One reason I feel so terrified of this current project is the juggling act it asks me to do with my Constellation work. I feel most comfortable working in a linear fashion. Doing first one project. Finishing it. And only then starting the next one. But at the moment we’re being asked to do the exact opposite of that. I have two vitally important, unskippable tasks that I am supposed to do at the same time and for the same deadline Can you understand why this is stressing me out?
I was given a little reprieve to spent two days at home doing my Constellation work. This was a massive relief. But when I got back on Friday I found I was somehow already behind schedule
What really annoys me is of the two huge pieces of work we are meant to do the Field piece is allegedly the more important one. But it is something that was just dropped on us at random in the last two weeks of term. While the Constellation piece is the sum-total of everything we have learned and have been building towards in Constellation over these past three months. So can you blame me if that one feels more important?
The Constellation and Subject/Field modules don’t so much compliment each other as they get in each other’s way. Like a pitched battle and a gardening class.
The lack of communication between the people who run these modules is mind-blowing.
It all seems to be predicated on the model of “The Students will make it all fit together. Somehow”.
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