So, I'll say the usual, I haven't posted for a few days now. I suppose I've been busy with university work or otherwise sleeping. This is the story of my life at the moment. I'm not moaning about the work-load that I have, it's just that I don't have much free time. But obviously this will all pay off in the end. Besides, I really love psychology (as you probably know).
As far as I remember, I posted the (embarrassing) video-blog on Monday, so I should blog about yesterday and today. The past two days have seemed to really drag even though I've been very productive. This could be because I've done as much work in 2 days that I would usually do in 3 or 4 days. This would explain why it feels like it's nearly the weekend already and it's only Wednesday.
Yesterday morning I got into university by about 10am to prepare for the afternoons meeting and meet my friend Arun to back-sign a consent form for a questionnaire that I filled in for his dissertation. Instead of putting the group presentation together like I originally planned I decided that it would be more useful to involve the rest of my group, as it is a group presentation after all. I spent my time creating a handout for the meeting, explaining what we were to do in the meeting and what we should do between meetings. Just as I finished the handout, Arun arrived at the library so I spent a bit of time catching up with him and then a girl in my presentation group phoned me to ask me if I was in the library, so I spent a bit of time with her before heading off to our group meeting. In the meeting we discussed everything that we needed to discuss and started putting the presentation together. We all now have a small job to complete before finalising the presentation and rehearsing it. I'm rather looking forward to the presentation, I love presentations and for that reasons you probably think I'm a bit mad. After the meeting I spent a bit of time with Linda (a girl in my group) before I headed off home. When I got home I felt pretty tired, so I just listened to music, watched the finale of "Coming of Age" series 3 and used the internet to chat to friends for a while.
Today I woke up nice and early, so I was on track for actually getting to university between 9 and 9:30am. After showering and getting ready I headed for the bus, which took a while longer to arrive than usual, but I was still out early and on track with time. I arrived at university at about 9:30am and spent an hour in the library before heading to my lecture that started at 11am. During the time I spent at the library I reported the significance levels for tests I had already done (for my dissertation) in APA format and then took time to create a to-do list / list of task deadlines. I ended up heading to my lecture at 10:35, when I got there Sandeep was standing outside the lecture theatre already. We had a general moan about all of the work we have (even though we secretly enjoy it) and then Sammy arrived so we moaned about the work-load a bit more. In the meantime I saw Arun too.
Today's lecture was the last lecture of the module and also the last lecture in lecture theatre MC001, a lecture theatre that we've spent a hell of a lot of time in over our 3 years at university. For the majority of the lectures in that theatre I have sat in the same seat, seat number 16 on the second row. Sandeep and I always giggle because the number 7 is my favourite number and I always used to go on about 1+6 equaling 7 when I sat down. We would also use "zappers" to answer multiple choice questions, they were numbered on the back and I would always aim to get a number that had something to do with the number 7 (mainly for a laugh). When we headed towards our seats today I said "I'll sit in sear 16 because 1+6 = 7). Sammy looked pretty amused (as she's missed out on this for the past 3 years) but she did like the idea when I explained and said that I should get a number 16 for my chair at home. It's not a bad idea really haha.
Today's lecture was about the workplace and production of knowledge (again!!). We had a lecturer who can be pessimistic about psychology at the best of times and he likened psychology to the pound shop and also bad taste art. I don't really approve of this, but I suppose his philosophy is pretty interesting. We also watched clips from films that dramatised decision making in the workplace. Also we talked about research funding bodies and how Richard Branson has put about £25million into green research ... probably to show that his hot-air balloons are safe for the environment. I actually wrote lecture notes today but I also drew many doodles including an impressive one of a hot-air balloon (the Richard Branson thing inspired me to doodle it). My notes ended up looking quite pretty as I wrote with a red pen too. I miss college times where I used to cover my communication studies work in lots of little stars, with university I'm usually too stuck into the lecture materials and too busy making notes to stop and doodle ... with exception of ANOVA Andy who I drew in a statistics lecture in my second year. But ANOVA Andy was actually designed to make me remember the concepts of analysis of variance much easier that make pages and pages of notes.
After my lecture I headed into town to buy some lunch, I was kind of craving something from the Cornish Pasty Place as they sell some pretty tasty vegetarian food. I ended up buying 2 vegetarian sausage rolls and a double chocolate doughnut. I ate one sausage roll on my walk back to university and put the rest of the food in my bag. I spent the afternoon rather productively carrying out statistical tests using SPSS, putting the findings into APA format and making sure I understood the statistical terms I was reporting. Overall I carried out 5 Kruskal-Wallis H tests, 9 correlation coefficients, 2 2X2 Chi-Squares, 2 Wilcoxon Signed Ranks tests, 2 Mann-Whitney U tests and 2 Factorial mixed-design analysis of variances. I also carried out a repeated measures factorial ANOVA, but this was not needed for my final results. I then printed a copy of my output before heading home. When I got home I just relaxed, listened to music and chatted to a few friends online again. I was supposed to watch Eastenders but I really can't be bothered with it lately. I suppose of the coming month and a bit I have a lot to do, do I really need more drama in my life? haha
Anyway, I'm getting tired of writing now, so I'll catch you later =]
Jodie
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