Mental Inadequacy

Without being bigheaded, I usually consider myself to be quite an intelligent person. Good memory, quick at maths, generally quite good at deciphering things and figuring things out. But when it comes to picking module choices, I have the mental age of a four year old. I don't know why my brain struggles so much to work it out. The system isn't that complicated, pick x number of modules from group A, B and C, choose whether you're majoring or minoring and if so in which subject, then make sure that you have 120 credits overall. (FYI each module is worth 15 credits, so preferably, when you're half field as I am, that's two modules per subject per semester. But oh my god. My brain just can't cope with it! It happened last year as well.. I came unstuck. Both times I've now had to draw out a chart, filling in core modules and working through it from there. I literally cannot think through it without a physical representation. It boggles my brain. But yes, after 40 minutes of looking at the options and trying to figure it out, I've submitted my choices for my final year at university. And if all goes well, this is what they shall be.

Writing for Children
Language and Gender
Special study: Forms of Autobiography
Writing for a Living
Stylistics
Smells Like Teen Spirit: Writing Popular Music Lyrics
Children's Literature

And if I get all of those modules I will be such a happy bunny. I'm so pleased with them; all the ones I wanted to do actually fitted in with the ridiculous system. Always been interested in the autobiographical form of writing, what I write is mostly teen fiction so the child based modules will be really interesting, and I've always wanted to try my hand at lyric writing, and I hope it's improved since the absolutely shocking (in a bad way) songs I wrote when I was about 15 that are still lingering like a bad smell on a music myspace page somewhere on the world wide web. I think it'll be a brilliant year, and in your last year at university, you really have to go out with a bang.