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As I lay here in bed after completing my last bit of draft work I think about the MA course I am currently on but very close to completing. I can not believe I have just one more day until I will be handing my portfolio in and my artefact which has caused me and my partner nothing but stress hahha. 

He is great with video editing and I’ve constantly been stressing him out with the whole editing process which I am sure he will be glad once Friday is over. 
I can’t believe I have made it this far and actually only a few months off receiving my overall graduate grade. This whole journey has been one huge learning experience for me as I have learnt not only to be myself and consider my own thoughts and feelings but I have also learnt how to acknowledge my own knowledge and experiences. Before this MA I never took time to sit and do any kind of reflective thinking never mind reflective writing but this has been something which has helped me and encouraged me to talk and be critical when doing so. If it wasn’t for the use of these blogs I feel like my critical thinking wouldn’t have developed from module to module and I wouldn’t have thought about any prior experiences. It’s crazy that you don’t realise how much you do for yourself or other people until you actually sit and think or talk about it and this is something our lecturers have encouraged us to do since the beginning when writing out our area of learning RPL claims.
This course has taught me the importance of ethics and how to use data collection. It has taught me many ways of research methods which include qualitative or quantitative approaches to research and the importance of reading !!! 

Overall, I am very excited to how my inquiry investigation will finalise and I am looking forward to broaden my research with further investigation 
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