Review of the second year

Personal review of the second year

For the purpose of this blog I will be looking into my own account of the second year and how it’s progressed.

The year started well and I was full of beans and looking forward to my second year at uni after having not choosing the correct uni to start with. I had again set out my timetable and was following it well until I stated to have problems with my student finance AGAIN! I was really angry that they could do this to me again considering the fact that I have a family that I need to help support.

It probably took a good four months until my money was all sorted out, but by then I had started to fall behind. I really do think that the whole system needs a complete overhaul. The fact that my course is so intense and the fact that it is crammed into such a short space of time, makes it near on impossible to catch up once behind. I managed to make it to Christmas whilst still being slightly behind but had further problems that I do not wish to publish on the net.

At the time I felt like the whole world was against me and I just pray that I have done enough to warrant a place on the final year. For me, being 31, its not just about getting my degree but its about creating a better life for my family. I love my partner dearly and her three children that I love like my own. I only wish that one day we can provide a good enough and stable enough life to have one of our own.

I have worked in many dead end jobs and don’t wish to return there as those sorts of jobs can only provide you with enough money to live just above the bread line. I feel that I have enough life skills, experience of people and determination to pursue this career and I want my family to be proud. Within my martial arts I have learnt five tenets that are courtesy, integrity, perseverance, self control and indomitable spirit. All of these qualities, for me are not just about my martial arts but about life in general, Taekwondo is a life choice and not just about the fight I’m in but about the fights and struggles of life its self.

I have learnt a great deal this year even with some absence from the course. I just hope to finish everything that I can to a respectable standard in time for my grading and then start to focus on my final year.

For my FMP I am hoping to put forward the idea of creating a kind of luxury day out at a race course, the sort of thing you might receive as a present for Xmas or a birthday gift. I have chosen a nearby race course called Mallory park, which I intend to visit during the summer to collect reference from and to sit and draw. I want to specialise in Vehicle art and will be gearing this FMP towards it. Therefore there will be several vehicles modelled, but also to make sure I don’t put all of my eggs into one basket I will be modelling part of the track and probably a character. This will give me a good rounded FMP with vehicle, environment and character art all in it, not to mention the 2D art that I will create for all of the assets, locations and vehicles that I intend on putting in it.

I hope that my lectures like this idea even if the design may need refining. Next year, my final year is by far the most important year of my life and nothing is going to stand in my way from completing this year and accomplishing my dreams. In retrospect I wish that between the first and second year that I had given myself a head start in order to soak up any problems encountered during this year but this knowledge will make my final year a much stronger year as I will work all summer to churn out at least half of the briefs for the final year.

My luck must change soon, and you know what they say third time lucky!!