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Scheherazade

01-08-2010, 11:03 PM

Niamh and Veho> I am sure you'll do well! :)

And 10 hours is nothing as it keeps getting better and better! Enjoy it while it lasts. :D

Kasie> Are you doing any studies this term? Or will you be too busy enjoying the Egyptian sun? :D

I am done, Ladies and Gentlemen!

(And more than a week to go till the due date!)

Hoping to dedicate the weekend to editing and tidying them up but I would get a pass even as they are. Such a great relief!

I feel like going for ice-skating now :D

kasie

01-09-2010, 10:04 AM

It's back to Welsh classes for me on Friday - and I still have not done the homework - if I can get out of my lane. You'd only have to step outside my door to go ice-skating at the momeent, Scheh, it's like glass out there. :eek2: I have not been out since Tuesday, it's so treacherous underfoot.

Niamh

01-10-2010, 03:03 PM

I'm sure they'll be better than you think. Part two can't be any worse than mine will be. I haven't even started it yet. I've been staring at 'An Appeal to Cats in the Business of Love' for an hour, trying to figure out what it's about. But alas, I'm flummoxed.

How did you get on with the other assignments??

Veho

01-10-2010, 07:28 PM

How did you get on with the other assignments??

They went okay. I was a bit worried about the first one, because it was all new and I didn't really know what was expected of me, but I was pleased with my result and my 'assignment two' result was 1% more, lol, so that was good (I guess). I've seen your results when you've posted them on this thread; they're really good, you must be pleased!

I'm dreading the result for this third assignment though. How did you find the poetry part?

Mathor

01-10-2010, 11:13 PM

I start my spring semester on tuesday. I've felt too lazy this year. Last semester I was just too spread out with my time, and found myself procrastinating in my huge bulk of free time. To fight this I packed my schedule a bit tighter this semester. I'm looking forward to it.

Niamh

01-11-2010, 02:39 PM

They went okay. I was a bit worried about the first one, because it was all new and I didn't really know what was expected of me, but I was pleased with my result and my 'assignment two' result was 1% more, lol, so that was good (I guess). I've seen your results when you've posted them on this thread; they're really good, you must be pleased!

I'm dreading the result for this third assignment though. How did you find the poetry part?

oh this assignment is going to get an awful result! :sick: I've had no computer (still dont) so i only had a day or two to sort them out. I'll be happy if i get 60% in it. The poetry part was a bit daunting. I enjoyed it in the end but it is by far going to be my worst result. I just didnt have the resourses to work on it. I spent 10 hours last monday (the only day i had computer access for it) researching for it and writing it up. I never want to see it again! lol!

Veho

01-11-2010, 07:22 PM

oh this assignment is going to get an awful result! :sick: I've had no computer (still dont) so i only had a day or two to sort them out. I'll be happy if i get 60% in it. The poetry part was a bit daunting. I enjoyed it in the end but it is by far going to be my worst result. I just didnt have the resourses to work on it. I spent 10 hours last monday (the only day i had computer access for it) researching for it and writing it up. I never want to see it again! lol!

Maybe we'll both be pleasantly surprised!:lol:
I bet you were fed-up after working on it for 10 hours in a single day. I guess we'll have to look ahead to the next one now, I hope you get a computer sorted out in time.

Niamh

01-12-2010, 03:28 AM

Maybe we'll both be pleasantly surprised!:lol:
I bet you were fed-up after working on it for 10 hours in a single day. I guess we'll have to look ahead to the next one now, I hope you get a computer sorted out in time.

Fingers crossed. I'm going to do the Ireland Question because i'll be in Canada when i should be studying Shostakovich and i just wont have the time to research. Best of luck with tma03!

papayahed

01-12-2010, 08:21 AM

oh bother. I'm out of town during the first week of classes. I won't how well that's going to go over.

Shalot

01-13-2010, 12:08 AM

I must rant about my school experience. I have been struggling with my upper level accounting classes. The struggle has been with getting the classes I need. It's been going on for a year now. I think the universe is trying to tell me something and that something might be that I am on the wrong path maybe??? I don't know. Last spring semester I was enrolled at STATE college here and I go to class and all I needed was a business law class so that I could progress in the major according to their stupid prerequisite rules but the class was full. It was an auditorium class with an insane number of students and all you do is listen to this professor drone on about business law when he'd much rather be writing books about it. There were empty chairs all over the auditorium but the administration would not let me add in because according to the registration record the class was full and the fire marshall would be upset or something. And the lady who told me this was mean. I don't really blame her for being mean because the college was cutting academic jobs and programs right and left but paying our incompetent football coach a 1 million dollar severance pacakage so she could really care less about my academic plight.

And so I didn't get anywhere with that. Then I found a private college in the area and I found out I could take all the classes I needed without the business law prerequisite and it wasn't that much more expensive than state college so i enrolled there and started taking classes without having to take a business law prerequisite.

This fall semester I had some problems there. some of it was me and my health (my stomach is failing me) and some of it was my advisor but it's turning out to be one misunderstanding after another. I think I have the health thing under control for the time being but now if I could just get this class thing straightened out I would feel so much better

And I've found soemthing new that i am interested in. I have read all these books about spirituality in the past few months and I find myself not wanting to do this business stuff or listen to the news anymore. All I want to do is read more about the spiritual life and I have always been one to roll my eyes at religion but this isn't religion. This is more spirituality and it seems more meaningful. But it doesn't seem like I'm supposed to drop all my worldly pursuits just yet.

Man, I've rambled on. Anyway. Sorry to anyone who actually reads this post.

kasie

01-13-2010, 07:17 AM

I'm so sorry you have been having so many problems, Shalot - I do hope your health problems have been properly sorted and you are looking forward to a healthy New Year. I hope you can sort out your study problems too: for what it's worth, my two pennyworth is - try and finish the course: you will have knowledge that no one can take away from you but above all, you will have a piece of paper that says you have that knowledge and proves it to other people, for all you may consider it to be a worthless bit of paper. You never know when it will come in handy - I actually had to search out my forty year old qualifications the other day for a voluntary job to prove to the Criminal Records Office I was who I said I was and had the qualifications I said I had; and years ago I secured a couple of jobs because my qualifying certificate showed I had been trained in Nursery Education, though I never worked with very young children but I knew the theory.

I can't say I'm surprised you are no longer enamoured by Advanced Accounting :D . But on the practical side, it could be the passport into a job, even if you subsequently follow your spiritula interests - every organisation needs someone who can 'do the books'.

Scheherazade

01-13-2010, 10:40 PM

Shalot> How many more classes are you supposed to take and how long is that going to take?

If you have already invested a lot, please try to carry on and get your certificate/diploma. Like Kasie suggests, afterwards you can carry on with the other subjects you are interested in.

Good luck and I hope you are feeling better (physically) these days.

Shalot

01-14-2010, 12:14 PM

I don't have that many more classes to go, but I know it will take forever at the rate I'm going. Also, I do work so I have to work classes around that and Accounting is what I do, but I would have better job opportunities and mobility if I get more credits. I already a degree (English) so all i have to do is get the other Accounting credits and then sit for the CPA. I guess I'm just getting impatient with things. Anyway.

papayahed

01-14-2010, 06:19 PM

I don't have that many more classes to go, but I know it will take forever at the rate I'm going. Also, I do work so I have to work classes around that and Accounting is what I do, but I would have better job opportunities and mobility if I get more credits.

I always hear schools advertising about being friendly to working adults but where is that?? I sent an email to my professor saying I was going to be out due to work and explained that I do have a real job and she responded with attendence is key and perhaps I could find a way to be there.:brickwall:brickwall

Scheherazade

01-14-2010, 08:36 PM

Scheherazade

01-21-2010, 07:32 PM

Today I got an email from university: Thank me very much for handing my assignments on time; would I like to start working on the next ones?

:rolleyes:

No time to rest, to catch our breath...

Scheherazade

01-23-2010, 08:37 PM

I have a busy week ahead of me but I have lost my interest all of a sudden. Why am I studying? :(

Have to get ready for a presentation and a visit from my Prof.

Shalot

01-25-2010, 11:37 AM

I always hear schools advertising about being friendly to working adults but where is that?? I sent an email to my professor saying I was going to be out due to work and explained that I do have a real job and she responded with attendence is key and perhaps I could find a way to be there.:brickwall:brickwall

It depends on the school I guess. The state university here used to have an evening program but there were only so many things you could major in so if you work 8-5 everyday, then you just can't expect to attend any classes there. Also, if you did work part-time during traditional working hours, the class schedules are Monday, Wednesday Friday. So you would have to find a job that would allow you to come in on Tuesdays and Thursdays only....that's realistic isn't it? NOT. Or you can just work in retail or the restaurant industry and hten be too tired to fool with your homework....

I did find a private college here that has a night program in accounting. It's the only college offering it. There are two other colleges that have night programs but you can major in general business and that's about it. And, my mother seems to think that the degrees that you get from those night colleges are rinky dink and not worth what they charge and she thinks employers don't value those as much as they would the University degree...I don't know about that. Some of the professors instruct at different schools both at the University and in other places.

And sometimes, you can get a professor who doesn't care and will just pass you...so how do you rate or value an education? The student can choose to get more out of it don't you think?

Niamh

02-05-2010, 07:27 PM

Paulclem

02-05-2010, 07:37 PM

I'm in a total stinking rut! I have an extention on my assignment which i want to get in by monday (due today... thank god for the extention!) and i just cant write! :( I have my essay plan but just cant write! :bawling: what do you guys generally do in this situation?

Do something else first, but make a decision to start at a particular time.

Begin by adding lines to your plan as it comes to you. Don't begin at the beginning with your essay, just pop in sentences, ideas, thoughts wherever it takes your fancy. You may well work up a head of steam and do a bit.

If it doesn't work, at least you've got some lines you can still use. :thumbs_up

Scheherazade

02-05-2010, 07:39 PM

I also find it useful when I find couple of quotes from the text books that I might use in my essay; those give me a direction and help build up my arguments around them.

JuniperWoolf

02-05-2010, 08:05 PM

The Comedian

02-05-2010, 08:45 PM

I just applied for a small college (GPRC, only two hours away from Grande Cache and I know a lot of people there). I go in September. I'm only allowed to stay there for a year until they make me transfer to a big university (but not as big as the godaweful giant U of A), but at least for one year I get to feel comfortable with my surroundings. Then it's off to Augustana. It's a christian university, but I can deal with morning prayer; it'll bother me much less than the pretentious jerks at the U of A and the big, ugly city of Edmonton.

Yay! Sounds like a great plan. And, I completely with your idea that a Christian college won't be as bad as a pretentious big university. I went to a small Christian college (thought I am merely curious spiritually; and not Christian or anything like that) and I found the atmosphere to be more honest, kind, and every way as scholarly as a larger university.

Anyway, I hope it works out for you.

Veho

02-06-2010, 12:39 PM

Niamh

02-06-2010, 12:42 PM

I'm in work so hopefully i'll get some done. for some reason i've managed to get most of my studying done here with out any distractions at lunch time. Have laptop with me so fingers crossed!

Veho

02-06-2010, 12:50 PM

I'm in work so hopefully i'll get some done. for some reason i've managed to get most of my studying done here with out any distractions at lunch time. Have laptop with me so fingers crossed!

Oh, that's good. Hope you manage to get some done, after your writer's block yesterday!

Niamh

02-06-2010, 03:41 PM

I got two paragraphs written! 300 words oh yeah! Juat another 900 to got is all!

Annamariah

02-06-2010, 03:54 PM

I really should be doing my homework, if I want to get my Bachelor of Arts this spring...

papayahed

02-06-2010, 04:10 PM

I really should be doing my homework, if I want to get my Bachelor of Arts this spring...

Yeah, me too except substitute this spring with 2-3 years.:sick:

Niamh

02-06-2010, 04:27 PM

at least 3 years to go for me too. :sick:

Annamariah

02-06-2010, 04:35 PM

at least 3 years to go for me too. :sick:

I'm almost exactly halfway in my studies, 2.5 years behind, 2.5 to go (supposing I'll keep in schedule).

Let's make a deal - we'll both get through the rest of our studies and get that degree :nod: And everyone else around here too! :D

JuniperWoolf

02-06-2010, 04:41 PM

-_- Five for me.

Scheherazade

02-06-2010, 06:29 PM

I got two paragraphs written! 300 words oh yeah! Juat another 900 to got is all!Well, you have completed 25% so that is a big chunk...

And in my last assignment, my introduction only was 800 words so you are all right! :D
-_- Five for me.What will you be studying Juniper?

I will be done in June this year; even though I am dreading all the assignments that are waiting for me, I am glad I have decided to complete it in 2 years instead of 3 :)

After that, I might go for another course which will take me at least 2 more years but not sure yet.

Niamh

02-06-2010, 08:03 PM

you remember how much of a challenge it was to get all the info you want into so few words right? :p

I'm almost exactly halfway in my studies, 2.5 years behind, 2.5 to go (supposing I'll keep in schedule).

Let's make a deal - we'll both get through the rest of our studies and get that degree :nod: And everyone else around here too! :D

I suppose i can shake hands on that. Besides... i have a boyfriend who's promised to make sure i actually finish college for once! :D

JuniperWoolf

02-07-2010, 10:52 PM

What will you be studying Juniper?

Well, I decided to abandon literature studies after a year and a half and get into forestry science. I'm starting all over again in September. Once I'm done with my four years of bachelor's studies (well, four years more-or-less) I have my ranger school to attend. I don't mind so much though, I like school.

Scheherazade

02-08-2010, 06:38 PM

Well, I decided to abandon literature studies after a year and a half and get into forestry science. I'm starting all over again in September. Once I'm done with my four years of bachelor's studies (well, four years more-or-less) I have my ranger school to attend. I don't mind so much though, I like school.Good luck, Juniper! :)

That sounds so interesting; will you become one of those guys who wear red, then? :D

Niamh

02-08-2010, 07:27 PM

I finished and finally submitted my essay. next stop, TMA05 and Benin Art....
.... I'm exhausted. :sick:

JuniperWoolf

02-08-2010, 08:04 PM

That sounds so interesting; will you become one of those guys who wear red, then? :D

Haha, no, those are our mounted police. They're sort of like our FBI except that they work on the provincial and municipal levels too.

I'll be one of these:
http://www.timboucher.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/ranger4_400.jpg
Except younger and more girl-shaped.

kasie

02-09-2010, 07:02 AM

I finished and finally submitted my essay. next stop, TMA05 and Benin Art....
.... I'm exhausted. :sick:

Niamh - I don't know if it will be of any help to you but the Beeb did a programme about the ancient kingdom of Benin only a couple of weeks ago in their series lost Kingdoms of Africa: if you didn't see it, maybe you could catch up with it on iPlayer. There was quite a bit about the Benin bronzes, how they were made, what they signified etc (and the presenter was quite a dish......stop it, kasie, behave!)

Scheherazade

02-09-2010, 07:36 PM

Haha, no, those are our mounted police. They're sort of like our FBI except that they work on the provincial and municipal levels too. Oh, shame! Red would suit you well but green ain't such a bad colour either! :p

Good luck with it all! Come and find us here in September. I am sure a bunch of us will still be around. :D

Kasie> I remember you saying you are going to Egypt in February. When are you off?

Niamh

02-09-2010, 07:42 PM

Niamh - I don't know if it will be of any help to you but the Beeb did a programme about the ancient kingdom of Benin only a couple of weeks ago in their series lost Kingdoms of Africa: if you didn't see it, maybe you could catch up with it on iPlayer. There was quite a bit about the Benin bronzes, how they were made, what they signified etc (and the presenter was quite a dish......stop it, kasie, behave!)

I cant access BBC iplayer. a pooy. Maybe i can get it from amazon....?

Veho

02-09-2010, 08:09 PM

I cant access BBC iplayer. a pooy. Maybe i can get it from amazon....?

I can't see it on there anyway, unless I'm not looking properly!

kasie

02-10-2010, 10:15 AM

......Kasie> I remember you saying you are going to Egypt in February. When are you off?

Tomorrow! :banana: At least, I'm going as far as Heathrow tomorrow then flying to Cairo on Friday morning. I'm almost organised, just have to finish packing the case, weigh it, take out a few things, weigh it again..... Most items on The List are ticked, a few odds and ends to finish off - and as soon as I get on the coach, I'll remember something I didn't do, didn't pack, someone I didn't phone, as always. The i-Pod is loaded with five new books to listen to and the e-Reader is loaded with four books to read and, best of all, selected chapters from Lonely Planet's Guide to Egypt so I don't have to take the whole hefty p/b. (And, yes, the chargers are ready for packing.) Will be back March 1st, God willing and a following wind.

Niamh - sorry to raise your hopes - maybe the series will be available from Amazon, try it and see.

Veho - you're right, the Benin episode doesn't seem to be available, but the great Zimbabwe episode that is now available was episode three and the Benin episode was number four, so maybe it will be available shortly.

Niamh

02-10-2010, 12:08 PM

I can't see it on there anyway, unless I'm not looking properly!

I found out today that the Benin one is on BBC2 this sunday at 6.10pm. :)

Veho

02-10-2010, 03:31 PM

.Veho - you're right, the Benin episode doesn't seem to be available, but the great Zimbabwe episode that is now available was episode three and the Benin episode was number four, so maybe it will be available shortly.

Thanks Kasie, I saw that episode and wondered if they were connected in some way.

Thanks for the info Niamh, I must remember to watch it, as it'll be really useful no doubt.

Scheherazade

02-18-2010, 07:39 PM

Tomorrow! :banana: At least, I'm going as far as Heathrow tomorrow then flying to Cairo on Friday morning. I'm almost organised, just have to finish packing the case, weigh it, take out a few things, weigh it again..... Most items on The List are ticked, a few odds and ends to finish off - and as soon as I get on the coach, I'll remember something I didn't do, didn't pack, someone I didn't phone, as always. The i-Pod is loaded with five new books to listen to and the e-Reader is loaded with four books to read and, best of all, selected chapters from Lonely Planet's Guide to Egypt so I don't have to take the whole hefty p/b. (And, yes, the chargers are ready for packing.) Will be back March 1st, God willing and a following wind.Hope you are having a great time in Egypt, Kasie!

Looking forward to hearing your stories when you come back :)

Virgil

02-18-2010, 07:43 PM

papayahed

02-18-2010, 09:51 PM

ack!! I forgot to check the class website and we had homework due tonight. doh!!

Niamh

02-19-2010, 07:50 PM

got my 4th assignment back. got 52%. very disappointed with myself.

papayahed

02-19-2010, 08:09 PM

that stinks!

Niamh

02-20-2010, 02:46 PM

I made an arse of the question... It was on the Chapter Ireland and the invention of Tradition.... the qurstion was about the built heritage of Ireland and if the concepts tradition and dissent can be used to discuss the attitudes to Irelands built heritage. as the chapter was titled inventing tradition... i took built heritage to be this,( creating, inventing, building etc) and the chapter kind of gave it that impression as well... oh no. It was built heritage as in building and monuments. meh.

papayahed

02-25-2010, 11:16 PM

:nod::confused5::ciappa:Check it out, I am missing a test this week because I'm out of town fro work. I sent an email to the professor last week explaining the situation. The professor said it was fine and I could make it up as long as I brought her a note from my employer explaining why I couldn't make the test.:gnorsi:

Shalot

02-26-2010, 12:25 PM

papayahed

02-26-2010, 02:44 PM

Don't you love it? Do you have to get a signed note from the boss???

Yes! haha, I forwarded the email to my boss so he would know I wasn't kidding when I asked him to sign the note.:sosp:

Scheherazade

02-26-2010, 07:28 PM

Basil

02-26-2010, 08:07 PM

The professor said it was fine and I could make it up as long as I brought her a note from my employer explaining why I couldn't make the test.:gnorsi:
It's really going to suck when you have to get your parents to sign your report card. :eek:

papayahed

02-27-2010, 04:27 PM

Well, that shouldn't be too much of a problem... if you know how to fake your boss' signature!

:p

Lucky for me I was with my boss, I only see him about once or twice a year.:cornut:

It's really going to suck when you have to get your parents to sign your report card. :eek:

My biggest concern is the Parent-Teacher conferences. It's going to cost a fortune to fly my Mom down here.:skep::bigear:

Scheherazade

03-04-2010, 06:53 PM

How is everyone doing this term?

I cannot get motivated. I have my first deadline in May and then have to hand everything in by mid-June but I am just doing what I am supposed to be doing.

:-/

Niamh

03-05-2010, 02:01 PM

assignment due next week and i havent even started it. :( *gulp* Last two weeks have been a total nightmare and now i'm seriously behind.

papayahed

03-07-2010, 03:34 PM

How is everyone doing this term?

I cannot get motivated. I have my first deadline in May and then have to hand everything in by mid-June but I am just doing what I am supposed to be doing.

:-/

So far so good, I missed one test and did well in another and because our shutdown was postponed I'll have ample time to study for the next two.

Scheherazade

03-08-2010, 05:59 PM

Good luck Papaya and Niamh! :)

I have finally persuaded myself at least to sit down and have a look at the tasks I need to complete for this term. Not as bad as the first term I need to write about 10K words but I need to do two major researches to write two different reports.

I'd better start reading, in short.

Niamh

03-08-2010, 06:34 PM

I've decided to do an Open Degree. Was torn by my love of Literature and my want to continue Archaeology, so with the help of Kilted i worked out a whole Open degree combining Literature, Archaeology and Heritage Studies. :)

Mariner

03-08-2010, 07:55 PM

After spring break I'm taking College Agebra, Art History, Physical Science, and working for the newspaper.

I'm kinda excited for science. I haven't taken it in a couple years so I'm hoping it'll be fresh and exciting. Science is not a strength of my but it's a different subject from any I've taken so far at college so I hope I'll stay interested for the entire quarter.

Sometimes, though, it's hard to see a light at the end of the tunnel. It doesn't feel like I'm working towards anything when my degree is still a few years away. I wish I could just fast-forward to my senior year.

Hurricane

03-08-2010, 08:14 PM

Sometimes, though, it's hard to see a light at the end of the tunnel. It doesn't feel like I'm working towards anything when my degree is still a few years away. I wish I could just fast-forward to my senior year.

SO TRUE. It'll pay off in the end, though. Only 809 days until I graduate and the hard part starts...

In more upbeat news, I finally get to take more than one majors class next semester, and managed to luck out with two of the "must get" professors in the history department.

Mariner

03-08-2010, 08:26 PM

SO TRUE. It'll pay off in the end, though. Only 809 days until I graduate and the hard part starts...

In more upbeat news, I finally get to take more than one majors class next semester, and managed to luck out with two of the "must get" professors in the history department.

Are you a history major? I wanted to do history for the longest time until I realized one of the only things you could do with a history degree is teach, and I don't want to teach high schoolers history.

Hurricane

03-08-2010, 08:47 PM

Are you a history major? I wanted to do history for the longest time until I realized one of the only things you could do with a history degree is teach, and I don't want to teach high schoolers history.

I am a history major. I was stuck choosing history from among other choices like (of all things) Naval Architecture, Oceanography, and Aerospace engineering. I ended up with history because I figured I'd be better off getting all As in classes I loved rather than all Bs and Cs in classes I liked.
Besides, after a year of helping people with papers and understanding history, I realized I really like teaching people and helping them learn. One of the most satisfying moments I've had this year was a good friend of mine getting an A on a paper that I'd worked with him for hours on.
So, personally, I'm not too worried for my future employment prospects. As it goes, my long term employment goals drift between history professor and rogue Alaskan bush pilot, so check in twenty years from now and see what I say then.

Scheherazade

03-09-2010, 05:52 PM

Niamh

03-09-2010, 07:43 PM

Sounds like an interesting choice. Good luck :)

Thanks! :)
heres my plan!

Oct 09- May10
Arts Past and Present (60 level 1)

May10- approx Oct 10
Start Writing Fiction (10 level 1)
Archaeology: The Science of Investigation (10 level 1)

Nov 10- Feb 11
Heritage? Whose heritage? (15 level 1)

Feb 11- Oct 11
Approaching Literature (60 level 2)

Oct 11- May/Jun 12
Global Heritage (60 level 2)

first Summer break (woot!)

Nov 12- Apr 13
World Archaeology (30 level 2)

Overlap with (gonna be a tough few months!)

Oct 12- Jun13
19th Century Novel (60 level 3)

Summer break no 2!

Oct 13- Jun 14
Childrens Literature (60 level 3)

= 365 points towards BA (hons) Open Degree (360 needed)

I think because i'm only doing Lit subjects at level 3 i like to look at it as majoring in lit with minors in Archaeology and Heritage. :p

Mariner

03-09-2010, 08:52 PM

I am a history major. I was stuck choosing history from among other choices like (of all things) Naval Architecture, Oceanography, and Aerospace engineering. I ended up with history because I figured I'd be better off getting all As in classes I loved rather than all Bs and Cs in classes I liked.
Besides, after a year of helping people with papers and understanding history, I realized I really like teaching people and helping them learn. One of the most satisfying moments I've had this year was a good friend of mine getting an A on a paper that I'd worked with him for hours on.
So, personally, I'm not too worried for my future employment prospects. As it goes, my long term employment goals drift between history professor and rogue Alaskan bush pilot, so check in twenty years from now and see what I say then.

That is sound judgement. I don't think I have the patience for teaching right now, maybe someday though.

Any particular area of history you like best?

Hurricane

03-09-2010, 11:56 PM

Any particular area of history you like best?

I like European and US history better than anything else, but I'm pretty open to anything. I used to hate Asian and Middle Eastern history, but now that I've sort of been "forced" to learn about them, I like them a lot more, though still not as much as Europe or the US.

kasie

03-10-2010, 07:21 AM

Niamh - that sounds a really interesting course of study. I'm almost tempted to ask if I can join you! The very best of luck with such a well-thought-out plan of action - but then, you have some good back-up and support now!

Hurricane - don't think of 'History' as a set of information, think of it as an education and acquisition of skills: you are not only learning dates and battles and events, you are learning how to acquire knowledge, research a subject, collect and collate information, assess it, interpret it, how to analyse questions, make a persuasive argument, write succinctly etc, etc etc. Those skills are transferable - employers like those sort of skills. It will be the skills rather than the in-depth historical knowledge you sell to a prospective employer so think less 'What can I do with History?', more 'Who can use these skills I have acquired while learning History and how do I persuade them I'm just the candidate they are looking for?'

Hurricane

03-10-2010, 12:19 PM

Kasie-Oh, definitely. Being a lawyer, businessman, etc. doesn't really appeal to me though.

Niamh

03-10-2010, 06:55 PM

Mariner

03-10-2010, 07:34 PM

I like European and US history better than anything else, but I'm pretty open to anything. I used to hate Asian and Middle Eastern history, but now that I've sort of been "forced" to learn about them, I like them a lot more, though still not as much as Europe or the US.

I love European history. I'm actually a big fan of Mediterranean history. Studying and reading about Byzantium and the Crusades is one of my favorite hobbies! History is fun :)

*Classic*Charm*

03-16-2010, 07:12 PM

I've come to a conclusion: there are so such things as midterms. No, not when your "midterms" run from the third week of the semester right through until the last week of class. And they're worth as much as the final. I still have three midterms to write and there are only three weeks of class left! WHAT IS THIS?

Speaking of non-midterms, I have one tomorrow that I should really be studying for right now. Whoops.

Niamh

03-17-2010, 07:03 PM

TMA 05 submitted... time for TMA06. only three more to go and the course is over!

carleymarie

03-18-2010, 04:11 AM

How is everyone doing this term?

I cannot get motivated. I have my first deadline in May and then have to hand everything in by mid-June but I am just doing what I am supposed to be doing.

:-/

I seem to be in the same boat. I only have 4 assignments and 1 exam until I finish my first degree and just can't seem to get those last couple of assignments done. I've been super on top of my work this semester, but it seems to have dropped off in the last few days. Good thing I've got a week to finish two of them (and they're short essays, so I just need a good couple of days of work).

Scheherazade

03-21-2010, 01:40 PM

Another weekend wasted (though it wasn't due to laziness but some unexpected events) and I am seriously panicking now.

I have to finish something by next weekend.

Oh, I am also taking a short course so I will have to worry about the assignments for that one too.

Good luck and all the best to everyone who has looming assignments! :)

Hurricane

03-21-2010, 06:50 PM

Just got back from spring break tonight. Six more weeks of school to finish out the semester...it's insane: I'm already almost a junior in college. It's gone by so fast.

JuniperWoolf

03-21-2010, 10:48 PM

After turning 22 this weekend, I'm a bit shy of starting university all over again with all the eighteen year olds. *sigh* I can just hear my stupid babbling now...

"well, yeah, I am 22, but I already finished a couple of years of my arts degree, but I decided to switch into the sciences, and I don't like big universities or cities, so I transfered out of the University of Alberta into a little regional college because I wanted to, not because I did badly or anything, not that there's anything bad with a little college, they totally teach the same stuff, and an institution's prestige doesn't really matter when you're just getting your bachelor's degree, and I'm not an academic snob or anything like that..."

*awkward stares*

*blush*

motherhubbard

03-22-2010, 11:46 AM

I think school is going to be the death of me- really. I'm on day 1 of 5 of week 11 of 16. I have a second interview at my first choice on Wedensday. Man, I need a pill. I don't know how my family is living with me.

pussnboots

03-22-2010, 12:03 PM

Niamh

03-22-2010, 03:18 PM

goodluck on wednesday MH!

papayahed

03-22-2010, 05:29 PM

Scheherazade

03-22-2010, 06:31 PM

After turning 22 this weekend, I'm a bit shy of starting university all over again with all the eighteen year olds. *sigh* I can just hear my stupid babbling now... Or you can tell them that you are being relocated under the Witness Protection Programme and even though you are actually 19, they have given you the ID of a 22 years old.

:D
I think school is going to be the death of me- really. I'm on day 1 of 5 of week 11 of 16. I have a second interview at my first choice on Wedensday. Man, I need a pill. I don't know how my family is living with me.Good luck! :)

Niamh

03-22-2010, 06:36 PM

You'll be grand Juniper! :nod:

papayahed

03-28-2010, 05:49 PM

Whoooo Hooooo!! Got a 102 on my last test.

Scheherazade

03-28-2010, 05:52 PM

Whoooo Hooooo!! Got a 102 on my last test.Way to go! (Assuming it is out of 100... Right? :D)

papayahed

03-28-2010, 06:07 PM

Way to go! (Assuming it is out of 100... Right? :D)

hmmmm, I was hoping nobody would ask that!! :svengo:

(hahaha - yes it was out of 100)

Niamh

03-30-2010, 11:35 AM

I got 78% in TMA05! Now i just have to do TMA06... Burial at Thebes. Sweet!

kasie

03-30-2010, 12:34 PM

Well done, you! Onwards and Ever Upwards to the Thebes assignment...

Scheherazade

03-30-2010, 06:56 PM

Excellent result, Niamh! You are doing so well :)

Niamh

03-31-2010, 07:54 AM

thanks! Just one slip up so far but i hope to keep the next three assignments around the same grade. No way am i getting a 52% again!

papayahed

04-07-2010, 07:44 AM

4 weeks left.

Annamariah

04-08-2010, 02:33 PM

I stayed up all night (went to bed after 9 am on yesterday morning), but it was so worth it. I managed to return the first version of my Proseminar Paper on time, and tomorrow I'll hear what everyone has to say about it. I still have to prepare some kind of presentation for tomorrow about it, but that doesn't sound bad at all in comparison of what I've already achieved.

Finishing that version of the paper and returning it was a HUGE weight lifted off my shoulders. I was also surprised that even though I stayed up the whole night (just drinkin sweet tea and eating a couple of rice cakes), I never got really exhausted, just a little tired, and even that passed. In the morning when the rest of the world was waking up and I had finished my job for the night I felt absolutelly awesome. And not tired. I went to bed for a few hours, though, before waking up, taking a shower and going to a bar with other translator students (I don't drink alcohol, but it was nice to go out and see people and just chat).

If I felt this good after finishing the first version (not even the final one yet) of my proseminar paper (the final version of which is going to be my Bachelor's Thesis), just how great am I going to feel after finishing my Master's Thesis? :D

*Classic*Charm*

04-08-2010, 05:46 PM

Had my last day of classes today. Exams on monday, tuesday, wednesday, and two on friday. And I feel damn good about how this is going to go.

papayahed

04-08-2010, 06:17 PM

If I felt this good after finishing the first version (not even the final one yet) of my proseminar paper (the final version of which is going to be my Bachelor's Thesis), just how great am I going to feel after finishing my Master's Thesis? :D

Alllllll Riiiigghhtttt!!

Had my last day of classes today. Exams on monday, tuesday, wednesday, and two on friday. And I feel damn good about how this is going to go.

Good Luck on exams.

Niamh

04-08-2010, 06:29 PM

good luck you two! :D

kasie

04-09-2010, 07:05 AM

Good Luck to everyone with exams in the offing.

I have chickened out of the (optional) exam in the Welsh course - said I had Been There, Done That, Got the T-shirts/Certificates for most of my professional life and wasn't going to do it any more now that I've retired; this was Learning For Pleasure. The tutor agreed and surprisingly, so did the most of other students, especially those who were also retired teachers and had taken the Introductory exam two years ago and realised exams are just as horrific taken for 'pleasure' as for real. We are all sorry for those of our fellow students who have been sent to the course from their place of work and so have to make a stab at the exam at least to prove they really have been at a course not skiving off and their boss's money has not been spent in vain. (Welsh and English not only have equal status in the workplace but companies have to offer the option of working in either language, especially in the Public Service sector, so a certain number of employees have to be Welsh speakers, on paper anyway.)

Niamh

04-09-2010, 07:57 AM

I'm now an hour over due with my assignment. I hope to get it done in a few hours!

Veho

04-09-2010, 09:00 AM

I'm now an hour over due with my assignment. I hope to get it done in a few hours!

We get a 12 hour grace period still. That's what it says in the FAQs on StudentHome page. I've not finished mine either, I have about 500 words to do.

Scheherazade

04-09-2010, 09:08 AM

Good luck to everyone who are getting ready for their exams! :)

Niamh and Veho> Please close this window and go back to Word document that is open underneath! :p

Niamh

04-09-2010, 09:28 AM

We get a 12 hour grace period still. That's what it says in the FAQs on StudentHome page. I've not finished mine either, I have about 500 words to do.

:eek: Do we really? Thats news to me! Which Q are you doing? I'm doing Thebes. I've four pages of notes and only got 300 words written. :blush:

Good luck to everyone who are getting ready for their exams! :)

Niamh and Veho> Please close this window and go back to Word document that is open underneath! :p

Ahem... Yes boss. :blush:

I need to register for my Archaeology course.. Its nice going back to my roots! :D

Veho

04-09-2010, 10:57 AM

:eek: Do we really? Thats news to me! Which Q are you doing? I'm doing Thebes. I've four pages of notes and only got 300 words written. :blush:

Ahem... Yes boss. :blush:

I need to register for my Archaeology course.. Its nice going back to my roots! :D

I'm doing option one... Only because I haven't read further than chapter three in book three. :blush: This is what it says on FAQs:

What time do I have to submit my eTMA or eECA by?
With effect from 25 December 2009, the cut off time for tutor marked assignments (TMAs) and computer marked assignments (CMAs and iCMAs) changed to 12 noon (UK time). This means that you should ensure that your assignment is submitted to arrive by noon (UK time) on the cut off date. This brings the policy for all assignments into line with end of course assessments (ECAs). However, there will be a 12 hour grace period so any assignments received up until midnight (UK time) on the cut off date will still be accepted. Any assignments received on or after midnight will not be accepted unless an extension has previously been agreed. No extensions are permitted for CMAs or iCMAs.

Scheherazade, Lit-Net is so much more interesting than this assignment though! Good luck Niamh...

Niamh

04-09-2010, 11:20 AM

I'm doing option one... Only because I haven't read further than chapter three in book three. :blush: This is what it says on FAQs:

What time do I have to submit my eTMA or eECA by?
With effect from 25 December 2009, the cut off time for tutor marked assignments (TMAs) and computer marked assignments (CMAs and iCMAs) changed to 12 noon (UK time). This means that you should ensure that your assignment is submitted to arrive by noon (UK time) on the cut off date. This brings the policy for all assignments into line with end of course assessments (ECAs). However, there will be a 12 hour grace period so any assignments received up until midnight (UK time) on the cut off date will still be accepted. Any assignments received on or after midnight will not be accepted unless an extension has previously been agreed. No extensions are permitted for CMAs or iCMAs.

Yeay!!!

Scheherazade, Lit-Net is so much more interesting than this assignment though! Good luck Niamh...

hehehe! Definitely in the case of the assignment you are doing. goodluck! I had one look at that one and went... "no way jose!"

Niamh

04-09-2010, 03:30 PM

I'm finally done!! Load of rubbish but at least i dont have to worry about it anymore!

Veho

04-09-2010, 06:28 PM

I'm finally done!! Load of rubbish but at least i dont have to worry about it anymore!

Yay! How many words did you do? I only did 1260, so I might be penalised but I just couldn't think of anything else to say.

Scheherazade

04-09-2010, 06:29 PM

WTG, Niamh and Veho! :)

When is the next one? Do you have an exam in September?

Niamh

04-09-2010, 06:34 PM

Yay! How many words did you do? I only did 1260, so I might be penalised but I just couldn't think of anything else to say.

I think i got 1434 words. I actually had to ADD words for the first time. All my other essays i was taking words OUT because i'd gone way over. Not taking it as a good sign :( *gulp*

Whens the latin starting?

WTG, Niamh and Veho! :)

When is the next one? Do you have an exam in September?

Thanks Scher! Our next assignment is due at the end of the month. We have no exams. End of Course Assessment due 28th May. :) Two essays to go! woot! :D

Scheherazade

04-09-2010, 06:41 PM

Thanks Scher! Our next assignment is due at the end of the month. We have no exams. End of Course Assessment due 28th May. :) Two essays to go! woot! :DOh, that is kewl.

When I did my OU courses, we had exams in September, which meant revising for the whole year but I am glad they got rid of that now. :)

Niamh

04-09-2010, 06:46 PM

Some of them still have exams at the end of them... I'm not looking forward to those. :( Thankfully the next course i'm doing "Archaeology: The science of investigation" has a ECA too. *sigh of relief*
my first exam will be at the end of the course i start next february "Approaching Literature".

Scheherazade

04-09-2010, 06:53 PM

When is the Archaelogy course is starting then?

You are a busy bee! :)

Niamh

04-09-2010, 07:14 PM

end of may. It finishes in time for me to start a course on Heritage in October. I think i posted my intire degree plan a few pages back... :nod: I'm hoping to do Start writing fiction at the end of may too...

Scheherazade

04-09-2010, 07:26 PM

Very ambitious :) But, I am sure, with your determination, it won't be a problem :)

May the force be with you!

Niamh

04-09-2010, 07:45 PM

you call it determination... i call it blackmail. :p hehehe I've been told i have to get my degree or else.... :p

Veho

04-10-2010, 06:37 PM

WTG, Niamh and Veho! :)

Thank you!:D

I think i got 1434 words. I actually had to ADD words for the first time. All my other essays i was taking words OUT because i'd gone way over. Not taking it as a good sign *gulp*

Whens the latin starting?

1424 isn't too bad though! Only 60 short.
It starts in October. Looking forward to it!

*Classic*Charm*

04-10-2010, 06:38 PM

What are you studying Veho?

I'm failing as we speak. Right Scher? :p

Niamh

04-10-2010, 06:39 PM

you're not failing CC!

Veho

04-10-2010, 06:42 PM

What are you studying Veho?

I'm failing as we speak. Right Scher? :p

I was studying English language and lit, but I've changed it to Modern Languages, so English language, German and Latin.

I'm sure you're not failing! What are you studying?

*Classic*Charm*

04-10-2010, 06:42 PM

I was studying English language and lit, but I've changed it to Modern Languages, so English language, German and Latin.

I'm sure you're not failing! What are you studying?

Oh nice! I'm studying animal biology. Five exams this week. And when I've been in the games forum for the past almost 4 hours instead of studying, oh yeah, I'm failing big time hahaha

Scheherazade

04-10-2010, 06:58 PM

You are not failing, CC... You are a living example that a confident student can afford wasting... I mean spending hours playing games days before her exams!

:D

*Classic*Charm*

04-10-2010, 07:00 PM

You are not failing, CC... You are a living example that a confident student can afford wasting... I mean spending hours playing games days before her exams!

:D

If by confident, you mean, in denial, then sure :D

Niamh

04-10-2010, 07:06 PM

you are in denial. You are going to Ace!

*Classic*Charm*

04-10-2010, 07:17 PM

Ah, you guys are sweet. To be quite honest, I've ever felt as confident about a semester of exams as I do for these ones. I'm actually looking forward to writing them, and normally I have extreme test anxiety.

motherhubbard

04-10-2010, 11:04 PM

I think I just finished my last task for my exit portfolio. I have to do an introduction that links all of the work to the standards for my program. That sounds like it could take some work, but not too much. Then I submit the whole thing and a reviewer checks it out. If he needs something more he'll let me know and if not I'm done with homework until I start a master's program, and that won't be for three years! I wonder who I'll be without homework to do?

Niamh

04-11-2010, 06:18 AM

motherhubbard

04-11-2010, 08:15 AM

all too true

kasie

04-11-2010, 10:48 AM

I was studying English language and lit, but I've changed it to Modern Languages, so English language, German and Latin.

I'm sure you're not failing! What are you studying?

Latin's a modern language? :confused:

*Classic*Charm*

04-12-2010, 11:22 AM

One down!!!:willy_nilly:

Scheherazade

04-12-2010, 12:16 PM

One down!!!:willy_nilly:Way to go!

:santasmil

*Classic*Charm*

04-12-2010, 12:19 PM

Way to go!

:santasmil

Thanks! And if I get less than an 80, I'll contest it :D

Niamh

04-12-2010, 06:41 PM

One down!!!:willy_nilly:

woohoo!

papayahed

04-12-2010, 07:20 PM

I'm skipping tonight!!!!!:party:

*Classic*Charm*

04-12-2010, 07:25 PM

I'm skipping tonight!!!!!:party:

What a rebel :ihih: We've got a bad influence on our hands, ladies!

Annamariah

04-13-2010, 03:26 PM

I just today got the last of the books I need for my Proseminar Paper / Bachelor's Thesis. Now I just need to find something useful from those books and write those things in my paper and do some little tweaking here and there (I got some really good feedback on Friday), and then maybe I'll get that degree soon :)

*Classic*Charm*

04-13-2010, 05:05 PM

Two down!:banana:

Niamh

04-13-2010, 06:23 PM

woot!

*Classic*Charm*

04-14-2010, 04:35 PM

Threeee Down!! :hurray:

(Sorry for the frequent updates, I'm just loving this!)

Niamh

04-14-2010, 04:46 PM

you go CC!

*Classic*Charm*

04-16-2010, 05:10 PM

DOOOONNNNNEEEEE!!!!!
:party:
Woot!

Niamh

04-16-2010, 05:54 PM

yeay!!!!!

Scheherazade

04-16-2010, 06:07 PM

Congratulations, CC! :)

Enjoy your break!

*Classic*Charm*

04-16-2010, 06:24 PM

Thanks :D

Niamh

04-16-2010, 06:43 PM

I really need to get assignment 7 out of the way but i dont know what to write! :(

*Classic*Charm*

04-16-2010, 07:01 PM

What's your topic ?

You're welcome to borrow the paper I wrote today on the effects of anabolic steroid implants in commercial breeding and wild-type sows :D:D

Niamh

04-16-2010, 07:11 PM

my assignment is basically a refection on my study and what i've learnt since my last refective assignment (TMA02). I'm allowed be a bit critical in it but i dont know what to write. once i get this out of the way its open road for my end of course assessment!

Scheherazade

04-16-2010, 10:42 PM

I can't stand the reflective stuff and it is everywhere nowadays! I usually hand in tasks with the half of the wordcount requirements :-/

motherhubbard

04-16-2010, 10:45 PM

I can't stand the reflective stuff and it is everywhere nowadays! I usually hand in tasks with the half of the wordcount requirements :-/

That's so funny to me!

I know it can be a drag, but it's so easy. Just say I liked this, I liked that, I didn't like this and I didn't like that and I would change this or that and next time I'll do this or that...bla bla bla and some additional fluff that sounds like you learned something deep from the experience and you have a nice fat A+

Scheherazade

04-16-2010, 10:49 PM

Exactly my point, MH! :)

They encourage you to make up stuff. Otherwise:

"What would you do differently?"
"Erm... Nothing! I quite liked what I did actually."

:D

*Classic*Charm*

04-16-2010, 10:57 PM

They encourage you to make up stuff.

Hahaha I agree. Doing reflections I always felt like I should make it sound as though I had some really wonderful, meaningful experience doing/reading whatever it was, and that I needed to write what they wanted to hear.

Give me an argumentative essay or a research paper any day!

Sorry we can't help you out Niamh :(

motherhubbard

04-23-2010, 05:28 PM

My exit protfolio is graded and I pass (it's pass/fail). Now all I need is my cooperative teacher to grade me and I'm done. Graduation is three weeks from tomorrow.

papayahed

04-23-2010, 06:32 PM

Alllllll Riiiiigghhtttt!!! Congrats MH!!!!!

motherhubbard

04-23-2010, 06:41 PM

thank you. I'm so ready to be done with this.

Niamh

04-23-2010, 06:47 PM

weldone MH!!!!

JuniperWoolf

04-24-2010, 02:22 AM

I just got my stupid course schedule... a year (AN ENTIRE YEAR) of noting but MATH!!! I think I'm going to die.

Niamh

04-24-2010, 03:42 AM

77% on my burial at Thebes assignment. not bad considering i didnt read half the chapter and forgot about the dvdrom! :p

kasie

04-24-2010, 06:41 AM

Congratulations, MH - will the family be able to come with you to celebrate the Graduation?

Well done, Niamh - at least you have time to think about your reflective assignment: I had one thrown at me in the viva voce part of my Finals. 'We're the people who set the written paper,' said one of the examiners with a wicked grin, 'what did you think of it?' I was feeling pretty flippant/exhausted by that stage of the proceedings so I replied, 'Oh, I've always wanted to tell an examiner what I thought of the paper.' 'Yes, yes,' they said, 'we really want to know. Tell us.' So I did - and I didn't get out out for another twenty minutes. I don't think they asked anybody else! (Yes, I passed!)

Juniper - as a non-mathemetician, I can only boggle at the thought of a whole year of nothing but maths. My grandson has just done one and I think he is mighty relieved the maths part of his course is now over. Good Luck!

Scheherazade

04-25-2010, 05:29 PM

Congratulations, MH! :)

*Classic*Charm*

04-25-2010, 07:25 PM

Congrats, MomH!

Juniper, that BLOWS!!

lostworld

04-27-2010, 01:21 PM

Only two weeks left then summer! I can't wait for it to be all done.

motherhubbard

04-28-2010, 05:25 PM

my cap and gown came yesterday. Max (age 5) asked me if I was going to teach or judge :)

Niamh

04-28-2010, 05:26 PM

Yeay!!! You are graduating soon! Woohoo!

I have my reflective assignment due on friday. just need to type it up! :D

kilted exile

04-28-2010, 05:27 PM

Max (age 5) asked me if I was going to teach or judge :)

Is there a difference :goof:

Niamh

04-29-2010, 04:49 PM

Assignment 7 submitted! I have to say i enjoyed writing it and i'm sure my tutor will have a bit of a laugh with it too! :D

Scheherazade

04-29-2010, 04:51 PM

Way to go, Niamh! :)

You have done it!

:party:

Niamh

04-29-2010, 04:54 PM

Just one more to go! the ECA! :(

I signed up for the Archaeology: The Science of Investigation course starting in May. Going back to my roots for the summer! :D

motherhubbard

04-29-2010, 05:56 PM

I bet you already know what they have to teach! Hope you enjoy it.

Annamariah

04-29-2010, 06:37 PM

Tomorrow we have the last proseminar class of the year (yippee, just one more week to go before summer "holiday", yeah right, I'll start working right away and will have no holiday whatsoever until the break week in October....), and it's my time to be the oppponent. I have read the seventeen pages of this girl's Proseminar Paper through a couple of times and made tons of notes, corrections and suggestiosn. I just hope she won't weel bad after seeing all that tiny scrawl of mine covering the pages... I can't help being such a grammar nazi! :eek2:

Niamh

04-29-2010, 06:37 PM

Probably! :p Read the course write up and seems easy enough for me! :D hehe!

papayahed

04-29-2010, 09:52 PM

Two Weeks, two tests, and one final left.

*Classic*Charm*

04-30-2010, 03:57 AM

I'm trying to check my final grades but the stupid server is too busy! It's 4 AM!! WHAT THE HELL?! I neeeeed to knowwww!

*Classic*Charm*

04-30-2010, 11:20 AM

:party::party::party::party::party::party::party:: party::party::party::party::party::party::party::p arty::party::party::party::party::party::party::pa rty::party:

Niamh

04-30-2010, 11:25 AM

I take it you got your result??? TELL US!!

*Classic*Charm*

04-30-2010, 08:40 PM

I brought my average up 14% over last semester :D I may just have a chance at getting into vet school after all!!

JuniperWoolf

05-01-2010, 06:06 AM

I hope you get in CC! It`s hard getting into vet school in this country, but we need more people who genuinely care about animals.

papayahed

05-01-2010, 08:05 AM

I brought my average up 14% over last semester :D I may just have a chance at getting into vet school after all!!

Allllllllll Riiiigghhhtttt!!!

Niamh

05-01-2010, 11:59 AM

I brought my average up 14% over last semester :D I may just have a chance at getting into vet school after all!!

Thats Brill! Weldone!

Scheherazade

05-01-2010, 12:29 PM

Congratulations, CC! :)

When do you apply for the Vet School? When do you find out?

Annamariah

05-01-2010, 12:39 PM

I read some books for my Bachelor's Thesis last night (yippee! that's progress) and I promised my teacher I'll send the next version to her on Wednesday, so I'd better get something written now!

kasie

05-01-2010, 12:45 PM

Congratulations, CC - the hard work was worth it!

That's some party.....

*Classic*Charm*

05-01-2010, 07:15 PM

Thanks everybody!!!

Scher, I'm not sure when I'm going to apply. I have one year left of my undergrad degree, but I think I'm going to do an extra semester (besides the one I'm doing this summer) so that I have a large selection of grades, because when you apply to vet school you have to pick from certain types of credits and I want to have lots of options so I can put together the highest possible average. After that, I'm hoping to spend some time traveling to get a break, and then work so I can actually afford vet school :rolleyes:. So hopefully the fall of 2012. But we'll see haha.

Niamh

05-02-2010, 08:32 AM

Jeez an i thought i was bad hoping to get my degree finished by 2014!

Annamariah

05-03-2010, 06:11 PM

At the moment I'm writing my Bachelor's Thesis (yes, right NOW. I'm not really spending my time at LitNet instead). I'll probably stay up most of the night tomorrow and work on it so that I can send the next (almost complete) version to my teacher. I only need two more books for theory, but if I'm lucky, I will get them tomorrow or at least on Wednesday.

Scheherazade

05-03-2010, 06:17 PM

So hopefully the fall of 2012. But we'll see haha.Now I know why you procrastinate! :p

Annamariah> A little break will do you good... Good luck! :)

Annamariah

05-04-2010, 12:12 PM

Thanks, Scher :)

Tomorrow I'll get the last book I need, all others I now have. This is going to be a long night, but hopefully a productive one :)

*Classic*Charm*

05-04-2010, 03:24 PM

Now I know why you procrastinate! :p

Uh, I know, right? I'm going to be in school until I'm 30 :(

Good luck Annamariah!!

Annamariah

05-05-2010, 05:38 PM

I sent my thesis to my teacher, not the final version yet, but almost complete one. I also took care of some other things that need to be done before I get my degree, and now it's really starting to feel like I'm going to graduate this summer. Yippee!

:party:

(I actually DID go to a party right after I sent the thesis :D)

If anyone is interested in reading my Bachelor's Thesis, send me a PM. The title is "Development of style in the diary entries of Emily of New Moon and their translations".

Scheherazade

05-05-2010, 05:48 PM

Uh, I know, right? I'm going to be in school until I'm 30 :(So what? Life starts after 30! :D

And some of us are still studying... Even though 30 is a memory of distant past!

Annamariah> One step closer :)

Niamh

05-05-2010, 05:50 PM

Uh, I know, right? I'm going to be in school until I'm 30 :(

You and me both! :D

hey thats great Anna!

JuniperWoolf

05-05-2010, 07:22 PM

Yeah, I'll still be working on my first degree until I'm about 27.

Niamh

05-06-2010, 06:18 AM

Revolte

05-06-2010, 06:24 AM

Sometimes I wish I didn't drop out of college. Last time I even had a work it was still hot, last year. Though I don't think I would ever be able to deal with my loud trap when the teachers tick me off. I had a speech teacher who had her idea of feminism all wrong and was more anti-men then pro women, that resulted in conflict. At the same time, I would love to go back to the English class, the teacher there was just wonderful. Though even if I could get over my bad feelings towards most of the teachers, which would be the mature thing to do, I haven't been able to finish or even be willing to attempt doing homework in, well, ever ( no joke on that one, I talked my way out of that, got kicked out of some schools, and districts for it though. ). But I always passed my tests and in class work :).

Annamariah

05-06-2010, 04:08 PM

I find it strange how you do a degree and then go on to law school or vet school or med school. Here if you want to be a doctor, you go to straight into studying Medicine after Secondary school. You wanna be a vet you gather enough points in your leaving cert to go straight into veterinary School. You want to study law? you go straight to study law, depending on whether you get enough points. Same with nursing and nearly every other profession. :nod: You want to do an arts degree, you can just do an arts degree! :D

Yeah, here too. First comprehensive school, then secondary school and then to university to study whichever profession you want a degree on. Usually three years for Bachelor's Degree and two more for Maste'rs Degree, if you keep on schedule.

Niamh

05-06-2010, 05:37 PM

yeah same here. BA's can take up to four years here depending on the subject. We also offer Dipolmas and Certificates at Uni level. :nod: Two years masters and up to five years PHD. My cousin did a PHd in Physics and ended up spending the best part of 10 years in Uni.

Annamariah

05-06-2010, 06:29 PM

For a normal degree five years is the recommended time, 3 years for Bachelor's Degree and then two more for Master's Degree, but in reality most people take longer than that. Partly because most students work part time (some even full time) during their studies to be able to pay for their living and full-time studies don't go well with that. I will probably graduate on time, because I'm lucky enough to have such low rent (I live in a student apartment with one flatmate) that I can survive with the student allowance + housing allowance which makes 469 euros each month. Apart from that I earn some money for working shifts in libraries every now and then when I am needed and have the time (this year for the first time I didn't have to go to the university every day, less classes, more homework). Also this year I got a summer job so I can save some money and get a mortgage for buying my own apartment once I graduate :)

*Classic*Charm*

05-06-2010, 07:23 PM

Well technically you only need a certain number of credits to apply to vet school (sorry, it's the only one I know the requirements for), so in actuality, you can apply after doing two years of an undergraduate degree. You end up with your Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, but not a degree. I'm choosing to finish my undergrad because most people don't get in after only two years of post-secondary. Usually their grades aren't high enough, they don't have sufficient extra-curriculars, and they don't do a good interview. By the time they get rejected, though, they're no longer registered for/ they've lost time on their undergrad. Most people here don't get into vet school on the first try, if at all, so I want to make sure I have something to fall back on, should I not get in.

motherhubbard

05-06-2010, 09:54 PM

Scheherazade

05-06-2010, 10:16 PM

Tomorrow is my last day as a student teacher. My house is a mess. My kids are fussy. My husband is grumpy. I'm tired. I have countless loads of laundry to do. I should be so happy, but I feel like I'm falling off of a tall building.You are at the end of another phase in this journey; enjoy! :)

It is never easy but the fact that it is not easy makes it even a greater achievement! Take a deep breath and say, "Well done, me!" :)

(And pay your eldest to do the laundry for you! :p)

motherhubbard

05-11-2010, 12:32 PM

Graduation is in four days and grades are not posted yet. Is that normal?

Niamh

05-11-2010, 01:15 PM

I have no idea! :D But i remember singing at the college grads when i was in DKIT and they were after the results... although in saying that i know a few people who had there graduations before the results... I always that that was odd.

Shalot

05-11-2010, 08:43 PM

I find it strange how you do a degree and then go on to law school or vet school or med school. Here if you want to be a doctor, you go to straight into studying Medicine after Secondary school. You wanna be a vet you gather enough points in your leaving cert to go straight into veterinary School. You want to study law? you go straight to study law, depending on whether you get enough points. Same with nursing and nearly every other profession. :nod: You want to do an arts degree, you can just do an arts degree! :D

The system you describe sounds much more practical.

papayahed

05-11-2010, 08:52 PM

Whoooo Hooooooo!!!! I took my last test tonight. I'm slightly worried because I didn't have as much time as I like to study.

motherhubbard

05-11-2010, 09:12 PM

:party: Last test party!

papayahed

05-11-2010, 10:09 PM

:party: Last test party!

Alllllllllllllll RRiiiiiigggghhtttttt!

Niamh

05-12-2010, 06:08 AM

give me about 17 days and i'll join in! YTime to get really stuck into my ECA!

motherhubbard

05-13-2010, 11:29 AM

Only one grade for the semester and it's posted...A! Now I'm done and graduation is the day after tomorrow.

*Classic*Charm*

05-13-2010, 12:14 PM

Only one grade for the semester and it's posted...A! Now I'm done and graduation is the day after tomorrow.

Congrats MH!!!

First day of class for the summer :(

motherhubbard

05-13-2010, 01:58 PM

First day of class for the summer :(

So soon? :shocked: I guess you'll be done that much sooner though.

Niamh

05-13-2010, 05:22 PM

78% in TMA07!!! :banana: go me! now still to get my ECA out of the way! *gulp* and start my new course *double gulp*

Scheherazade

05-13-2010, 05:23 PM

Congratulations, MH and Niamh :)

Niamh

05-13-2010, 05:26 PM

My current grades mean i've gained 73.55% in the course when i only need 40% to pass! Still one to go! :banana:

kasie

05-14-2010, 02:39 PM

Congratulations, Niamh - the hard work is paying off.

*Classic*Charm*

05-14-2010, 02:48 PM

My current grades mean i've gained 73.55% in the course when i only need 40% to pass! Still one to go! :banana:

YAY Niamh!!!

Scheherazade

05-14-2010, 05:44 PM

Niamh, that is excellent! :)

Such a great start to your BA!

Shalot

05-16-2010, 08:39 PM

My current grades mean i've gained 73.55% in the course when i only need 40% to pass! Still one to go! :banana:

I love this grading scale. I wish this applied to the accounting class I just finished. Actually, I did fine in the class. But you had to make a 70% to pass. I'll get a B+ for sure. Possibly an A- but I'll be surprised. She gave us a study guide and i spent too much time working on a concept that she didn't even bother to put on the test. What the heck?

But the point of this post is that I think my school should adopt that grading scale. :nod:

JuniperWoolf

05-17-2010, 02:02 PM

I have an appointment next wednesday to register for my brand spankin' new forestry sciences courses starting this September.

Niamh

05-18-2010, 04:01 PM

GAH! ECA is Due next week and so far all i've got is a page and a half of rough work (which i did on my lunch in work), and everytime i decide to sit down and study i decide that , "the bathroom needs to be cleaned", or "isnt that kitchen window filty, better wash it" and "oh while i'm at it i might as well wash all the net curtains"!!

Shalot

05-19-2010, 09:54 PM

holyshart. I got an A in accounting. I thought I really blew that final. Guess not.

Niamh

05-20-2010, 05:48 AM

wow thats fantastic Shal!! congrats!!

papayahed

05-20-2010, 09:23 AM

Alllll Riiigghhhhtttt Shal.

Niamh

05-25-2010, 06:47 PM

oh my god i cant believe i've managed to read, research and write my 2000 word ECA in 12 hours!! AND it actually reads really well! :banana:

JuniperWoolf

05-26-2010, 02:16 AM

Wow, that is actually really impressive. The most I've ever done in 12 hours is write a 1000 word essay on a book that I had already read (let alone read the book and then write twice the paper in the same amount of time like you did) and the essay that I wound up with was pretty crappy.

Niamh

05-26-2010, 07:50 AM

Just finished my final read through, corrections done and bibliography done! Finished on 1958 words!

motherhubbard

05-26-2010, 11:10 AM

great job Niamh! Have you ever seen the site bibme? Love it! it really helped me. http://www.bibme.org/ it does all of the work for you. I wish I had found it sooner.

Niamh

05-26-2010, 02:20 PM

yeah i've heard of it but i think the OU do theirs differently? They show us in out assignment books how to do them. :)

Scheherazade

05-27-2010, 06:49 PM

yeah i've heard of it but i think the OU do theirs differently? They show us in out assignment books how to do them. :)Are you using the Harvard system?

I have got only 10 days left till my deadlines and then I will be free... FREE!

All I have to do is to finish writing 12K words and put two portfolios together for the two courses I am taking.

:svengo:

Niamh

05-28-2010, 06:16 AM

I've no idea but i just tested out one of my titles on that bibme.org and it came out completely different.

Goodluck Scher!!

I started my next course already! Summer education! lovely...
{edit to add}
Just looked up the harvard... yep thats the one i'm using.

Annamariah

05-29-2010, 06:07 PM

Scheherazade

06-02-2010, 07:55 PM

All done! I've returned my Bachelor's Thesis, passed the maturity exam, and finished the rest of my assignments. Now I'm just waiting for the rest of the grades and hope I'll get them in time so that I can graduate this summer.Congratulations, Anna! We should throw a graduation party for you! :)

I completed the portfolio for one of my courses about 10 minutes ago, which leaves me two days for the other one (well, I have actually got until Monday but I would like to finish it sooner if possible so that the weekend is not ruined).

My brain feels like a piece of dried up sponge. I need to read something light-hearted tonight.

Niamh

06-03-2010, 07:41 AM

graduation party should be thrown in honour of MH, Anna and all our other graduates!

Hey Scher? how long does it usually take to get your end of course assessment sent back? is it a few months or weeks or...?

Annamariah

06-03-2010, 06:19 PM

Good luck with that last one, Scher! I rewarded myself with some light reading after returning my last assignments too :D

I already got a grade for my Bachelor's Thesis, and it was 5, the highest one :eek: :hurray: I couldn't believe my eyes when I first saw it :D

I'm still waiting for two last grades though (subtitling II and British and Irish literature), which I need to get before I can graduate.

Scheherazade

06-05-2010, 05:50 PM

Hey Scher? how long does it usually take to get your end of course assessment sent back? is it a few months or weeks or...?Not sure. Haven't done any courses with "end of course assessments". Had to take the final exams (they take about two months to mark those).

So, as of today, I am done! I don't mean I am done for now but I am done for good! For the first time in two years, I don't have any deadlines to worry about or wordcounts to dread.

It hasn't been an easy year but I am very glad that I took the challenge.

However, next time I decide to complete three years' worth of studying in two years, please someone give me a good bop!

Now, if you don't mind, I have got some chillin' to do...

Annamariah

06-05-2010, 06:12 PM

Congratulations, Scher! :) What a lovely feeling, isn't it? :D

Scheherazade

06-05-2010, 06:13 PM

Lovely does NOT even begin to describe it...

What will you do now, Anna?

I am wondering whether I should find some courses to do next term :D

Annamariah

06-05-2010, 06:28 PM

I'll continue my studies until I get my Master's Degree, which should be another two years. There's no point doing just the Bachelor's Degree, as almost everyone continues to Master's studies.

But before that I have three more months of summer "holiday" (meaning I'm working the whole summer with no vacation, but at least I don't have to do any homework!) :D

Scheherazade

07-05-2010, 08:14 AM

But before that I have three more months of summer "holiday" (meaning I'm working the whole summer with no vacation, but at least I don't have to do any homework!) :D Have a great summer and good luck with your MA, Anna :)

Just got my results back from the university: I passed! :banana:

All's done and dusted. It was hard going at times but... :D I am glad I persevered.

Thank you all who have been listening to me patiently and offering support and encouragment throughout the year. :)

When should we have the graduation party for those who finished their studies?

:bday_2:

papayahed

07-05-2010, 08:24 AM

Just got my results back from the university: I passed! :banana:

All's done and dusted. It was hard going at times but... :D I am glad I persevered.

When should we have the graduation party for those who finished their studies?

:bday_2:

Alllllll Riiiiiiggghhhttttt, This definately calls for a cocktail:

http://www.passiontails.com/images/cocktails1.jpg

Scheherazade

07-05-2010, 08:27 AM

Alllllll Riiiiiiggghhhttttt, This definately calls for a cocktail:You know it, sister!

:D

Niamh

07-05-2010, 03:42 PM

thats fantastic Scher!! Weldone!!! :banana:

kasie

07-06-2010, 06:10 AM

Well done, Scher - of course, we all knew you would pass with flying colours!

Zee.

07-06-2010, 06:44 AM

I am yet to receive my results from

International Studies

Politics - Fanatics and Fundamentalists

History - Medieval (Bad choice, but I chose it because I needed to do a history in first year to study a second year history in my second year, obviously, and i'm dying to study the American Civil War)

And Criminology

*Classic*Charm*

07-10-2010, 07:55 PM

Hello strangers!

Congrats on the great results Scher! :banana: And everyone else whose good news I've missed.

My summer semester has been ridiculously busy :( Hopefully with my six-week course finished, I'll have a little more time to be around!

JuniperWoolf

07-21-2010, 05:47 PM

So now after I do my first year at GPRC I'm transferring to Vancouver, British Columbia instead of Camrose, Alberta. Better forests for a forestry science student (redwoods!). The place gets so much precipitation that it's technically considered a rainforest. I'm VERY excited, the terrain should be much better than stupid farmland Alberta. The tuition at UBC is a couple of hundred cheaper than U of A, too.

The biggest reason why I'm going though is because David is going to take film studies in Van and I don't want to be separate from him. *cringe* I know, call me a sappy, soft-hearted woman. I just like him is all!

@Schere: is that the be all and end all of your studies at uni or are you going back next year?

Niamh

08-03-2010, 05:18 AM

I PASSED AA100!!!!! :banana:

I got 70% in my OES and 74% in my OCAS! :banana:

papayahed

08-03-2010, 07:42 AM

I PASSED AA100!!!!! :banana:

I got 70% in my OES and 74% in my OCAS! :banana:

Whoooooo Hooooo!!!! Good Job Niamh!!

Scheherazade

08-03-2010, 08:27 AM

I PASSED AA100!!!!! :banana:

I got 70% in my OES and 74% in my OCAS! :banana:Congratulations, Niamh! :)

kasie

08-03-2010, 09:00 AM

Well done, Niamh. A just reward for all that hard work. What's next?

Niamh

08-03-2010, 02:48 PM

Thanks Everyone! :blush: My score is the equivalent to a B so i'm well chuffed! :D

I'm currently doing SA188- Archaeology and the Science of Investigation.
In October i'm doing A180- Heritage, Whose Heritage?
and in November i'm starting A150- Voices and Texts.

I'm thinking of doing Geology instead of the literature course so i might start a course on Plate Techtonics (my favourite!) in Feb. :) when i get the the results for all those courses i'll achieve an Open Cert in Higher Education. :) Then on to the Diploma and then the Degree! :D I think doing it step by step is better for me. At least this way i'll achieve something if i only end up doing a few years.

Scheherazade

09-08-2010, 06:49 PM

Thanks Everyone! :blush: My score is the equivalent to a B so i'm well chuffed! :D

I'm currently doing SA188- Archaeology and the Science of Investigation.
In October i'm doing A180- Heritage, Whose Heritage?
and in November i'm starting A150- Voices and Texts.
How are the courses going, Niamh?

After much pondering and hesitation, I have finally decided to start my MA(Edu) through OU. They seem to be the only university with enough flexibility to accommodate everything else in my life (like LitNet!)

I have enrolled my first course, which will be starting in October (I need to send them my uni diploma etc but i don't think there would be a problem).

Can't wait to receive my books! :banana:

kasie

09-09-2010, 04:17 AM

Knew you wouldn't be able to resist the next stage, Scher! Good luck to you, also to Niamh and to everyone else starting new courses this term.

Me? I'm going back to Welsh - part three of a five part course, each part takes two years - they take us through it very slowly and gently! However I think we will be worked harder this year, the tutor proposes talking in Welsh for most of the lesson - think I'd better the learn the Welsh for 'Would you mind repeating that, please?'