started to question the authenticity of it all. I thought this course would have done the opposite of this, but regardless, it is still a really interesting module and I think I’m just going to have to put aside my scepticism and approach it with an open mind as I want to come across impartial in my essays. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">My last module of this term is Positive Psychology, where a key area of this branch of psychology, mainly focuses on how to improve people’s happiness and wellbeing through the use of positive psychological interventions. One of our assignments is a reflective account, and requires us to complete some of these interventions and assess whether we think they actually improve our own happiness. The one I recently did is called ‘Three Good Things’ where each night you have to write down three good things which have happened to you that day, and explain why you think they happened…at first it was fairly easy to do to as I wrote about bigger things but after a while it began getting more difficult and I started <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>writing things like ‘I got the early bus to work and wasn’t late’ and then eventually I just couldn’t think of anything to write on a daily basis so I gave up :P I’m not sure whether it did make me happier or not as I didn’t really notice a different, so I’ll see whether any of the other interventions have a more noticeable effect and keep you updated, although feel free to try this one for yourself and see how you get on!!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Finally, my third year project is really coming along. I have finished collecting/entering all of my data now, and have analysed it, although only half of my data was found to be significant :(, It’s better than nothing I suppose, but it still wasn’t the result I was looking for. I am now in the process of writing it all up ready for the draft submission, so fingers crossed I’ll have the majority of it out of the way before January!!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Anyways, that’s all for now folks :) take care x<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
University of Greenwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879701446496502511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415479108750149120.post-51832769907354279802012-10-18T16:03:00.000+01:002012-10-22T16:03:52.592+01:00Talk about thrown in at the deep end…<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Considering I thought second year was hectic, that’s nothing compared to how third year has been so far!!! I mean the majority of the 'hecticness' is down to me, as the modules themselves aren’t too bad at the moment as they’re mainly introductory lectures, what’s really hectic is my dissertation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both myself and my project supervisor thought it would be a good idea to get the data collection out of the way as soon as possible, which is a great idea in theory as it gives me longer to do the analysis and the write up, but in practice it’s very stressful!! I’ve managed to get about 100 participants so far, and just literally need a handful more before I can start attempting to sort out the data, which is a lot easier said than done, considering each participant has had to complete about 8 separate forms each!! It’ll definitely be a great relief once I get it out of the way and can focus on the assignments I have for my other courses!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">One point which I can stress enough to any potential psychology students is to plan your project well ahead of when you actually need to!! So many of my friends have yet to do their ethical approval forms, and some haven’t even thought of an idea for their projects yet! This is going to put them at a major disadvantage when it comes to next year and they’re still desperately trying to get participants to take part in their project in time for the deadline!! It also helps to pick a topic in an area you’re most interested in as this motivates you to actually want to work on it and do well on it, rather than it feeling like something which you HAVE to do.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As I said before, the modules haven’t been too bad so far as they’re just easing us in at the moment. In the exceptional human experience course, my lecturer managed to successfully freak us out by picking my friend at random using a number game and proceeding to accurately describe her house…it did turn out that it was all a set up and he was actually using google maps to know what it looked like, but he was a good actor and certainly had me convinced for a bit that he had some supernatural powers or something!! <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKDVIrpN2zrvykn0JFlsDTglqJQMB2itSQ72Gbo9p-FPaMp5sFbeF0XUGn_HOm73j1fh8AfTrBAt9sNlEbIms_VRJ1NpPORr6F_taDjzGc9sbrE7N89eGwcatCRXSmDHa2cvkrB15axZY6/s1600/welle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" oea="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKDVIrpN2zrvykn0JFlsDTglqJQMB2itSQ72Gbo9p-FPaMp5sFbeF0XUGn_HOm73j1fh8AfTrBAt9sNlEbIms_VRJ1NpPORr6F_taDjzGc9sbrE7N89eGwcatCRXSmDHa2cvkrB15axZY6/s200/welle.jpg" width="141" /></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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University of Greenwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879701446496502511noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415479108750149120.post-42277684197414239042012-09-07T12:07:00.002+01:002012-09-07T12:07:30.891+01:00And so the final year begins….<br />
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but I’m excited so I’m jumping the gun a little bit with my preparation :p</span></div>
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the reasons you might think either, as I’m not so much nervous about the
course, or my dissertation or anything like that, I’m more nervous about what
me completing my degree actually means. Namely that I’m one step closer to
graduating and having to pick what I could potentially be doing for the rest of
my life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I think I’ve managed to narrow down my choices now though; to either
doing a primary PGCE as teaching is an area which has long held an interest for
me. Or applying for a full time research assistant job with the University. A
almost perfect job came up yesterday, and I met all the requirements for it and
I got so happy and started filling out the application form and everything,
until my colleague pointed out I had read it wrong, and instead of starting in
September 2013, the job actually runs until then :( meaning that I’m not
eligible to do it as I still have one year left of my degree :(. Apart from
being gutted about that, it has given me slightly more hope though that a job
like this may actually be possible when I graduate!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in to third year. Seeing the freshers get all excited about coming to
university brings back so many memories of me starting 2 years ago, and it really
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already!! Time has gone so so quickly!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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first time that all the subjects I’m doing are of my own choosing :D . In my
first term I am going to be doing: Positive psychology, Exceptional human
experiences and Social Psychology 3. And then in the second term I’m doing Law
and Psychology and Advanced Statistics! :D I’m pretty excited about all of the
courses to be fair, but I think the Law and Psychology one is going to be the
most interesting as it’ll tie in with the subject of my dissertation and the research work I’ve been doing :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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technically its as ‘third year project’, but hardly anyone knows what I mean
when I say that, so dissertation is just easier :P. In psychology the third
year project means you have to pick an area of psychology which you’re
interesting in and then come up with a research question and design a study to
test it :) I’m happy with how mine is going at the moment, I have completed my
ethics and just waiting for ethical approval now :) and I’ve done my first
draft of my introduction and method, which is all I can really do for now until
I actually conduct my study :( but its something at least!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Anyways that’s all for now, I’ll be sure to keep you updated with all
the goings on of my third year :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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University of Greenwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879701446496502511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415479108750149120.post-1087851204903913432012-07-19T14:57:00.001+01:002012-07-19T14:57:21.413+01:00GOALS UPDATED- 2 and a half down, a half to go (plus a new one added) :P<br />
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of things have happened since then!! Previously I wrote a blog about my short
term goals for the future and I’m happy to report I have achieved almost all of
them :D<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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:D I know it’s only my second year but it still counts for 25% of my grades and
since second year is the hardest in Psychology, I feel a bit more confident
going in to my third year… :D<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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possible…this one I’ve only half completed as I passed my theory test, despite
my horrendous lack of revision, although the Hazard Perception part of it was quite
hard….So the last thing I need to do in order to complete this goal is to take
my practical test, which is currently booked for the 13th August (less than 4
weeks away, eeeek). I’m not too worried about the actual test as I feel quite
confident about how my driving is coming along, but what worries me is the fact
I’m doing it at 8.05 in the morning so they’ll be a lot of traffic on the roads
at that time and there’s 3 roundabouts on the route I need to do :( so we’ll
seeee :(<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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position of senior clearing officer at the Enquiry unit, which I’m really happy
about. I was confident going into the interview (maybe a bit too confident),
but after the few tests we had to do I started to really doubt whether I would
actually get it or not…I’m the sort of person that panics about every test I
take whether it’s really simple or like a big exam for university or something,
I slowly attempting to learn to have a bit more faith in my abilities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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decided to set myself a new one…possibly my hardest one yet…but my goal is to
lose two stone by the time summer is over. I say it’s going to be hard because
there is always food in this office!! Especially over Clearing, where everyone
brings in some form of goodies, be it cakes or crisps or chocolate or some
other tempting treats…and it’s so hard to resist when it’s staring you in the
face!!! When you combine me working in the office for the last year with my
love for food and the fact the netball season has been over for a while now,
you begin to realise how I’ve managed to put on TWO whole stone in less than 10
months :( sob sob…I know it’s my own fault really…but I really am going to try and
do something about it this summer (or what passes as a summer in this
country)!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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year options….I mentioned previously that I got all the options for my third
year that I wanted, but now I’m wondering whether to change one of them or not
:/ I really do like all the options I’ve chosen at the moment, but I did really
well on my statistics exams, and to be honest I didn’t really find the exam or
the course particularly hard, so now I’m wondering since I seem to be good at
it, whether it would make more sense for me to take it for third year instead
of the mental health module which I have no experience in whatsoever… I spoke
to my course leader about it and he said since the module is in the second term
I have until Christmas to make my decision….which gives me plenty of time to
think I guess…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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now completely finished for the summer, so I’m working full time in the Enquiry
Unit at the moment, and I’m still doing my research work in the evenings and
weekends, so hopefully by the time I start back at Uni in September I might
ACTUALLY be out of my overdraft (for once!).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I have heard lately is goals….goals made in football….career goals…personal
goals…goals goals goals…I suppose I wouldn’t have noticed much if only I had
goals of my own….I mean I have short term goals, but in terms of my career when
I leave Uni, I literally have no idea. The thing about a Psychology degree is
that it is so versatile that it provides the starting point for numerous
careers, which I used to think was a good thing, until I realized I had no idea
what I actually want to do with my life once I complete my degree. Sometimes I
envy people doing degrees such as Nursing, as they have such a clear path they
can follow, and although they can branch off, ultimately they’re still going to
be a nurse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I have been
considering a few careers paths, the first is teaching, which would involve me
doing a PGCE in lifelong learning (psychology), and is only a year long and the
money is good…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">My third
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<span lang="EN-US">So yeahhhh,
four very different career options and I have absolutely NO idea which one of these,
(if any) that I want to pursue…for now I guess I’m just going to have to
continue with my degree in the hopes that one day I have a sudden epiphany and
realise what I actually want to do with the rest of my life….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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do have a few short term goals to be getting on with for the time being…the
first (and probably the most pressing) is to pass both my theory and practical
driving test in quick succession…it is so depressing having a car yet not being
able to drive it…although on the flip side I still need another pay day before
I can even afford to insure it, so perhaps it’s a good thing I haven’t passed
yet :P ANYWAY I have my theory this week and I am yet to even begin revising
(Silly I know) but I will revise…soon…well at some point anyway :P <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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goal is to get a first this year (and my degree overall) although this is
probably the least pressing as having sat all my exams I am now at the mercy of
the examiners, so there’s nothing more I can do to improve it…I’ve worked out
though, even scraping the bare minimum (40) in my exams I’m still guaranteed a
2:1…BUUUUUUUUT I want a first…the perfectionist that I am :P<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and final goal is to become a Senior Clearing assistant, throughout the main Clearing
period. I already meet the first requirement, as I have worked for Clearing previously,
and I have just sent off my application…all that’s left to do is to wait for
the interview and complete the skills tests and then we’ll see whether I’m good
enough for the job!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that’s my short term goals for now…fingers crossed I manage to achieve the
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here, but I actually have a good reason!! EXAMS :(. Over the past three weeks
all </span><span style="line-height: 21px;">I've</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> done is eat, sleep and revised. And anytime I wasn’t revising I felt
horrendously guilty that I </span><span style="line-height: 20px;">wasn't</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> revising so I </span><span style="line-height: 20px;">didn't</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> feel motivated to do
anything else anyway. It </span><span style="line-height: 20px;">didn't</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> help as 2 of my exams were bang smack in the
middle of the lovely heat wave we had, meaning it was almost doubly hard to do
any revision at all :(.</span></span><br />
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I did, I’m confident with one of them, and the other two, I think I
definitely did enough to pass, I am just not sure whether I did good enough to
get the first that I have been aiming for. BUT there’s nothing I can do now
until the results come out mid July, so for now I’m focusing on other things
and trying not to panic about it :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Moving on to slightly happier news, I bought a car :D :D :D
its my first car so I’m very excited/proud of it, even though I can’t
technically drive it just yet...although thats just a small technicality :P I’m
planning on starting my lessons when I get back from holiday, and I’m going to
attempt to do an intensive driving course, which is approximately 30 hours of
driving a week, with the test at the end of it...fingers crossed that it goes
okay, as I have now officially wiped out all my savings/overdraft on it :( !!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Now the exams are officially over, I can begin the
preparation for my final year project. I am aiming to get the majority of it
written up over summer, so I can conduct it the first week back next year. So
if you’re going to come and study Psychology at Greenwich next year, chances
are you’ll be participating in my study :D it’s a fun one to do, don’t worry :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">In other news, I’m currently preparing for a film shoot, with
a German news programme Planetopia, in regards to the research I am helping out
with, with the MET police :)! It should be a great experience, and appearing on
TV is always a good thing to have on
your CV. It’s also good preparation for the segment of Crimewatch they will be
hopefully filming us for in the run up to the anniversary of the 2011 riots. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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break in a couple of days, there </span><span style="line-height: 21px;">isn't</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> anything else left to fill you guys in
on :) hopefully you all are well, and I’ll have more to update you will after
my holiday!! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>University of Greenwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879701446496502511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415479108750149120.post-87300374397412996562012-04-11T16:48:00.000+01:002012-04-11T16:48:33.555+01:00A serious blog (for once)<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">So after deliberating for ages about whether to attend the interview for this other job, despite the fact that I decided I didn’t want or need it anymore, I decided to go, purely for the experience of it. It was only about half way through the interview when I began to learn more about the research they were conducting and about how flexible they could be in terms of working around my two current jobs, that I decided I really actually wanted it!! By this point I was still fairly certain that I could still get the job, as I’m usually really good when it comes to interviews, that was until they then surprised me by asking a seemingly random statistics question. As I had didn’t have an interview for my other research assistant, this was my first one and I wasn’t expecting these types of questions at all, so it just completely threw me!! Normally I’m quite good at statistics as Maths is something which I’ve always enjoyed, but being so unprepared I just couldn’t think straight let alone give an appropriate answer, so I just said they first thing that came to my head and hoped they wouldn’t think of me as a complete idiot. This threw me for the rest of the interview as I just wanted to leave as I was just convinced I wouldn’t get the job and after not hearing back from them for about 3 weeks I decided this must have been the case....UNTIL I got a call in the middle of one of my lectures saying I got the job :D I was so happy....and almost in a state of shock considering how bad I thought the interview had gone, but yeah....I shall be starting that shortly :D . At least this experience has taught me to always be better prepared for interviews though, especially as they can literally ask you just about anything.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Another stressful thing that happened recently was picking my third year options...In psychology all the modules you study in third year are of your choosing, which sounds good on the surface, until we got told that most courses have limited places and fill up within the first minute of the link going live...talk about a rush or what!! So on the day we had to pick I was sat there refreshing the page every 2 seconds until the link appeared and then rushed to select all the ones I wanted...I think I did it correctly, but annoyingly as they don’t show you a copy of what you submitted so now I’ve managed to convince myself that I selected the wrong first choice, selecting psychology of neuroscience as opposed to psychology of exceptional human experiences, which is what I really want to do!! So now I’m just nervously waiting to see what ones I actually get!! :/</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Besides that I have finished the majority of assignments now, with only one left to complete and just revision left to be done so for now I am actually enjoying the lull of mad rush of things...</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Anywhooooo, more to come later </span></span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">p.s. here’s a picture of my cat to liven up this blog.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKHzQcIm4uZ5Y58vmA-ouOOBZfJqxFbBAnHSwK6oUcnyLfRmNooH34TI8XyMw6YSqhIYB0-YrVhvEd3dBaNMv54hwE4kBm3j-rqO1LrECDVH0zDZSbECpCPm07oq242eQJTLTlfeQ05v0s/s1600/cat.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" qda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKHzQcIm4uZ5Y58vmA-ouOOBZfJqxFbBAnHSwK6oUcnyLfRmNooH34TI8XyMw6YSqhIYB0-YrVhvEd3dBaNMv54hwE4kBm3j-rqO1LrECDVH0zDZSbECpCPm07oq242eQJTLTlfeQ05v0s/s320/cat.png" width="240" /></a></div>University of Greenwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879701446496502511noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415479108750149120.post-32747656421344143752012-04-11T16:36:00.002+01:002012-04-11T16:42:28.626+01:00Tour tour tourrrrrrrrr<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Tour tour tourrrrrrrrr, how do you like it how do you like it, TOUR TOUR TOUR.</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In case you can’t tell this blog is about TOUR :) . I’ve just come back from a weeklong tour in Lloret de Mar with my university netball team! It was a great week filled with many great memories, not to mention trophies and many sleepless nights!!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">They say a picture paints a thousand words so I thought I’d use a few of them to describe my week....</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja4VEhmHOZiqkm2Lavzh_GufKYlEGL7xOdOJmQvsnqNEMStkP1XCSxDwYltCYRZGmO6RqRadUlMoCo7pZhFlpEHM4RCJG4cM_VSTbp9nUSB1pzEdJzaYZhRRkGwL_WvOMgR8mCnv0y_5um/s1600/question.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja4VEhmHOZiqkm2Lavzh_GufKYlEGL7xOdOJmQvsnqNEMStkP1XCSxDwYltCYRZGmO6RqRadUlMoCo7pZhFlpEHM4RCJG4cM_VSTbp9nUSB1pzEdJzaYZhRRkGwL_WvOMgR8mCnv0y_5um/s1600/question.JPG" /></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">AND the good news keeps on flowing; I also found out that I got the job I applied for as a research assistant working alongside the MET police :D which will be great experience for me!! Additionally, I also have been asked to come along for an interview for another research assistant position next week, but I’m debating whether or not I should go, as I barely have time to manage everything I’m doing at the moment, with assignments, netball, working for the enquiry unit and actually going to uni, I don’t even know how i’m going to fit in this new job let alone another one :/ and i’d hate to go to the interview, get it, and then be in the horrible position of having to turn/let them down :/ it’s definitely something I need to think about either way!!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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Rather than my usual blog of tales of my life, I decided to focus
this one on what it is like studying psychology and my personal experience of the
models I did in my first year, so then if anyone is thinking of choosing psychology
for their degree it’ll (hopefully) give them a bit more of an insight to it and what it's actually like. (Although don’t let my experiences put you
off....everyone is different after all, and all have different interests!!)</div>
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This was made up of 4 modules; 3 compulsory ones and 1 we
could choose. And was spread over 3 days
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<b>Academic and Personal
Development (30 Credits). <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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This in my opinion was probably the easiest module of them
all....this one involved working on a lot of the basic skills needed to study
psychology, such as literature searchers, essay writing as well as filming a
video of us conducting a psychology experiment. This module was helpful as it
allowed us to practice our key skills and as I found the assignments relatively
easy, this module helped to boost my overall grade for the year. </div>
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This module was literally what it says on tin, an
introduction to psychology; luckily for me I did A level psychology, so I
already had a fair bit of knowledge about the key psychology studies, such as
Milgram, Zimbardo etc...which helped me a lot with this side of this course,
although saying that this was probably the one that I had to work the hardest foras
there was just so much information that we had to remember, especially when it
came to the mini tests or the final exam.</div>
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<b>Research Methods (30
Credits).<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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first and second year because this one you NEED to pass in order to pass the
year, where as if you fail another module, it doesn’t matter as long as your
overall grade is above 40. Another thing people were surprised about when we
started this module was that it is largely based on statistics; this plays a
key role in psychology as statistics help examine the relationship between two
variables and is used in nearly every psychology study conducted, and when it
came to producing our three lab reports for the year, as well as writing up the
studies we conducted, we also needed to analysis it using the appropriate
statistics as well as producing graphs and stuff to illustrate the data. On
this module we alternated each week between research method lectures/seminars, (which
were mainly all about ways to conduct research and the problems with certain
methods etc) and statistic lectures. As well as the 3 lab reports we were also
assessed using fortnightly statistics tests and method work books as well as an
open book statistics exam at the end of the year and a closed book methods
exam. </div>
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<b>Counselling (30
Credits) or Applied Psychology (30 Credits).
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the deluded ideas of helping people through all their problems
etc.....unfortunately for me, when we had to watch the videos of case
studies, I soon realised that I could
not stand the idea of sitting there listening to other people go on and on about
their problems. I just don’t have it in my personality to sit there and
actually listen instead of just saying ‘MAN UP’. And as that’s kind of the main
focus of counselling, needless to say I quickly lost interest in this subject.
There were 3 assessments on this course, 2 open book mini exams and 1 seen exam
at the end of the year, and as it was seen it meant that we were given the exam
questions 2 weeks before the exam so we could prepare our exam questions ahead
of time...if it wasn’t for that fact I really don’t think I would have passed
as if it’s not something i’m interested in I don’t really tend to retain the
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we don’t have to do it in second or third year, so thats a big yaaaay from me
:D.</div>
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On the other side of things, we were also able to choose to
do applied psychology, which looks at the application of psychology in the real
world. The thing my friends loved about doing this module was the fact that there
is no exam for it...it’s all coursework based, which had I known before I would
have been really tempted to choose this instead, as I hate exams!!!! <o:p></o:p></div>
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But
yeah.....Thats pretty much my first year in a nutshell....I’ll write another
one about second year sometime in the future. ...but for now I hope this blog
will shed some light on what psychology is really like as a degree.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Soooo
goodbye for now xx<o:p></o:p></div>University of Greenwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879701446496502511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415479108750149120.post-91047172497354554192012-01-13T15:39:00.000+00:002012-01-23T15:03:42.616+00:00Another day....another assignment!!<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">They say Christmas is a time for relaxation and reflection
amongst other things. Unfortunately that's not the case if you’re in your second
year of Psychology. I had not 1, not 2 but THREE deadlines due in on the 1<sup>st</sup>
three days back at Uni :’(. Stress doesn’t even begin to cover it!! And after pulling
an all nighter to get my essays complete, the night before I had 2 Brain,
Behaviour and Cognition essays due, I checked my emails only to find my tutor
had given us an extension on it from the 10<sup>th</sup> January to the 3<sup>rd</sup>
of Feb!!!!!!!!!!! Which would have been great, had the email not been sent 2 HOURS
before the deadline, when pretty much everyone would have submitted anyway!!!!!
GRRRR. BUT on a more positive note, besides
a lab report due on the 25<sup>th</sup> Jan, I literally have a whole month
freeeeeeee, without any assignments or work due at all!! And I SERIOUSLY cannot
wait!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Anyway, onto the more funner aspects of my Christmas :). I
had a great few days at home with my family, which basically consisted of a
bunch of presents and loads and loads of food :D (which was kinda the best bit
:P) and then after boxing day I had to go down to Ramsgate to have a second
Christmas with my boyfriend and his family :) which again was so lovely!!
Although we did want to go cinema and one point, and when we got there it was
all sold out so we ended up in the local bingo hall, where I think I may have
discovered my one true love!! It was just so thrilling :D despite the fact that
we were possible the youngest people there! AND I won a pound LOL which made
the experience that much better :D. And for like the first time in about 5
years I stayed in on New Years Eve and got a take away with my mum, which was
actually really really nice as I didn’t have any of the palava that I had in
previous years of trying to get home from central London!!! Hopefully you all
had a great Christmas and New Years as well :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And now i’m just at work at the Enquiry unit, figuring what
the hell this lab report is meant to be on, in between calls (We’re actually
really busy today with the UCAS deadline looming....2 DAYS people!!). Hopefully I’ll have it all figured out in by
next week as I really don’t want to have to do work on my Birthday :D. Which is
my motivation for getting this done, as my Boyfriend is taking me to see Shrek
in Theatres, and it would be nice to go without feeling guilty for not doing
work :P </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Byeeeeeeeeeee xx</span></div>
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<br /></div>University of Greenwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879701446496502511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415479108750149120.post-29114452988726950262011-12-16T10:23:00.000+00:002012-01-23T14:59:31.758+00:00Christmas timeeeee, mistletoe and wineeeee...<br />
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upon us :D. I’m still counting down the days on my rapidly shrinking advent
calendar :D</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I’m glad I can finally start to relax a little bit and begin
to enjoy the run up to Christmas as it’s been a very hectic few weeks...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Firstly we had our office Christmas party, which was fab :)
we went to Cafe Rouge and majority of the food (especially the starter) were
lovelyyy. We also did a quiz thing which needless to say I failed miserably at
:( but it was still good fun, and then we got to do Secret Santa :D :D :D my
favourite part of my meal by far as I got a beautiful scarf from my old
supervisor Tony which is very much appreciated now the weather has taken a turn
for the worst!! And afterwards we headed to O’Neil’s as it was one of our
colleagues Dan’s leaving drinks :’( so we had to celebrate/commiserate that :P.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Then I had a seen exam to prepare for...its kinda like an
essay assignment and an exam rolled into one as you get given the questions
like 2 weeks before the exam and you had to prepare answers for them and then
memorise them. I think I did okay...I pretty much remembered both of the essays
I prepared, so now it just boils down to whether my essays were any good...fingers
crossed!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Then a day later, my lovely neighbours headed to South Africa
for 2 months so as a good bye thing we decided to throw a Christmas dinner/mini
party type thing, and me being slightly naive thought that cooking for 8 people
would be just as easy/straightforward as when I usually cook for my family of
3...turns out its more stressful than I ever thought!! Eventually though I got
a 3 course meal out and everything besides the slightly over cooked turkey was
delish :) so turned out to be a really lovely day...although I’ve nominated my
mum to cook the next Christmas dinner, much rather just eat it than cook it :D<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I also had to sit a mock exam for my statistics course,
although my friends and I realised about 10 minutes into the exam that perhaps
going out for the Netball Christmas meal the night before wasn’t really the
best idea...would never recommend going out the night before an exam as it is
absolute torture sitting there for hours when you feel like you want to
die...especially at 9am!! I managed to scrape through it though and ended up
with 63...so it was worth dragging myself out of bed for...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I worked sooo hard on....and it turns out I didn’t work hard enough as only
managed to get a 62 </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">L</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> its still
a 2:1 but its miles away from that first that I really want!! Although on the bright side it gives me more
motivation to work harder on my next assignment!! I’m still waiting to get a
mark back on the essay I handed in at the beginning of October!!! It’s been
like 6 weeks now but my lecturer still hasn’t finished marking them....grrrr.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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today :) and then I’m only working a few days overtime until we come back so
I’m gonna use the rest of my time to work on one of my numerous
assignments...we start back at Uni on the 9<sup>th</sup> and I have a 2000 word
Critical Review due, then on the 10<sup>th</sup> I have a 2500 word Portfolio
due and then on the 11<sup>th</sup> I have a 2500 Biopsychology essay due :( I’m
thinking my Christmas may not be so merry after all :( <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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‘morning’ lol :P xxx<o:p></o:p></span></div>University of Greenwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879701446496502511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415479108750149120.post-70315471690405812622011-11-25T14:59:00.001+00:002012-01-23T15:03:56.254+00:00Stress.com<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-size: small;">One of the most common reactions I’m faced with when I tell people that I study psychology, is ‘OMG, can you read minds’. Unfortunately for me, I cannot and nor is that was psychology is about!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Although if I could read minds I would be very interested to read my lecturers’ minds and try and find out what I got for my latest assignment I submitted....Slightly worried about it as being a academic-perfectionist I do always liked to aim for the top and achieve a 1st so whenever I submit a piece of work I’m not 100% happy with I do tend to stress until I get my results....so fingers crossed!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I'm half excited. Half petrified. So much to doooo, so little timeeee, I’ve got so much shopping I need to doooo as well as a festive Christmas Menu to plan, (which I must admit I do love doing!!). Going shopping this weekend though so hopefully I’ll be able to get the majority of it over and done with then :D I have a vague idea of what I want to get everyone so hopefully it all goes to plan :).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Excitement doesn’t even begin to cover it :D this is like my favourite book and can’t
wait to see how they’ve adapted it to the film :D. I’ve just got the Open Day
to get through tomorrow and then I’m FREEEEEEE to go and watch it :D</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">On a less exciting note, after I watch Breaking Dawn I then
have to spend the rest of my weekend desperately trying to finish off one of my
many assignments due next week :(
whoever said third year is the hardest obviously forgot just how many
assignments/exams you actually have to get through in second year *cries in
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<span style="font-size: small;">Because of the amount of work I’ve had to do, these past
couple of weeks have actually been pretty mundane :( ...we did have our Netball
initiations though :D that definitely put a smile on my face as since I’m now
in second year, I got the pleasure of
terrorising the very unlucky freshers :D (Don’t worry we didn’t do anything TOO
bad to them....we are ladies after all :D).
And my team played a couple of matches...unfortunately we did lose them
both *boo hoo* but we are getting better with each match we play so fingers
crossed for our match next week :D.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Besides that the only other exciting thing I did was to go
to this restaurant Cosmos...Seriously, if there is a heaven I imagine that it
would pretty much resemble there...Cosmos literally has every single food you
can imagine....chinese....indian...thai....sushi....roast dinner....pizza...etc
etc :D and then my personal favourite..THE DESERT BAR :D needless to say I
practically starved myself that day and successfully polished off about half
the restaurant :D om nom nom. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">But anyways, hopefully once I hand in this next assignment I
will have much more exciting news to share with you all :) but for now it’s off
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<br />University of Greenwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879701446496502511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5415479108750149120.post-31070042301648807082011-10-28T03:00:00.000+01:002012-01-23T15:04:22.757+00:00It’s a sad day....a very very sad day :(<br />
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my friends Laura’s last day working in the Enquiry Unit today :( which means
that every Friday I’m gonna be all alone on this side of the office....besides
Sam W/Dan, but they’re boys so they
don’t really count as proper company :(. Although on the bright side she did
buy some haribos and chocolates as a goodbye present so it’s not THAT bad now :)
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this as a goodbye tribute thing...and before you say anything, it IS a very
quiet day in the office!!!!! :P</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">On another
positive note, I managed to submit my first assignment todayyy :) it was only a
practice report, but I’m still proud I submitted it and work hard for it so
it’ll be interesting to see what the feedback on it is!! Although I do have
another 3 assignments due in by the end of next week so I’m not too sure I
should be celebrating just yet :(!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">OH btw, if
any current students read this blog, it’s not too late to join the best sports
society at Greenwich (in my opinion :P) aka Netball :) it not also keeps you
fit but it has an awesome social aspect to it tooooo!! As 6<sup>th</sup> team
Captain I’ve arranged a social on Monday for my team so we can all get to know
each other off court and (hopefully) play better as a team as well :). Since
its Halloween we’re all dressing up in scary costumes and hitting Nando’s
before finding somewhere to party :D<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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than 2 months until Christmasssssssssss!! </span><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">Eeeeeek. I’m one of those people
that gets crazily excited for Christmas....I just love everything about
it....the food...the presents...and just the general atmosphere it brings :D so
so sooo hoping it snows this year though!! Would be nice to see one white
Christmas!! Already started putting together some people’s presents and
yesterday I was in London and I couldn’t resist going into this little
Christmas boutique and buying some new fancy ornaments to go on the tree :D!!
And can’t wait till it’s appropriate for me to start baking all the xmas treats
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<span style="font-size: small;">Hello allllll, and welcome to my first ever blog :D.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Soooo fresher’s week is well and truly over *sob sob* so hopefully all of you that were out enjoyed it, and for those of you that weren’t there, here’s just a little taste of what happened:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">This is some of the members of the netball club, it was ‘Mime night’ but it was a far from silent night :P Also I’m the one that the big arrow is pointing to, in couldn’t you can’t tell :).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And this is me and two of my best friends, on cave girl night. As we’re part of the netball team we always have a pre-gathering before going out at one of the members flats, and there’s normally anywhere between 20-50 girls there each week so you’re always guaranteed<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=5415479108750149120&postID=5421154032790338767" name="_GoBack"></a> that it’s gonna be a good night :D. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">ALSOOOOOOOOOO a bit of exciting news, just found out that I got made Captain of my Netball team againnn, exciting times :D!! We had our first match on Wednesday and played BRILLIANTLY, although we ended up losing, I’m so proud of my team considering it’s the first time we’ve ever played together :P.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">On another note, I’m kinda finding second year on my course (psychology) alot harder than I thought I would!! There’s so much work and barely enough time to do it!! In addition to my uni work, I also work one day a week at the Enquiry Unit, which although it’s great fun, it is hard working whilst studying L. I love my course and job and social life though so I reckon i’m going to have to organise myself really well if i’m ever gonna be able to get anything done!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Kelty xxx</span></div>University of Greenwichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05879701446496502511noreply@blogger.com0