School Bells

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?'

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

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Originally Posted by kasie

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!

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You should join me! :) doing this degree is more for myself than for anyone else.

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Originally Posted by Hurricane

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.

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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 :)

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.

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

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Originally Posted by Scheherazade

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.

:-/

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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).

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! :)

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.

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*

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.

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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.

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Good luck on Wednesday !!

goodluck on wednesday MH!

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Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf

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*

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haha, I kinda know how you feel I went back at 24.

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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.

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Good Luck on Wednesday!

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Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf

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...

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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.

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Originally Posted by motherhubbard

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.

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Good luck! :)