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Exams and coursework – experience of exams in university context.

Having submitted most of my assessed work for teaching block 1 last week, I only have my assessed choreography performance and the choreography workfile left to hand in. We have hit the ground running with Choreography since coming back, with

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Reflections on how term went, things happening at end of term, plans for the break.

The pace of this last term definitely picked up for me in the last couple of weeks. My assessment for Interpreting Plays is happening at the end of this week, and rehearsals for Choreography (for which the assessed show is

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Update on progress – how classes are going (specific highlights), social life, societies etc.

Just over one month into the academic year and Studiospace has already hosted it’s first show: DAT. DAT (Directors, Actors, Technicians) is traditionally how Studiospace kicks off the year and the format is specifically aimed at getting first years involved

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Reflections on start of the new academic year – where you are living, settling back in to Bristol, targets for the year.

After an extremely restful summer, moving back into Bristol was a very busy time for me. This year I have started my role as a senior resident in university accommodation, meaning I live in halls and am tasked with welcoming

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The New Year

As a Theatre and Performance Student, my course doesn’t involve written exams, for which I am endlessly grateful. Instead, I was overloaded with coursework over the Christmas break. It was fairly stressful balancing three large deadlines at once, including an

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Now For The Real World

This last term has been a whirlwind – I finished my degree on the 26th June and it still hasn’t quite sunk in. It was full steam ahead doing my final project – hours on end in the editing suit

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Racing To The End Of The Second Year

I love that our departmental society Studiospace allows theatre and film students to make some of their best friends across the years, but it takes a bittersweet turn as we draw closer to the end of the year. It seems

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An Awfully Big Adventure

I can’t begin to describe how strange it is being in my last ever term of university, working on what is potentially the last ever essay I’ll have to write (it’s definitely the hardest essay I’ve ever written that’s for

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Year 2, Teaching Block 2

The second term of second year is flying by. I have noticed a definite increase in workload and as two of my modules are practical as well as theoretical, it feels like double the amount of work. We have an

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END OF TERM 1, YEAR 2

There couldn’t have been a bigger contrast between the beginning of my second year and the beginning of my first year, as I had a bit of a rough time at the start of first year- I moved halls and

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