Christmas Coursework

I had abit of a scare this week as my laptop broke down. I wont say who's fault it is but lets just say that I now realise that poking at the insides of machines with a screwdriver and spraying it with liquid does not bode well for the machine and any documents you may have on it. My laptop is essential to my studies within the University of Bedfordshire. It has the plans and research for my dissertation, my coursework and my notes (however little those notes may be.

As such; I cannot afford to lose it. So far, you can treat this as a cautionary tale. BACK UP YOUR WORK! A handy way to do this is to open up your e-mail and compose a new e-mail. Then attach your work to the e-mail and save it to drafts (or send it to a 2nd e-mail address if you have one). I believe this is a much better way of keeping copies of your work than things such as memory sticks/flash drives. It's saved in the cloud so you cant misplace it and you can access it on any PC (Or Mac if you're in to those horrible contraptions).

In the end, I managed to fix it so all is well. As it's the holiday season, I chose to do my coursework on the weekends only; leaving the rest as chilling time. For everyone reading this who hasn't experienced it yet, 3rd year isnt as hard as everyone is working it up to be. So relax and enjoy yourselves.

There were 3 courseworks set for the Christmas holidays; working at 1000 words a day (for each day of the weekend) I completed the one that's most due within 2 days. Just keep working like that and the other 2 courseworks will be finished in due time too

A Law Student's Christmas Break

Hello everyone and welcome to my new blog. My name is Paul Gastardo and I have just been newly appointed as the MARC Blogger for the School of Law in the University of Bedfordshire. I am a 3rd year LLB student and I hope to use this as a medium to convey my experiences as a Law student to you guys. Some you might find useful; some, maybe not so much. But I'll try to be concise and make sure you can get as much out of this blog as you can.

Now then, this is my first post and I'm abit lost as to how to go about doing this. However, I do have a vague idea so I guess I should just keep on writing this introduction. Within the University, I have been the student representative for my Law class for all 3 years. I am also PAL leader for 1st year Law students as well as the Councillor for the Law Society. I designed the Law magazine (coming to campus soon) and I am also the commercial awareness rep for aspiring solicitors.

Well, that's credentials out of the way.

Now onto the reason for the title of this post. As a Law student, you may or may not be aware that you have to do some things that are a little extra to make sure that your CV is just that little bit shinier than your all your course-mates. Hence all the stuff I stated previously. And now I am also the MARC Blogger for Law! this means that I have to put in extra work over the holidays.

I have 3 pieces of coursework to do over Christmas so that gives me just a week to do each. In addition to that; I also have to write one of these blogs once a week (So please check in every Friday). Alot of work! But all this is necessary in order to even have a chance at having a successful Law career. Anyway, this first post is getting a tad too long so I'm going to cut it off soon.

I have plenty more things to talk about. Things ranging from how to prep for exams & answering coursework (tailored specifically to how each lecturer wants your work to be structured and what they are looking for) all the way to little things like what books to buy and avoid (the lecturer's recommended reading lists aren't always the right books).

And I'll leave it at that for now. Stay tuned for more next Friday!!

Paul G, offline ;)