From my January 10th entry…

[T]he module I’m taking this semester has all the elements of a possible distinction.

1) Brilliant lecturer.
2) Brilliant subject content.
3) Brilliant use of media.
4) Not very brilliant competition.

Of course, there’s the possibility I might be underestimating my fellow coursemates, but the module in question: Engineering Fiction: Science and Technology in Literature, may just be my ticket out of probation hell. Asst. Prof Tamara Wagner has come up with an amazing line-up of media for our “texts”: Shelly’s Frankenstein, Wells’ Time Machine, the 2000 BBC production Pandaemonium among others.

The exam itself consisted of only one essay question (of a choice of three) and twenty multiple choice questions. The rest of our “texts” - other than those mentioned above - included Star Trek episode “The City on the Edge of Forever” and 1985 movie “Brazil”. In fact, the essay topic I picked was on “Dystopia” and its applications in The Time Machine and Brazil - the first essay I managed to write 5 pages on. (don’t laugh… I failed Lit and I barely passed Econs because I couldn’t write more than 3 pages per question.)

The ‘A’ was hardly unexpected. =P