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Small nervous breakdown, but it'll be ok!
Nov. 4th, 2007 03:36 pm^ That is me trying to be positive. It isn't easy.
My dissertation is driving me up the wall. I'm doing Digital Arts and Technology, so it's got to concern both social/cultural and technological topics, and it's got to tie in with my final project.
Well, my final project is going to be a barcode scanner for food products that will show if they contain any allegens like wheat/gluten. It's programmed by the user for their specific problem (like celiac or peanut allergy) and even if the user doesn't know that something contains wheat because it's fucking obscure the database will and will flag the product as not safe.
I'm going to focus on the marketing and social networking side of things to fulfil my cultural quota, and the actual scanner fulfils the tech side. I do not want to change this project.
However, coming up with a dissertation has been next to impossible. It isn't helped that my dissertation lecturer has a major thing about dealing with females (since she is one and as such feels fucking threatened by anyone else with XX chromosomes). It also doesn't help that she hates technology (yes, she actually said this to us. On a tech course...)
So my original idea was to look at how modern tech had changed contemporary healthcare, including the cultural shifts. You'd think that would be ok, deals with all the areas and ties into my project. Nope. She hated it. Didn't think it was cultural enough. Pretty much tore it to pieces in front of the rest of the group.
So I've had to come up with another direction, one that still ties into my project and that I can find research for. I've managed to come up with this: How has marketing for technology changed over the past fifty years, what sort of consumer culture has this change fostered and how will it change in the future?
I've had a hell of a time reseaching it but, after a 1/2 hour crying fit and still in the belief that I'm going to fail my final year and it would be easier to quit now, I think I've got a good basis to go on. The only thing I need to find is some case study worth examples of marketing for specific technologies. But since I've got one hell of a headache now, I'm going to leave that until tomorrow.
It also doesn't help that I've got no motivation to do any of the work. I'm essentially 6 weeks behind because I just can't make myself do any of the tutorials or keep up to date with the work. Despite the fact I said I was going to manage my time and keep on top of the work I find myself doing it at the last minute because I just can't make myself work. This lack of motivation is worrying me, and I think part of it is because I got out of the habit of studying during my work placement.
Sorry for the venting. I needed to get this out. Uni is doing my head in.
I'm going to go and kill things for a while I think. Ah BioShock my old friend.
And doughnuts. om nom nom
My dissertation is driving me up the wall. I'm doing Digital Arts and Technology, so it's got to concern both social/cultural and technological topics, and it's got to tie in with my final project.
Well, my final project is going to be a barcode scanner for food products that will show if they contain any allegens like wheat/gluten. It's programmed by the user for their specific problem (like celiac or peanut allergy) and even if the user doesn't know that something contains wheat because it's fucking obscure the database will and will flag the product as not safe.
I'm going to focus on the marketing and social networking side of things to fulfil my cultural quota, and the actual scanner fulfils the tech side. I do not want to change this project.
However, coming up with a dissertation has been next to impossible. It isn't helped that my dissertation lecturer has a major thing about dealing with females (since she is one and as such feels fucking threatened by anyone else with XX chromosomes). It also doesn't help that she hates technology (yes, she actually said this to us. On a tech course...)
So my original idea was to look at how modern tech had changed contemporary healthcare, including the cultural shifts. You'd think that would be ok, deals with all the areas and ties into my project. Nope. She hated it. Didn't think it was cultural enough. Pretty much tore it to pieces in front of the rest of the group.
So I've had to come up with another direction, one that still ties into my project and that I can find research for. I've managed to come up with this: How has marketing for technology changed over the past fifty years, what sort of consumer culture has this change fostered and how will it change in the future?
I've had a hell of a time reseaching it but, after a 1/2 hour crying fit and still in the belief that I'm going to fail my final year and it would be easier to quit now, I think I've got a good basis to go on. The only thing I need to find is some case study worth examples of marketing for specific technologies. But since I've got one hell of a headache now, I'm going to leave that until tomorrow.
It also doesn't help that I've got no motivation to do any of the work. I'm essentially 6 weeks behind because I just can't make myself do any of the tutorials or keep up to date with the work. Despite the fact I said I was going to manage my time and keep on top of the work I find myself doing it at the last minute because I just can't make myself work. This lack of motivation is worrying me, and I think part of it is because I got out of the habit of studying during my work placement.
Sorry for the venting. I needed to get this out. Uni is doing my head in.
I'm going to go and kill things for a while I think. Ah BioShock my old friend.
And doughnuts. om nom nom
