Last Friday I had my last exam of third year, which was also the last assessment of third year, which was also the last year of uni - which means I am essentially done with uni. To be honest I am still processing all this. I can't quite believe that my time at Durham has nearly come to an end, and that soon I won't be able to call this little city in the north home anymore (although I think a part of me will always consider it home in some way). 

My last post was about the week I spent in Jerusalem on a uni research fieldtrip over Easter and since I got back from that trip I literally have not stopped. First I had the entire analysis section of my dissertation to write more or less from scratch, which took the two weeks until I travelled back up to Durham for the final time. Then when I got back I had an essay to write, then I put the finishing touches to and finally submitted my dissertation (see pic below), after which I had an 8-page research report from the Jerusalem trip to write. As soon as that was handed in it was straight into revision for my three exams, two of which were luckily 'seen' which means we got the questions two weeks in advance and had time to basically plan and memorise them before actually writing them under exam conditions. The thing I've struggled most with around uni exams in the past has definitely been the fear of the unknown and the infinite amount of information it's possible to learn in preparation for the questions which are impossible to guess, so it helped enormously to have the questions in advance. I'm also fairly good at just straight up memorising information so that part of it wasn't a problem for me either. The one unseen exam out of the three was potentially the worst exam of the education so far, but it's only a small part of one module which is a small part of the whole two years of assessment so I can honestly say I'm really not that bothered about it.