hehe, well that's good enough for a start :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Shannanigan
what kind of trouble are your co-workers giving you?
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hehe, well that's good enough for a start :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Shannanigan
what kind of trouble are your co-workers giving you?
Oh, well...this semester was a weird one for our writing center because our official Director was off-island having a baby. She was still "technically" our director but wasn't actually here to direct...so she trusted me and another tutor to direct ourselves and the other tutors...
needless to say, we slowly but surely started to relax some of the rules, and our co-workers then started to take advantage by taking random long breaks during hours they were being paid for, making excuses like they had someone to pick up at the airport, or they would come in late saying "well, nobody ever wants help with a paper this early anyway..."
It got a little out of hand, and neither me nor the other "co-director/tutor" have the power to warn, fire, or dock hours from them...then the school realized that our director was off-island and insisted that she designate a faculty member on island to take her place, which resulted in mass confusion and prevented us from being able to approach the problem of the carefree tutors...
I finally wound up writing a public notice for all tutors on the same day I posted that "boast" that outlined the university policy for student employees and restated that anyone diverging from the policy could lose their job...when they asked why I did it I said that we were going to be watched for the next few weeks while they find us a new director...
So, got that fixed and FINISHED ALL OF MY PAPERS!!! WOOHOO!!! (there's my boast :D)
wow, that sounds like a lot of mess!
when is your director coming back?
(another swimming boast: did 2000m the day before yesterday and another 2000m last night; I'm taking a few days "off" after the exam, so I had lots of time to go swimming)
oooooh boasting is good for you?
wow, congrats Therapy! that's a great score.
well, yes, it might be a virtue, but who said virtues are good for you? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Therapy?
I FINISHED MY PERSONAL STATEMENT!!! In other words, I finished my application to my university! It was due today by 11:59 p.m. I am sooo relieved and excited!
Congrats Grace, and I hope your application is accepted successfully!
Challenged by Sleepywitch, I took the test here:
http://similarminds.com/intdoor-verbal.html
And got this result:
“Your overall percentile is 97% which means you scored higher than 97% of the people who have taken this test. The internet population tends to be more intelligent so your percentile might be higher if the test taking sample was perfectly random.”
Am reminded of the saying "Little things please little minds."
(Of course, percentile is not very revealing - the test might previously have been taken just by 5 ten-year olds)
Whoopie for me .A person who likes to read would almost be expected to have high verbal intelligence.
Oh, I didn't mean to come across snotty or anything...just in a bad mood.Quote:
Your overall percentile is 94% which means you scored higher than 94% of the people who have taken this test.
hehe congrats Whiffle. IF it is a valid IQ test (not some crappy online quiz thingy) and hasn't been taken by only 5 ten year olds your results mean that your IQ (at least the verbal one) is almost 130, 130 being the bench mark for gifted people. But of course you'd need to take a test on different types of intelligence and get an overall score of 130 to count as gifted :)
hehe, kathy, I talked him (? her?) into taking this test because of his/her hilarious acronyms in the the acronym game.
Congrats and good luck! God, I love the feeling of finishing something before a deadline :DQuote:
Originally Posted by grace86
I have a boast!
I WON THE ARCHERY TOURNAMENT AT MY SCHOOL!!! :banana: :banana: :banana:
I got a score of 254 total for six rounds. The highest score possible for each round is 54, and I averaged at 42.3! :D:D:D I beat all of the girls AND the guys. Woot! :)
wow, Shanna, congrats!
and congrats to you, too, grace. I hope you'll get accepted by the uni :)
Thanks guys!
Shann, that is great that you scored so high. Congratulations!
Awesome job, Shann. :thumbs_upQuote:
Originally Posted by Shannanigan
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Thats great grace make sure you keep a copy it makes an ace starting point for your cv:nod:Quote:
Originally Posted by grace86
YAY!:banana:so wheres the piccy of the trophey?? :brow:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shannanigan
my boast I didnt cringe once from the ball today at basketball practise ,,,I even scored a .... whats it called in basketball? 2 points!!
I am over coming my phobia of flying balls !!!:D:D
YAAAAAY, SHANN!!!! I'm so proud of you!! I wish my school had archery tournaments!!
ok second boast only its not a boast its a celberation and thanksgiving
the stupid php code finally works!!!!
well except that I cant find the note to tell me how to get an array to start from 1 instead of 0 but I know where I saved that on the uni computer!!
maybe I should make a backup of my computer now
Thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by SleepyWitch
hmm it said my message is too short, so i'll post this sentence
i just got my exam results from the end of the year back. I scored top for Lit on the exam and now im top of the class!
Quote:
Originally Posted by dramasnot
This is wonderful. :thumbs_upQuote:
Originally Posted by Shannanigan
Congratulations! :banana:
thanks pensive!
I've started writing a short story.
It's a whopping 15 A4 pages already.
It's got a beginning, a middle and en end.
All the characters are entirely ficitve, except some little mannerisms I copied from RL people.
Maybe I'll finish it by tomorrow or the day after.
= *great success*!
on the downside, I haven't done much else than write on the story *lazy Witch*
Yay, that's great ! Come back when you're published, 'kay ? :pQuote:
Originally Posted by SleepyWitch
Nej, seriously, congratulations for having written such a great deal already :nod:.
PS: It is scientifically proven and approved by many experts in the field that eating lots of chocolate cookies has positive effects on your creativity ;).
hehe
Schoko: It's come back to publish, not when you're published :)
I want to put it up on here :)
grrrrrrrr, i have to translate Kant into English. I wish I could boast I'd already finished the translation
PS: You have just volunteered to read and criticize my story :D
OK, I forgive you for not starting Antony and Cleopatra. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by SleepyWitch
Are you going to submit it to lit net competition? Are we still doing that in 2007? I hope so. I've got a new story running through my head that I was going to try to write over Christmas time off.
Awwww...thank you to everybody for all the congrats! :D I don't get a trophy :( because my uni is a little too poor for such extravagant spending, :lol: instead I get a t-shirt that has my name on it and says I won. Hey, free clothes that boast for me, I'm not one to complian! :D
I haven't been around much lately because of final papers and exams, this semester was a mess...
The director comes back next semester, which starts next month, thank God. My goodness that is a lot of swimming girl! I bow down to you....Quote:
Originally Posted by SleepyWitch
Wow! Congratulations! That is really cool, you must be good ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Therapy?
Heehee...side comment...that's the same kind of bow that I used (recurve bow)...sorry, that amuses me :pQuote:
Originally Posted by kathycf
i hope i'm not too late to give my congrats! :D Congratulations SleepyWitch! I'm sure it will be amazing.Quote:
Originally Posted by SleepyWitch
I just took my LSATs on Saturday, and I'm almost certain I've scored high enough to attend the law school of my choice.
(The only downside to this is that once in law school I will not be able to read as much literature as I like.)
it's way above the word limit :) unless we launch a long short story competition :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
Congratulations! I'm sure youll be able to read a bit on the side, and maybe learning about law will enhance your reading experience? Knowledge about almost anything helps in appreciating a text.Quote:
Originally Posted by davoarid
i stayed at univ till ten with a friend last Thursday to finish off an A0 poster about our London field trip.
when i came home i couldn't sleep till 2 a.m. and then I got up at 8, went to univ again to have to poster printed.
in the afternoon i went to a linguistics talk and it turned out i forgot whatever I knew about linguistics because my Education exams dragged on for half a year.
so i didn't know what the guy was talking about and felt miserable:bawling:
then I felt even more miserable and felt miserable about feeling miserable and then I kicked my own *ss and decided to do something about it and do some revision :)
Told I have a good chance of getting three A's this year in College. Though I doubt I will, I'm too laided back to get such good marks...
i . . . uh . . . am almost finished with my book? got a good PSAT score? i don't know what to brag about . . . :p ooh, yes i do know - i'm a good boaster! :D
I want to add my boasts to the grand and commendable ones already on this thread. Congratulations everyone!
I recieved A's in all of my classes this term. I got 100% on my math final, as well as 100%'s on a couple of the regular tests. (My dad said I was in the wrong major. :lol: ) I got 100% on my biology test. I got 100% on the portfolio for all work completed in my fiction writing class. And I did pretty well in speech class. It's so much fun getting perfect scores! Perhaps that's only because it doesn't happen all the time. It would surely become very dull--any drawnout period of perfection. :p
OMG you freak:p ( says the girl with 6 a levels :rolleyes: )Quote:
Originally Posted by Shadowsarin
wow, congrats on your great marks Shadow and Jean-Baptiste! It's cool when hard work pays off :)
In A-Levels? I wish you best of luck. How many subjects are you taking?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shadowsarin
Hmm...what have I got to boast about? Perhaps nothing. Things are getting worse, being fourteen doesn't feel as good as I thought it would be. :sick:
I got A* on my English Lit and Lang papers for my mock GCSEs :] And for my French I got A* too.
Haha it feels good to boast about THOSE... don't anyone ask about my other subjects please!
hey sleepy what are your views on secend hand stores, you can find almost anything there, from white leather leisure suits to flower print skirts with sequins, and it is almost always cheaper than going to the mall.
I survived another day with out being hit by a car walking around before sunrise in a black coat with the hood up walking in the street, when it is pitch black outside. (this is not an everyday thing itīs necessity if i canīt find my reflectors)