Marla Boland

 I can say that my second week was still just as overwhelming. I'm struggling to stay positive with my capability of completing the work. The lecturers are amazing and not the problem. I'm reading and listening to the information but I'm not sure how much is staying in. We did a drawing exercise on Tuesday and after seeing others attempts at drawing, it made me feel that most of the others have a natural ability with the art side of things. It's making me question if I've chosen the right course. But Wednesday's lecture in Introduction to Design Studies did help with making me feel that if there is a whole class on helping stay positive and trying to give you different tools to help you get through, I think there must be a lot of others feeling the same way. I will keep putting in the time and work this week and see how I go. 

 How would I describe my first week at uni??? Well in one word overwhelming! The amount of information given in that first week was a lot for me, it's been 30 years since completing my nursing degree and a lot of things have changed and evolved. For one studying online, with no paper books is a huge adjustment. I do like paper. I have printed some things such as assessment briefs that has made me feel a bit more settled with being able to see it on my desk.  My first class of Bespoke Decoration was not as overwhelming as the Graphis Communications. For some reason I had not given to much thought on the drawing side of design. So our first assessment came