Lately I have been struggling so hard to stay motivated at Uni.
I'm halfway through my 3/4 years and I am wholeheartedly 7000% done with the place.
I am so desperate to get out into the real world, move to London and let my life truly begin. And with all the other redonk opportunities arising... I'm starting to think I just don't need uni at all.
But no, I musn't be foolish. I know that I need to just buckle down and get my degree out of the way, and before I know it I'll be looking back and missing this damned place!
I study Mass Communications; which is essentially Film, Media, Journalism and Design. I kinda guessed, as I don't know what I want to do but I know what field I want to go into, that I should pick a course which covers all bases.
I know that if I tried a little harder I could probs do pretty well in all my modules, but my problem is I just really struggle to find shits to give, and am effectively bluffing my way through on a solid 2:1. So it's not like I'm failing or anything, I just... Bleurgh.
There's been one terrifying assignment that has been looming over me like a dark cloud - my end of semester project for my design module. The assignment brief is to create a 10-page magazine on anything of your choice (using Indesign to do a whole host of tekkers which frankly I had no idea how to use because I'd spent most my classes daydreaming and thinking about pizza). So I just decided that obviously the best course of action would be to ignore it completely.
But then I kind of broke and had a meltdown as I realised that I had ONE SINGULAR DAY to complete this mammoth project, and I needed to find a breakthrough. I needed to find motivation, or I was simply going to fail.
I think I procrastinate with stuff like this because they are creative projects - something I know that if I put time and effort to would be amazing. But because I know it will only be a half-arsed attempt due to my lack of knowledge and time left to complete, I just put it off and put it off, which inevitably just makes the situation a whole lot worse until I get to the point where my eyeballs are falling out of my head in the library at 2am.
And I realize this has to stop if I want to pass. I need to grow up and understand that YA GOTTA DO WHAT YA GOTTA DO.
And then it came to me, like a beacon of angelic light shining down through the bleak Hertfordshire smog.
What would I be doing if I wasn't doing this assignment? The results from the procray report indicates that there would be a 30% chance of sleeping, a 20% chance of eating, and a solid 50% chance of blogging.
So why not turn blogging into my motivation instead of my procrastination?
I could make my end of semester project about blogging - a 10 page magazine on my favorite bloggers. And better yet, I could use my experience of interning at CAGECITY for access to the interviews we conducted with them, and make it a CAGECITY Meets magazine.
And so that is what I did.
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And so 8 hours later, my eyeballs have been firmly poked back into my head, I've just downed my 15th redbull, and I think I might actually, finally, somehow, quite possibly be... done.
So I think a massive thank you is in order to my fave fashion bloggers for just doing their thang, and giving me the inspiration to (hopefully) ace this module.
And if I can smash through the rest of Uni doing assignments on blogging? Well, bloody hell, maybe I'll want to hang about after all.
