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Pre Exam Thoughts

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I think now that it's been nearly a month since my last blog post, my desire to take a break from studying until September has become pretty apparent.

Soooo what's happened in the past month... Had two exams, Advanced Higher Maths on the 12th of May and Higher Music on the 13th, and TMA 06 due on the 12th. That wasn't fun! My assignment score for number 6 was the lowest yet due to another misunderstanding in the question (to be fair this time the question was considerably less clear than the ethics one was). Been given a pay rise and put on the rota and work FINALLY meaning with any luck by the end of the summer I should be loaded. Been driving a lot, went to Skye for a few days and have been doing very, very little revision. Enjoyed the course though I have, motivation levels have been considerably low recently because I just want to get on with summer - earning money, rebuilding my social life and working out properly again. 

The thought of writing 3 essays in 3 hours isn't exactly kicking me into gear. 

I've chosen to go with Self, Knowledge and Mind as my 3 books as they feel like the ones on which I'm strongest. I feel like I'm at the point where I could cobble together answers to essay questions in desperation if I had to.

The tutorial in Edinburgh was really worthwhile - I can honestly say that if I hadn't gone I wouldn't have had the foggiest idea of what I'm going to do for this exam. 

I'm going to have to get used to the fact that I'm unlikely to do superbly in this exam but I think I can get over it - the experience will have been good for me this year. Bring on the exam...

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Been a while

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Edited by Charles Mack, Wednesday, 13 Apr 2016, 09:29

Hello again

We're back at school now but every day feels like a last day. Signing yearbooks and seeing leaver's hoodies everywhere is quite surreal but we all know we're too old for this place now.

Not happy with my most recent assignment submission. I applied my tutor's advice as much as possible but I'm not sure I did much more than that. I'll probably not stop feeling insecure about handing in assignments but I don't want my marks to get progressively worse.

My excuse is that I took a big impact on the top of my head and had damaged/compressed my spine so I was unable to get out and move properly which did not help the stress situation!

Getting moving and getting studying again now though. The leaving buzz is strong though and makes working and wanting to work difficult.

Got more shifts at work, they're not paying me enough, but gonna finish this boring blog up right now and go study.

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Happy Chocolate Day

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Strictly Come Dingwall was fab. We scored a decent 28/30 but lost to the head teacher/depute head couple... Definitely a best memory of Dingwall Academy though. Passing my taekwondo grading has meant stepping up the practice as this is the last sprint before black belt but I'm really enjoying it again which is nice! 

Been trying to sort uni accomodation and after much conflict I've decided to go for non-catered... Which won't make the adjustment to uni any easier... Driving test's booked for the 6th of June too so I've been trying to keep track of so many things at once as per.

Dreading the next assignment. I need to try and find a way to get back to the golden age of marks around TMA 01/02 but after the amount of effort I put into TMA 04 to have no improvement, I'm not sure exactly where to go from here.

It also doesn't help that I quite literally fell on my face on thursday night and my nose looks like a mess!

It's the Easter Holidays now so I have no excuse not to be productive. 

Just doooooo it

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apathy is in the air

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Edited by Charles Mack, Sunday, 27 Mar 2016, 23:07

Just back from the Dingwall Academy spring fair, at which i had to sing solos and endure an ice cold dunk tank... I also got beaten by a 9 year old in a plank competition... He/she held it for 12 minutes apparently, how can anyone plank for more minutes than years they've spent on this earth? 

Seems to be a general consensus that people just want to be free of the school by now. I can't say I don't share it but there will definitely be parts of the school that I'll miss. People mostly have all their offers now which leads to the question - why are the people with unconditionals still working at school?* We could just not turn up to our classes with pretty much no consequence, something I've considered doing on a few occasions, but we still do. People at this stage just don't want to be told in August that they've failed something so we're doing the absolute bare minimum we need to do to pass the courses. I doubt this is setting us up to be efficient, hard working uni students.

I have completed 2/3 of my New Years Resolutions now: Got a job (I think - they still need to put me on the regular rota) and also on Thursday the 17th of March I landed my first backflip so I can basically just die happy now. That's it, I've peaked. Think the third was something like 'be a better person' or something dumb like that, but who even cares?

Next week it's Taekwondo Grading, Strictly Come Dingwall (which will probably be a disaster for me as I don't even think I know the whole of my dance) and a maths nab which will also likely be a disaster... Thankful for the extra week for the assignment! I mean, uh, Easter Break, of course. 

*Update - Simon Reed's comment on an earlier post which I only noticed after posting this (sorry again, keeping an eye out from now on!) has basically made everything I said about not needing to work redundant and I am very grateful for that. Thank you sir, I shall keep at it!

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Disappointing mark on my assignment that I worked so hard on to try and improve on the last one - got 69 to match TMA 03. Killed my motivation stone dead but the show must go on.

Passed my driving theory (47/50 on multiple choice, 68/75 on hazard perception) so that's a bit less poor! Was in Edinburgh on friday/saturday which reminded me why I love the city so much and had my first shift at my first job at a hotel which also went well.

A letter from Edinburgh uni told me basically that even though I have an offer I should still keep working and trying to do well apparently which is the last thing I feel like doing at the moment - reasons for staying in school are slowly disappearing one by one and quite frankly I want to be away at university already and make a fresh start. It'd be fab to just leave school, get lots of shifts at work and make lots of money then go to uni loaded but instead I'll see school out til the end. There are still some things to look forward to though - spring fair on saturday, strictly come dingwall next week etc. - but I think everyone's at the point where they're too old for Dingwall Academy now.

I'll keep studying nonetheless... It's probably time I try to drag my marks out of the gutter!

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What's the point in these anymore

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Another late one because I was away at an annual Torridon family-friends gathering/shambles with no wifi but really who cares how regular these are?

Work ethic is currently severely lacking but I think I can blame that on a cold. Having spoken to so many people who are at uni this weekend I just want to go now - I am little by little losing reasons to stay around. I'm at the point where I don't even take the school as seriously as I should; I dump my stuff around like I live there and I'm barely putting work into my classes. I've accepted my offer to go to Edinburgh so there's not turning back now.

Driving theory test on Wednesday for which I haven't even started revising, but besides from that there's nothing I can think of to say or deem worthy to talk about so that'll do.

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Oops

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It's Tuesday and I realised I never made a post this weekend soooo put in my assignment last Wednesday, feeling much better about this one than the last however I've been choked with the cold for a week and have my music exam tomorrow, and the job shift that I thought I had was cancelled so hopefully they don't forget to give me a job in the next few weeks. Things are clearly going brilliantly...

Nothing else to report - hardly worth going back to write this post in the first place but oh well!

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a wee bit of good news

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Unconditional offer from Edinburgh University for Philosophy! Thursday the 18th of February is the day I was given my first choice, the one for which I was desperate.

It's the best place I could be - incredible sports facilities, family and friends already down there, and I absolutely love the city.

A problem presents itself however in that I no longer know how hard I should work for the rest of 6th year, nor do I know what my motivation for study will be. I would like to do well in this course and in maths and music for the sake of doing well, and working hard before I leave will set me up well for uni and I'd especially like to get good assignment marks and essay practice - but I don't have anything to prove for the rest of my time at school. I'll continue to work but I refuse to stress myself out over my studies and exams.

Struggled getting my head round the philosophy of science stuff more so than most of the other topics covered so far and shamefully I'm not sure how much of it will stay in over time. Nearly died of cold this morning marshalling at the snowman rally but have at least started getting back into the swing of making more productive use of my time so nothing really else to say.

Buzzing!

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Picking up speed

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My OU study took a serious knock over the last week as I only just finished the Popper stuff last night...

Went to a Young Women's Movement event about feminism and the status of young women in Scotland as part of the RASASH volunteering which was extremely interesting and had a great chilled out atmosphere - and while I was there I spoke to the prevention worker who runs the volunteering and studied philosophy about how philosophy isn't as useless as its reputation makes it seem. Faith restored.

I've also been given a very well paid work shift out of the blue at a hotel which should hopefully lead into a proper part time job in future so I can finally feel like a contributing member of society!

March is looking like it's going to be busy - The school's Spring Fair which I will need to help organise and do solos at (cheers for signing me up for that, music dept), music performance exam, strictly come dingwall (the rehearsals of which haven't really begun yet), among other things, so with any luck the weeks hopefully should stop passing by in a monotonous blur. 

Time to stop wasting the numerous amount of spare periods I have and start actually being productive once again!



 

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I knew that the result of TMA 03 wasn't going to be anything special given the shambles that it was, so I received a score of 69, however somehow managed a 75% in adv higher maths and 84% in higher music, the highest in the class which I do not deserve. 

Very little to report - things are slightly picking up now interest-wise with school with prelims coming to an end but I still don't know what to do with myself half the time. The coffee machines, my pride and joy, have met their demise and the hoody problem continues to haunt me. 2016 has been pretty underwhelming so far, hurraaaay!

Gave blood for the second time and once again I wanna ask anyone who is eligible to do it to please go and do it if you can!

That'll do. 


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Gertrude

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After a ridiculously difficult maths prelim my hopes for the music prelim are not high. I had 3 hours to finish the paper and yet I still ran out of time and as a result I've felt tired ever since.

Last week's Descartes stuff would have been more enjoyable if we didn't do Descartes to death in school - as we did Hume as well then I assume that the same will be true for next week's work but nonetheless this doesn't mean I'm not enjoying it.

Seen an increase in people dissing Philosophy to me recently - for a while in the face of it I just make fun of it myself so that other people don't have to but it's always the same 'Shouldn't you be doing something useful?' 'What career options do you want to get out of it or will you just work at McDonald's?' kind of thing. It tends to come up in any kind of topical discussion, relevant or not. It's as though other people are making me seem pretentious and cocky about it when in doing so it's making me the opposite and as much as I want to study Philosophy as a subject (I enjoy it and throughout school it was what I was best at) the thought of identifying as 'a Philosopher' brings with it so many negative connotations to the point where I'm losing sight of why I think Philosophy is so important.

It's not about finding all the answers to all the questions. We have something for that anyway - science. It's not about getting rich. It's about being critical and open minded and aware of our limitations, including the limitations of science. Philosophy is a means for people to express themselves through thinking for themselves. Furthermore, important fields of work like the scientific method and law have branched off from Philosophy, or at the very least philosophical thinking. Philosophy has contributed so much to the world and I think where the world is right now we need more Philosophy, not less, to help tell us where we humans are going disastrously wrong.

Philosophy doesn't need me to defend it of course but I definitely need to keep defending my study of it to myself or else it'll really get to me. Regardless, there isn't anything I'd rather study unless I go down the Maths route but my question to you is what makes Mathematics more useful than Philosophy?

Had my first proper driving lesson yesterday followed by a party which I think I needed but quite frankly I have no idea what to expect from the coming week. Good things hopefully!


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Nightmare

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TMA 03 became an absolute shambles when after writing an entire first draft I realised I misinterpreted the question so had to spend many gruelling hours chopping and changing. So far it's been the assignment that I've had the most reservations about submitting.

On top of that, our school leavers' hoodies arrived on Monday which I'd been slaving to get only to find that one person's hoody never came (my fault) so now I'm stressing out trying to make up a small order of 20 in order to get this person their hoody...

Music performance prelim is over and done with but on Tuesday I'll have to bear a 3 hour adv higher maths prelim and I am absolutely buzzing. 

At a weird point where I really want to have left school already, got my place at uni, make a fresh start and have a sense of direction but at the same time I don't want to go. For 5 years I hated school and now I'm finally enjoying it but I don't need to be doing the subjects I'm doing - I'm only really there for the fun of it: the spare periods and the people to whom only in the last year of school have I became close. I feel too old to be there but not old enough to leave.

On that cheery note, bring on book 4!


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Laaaate

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Never got round to writing a blog post yesterday so this one's overdue...

Just spent a good few hours writing the first draft of TMA 03 and only afterwards realised that I could have done about half of it wrong. 2016 is off to a great start!

Not an awful lot of news, had a very nice Burns supper on friday with the most sexist toast to the lassies ever given, recently discovered the virtues of yoga, prelims start tomorrow and on tuesday Strictly Come Dingwall shall commence. Exciting times.

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My blog writing is very rusty...

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Really enjoyed last week's take on Kantian ethics although I've had to be more focused on prelim revision, during which I have done more maths than I thought possible. I don't know why but I'm finding myself stressing over SQA subjects that I don't really need.

Was back to school starting a couple days and quite frankly there's nothing of interest to report this week! Glad to be back as pretty much every day of the holidays blended into one another with very little face-to-face human communication. Temporarily became a kind of semi-hermit.

Morality of Abortion this week, and as I'm already on the pro-choice side it'll be interesting looking into the topic in more detail.

Think it's about time 2016 picked up a little and got a bit more interesting...

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For Auld Lang Syne

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Happy New Year!

OU's Christmas Break is over which means Kant time, while also juggling prelim revision. I've done Kant to death in the past before and his is my favourite moral theory so hopefully shouldn't be too much of a problem... It's Advanced Higher Maths that's the hardest thing right now.

Not much to say about the festive period as not a huge deal of things happened - but the family all came together and went to a Hogmanay Ceilidh which was pleasant although they missed the bells so we celebrated new year a minute after everyone else. If I'm constantly a minute behind throughout 2016 I'll know who to blame.

Feeling positive about 2016. It's had a slow start so far but I think it'll be better than 2015 and I wish that for everyone else!

Maybe a New Year's Resolution should be 'make better blog posts'...

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To Be Jolly

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Christmas time, the best time of year, is well and truly upon us! 

I've been given an unconditional from Glasgow uni to study Philosophy but as Edinburgh is my first choice I don't think I'll take it. People in Scotland tend to be either Glasgow people or Edinburgh people (or both or neither of course) but I love me some cobbled streets.


Results back from my last TMA gave me 85% with which I am chuffed! 8% more than the first - going from a pass two to a pass one.

Aaaaaand ceilidhs! Loads of em! Ceilidhs are good because there's no expectation to drink or anything and they're so much fun. School Christmas party on monday (+ the infamous 'after social'), having been able to "help" (ie come along and dance) at one of the other ones, and also a ceilidh tonight to top it all off.

Best part of Christmas is the general atmosphere of it. Wishing everyone a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year! See you all after the OU Christmas break.


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Tis the Season

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Edited by Charles Mack, Saturday, 12 Dec 2015, 10:22
It's probably my favourite time of year right now - Buildup to Christmas! Have a load of ceilidhs coming up so it's hard to think about work with everything else that's going on. School Christmas Concert, our S6 'band aid' style charity Christmas music video, Christmas Socials... Still studying though!

School life and work life is good right now. In school, my year are coming together and being nice to one another, my classes are great because I don't need to be there (which you'd think would have the opposite effect) and so much is going on. In sports and stuff my confidence is building as well so I guess to put this on record I'm in a good place right now!

However I am currently looking for a part time job as I'm sick of having to scrounge money off my parents and feeling awful about it...


So much going on that it's hard to think of stuff to put in this blog. Had a dinner out last night with RASASH workers that should have been a group of 12 but ended up as a table of 4... Many people cancelled last minute which is probably the worst nightmare for any organiser of any event. I'm sure there's something Kantian in there about keeping promises...

But until next time, 'mon the Utilitarianism! 

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Assignment Round 2

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Edited by Charles Mack, Saturday, 28 Nov 2015, 18:57
Let's try and keep this post short!


So many things to think about right now - all kinds of head boy duties and RASASH stuff (panel in the Scottish Parliament and 16 days of action), but glad that an old injury has been kind enough to let me get back to training properly which has been nice recently. For my sake, so that this is on record, I went to another of those parties last night, similar to the one two weeks ago, and it may or may not have been a mistake... Teen culture is weird, is all I can really say about it.

Last week's work has had me a little bit bored I have to say... The arguments from miracles and religious experience didn't really do anything for me. I've enjoyed the other stuff in the topic but I would have liked some more ontological arguments in there somewhere!

Turns out the maths nab was easier than I thought it would be, but there are more to come in the next two weeks.

As for the assignment, I have more or less an idea of what I'm going to write so bring it on!

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The Last Bow

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Edited by Charles Mack, Saturday, 21 Nov 2015, 10:01
Joseph four days in a row, the first being a dress rehearsal, then performing to primary school kids, then the two main performances on Wednesday and Thursday... And the main performances both sold out and gave a full standing ovation. From being pretty much coerced to audition, and counting down the minutes to the end of every rehearsal, and all the stress and fear and pretty much not wanting to be there, to getting super emotional once it was all over and loving every minute of the performance - it's been very strange. Dingwall Academy Drama Society has been a part of my life for a long time and now my last ever performance is over. Slowly sinking in how much I'm really going to miss it. 


(Never forget that kid who threw up in the audience and nearly made a bunch of the actors sick too)

Thanks to all of that, I was only just able to finish last week's OU work yesterday and had to cram it a bit so my attempt at the last quiz was pretty slap dash... Been interesting talking to a Christian friend of mine about the arguments about God especially considering there was a time (of which I am not proud) when I had some slightly prejudiced views about religion. But now for some reason even though I'm not a theist I find myself wanting to defend the theist arguments.

Tomorrow will be a day of prep for a RASASH Scottish Parliament presentation which is pretty scary and there's a '16 days of action' starting on Wednesday meaning I need to think of a load of fundraising/awareness-raising ideas. Fast. 

Besides from that I need to return to normality, whatever the hell that normality may be! Studying, training, etc, mostly just work! Been asked to take part in 'Strictly Come Dingwall' in a few months time so if that's going to go ahead then more updates on that no doubt. There's also an Advanced Higher Maths nab on Monday for which I am royally screwed but fortunately everyone in my class is pretty much in the same boat.

The only upside about no more drama is having more free time, but whether or not that's a consolation I'm yet to find out. Guess it's back to work I go!

(You'll make it some daayyyy...)


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Go Go Go Joseph

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OU stuff's going fine - nothing much to report on that front! However wondering if I should be reading the optional extra material but there are only so many hours in a day...

This last week's been not too bad. Busy as always, especially with Drama rehearsals. With the first performance during school on tuesday, and only one rehearsal to go (full dress rehearsal) with an entire scene about which I'm unsure and haven't been given the chance to work on, nerves are definitely building. Barely anyone knows I'm playing Joseph which is quite nice for now - keeps a nice barrier between the performance and 'real life' so to speak.

Had a party last night at the fabled 'Contin Hall', a "wretched hive of scum and villainy". Don't get me wrong, had a nice time, but to come home and hear the amount of catastrophes that happened all across the world in Paris, Lebanon, Japan with its earthquake, etc, all at one time wasn't nice at all. It's absolutely horrific. Although a friend of mine pointed out that it's good that people are realising that the problem isn't religion itself, it's violent people. No religious writings would tell anyone to do what those people did. I'm sure that all of this has quite a bit of relevance to the Philosophy of Religion topic... No doubt people would argue that a benevolent creator would never let any of this happen, not that I'm necessarily one of them.

My school year's yearbook is currently in creation and I have nooooo idea what to write in my entry! To make it funny or make it all nice and soppy is the question. Struggling with Advanced Higher Maths as well as integration just gets worse and worse and worse. NAB upcoming! woooo...

Once drama's over with I can chill out and keep my focus! This Open Uni course will be great as a kind of constant throughout the year - writing these blog entries keep everything in perspective and the work has been consistently enjoyable. Nothing much else of interest to report off the top of my head - training was going quite well with learning 540o roundhouse kicks and stuff until I felt an old injury coming back a bit... Note to future me: be careful you idiot! Also those coffee machines are raking in the dolla. Learning to drive is so far going very well too.

I'm yet to learn how to keep these posts short and concise...


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tl;dr: life is busy

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Edited by Charles Mack, Sunday, 8 Nov 2015, 10:19
Having already read about Aquinas' Five Ways I was able to rush through last week's work which probably wasn't the best idea because it means I haven't looked at it since about Monday. I'm enjoying book 2 so far though - given me a new insight on religion as I didn't really understand that different religions refer to more or less the same God, it's just the relationship between them and God that separates them. I think that says a lot about religious intolerance today. If each religion fundamentally agrees on something, there shouldn't be any need for conflict. Shame it's never that simple.

This week my life was even more consumed than normal by my project to secure coffee machines for 6th years - began with a petition which accumulated about 70 signatures, I then organised a bake sale to raise the money and has now developed into an honesty box dependent, profit-making system of tassimo machines. Going by how much money we made from cheaply priced hot drinks in just two days, we'll eventually have more money than we know what to do with.

But that's sorted and I've written about it now so I can finally shut up about it!

Gave blood for the first time ever on wednesday! Got to hold the bag of it in my own hand which was strange but somehow very cool. For future reference I'll have to remember that a day later you feel good as new - was back learning handstands and muscle ups the very next day, so no excuses! Anyone reading this, please please please give blood and sign up to be an organ donor!

This next week will be the last proper week of drama rehearsals for our performance of Joseph in which I am Joseph (not necessarily by choice). I'm feeling better about my own role now so the fear is subsiding but will undoubtedly come back soon enough.

All my commitments this year - OU, RASASH volunteering, Uni applications, SQA subjects, learning to drive, sports, music practice, drama, head boy duties (hoodies, assemblies etc), and anything else that I can't remember off the top of my head - will at different times take up more or less time and at times be more hectic and concentrated than others, like in one of Aquinas' five ways with things coming in and out of existence. Stress levels will vary but I'm surviving so far!

Patiently waiting for my results from TMA 01. Fingers crossed!

Long post today... That'll do for this week!


(UPDATE 08/11/2015: results are in and I got 77. Hopefully not bad for a first assignment!)

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Happy Halloween!

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Completely went with my gut and handed in TMA 01 on Wednesday as an absolute leap of faith which is apt considering the next topic will be the Philosophy of Religion...

The S5/S6 Halloween disco on Wednesday which I helped set up definitely stands out this week as a large quantity of the few people that showed up came drunk. The nice thing about not being in charge of something is that you don't need to take responsibility if anything goes wrong. 


School is notably more chilled out nowadays. I've been able to order new coffee machines, prefects have walkie talkies, and music/tv and beanbags are allowed in the senior social area. I'm feeling the same way about the Open Uni work. Last year I was studying subjects through a horrible curriculum because I had no real choice and I hated every minute of it. This Philosophy module has been fantastic because I'm studying something I love out of an actual desire to study it. As such I'm enjoying studying (and I had a great time with the first TMA even if it turns out to be terrible!) and even looking forward to it. I feel like if high school education found a way to let people actually enjoy what they're studying rather than lose all passion for it then schoolwork can actually seem like a fulfilling use of everyone's time. That's why I'm so grateful to this course for restoring my faith in education!

A party last night and sports classes this morning have meant that I have made little progress on book 2 so far. Gonna go all out tomorrow though and get through chapter 1! 

I've undoubtedly left stuff out that I was gonna mention but I think in terms of using this blog as a way of keeping track of the year I've written more than enough so I'll leave it there for now...

Have a good Halloween!

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First assessment is upon us

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Getting through the Hume and Parfit stuff wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be but nonetheless had a relatively eventful week - including RASASH (Rape And Sexual Abuse Service Highland) young ambassador training on the Wednesday in Fort William which was great normative ethics experience! 


First OU tutorial yesterday (Saturday) which was very useful for writing my assignment yet as I start it I still feel like I'm treading on eggshells a bit with how I'm supposed to write it. Getting up at 5:40am to get the train was a horror that was made up for the fact that I got to see and train with some Glasgow friends along with a surprise visit from an Edinburgh friend! Definitely planning on using future tutorials as a means to visit more often.

I should add that in the tutorial I made the mistake of saying that I'm finding the work "relaxing" and to anyone in my course reading this: I never meant to make myself sound like a cocky wee so and so - I wanted to say that it's because after 5th year and doing 5 highers, the pressure's off and I'm finally studying something because I want to and not because I feel I have to!

School's back tomorrow (Monday) and I'm surrounded by people dreading the thought of it but I'm kind of excited - my hardest work in 6th year is not my schoolwork; it's everything else. Dreading drama, worried about my commitment to securing a coffee machine and have forgot more of advanced higher maths than I should have, but school's fun right now. It's challenging and chilled out at the same time and I like it that way.

Bring it on, TMA 01!

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Kick up the backside

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Edited by Charles Mack, Sunday, 25 Oct 2015, 18:42
The last week has been particularly chilled out and I must confess to doing a relatively minimum amount of work on the Locke stuff... Holiday mood thoroughly set in! Keeping up with training while neglecting to put the same into my studies.


This week's work looks about twice as strenuous as last week's so it's time to get into the habit of working harder! Have to admit I'm feeling very apprehensive about the upcoming TMA but I'm looking forward to getting a feel of how the assessment works.

Guess that'll do for now!

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Looking back on week 1

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Edited by Charles Mack, Sunday, 25 Oct 2015, 18:50

This last week since the 3rd of October has been extremely busy - I'm grateful that the first week's work wasn't too strenuous!

With a bake sale to organise single handedly as well as for which to bake (which went extremely well and we raised over £200!), a martial arts grading and drama club rehearsals throughout the week, alongside everything else, I'm starting to worry how I'll fit everything in in future - only so many hours in a day!

That said, I'm enjoying the work and the way the course is structured with a checklist to keep track of everything has been a godsend. The course material is interesting and engaging and I'm so glad to still be able to study philosophy in this weird limbo year between highers and uni that is 6th year. Inverness' freerunning class has a 'jam' today so week 2's studies will have to wait until later today!

Might use this blog every once in a while as a way of keeping a record of this year; of course if all I post is boring stuff like this then there will be no point!

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