Ha it's a hood denoting that I'm from the faculty of science, old fashioned academic regalia. The white border denotes that I have a bachelor's degree.
Edit: The color is supposed to be yellow, but I think it looks green.
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Ha it's a hood denoting that I'm from the faculty of science, old fashioned academic regalia. The white border denotes that I have a bachelor's degree.
Edit: The color is supposed to be yellow, but I think it looks green.
Those aren't bad. I think out of the three I'd pick the second one. The third is cute except it looks like you're fighting with the guy behind you for the diploma.Quote:
Originally Posted by OrphanPip
I got my second assigment finished! :banana: Time to start reserching for TMA03!
I think this one is good Pip.Quote:
Originally Posted by OrphanPip
Just finished my Physiology final. One down, four to go.
woot!
So, has everyone finished the term (apart from me)? Is everyone off enjoying their break (apart from me)? Is everyone looking forward to the next term (apart from me)?
:p
Yeah, poor, poor, poor me and all that.
I think I am half-way through with it all and got another two weeks to go but I will be entertaining some guests so, all in all, I probably have 10 days' study time.
I think I need to hear that I can pull it off...
And next time I try to squeeze 3 years' worth of studying into 2 years, please someone put a straightjacket (on me), lock me up in a cell and throw the key into the ocean.
:rolleyes:
You can do it with one arm tied behind you back and your leg in a cast!!!:thumbs_upQuote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
erm..... Do I need to find the post...Quote:
And next time I try to squeeze 3 years' worth of studying into 2 years, please someone put a straightjacket (on me), lock me up in a cell and throw the key into the ocean.
:rolleyes:
Thank you, Papaya! You are such a good egg! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
Well i'm still studying for my TMA03. have to get starting on writing the two parts this weekend so no break for me either!
Got TMA02 back on wednesday... 82% woohoo!
Dont think 03 is going to get quite as good a result!
I think i'll get to experience what you are feeling next year. Going to try get two level two courses done together so i can get through the degree faster than five or six years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Well done on the awesome score for TMA02, Niamh! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
What is the TMA03 about?
one half is a Q on the Dalai Lama, the other is comparing two poems. I think i'm figuring them out okay. just need to start working out the essay.
I just signed up for next semester. Whoo Hoo!!
What are you studying, papaya? More of the same or something new?
Welsh hoework is still not even started but first class is not until Jan15 - I think.
I'm still deciding what I'm going to take next semester. I didn't get into the nursing program yet, so that kinda messed up all my plans.
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Originally Posted by kasie
I'm still in the Spanish program but I'm having trouble with the class schedule fitting around my work schedule so I may need to change programs or change schools.
Great! Don't want to be suffering on me own! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
My deadlines are approaching :goof:
Need to hand in one batch at the end of this week as well as doing a presentation and the final batch by next Friday.
I am worried that I got too distrated during last week and now not an ounce of will is left in me.
Whoohooo! Two down... Well, too many to go but still it feels great :D
Hopefully by Monday, I will have sorted it all out.
woohoohoohoo!Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
You'll get there Scher! Have complete faith in you!Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
I got my 3rd assignment sent off. Not one bit happy, but not much i could do being limited to one or two days internet a week in my mams which is totally taken up by college. I think it could have been a lot better if i had more time. Sent in on monday even though not due to tomorrow but monday was my only day with computer access. :( spent 10 hours researching and working on one of the essays. :(
Good Luck - Pob Hwyl - to everyone starting a new term.
Hope the schedule can be sorted, Papaya, it's difficult changing tutors in language courses, even if they are using the same course material, at least, that's what I found on the Welsh course.
Well done, Scher - I echo Niamh's sentiments, have faith in your stickability.
The assignment is probably better than you think, Niamh, it's hard to be objective over something you've sweated blood over, all you can remember is the anguish.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
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
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.
How did you get on with the other assignments??Quote:
Originally Posted by Veho
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!Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
I'm dreading the result for this third assignment though. How did you find the poetry part?
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.
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!Quote:
Originally Posted by Veho
Maybe we'll both be pleasantly surprised!:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
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!Quote:
Originally Posted by Veho
oh bother. I'm out of town during the first week of classes. I won't how well that's going to go over.
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.
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'.
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.
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.
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Originally Posted by Shalot
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
How interesting... You guys should come to the College where I work; we really bend backwards to keep the learners, especially those who work.Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
And what is the attendance requirement? 80%? It is not the end of the world if one misses couple of classes, I would have thought.
Rather annoying.
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...
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.
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....Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
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?
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
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