School Bells

[papayahed]

There are desks specifically designed for lefties???

exactly!!!!


oh you righties!!!

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

[K.K.]

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

[Chava]

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

[kasie]

A 48 hour exam??? 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.

[Chava]

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

[kasie]

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.)

[Chava]

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.

[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.

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

[Chava]

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.

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

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!

[Niamh]

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!

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

[Chava]

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

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

[Niamh]

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

[kasie]

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!

[Weisinheimer]

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?

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.

[IJustMadeThatUp]

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.

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!