School Bells

*sits back, crackles knuckles, and re-opens twelfth game of Zoo Tycoon*

Hahaha... no school for me!

I miss buying school supplies. Fresh pencils, erasers, a plethora of coloring supplies, scissors, glue... binders! O, lo! I am an organizational freak! Multi-colored dividers, to be decorated with collage and doodles...

I'm seeing everybody off applying to the universities of their choice, and realizing if I hadn't screwed myself over, I could be majoring in whatever I wanted right now. (That isn't being pompous, I was told by all of my teachers I would be accepted to any University of my choice, for any program, if I actually attended class.)

*sigh*

You all sound very busy.

It's never too late, Becca!:)

Sadly, Spring Break is over. I was hoping to catch up but no such luck..

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Originally Posted by papayahed

Sadly, Spring Break is over. I was hoping to catch up but no such luck..

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Oh, please don't say that... I am relying on the Easter break to catch up on reading and complete some assignments. Too ambitious?

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Originally Posted by Scheherazade

Oh, please don't say that... I am relying on the Easter break to catch up on reading and complete some assignments. Too ambitious?

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Little Bit.

Whooo Hooo, I didn't study and got a 94% on a test. Whoooo Hoooo. I'm hoping with turnaround pretty much over I can get caught up and get in some proper study time.

*shuts her eyes tightly so she cannot read Papaya's reply*

I should really get some work done during the Easter holiday; otherwise, I will be in a pickle because there are no more holidays for me till the end of the term.

Though I might have 2 weeks off in June just before my assignments are due. That will be a little last minute but... Doubt if I could get anything done if it weren't for the last minute efforts.

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Originally Posted by BeccaT

*I'm seeing everybody off applying to the universities of their choice, and realizing if I hadn't screwed myself over, I could be majoring in whatever I wanted right now. (That isn't being pompous, I was told by all of my teachers I would be accepted to any University of my choice, for any program, if I actually attended class.)

*sigh*

You all sound very busy.

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You still have time to figure it all out. I spent a fair amount of time before I got my act together and went to school seriously. (If even school is what you want to do, school isn't the answer for everybody )

:flare:If the homework is to read a short story why would you not do it? We had to read Heart of Darkness for class, apparently I'm one of the only ones that actually read the story. During class the professor kept asking questions that only two of us could answer:flare: I guess that's not really a bad thing except I'm not a participator!!!! I get to class early to get a good seat in the back, I don't raise my hand, and I never volunteer to go up to the board.

What the heck, today in my other class the professor went around the room asking the homework questions and about half the class didn't do it. Why is that? And what really bugs me is that I used to be one of the non homework doers and I can't figure out what the heck I was doing at the time that prevented me from doing my homwork - I'm positive there wasn't a good reason.

Done 3/5 Finals!! :banana: :banana:

Uhoh! Finals already!

This past semester has just flown past me.

Crap. Auto final next Tuesday . . . Cadillac engine= completely torn apart, has to be back together by then. ****.

I just finished the biggest assignment I've ever done. I'm so thankful to have that behind me.

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Originally Posted by motherhubbard

I just finished the biggest assignment I've ever done. I'm so thankful to have that behind me.

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Congratulations!

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Originally Posted by motherhubbard

I just finished the biggest assignment I've ever done. I'm so thankful to have that behind me.

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allll rrriiiiiggghhhttt

weldone MH!

I'm going to bed and I'm not going to do my homework. I'm skipping this assignment. 18 points or bed... bed wins.

I have an exam and two assignments for tomorrow! And the next day, two finals and a presentation. I'm so terrible at public speaking.

Good luck to everyone doing finals. Mine don't start for a few weeks.

Just found out that the deadlines this term are sooner than I thought they were...

:-/

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Originally Posted by Scheherazade

Just found out that the deadlines this term are sooner than I thought they were...

:-/

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uh oh!


How did I think I'd get any homework done while I was back home.

I got 14/12 on my last philosophy paper!! That I wrote the morning it was due!! :banana: :banana:

I need to get back to school. think i'll look up Open...again...

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Originally Posted by Niamh

I need to get back to school. think i'll look up Open...again...

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and????

There are only so many left handed desks in a classroom if any, why do those righties insist on using the lefty desks for their crap?

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Originally Posted by papayahed

There are only so many left handed desks in a classroom if any, why do those righties insist on using the lefty desks for their crap?

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There are desks specifically designed for lefties???

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Originally Posted by K.K.

There are desks specifically designed for lefties???

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exactly!!!!


oh you righties!!!

(yes, if we're lucky there may be one per classroom and it's always in the back)

My sister is left handed and she is always complaining about right-handed designed stuff. Spiral-bound notebooks drive her crazy.

Allright, 48 hour exam on political economy...Here I come!

A 48 hour exam??? :eek: Or do you mean an exam in 48 hours' time?

Either way - good luck!

I really should get down to my Welsh homework - it's only a short piece on 'When I was young...' (yes, we've learned the past tense!) but somehow I can't make myself knuckle down to it.

Oh no, it's an exam that lasts 48 hours. :) We get the assignment monday at ten, and then deliver it Wednesday.

Do you have to do the assignment under exam conditions - stay in one room, no talking, etc? (Not for the whole 48 hours, of course!) Or do you go away, mull it over, look things up, then write? Can you talk to other people about it or do you have to work 'in solitary'? Sounds a bit grim to me but my Eng Lit Part II final was a bit odd - we were given a book we had never seen before (Under The Volcano by Malcolm Lowry), sent away for a week to read it, think about it and discuss it among ourselves, then return to the exam room with the copy unmarked (the invigilators checked we had not written anything in them) then set an exam paper from which we had to choose two questions to answer in three hours. Oh, and the tutors had removed any book with a reference to the text from the library in advance (no Internet in those days!) so it was All Our Own Work. Much coffee was consumed in our ad hoc seminars in the week leading up to the exam and 'question spotting' was refined to a fine art - so why was I the only candidate who wrote on whether the book was a Tragedy? We'd thrashed that one out already. (We'd already done the Lit Crit bit of the exam, btw, in case anyone thinks we got away with no poetry/drama crit or unseen crit, and our course work essays were additionally assessed as the part of the exam to cover the actual course work.)

The assignment is sent by email, and then we can sit at our library at home, in bed, whichever we wish, and write, look up in the text books as much as we wish, etc. We have one of these exams each semester, and the questions can vary from a comparison of Aristotles and Plato, to a 5 page answer to the question "What is Democracy". Or worse, 48 hours to describe the financial crises with macro and micro economic models... I'm already dreading Monday's question. And there is no way one can cheat and just 'write from the book'. 48 hours is both a blessing and a curse, and unless you already understand the material, there is no way you can get through a semester of course texts. :)

I hated the desks in college because of the lack of lefties. And they were always located in the stupid parts of lecture halls that my friends wouldnt sit. you have no idea how annoying trying to comfortably write on a righty desk is. :mad:

On another note i am looking into college courses!! :banana: not sure if i want to try get my cert in Archaeology (finally) or just do a lit course...

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Originally Posted by Niamh

I hated the desks in college because of the lack of lefties. And they were always located in the stupid parts of lecture halls that my friends wouldnt sit. you have no idea how annoying trying to comfortably write on a righty desk is. :mad:

On another note i am looking into college courses!! :banana: not sure if i want to try get my cert in Archaeology (finally) or just do a lit course...

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Very exciting Niamh! Please do keep us posted. And if you do become an Irish archeologist, I'll totally come visit you at a dig! I wanted to be an archeologist as a kid! :D

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Originally Posted by Chava

Very exciting Niamh! Please do keep us posted. And if you do become an Irish archeologist, I'll totally come visit you at a dig! I wanted to be an archeologist as a kid! :D

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I spent two years as an archaeologist. my first dig was six years ago. :(

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Originally Posted by Niamh

I spent two years as an archaeologist. my first dig was six years ago. :(

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I thought I remembered that, but suddenly I wasn't sure. That effectivly makes you a childhood idol. ;)

hehehe!! I have some bronze age pottery somewhere...

Chava - do please keep us posted on your horrendous sounding exam - after it's all over, of course. Hope it will be a question/topic you feel confident with - GOOD LUCK!

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Originally Posted by papayahed

There are only so many left handed desks in a classroom if any, why do those righties insist on using the lefty desks for their crap?

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I always feel bad for the lefties at school. In one of my classes there are two lefties and one desk; it's like a race every morning.



I just submitted the worst paper I've ever written, I think. I was so busy with other classes and stuff, I ended up writing it the day it was due. Not only was it super rushed, I was so crazy tired, my mind wasn't really functioning. Oh well, it's better than a zero.

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Originally Posted by higley

I have an exam and two assignments for tomorrow! And the next day, two finals and a presentation. I'm so terrible at public speaking.

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Don't get me started on public speaking!! They have been the most awful, degrading and quietest times of my life.

I'm waiting on the big envelope telling me that I got into uni! Fingers crossed!