First day back of the second year, and it doesn't even feel like we have had a 3 month break.... BUT glad to be back and looking forward and a little nervouse about what the 2nd year has in store for us.
For our first session back as a warm up (similar to what we did last year at this point) we had the task set to write
-5 reasons you chose the programme
-5 things you want to learn
-5 things you think are your strengths
-5 things you want to improve
- 5 ways to evaluate your progress
- 5 questions you want to find the answers to
These initially were all individual thoughts that we just tried to get out of our heads onto paper, we all had 30 private points / questions
We were then put into groups to try and find 10 points that everybody shared.
There seemed to be these common areas (above) that everybody kept on suggesting. We tried to select the statements that we all felt effected us.
W then swapped our lists of 10 with another group and tried to make each of their chosen statements into a question, as you can see below.
After all of the groups handed in the final questions, Simon and Lorraine collated the most commonly occurring questions and gave us some useful answers, the question I was most intrigued in was the one about
9. What do I want to specialise in?
even though i know they cant answer the question for me I still wanted to know that I wasn't the only one who still had no clue what are i would like to specialise in as when it comes to my designs i still don't have a noticeable individual style which I feel comfortable working in.
Some people on the course have quite noticable individual style, this isn't a benefit at this point i dont think as I am still learning and experimenting with styles and techniques, but it might be nice to know I have certain areas which I am more talented at instead of being average at everything.
the answer to this response seemed to be - 'don't worry about it' it might take a little time but one day it will suddenly click and you will realise what you enjoy doing and what you are good at.
so this made me feel a little better.
