Tuesday 13th November - Textiles/Personal Statement Talk

We had a talk about personal statements in the morning. I'm dreading doing mine! We were told about the kinds of things we should include and the kinds of things we shouldn't. I find it hard to write about the things I'm good at - I feel like I'm bragging and that's not a good thing!
The most important part of the UCAS application process is the personal statement because it has to be personal to yourself. It has to say something about me that the university's I apply to will want to read and want to know more about. It needs to be eye catching from the very first sentence otherwise it won't really be paid attention to. That's a very hard thing to master. I think I'll leave that bit to the end!
The rest of the talk was just about generally how to lay it out, what things to write about in what paragraphs. The big universities like Central Saint Martins were asking for a really short, precise statement, basically in about 8 sentences! That was really something to think about.
In the afternoon, in textiles, we were burning different materials and fabrics. When Danielle had first told us about this whole manipulation unit, I wasn't really too keen about it and didn't want to burn things, but then I thought I'd give it a try. It turned out that it wasn't really as bad as I thought it would be.

I burnt different kinds of fabrics and material using a hair dryer resembling torch. Different fabrics reacted differently to the heat. Some completely burned and others shrivelled. I also cut up some bin liners into strips and then arranged them in a grid like pattern on top of a piece of greaseproof paper. Putting another piece of greaseproof paper on top, I ironed over the plastic and it shrunk. If I left the iron on a bit longer, holes started to appear in the strips of bin liner.