studies

• Note: Four of six (AKA 20% of assignment) training courses completed today, will finish the others tomorrow and then I guess I need to find out what the typical whisky packaging process consists of.
• Note: My new uni course is very different in approach to the last one.. The previous course was comprehensively taught with mountains of relevant paper suggestions. This one is very much a hands off, go teach yourself, kind of course.
• Note: First lecture of new semester today, up to 2.5 hours long.. Not sure how likely it will be that I can watch and work every Monday afternoon but we’ll see.
• Note: Really finding the dry, recommended reading for my current uni course to be somewhat of a deterrent to studying.. I really need my final mark from my previous course to hopefully kick start my enthusiasm!
• Note: Back to work and uni today.. one of these things is better than the other.. My new course (on filtration and packaging) doesn’t have any prerecorded lecture materials uploaded (last course had all materials live weeks before it started) and it seems that rather than separating lectures and 1 hour live review sessions, we’ll have one almost 3 hour long weekly live session which will presumably be recorded and uploaded afterwards.
• Plans for 2021
• Note: Was added to next semester’s course today which starts on 11th of January and am already working my way through the ‘useful reading’.. it’s definitely going to be a practically useful course, probably less science-y than the previous and not as tedious as I initially thought.
• Note: Very productive day of research today, getting some sleep definitely helps! Though I still have some vestiges of the cold remaining, I’m definitely on track to hand in a good final assignment submission this weekend.
• Note: For anyone interested in how kōji is used in the production of saké, here is my poster on the topic . It is somewhat wordy for a poster and not a gleaming example of topnotch graphical design, and I was marked down for this, but I like words.
• Note: Assignment 2 mark received, will give me a nice boost to crack on with my final assignment tomorrow after a lost day today.. Fell slightly short of the high bar set with my first assignment but not by as much as expected.
• Note: I never really got into podcasts (pre-this morning I was subscribed to one) and I’ve never listened to an audiobook.. but I am thinking that in lieu of lectures for my upcoming pgdip course, I should try to see if either or both would be a good fit to enhance my studies.