STOP, START, CONTINUE

University is a huge step for everyone, mostly due to the constant lack of money and delicious food in the fridge that we're all too comfortable with at home.  Nevertheless, my firs term at uni was everything I expected it to be and much more.  After meeting some of the best friends I could have hoped for and successfully managing to complete my first module of work, in addition to bagging ourselves a house for next year! I am still extremely surprised at how well I've managed to balance going out, doing work and sleep... even if 9am lectures are sometimes a struggle.

After completing my first module, finally! We had a seminar to discuss the up and coming reading week activities.  All in all I am really happy with all the work I produced for my visual awareness briefs, in particular the mood boards and the exploration into brands.  This is an area of fashion and communication that was new to me before I started this course, i'm really excited to see what the next module brings and the new skills i'll learn.

In the seminar we were given a task entitled, 'stop, start, continue'.  This was a self analysis task asking us to define the areas in our life we would like to keep and the others we would like to change.  

STOP

• Napping in the day...  My ultimate downfall of uni life 
• Leaving things until the last minute.. I need organisation!

START

• Reading... Our reading lists are growing weekly and I need to start making time in my week to fit this in, even if its an hour before I go to bed or breaks between lectures. 
• Organising myself! When I started uni I bought myself a diary and promised myself I would organise my life...I'm still yet to start.
• Drawing... Since leaving art foundation i've done very little drawing, I need to get back to doing what I love and making time for small personal projects as well as uni work. 

CONTINUE

• Balance... Balancing work, sleep and socialising is never easy but I seem to be doing quite a reasonable job at it.
• Spending... Like everyone at uni, I'm a very poor student and living in my overdraft has become the norm.  I used to spend days worrying about money but i've began to realise that we're all in the same boat and life is way to short to be worrying about money at 19! 

Since I'm recapping on past work and I didn't really do much blogging throughout January, I've rounded up my month through my favourite Instagram photos... 

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Thanks for reading!

becky x