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11-12-2009, 05:26 PM
Niamh

I'm waiting anxiously for my results.
11-12-2009, 08:25 PM
motherhubbard

I'm sorry Niamh. I hate the wait!
11-14-2009, 12:32 PM
Niamh

I'm still waiting. I cant start the next assignment till the first comes back. I know loads of people who got theres.. just not me. :(
11-14-2009, 02:24 PM
OrphanPip

Quote:

Originally Posted by Niamh

I'm still waiting. I cant start the next assignment till the first comes back. I know loads of people who got theres.. just not me. :(

Oh I hate when profs do that, they should give everyone the graded assignment at the same time so no one gets an unfair advantage.
11-14-2009, 02:25 PM
Scheherazade

I hear they send out the highest marks last! :D
11-14-2009, 02:29 PM
Niamh

I wish! :p
11-14-2009, 05:45 PM
*Classic*Charm*

Quote:

Originally Posted by OrphanPip

Oh I wanted to study animal biology, but I ended up with squiggly single celled things. I took a couple courses in animal biology but they only counted as electives.

Is it your freshman year? Basic genetics is usually a hurdle for most bio majors.

Edit: Agreed physical chem does suck, boo math.

Nope, I'm in my third year. I don't find it difficult, I just don't pay enough attention to the tricks in the questions. Nothing I can't handle if I pay attention. I was planning on minoring in genetics actually, but my major doesn't allow for a minor because the electives are so restricted that it's not possible to get enough other credits for a minor.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mathor

Speakin of Science, I have finished all of my general studies requirements for my major EXCEPT i still have to take one lab science next semester (or over summer)

I can take:

Physics
Meteorology
Bio
Chemistry
Geology
Anatomy

which do you suggest?

ANATOMMMYYYY!!!!! FOR SURE!!
11-14-2009, 06:41 PM
Niamh

Geology!! I love Geology! Although Meterology would be interesting!
11-14-2009, 06:41 PM
Mathor

Quote:

Originally Posted by *Classic*Charm*

ANATOMMMYYYY!!!!! FOR SURE!!

that's what i was thinking.

EDIT:

I'm currently sitting with two A's and two B's, all pretty secure to the point there isn't much possibility of them dropping. Only 3 weeks left!

Next semester:

Principles of Management
American Literature
British Literature
Public Speaking
Anatomy
11-18-2009, 05:33 PM
Niamh

Can i just say sitting around waiting for results just sucks!
11-25-2009, 07:10 PM
Niamh

79% woohoo!!! :banana:
11-25-2009, 07:18 PM
*Classic*Charm*

Go Niamh!! Whoo!
11-25-2009, 07:20 PM
Niamh

I'm well chuffed! :D I'm gonna have to redo my Cezanne part but i knew that when submitting it! :D
11-25-2009, 07:22 PM
*Classic*Charm*

What course is that for, Niamh?
11-25-2009, 07:33 PM
Niamh

my AA100 Arts Past and Present level 1 course with the OU. :)
11-26-2009, 02:10 AM
*Classic*Charm*

I got SCREWED OVER on a midterm today :(
11-26-2009, 03:33 AM
Niamh

oh no! :( ((((hug))))
11-26-2009, 08:40 AM
kasie

Congratulations, Niamh!

Commiserations, Classic Charm - is there any way you can appeal or ask for a re-assessment?
11-26-2009, 10:50 AM
Annamariah

I stayed up with a long translation till 3 am - waking up early to get to the class where we were supposed to hand it to the teacher after just 2.5 hours of sleep didn't result in one of my greatest mornings...
11-27-2009, 06:30 PM
Weisinheimer

I hate group assignments. I don't like the pressure of other people relying on me, and I REALLY don't like having to rely on other people :(
11-27-2009, 08:23 PM
*Classic*Charm*

Quote:

Originally Posted by Niamh

oh no! :( ((((hug))))

Quote:

Originally Posted by kasie

Congratulations, Niamh!

Commiserations, Classic Charm - is there any way you can appeal or ask for a re-assessment?

Thanks guys. Unfortunately, there's nothing to be done about it. Basically, the exam was prepared by two different professors. The one professor's sections were very fair. Not easy, but very do-able had you done the lab work and done each lab quiz. The other prof asked us ridiculous questions that were well-beyond the focus of the content of his lab work. It's just frustrating when you do well in the lab and you know your stuff until you're asked a question way out of the league of the course. :(
11-28-2009, 12:27 AM
Maximilianus

Quote:

Originally Posted by Annamariah

I stayed up with a long translation till 3 am - waking up early to get to the class where we were supposed to hand it to the teacher after just 2.5 hours of sleep didn't result in one of my greatest mornings...

I have a well-figured solution: renounce your life as it is and make a radical change. Leave your apartment and studies, leave it all behind, and start a new life as a rover... or wanderer, nomad, vagabond, anything that's a synonym for lack of stressful obligations that will never let you catch a quality sleep :lol:, but if you are a vagabond, you can sleep anytime anywhere without remorse. After all, sleeping is the vagabond's expertise :lol:

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Originally Posted by Weisinheimer

I hate group assignments. I don't like the pressure of other people relying on me, and I REALLY don't like having to rely on other people :(

I hate them too. There's often someone pretending you to do the hard job for them.
11-28-2009, 06:57 AM
kasie

Moving the goalposts like that is just not on, CC - surely it affected the rest of your fellow students on the course? Can't you go all together as a deputation to the unfair professor and point out that Mind Reading is not part of your curriculum until next year? Or mention it to the fair professor and hint he might like to have a word with his collegue on the subject of fairness and even-handed nature of tests? Exams are supposed to test what you know, not what you don't know, after all. That kind of test is a different kind of animal and comes before you start on a course so the teacher knows where to start teaching you, not at the end - not much good him/her knowing that too late, is it?
11-29-2009, 05:32 PM
Annamariah

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maximilianus

I have a well-figured solution: renounce your life as it is and make a radical change. Leave your apartment and studies, leave it all behind, and start a new life as a rover... or wanderer, nomad, vagabond, anything that's a synonym for lack of stressful obligations that will never let you catch a quality sleep :lol:, but if you are a vagabond, you can sleep anytime anywhere without remorse. After all, sleeping is the vagabond's expertise :lol:

And throw away hard work of two and a half years at the university and 12 years of schooling before that? I don't think so :D I should have made the decision years ago :lol: I must admit a life without obligations and deadlines sounds tempting. I doubt, however, that I'd be able to survive that long without regular income. I like having enough food and a roof upon my head :D

Today I was rather productive, for once - I took care of some choir-related matters, translated an article about biological wastewater treatment and went trough an article about cloning about which I'm supposed to do a terminology assignment (and a translation of course, but the terminology deadline comes first).

Tomorrow I have to do some Russian homework and write a formal letter in Swedish, but all in all I feel like I'm getting on with my homework load much better now than during the past couple of weeks.
11-30-2009, 03:33 AM
Maximilianus

Quote:

Originally Posted by Annamariah

And throw away hard work of two and a half years at the university and 12 years of schooling before that? I don't think so :D I should have made the decision years ago :lol: I must admit a life without obligations and deadlines sounds tempting.

Thou shall not fall Within Temptation ;) :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Annamariah

I doubt, however, that I'd be able to survive that long without regular income. I like having enough food and a roof upon my head :D

You can always rob a bank if you plan it carefully....... :lol:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Annamariah

Today I was rather productive, for once - I took care of some choir-related matters, translated an article about biological wastewater treatment and went trough an article about cloning about which I'm supposed to do a terminology assignment (and a translation of course, but the terminology deadline comes first).

Wastewater.... hmm... sounds stinky! :D

Quote:

Originally Posted by Annamariah

Tomorrow I have to do some Russian homework and write a formal letter in Swedish, but all in all I feel like I'm getting on with my homework load much better now than during the past couple of weeks.

Good luck on these assignments :thumbs_up
11-30-2009, 07:29 PM
papayahed

I'm thinking of skipping the last day of class to go to a business dinner.
11-30-2009, 08:40 PM
Weisinheimer

Quote:

Originally Posted by papayahed

I'm thinking of skipping the last day of class to go to a business dinner.

I say go for it.
I usually skip the last day of class.
12-01-2009, 01:01 PM
Niamh

go for it!
12-01-2009, 02:01 PM
Hurricane

I handed in the final paper for my majors class and subsequently handed in all of my library books (after renewing them every two weeks since early September).

One more paper, two more tests, and then finals.
12-01-2009, 02:30 PM
Weisinheimer

One final down. Two to go. So far so good.
12-01-2009, 03:36 PM
kasie

Quote:

Originally Posted by papayahed

I'm thinking of skipping the last day of class to go to a business dinner.

Can you pretend to be your mum and write the tutor a note asking for papaya to be excused class because of a pressing business appointment? :nod:
12-01-2009, 09:20 PM
Virgil

Here's a great story from my local newspaper.

Quote:

For her 100th birthday, she gets gifts, greetings -- and a high school diploma
By Stephanie Slepian
November 30, 2009, 1:53AM

The Class of 1925 at St. Peter's Girls High School graduated without Mary Arnott. Her father pulled her out in Grade 11 to care for her siblings after her mother died in childbirth.
An entire lifetime later -- a lifetime filled with love and laughter and heartbreak -- Mrs. Arnott had one regret: Never getting her high school diploma.
"I kept going to night school and more night school and finally got business training and became a secretary to a lawyer, but it wasn't the same," she said by phone from her home in Toronto, looking back on her younger years.
For her 100th birthday, St. Peter's has filled that void by granting Mrs. Arnott an honorary high school diploma.
"It just means everything," said Mrs. Arnott, a Staten Island native.
Mary Haugen, assistant principal and president of the Alumni Association at St. Peter's, received a call from Mrs. Arnott's granddaughter, Allison, seeking any information on her grandmother's school records.
Her family wanted to surprise the centenarian on her birthday.
Mrs. Haugen was more than happy to send a diploma. She had done the same several months earlier for Amelia Capofari Romano, who would have been a member of the Class of 1933 had she not left school to care for her younger sisters.
Mary Adele Sachs was born in Brooklyn in 1909 and was raised on Staten Island, one of 13 siblings who lived first over Mueller's Hardware Store at 585 Bay St. in Stapleton and later at 198 Beechwood Ave. in New Brighton.
She survived scarlet fever, helped to raise her siblings and worked for 12 years as a secretary in Manhattan. She met her husband, Bruce, while vacationing in Virginia Beach

[SNIP]
http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf...y_she_get.html

So it's never too late. :D
12-02-2009, 07:57 AM
Maximilianus

^ Very enjoyable nice story, Virgil :thumbs_up
12-02-2009, 08:38 AM
Niamh

thats great Virg!
12-03-2009, 12:43 AM
Weisinheimer

Finished my last finals today :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:
12-03-2009, 08:52 PM
*Classic*Charm*

Quote:

Originally Posted by Weisinheimer

Finished my last finals today :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

Congrats Weisy!

Technically the last day of class was today, though only one of my profs lectured. I had to write a physics quiz though. Got 100% :D I've already been studying for finals, so hopefully the next two weeks won't be too hellish.
12-04-2009, 05:04 AM
Mathor

Quote:

Originally Posted by *Classic*Charm*

Congrats Weisy!

Technically the last day of class was today, though only one of my profs lectured. I had to write a physics quiz though. Got 100% :D I've already been studying for finals, so hopefully the next two weeks won't be too hellish.

Indeed. I've put myself in a pretty good position by the amount of work I've put into this semester. This exam week is going to be relatively easy. Though I'm still going to study my butt off!
12-04-2009, 08:26 PM
Weisinheimer

Quote:

Originally Posted by *Classic*Charm*

Congrats Weisy!

Technically the last day of class was today, though only one of my profs lectured. I had to write a physics quiz though. Got 100% :D I've already been studying for finals, so hopefully the next two weeks won't be too hellish.

Thanks!
Good luck with your finals.
12-05-2009, 02:25 AM
OrphanPip

Ew, well today I went to the website for purchasing photos form my convocation, they're mostly terrible.

http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z...eepy/grad2.jpg

http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z...eepy/grad1.jpg

http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z...eepy/grad3.jpg
12-06-2009, 05:52 PM
JuniperWoolf

Is that a golden cape on your back?

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