Hello, my name is Emily and I’m from a small village in East Lothian, just outside of Edinburgh. At the moment I am leaning towards writing my dissertation on an issue relating to race history. I was torn between writing on a race history topic and a gender one but the closure of archives and lack of online material for one of my ideas has pretty much made the decision for me! My experience with online learning has been very mixed! Some parts of it I am really enjoying and other parts of it I find very frustrating but towards the end of last semester I was starting to get into the swing of it so hopefully I will fall back into it again.