Not to toot my own horn,

but whilst I may not be the best designer (I admit, I'm not always the best in realising concepts- I'm often a lot better in recognising problems and then solving these), I have always had a fair amount of faith in my ability to write- and by that I don't mean just these blog posts, but academic papers as well.

We just got our dissertation results back today, and what a doozy! To fill you in, the title of my dissertation was Inscribing Identity: The Evolution of the Tattoo from Anti-Fashion to a niche fashion object, and the parallels between Dress and Tattoos as embodiments of Identity.

I was aiming for a Distinction, and walked away with a High Distinction instead, hooray!! A lot of the marking sheets were placed on top of the accompanying dissertation, so I did notice that quite a few people shared this mark too (how lucky that we aren't marked on a bell curve). This doesn't bother me at all (I have been known to get a bit jealous)- in fact, congratulations on everyone pulling through and doing so well! And why this doesn't faze me, to know that marks-wise I wasn't a stand out, is that the feedback I got was quite amazing, which is why I just have to share with the world:

"A highly considered analysis. There is evidence of a very high level of engagement with and weighing of theoretical ideas. The thread of the argument is very sophisticated and has been consistently sustained. Well done. Excellent work."

Chuffed, who, me?