I’m halfway through my final semester now and after tomorrow I’ll be halfway through my assignments. I’m halfway there. This has probably been the fastest semester of my entire degree and I think it’s mostly because it’s the most chaotic. I’m not as alone or scared of everything but there’s so much to do when you start trying to actually climb the mountain that is life.

After today, my internship hours stand at:

42/100 Hours

I’m almost halfway there as well. When week 9 comes, I’ll be just over halfway for everything uni related.

Internship

I’ve just finished my 7th day, currently in my fourth week. I’m still enjoying what I’m doing and am starting to grow more confident in what I’m doing. I haven’t received formal feedback yet but am trying to be less tentative with what I’m doing.

I’m currently building up a list of things I’ve learned or now know that I want to learn in my development journal. I’ve been meaning to write up a proper reflection but haven’t done so yet because it keeps slipping my mind. I was terrified of needing to undertake an internship when I first realised I was going to have to, but am glad that I didn’t buckle beforehand and that it’s a mandatory (mostly mandatory) requirement for the degree. It has only been four weeks and yet it has already been a great learning experience and has helped direct me a little in terms of where I want to be/what I want to be doing after my degree.

Assignments

This week I have another literature review due (Tuesday), and then I’ll be working on a research methodology paper due next week. Afterwards it’s just a research proposal, an exam, a creative work, a workplace module, an oral presentation and an industry partner evaluation left … and there’s a meet up with my academic advisor somewhere in there.

Medical

So, I’m on to the next round of tests. I had an MRI last week and that was an interesting experience and now I have a sleep study planned in the end of September. My partner thought he might have coronavirus the other day but tested negative, so that’s also a plus. I take a handful of vitamins each day to boost my levels back up—I didn’t fail my blood test but I didn’t do well. I’ve also been trying to make sure I’m still aware of my mental health, practising mindfulness and all of that. It’s a lot easier to slip back into “I feel fine” without realising the stress and anxiety building up inside and I’m trying to better manage that at the moment.

Writing

I have been writing a fair bit. I don’t know if it’s a lot compare to my goals but X is just about to hit the 100 page mark. I’ll be doing more updates on it soon, especially since I have made so much progress on it. I haven’t written anything else and am barely getting anything down into my Morning Pages but once I graduate, I’ll have a lot more time to write (although that really depends on the type of job I’ll have and my hours, but I’ll be able to solely write my own things … also dependent on the type of job I get, I guess).

I’ve really started thinking about my writing a lot more as a career recently and have been meaning to do some actual professional development in terms of what I know and what I am doing. I go through the phases of “you’ll never make it” but am starting to wrangle with my inner-saboteur.

Social

My Dungeons and Dragons session resumed on Sunday and the day before that was my sister’s birthday party. The session was mostly combat with me low-key but not low-key trying to kill them. They’re starting to make a bee-line for the “end game” and so I’ve had to rush some things, including levelling (which might not have been a good idea, I probably should have tried to still pace that out) and have basically just been making up NPCs and areas on the fly. The country I created has established cities and towns and areas etc. and there’s always at least one person I know in a town but recently I haven’t been bothering to prepare much more than that because apparently the sessions are better when I’ve had less prep.