Bravado from most of us, "yes, we'll be fine" but privately I was thinking "Help! Where did all the days go?".
A couple of people have already heard about interviews for BA courses next year, and have interviews booked. So for them, portfolios are suddenly very important.
James had brought his in for a shared critique, very bravely. He had lot of very interesting work, and drawings, and altogether it looked pretty impressive. There was almost too much material, although selecting things to discard will be hard.
But it was also illuminating. How must admissions tutors (or QR assessors?) cope with looking quickly at dozens of these things in a day or two? How do you show your bit of work to best effect? What kind of impression are we trying to make? Do you try and showcase a little bit of everything we've done, or do you focus on just a few areas where you really want to concentrate future work? All decisions we'll have to face soon.
I haven't even begun to think about what to include in my portfolio, and in a way it is harder since I have no specific focus in mind. I'm not, at least at present, thinking about applying to another course, degree or otherwise, although I suppose I just might be wanting to do so next year. Luckily we have a week after the Pathway assessment to assemble our portfolios for a separate assessment session on 6th Feb (although I'll be away over the preceding weekend so in reality I will only have a couple of days to get mine done). Oh help!
We also looked at my blog - this blog! - which I've been banging on about all last term, so it was very nice to have everyone take a peek. No-one else in the group is keeping a log, although several have their main research resources on laptops rather than in paper folders. General reaction was favourable, so I felt rather pleased, not least because I am the least technically competent among us, but have learned to do this.
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