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RoseLeigh
04-23-2008, 08:30 PM
I need to write more of this paper. And study any number of things. I so need to not work this weekend.
AmazingKat
04-23-2008, 09:16 PM
Fuuuuck I have a midterm tomorrow. I wish it was finals already. Stupid quarter system
Electrum
04-23-2008, 09:50 PM
I miss school. I hope you all do good on your finals! Thats what I would be preparing for right now.
Why do you miss school? Did you already get your degree or whatever? I :heartbeat school 2 :D And thanks for the good luck. I know I need it... I already signed up for 12 credits this summer plus my pole dancing class :O Hope I can make it lol.
TigersMilk
04-24-2008, 02:17 AM
Why do you miss school? Did you already get your degree or whatever? I :heartbeat school 2 :D And thanks for the good luck. I know I need it... I already signed up for 12 credits this summer plus my pole dancing class :O Hope I can make it lol.
Because I needed an emotional break to repair myself. I'm glad I'm on this break but I do miss learning things.
RoseLeigh
04-24-2008, 08:58 AM
Because I needed an emotional break to repair myself. I'm glad I'm on this break but I do miss learning things.
You're so lucky. If my schol didn't appear to be coming apart at the seams, I'd take a year off as well. Take care of yourself!
Electrum
04-24-2008, 09:15 AM
Because I needed an emotional break to repair myself. I'm glad I'm on this break but I do miss learning things.
I understand how that goes. (Although mine was more of an emotional break down lol, but yeah..)
hardkandee
04-24-2008, 03:52 PM
You're so lucky. If my schol didn't appear to be coming apart at the seams, I'd take a year off as well. Take care of yourself!
I did and am so stressed out over being a year behind now. I swear, I just can't win. :(
I have two huge papers to do, a group presentation to make and a website to build this weekend. Yipes. I hate researching for papers.
BalletBaby
04-24-2008, 03:56 PM
I just want to pass my classes.
hardkandee
04-24-2008, 04:14 PM
^Me too.
Doesn't anyone want to write my paper for me? 10 pages on comparing the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus to the Parthenon. kthnx
ETA:Willing to trade endless love and sexual favors.
RoseLeigh
04-24-2008, 06:57 PM
^Me too.
Doesn't anyone want to write my paper for me? 10 pages on comparing the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus to the Parthenon. kthnx
ETA:Willing to trade endless love and sexual favors.
Oooooh, me likey. If I wasn't hopped up on meds and trying to finish a paper on the symbolism of the Magi on the cloak of the Theodora mosaic at San Vitale I'd do it! ;D
I still need to write up my thesis thing. And study for 2 tests. I forsee not a lot of going to work this weekend.
RoseLeigh
04-24-2008, 07:00 PM
I did and am so stressed out over being a year behind now. I swear, I just can't win. :(
Yeah, I just need to get it done with and get away before my school becomes a full fledged football school and does away with the rest of the good things it had.
hardkandee
04-24-2008, 07:04 PM
Yeah, I just need to get it done with and get away before my school becomes a full fledged football school and does away with the rest of the good things it had.
Haha, like mine? If that's truly an issue, hurry up and get out quick! Once academics are traded for athletics, ....:'(
scarlett_vancouver
04-24-2008, 07:09 PM
^ really, that happens? Sucky. Athletics are not a big thing in Uni up here...all the high school athletes get scholarships to American schools. What's the deal? School is for schoolin'.
RoseLeigh
04-24-2008, 07:18 PM
^ really, that happens? Sucky. Athletics are not a big thing in Uni up here...all the high school athletes get scholarships to American schools. What's the deal? School is for schoolin'.
Our prez refers to us as customers. And we did okay, sportswise last year, so they are building a new HUGE stadium and taking money from corporate sponsors and stuff.
For perspective: We were once offered the chance to join the Ivy League. And new prez and co. just cut all our 'Ivy' sports (crew, etc). It's SO not about the academics or even hanging with the big kids. It's money plain and simple.
hardkandee
04-24-2008, 07:38 PM
Athletes get the royal treatment. Have practice? Skip the quiz. Busy with a game? Let the group do the work for you. In the NCAA tournament? Go get 'em! You don't really need a degree anyway.
What really chaps my ass is how they get to register for classes weeks before everyone else - even seniors and honors students. These fuckers that don't even come to the classes, get to sign up for the seats I need.
scarlett_vancouver
04-24-2008, 07:41 PM
Athletes get the royal treatment. Have practice? Skip the quiz. Busy with a game? Let the group do the work for you. In the NCAA tournament? Go get 'em! You don't really need a degree anyway.
What really chaps my ass is how they get to register for classes weeks before everyone else - even seniors and honors students. These fuckers that don't even come to the classes, get to sign up for the seats I need.
Wtf??? That is outrageous!
hardkandee
04-24-2008, 07:44 PM
Our prez refers to us as customers.
...
It's SO not about the academics or even hanging with the big kids. It's money plain and simple.
I had a professor last semester that asked the class, "Who here paid out of state tuition? Stand up."
Bunch of kids stand up.
"You, you and you: Remain standing, everyone else, sit. The three of you paid my salary, thank you. Don't tell my ex-wife how much they upped tuition - she'll want more alimony. The rest of you - thanks for the new lawnmowers for the football field."
:-\
RoseLeigh
04-24-2008, 08:04 PM
Athletes get the royal treatment. Have practice? Skip the quiz. Busy with a game? Let the group do the work for you. In the NCAA tournament? Go get 'em! You don't really need a degree anyway.
What really chaps my ass is how they get to register for classes weeks before everyone else - even seniors and honors students. These fuckers that don't even come to the classes, get to sign up for the seats I need.
It is totally annoying. They roll in whenever, clog up the classes between games trying to catch up and harass you for notes and stuff.
mollyzmoon
04-24-2008, 09:09 PM
I have an exam in 9 hours. I am FUCKED. It's really overwhelming me right now. Yikes!!
hardkandee
04-26-2008, 07:17 PM
^How did it go?
I think I'm about to hit full panic mode.
TheTempest
04-27-2008, 11:16 AM
I think I'm going to fail due to all my absences. My health has failed me completely this semester. I missed so many classes... I am PRAYING to get C's. But I think technically I've failed.
hardkandee
04-27-2008, 11:48 AM
Off to the museum of art to do a gallery criticism.
I don't want to go alone and my bf is an uncultured bum. :'( For some strange reason this is really depressing me. Even though the assignment should be really appealing (after all, it's basically asking me to be a bitch and tear everyone's work up) but I'm all apprehensive about it.
I just want this semester to be over.
Electrum
04-27-2008, 12:11 PM
Off to the museum of art to do a gallery criticism.
I don't want to go alone and my bf is an uncultured bum. :'( For some strange reason this is really depressing me. Even though the assignment should be really appealing (after all, it's basically asking me to be a bitch and tear everyone's work up) but I'm all apprehensive about it.
I just want this semester to be over.
Amen to that. This semester has tested my limits, for sure. I even dropped a summer class because I think I need to try and take it easy this summer, instead of trying to do 12 credits in two months, dance class, and getting a job. That's just a recipe for me to go insane, as if I'm still sane lol.
RoseLeigh
04-27-2008, 02:40 PM
^^This HAS really been a hard semester. I can't believe that somehow life, the universe and everything hasn't somehow been behind this. I have today and tomorrow to bust out these papers, watch 'The seventh seal' and study for a medieval and a math exam. Then it is OVER. Except for finals.
mollyzmoon
04-27-2008, 03:01 PM
^How did it go?
I think I'm about to hit full panic mode.
I think it actually went okay. I was up for most of the night going over my notes, again and again, trying to memorize as many poems/ book passages as possible. Sometimes I think it goes okay, and then I get my marks back and wtf? But I don't think that's the case this time. It'll go the other way too, where I'm sure it was bad, and I still get an A, and then I think there was some kind of mistake. Oh well.
I wish everyone else loads of luck! I have one week until my spring/ summer semester starts. School is forever for me, i think.
RoseLeigh
04-27-2008, 03:03 PM
I think it actually went okay. I was up for most of the night going over my notes, again and again, trying to memorize as many poems/ book passages as possible. Sometimes I think it goes okay, and then I get my marks back and wtf? But I don't think that's the case this time. It'll go the other way too, where I'm sure it was bad, and I still get an A, and then I think there was some kind of mistake. Oh well.
I wish everyone else loads of luck! I have one week until my spring/ summer semester starts. School is forever for me, i think.
Go Molly!:monkeedan
RoseLeigh
04-27-2008, 03:03 PM
I think I'm going to fail due to all my absences. My health has failed me completely this semester. I missed so many classes... I am PRAYING to get C's. But I think technically I've failed.
I've been ill a lot this semester too. :( I will pray for your Cs too.
TheTempest
04-27-2008, 03:19 PM
I've been ill a lot this semester too. :( I will pray for your Cs too.
You pray for our grades, I'll pray for our health. Deal?
RoseLeigh
04-27-2008, 03:27 PM
You pray for our grades, I'll pray for our health. Deal?
Works for me. I've got lots of gods, too! ;D
Sarah Andi
04-27-2008, 06:12 PM
I Graduate In A Week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TheTempest
04-27-2008, 06:21 PM
Congratulations!!!
Sarah Andi
04-27-2008, 06:23 PM
I'm scurred! I'll have two bachelor's (both cum laude) and a bunch of awards and recognitions and honor society memberships.
And I have no job and haven't gotten into grad school yet. :-/
hardkandee
04-27-2008, 08:04 PM
EEK.
I just spent the last hour going through my degree candidacy check and *I think* all I have to do is switch up one class for another (JUS to ARH 418) and I'll have everything I need to graduate in December. Happy 24th birthday to me!
So tomorrow I MUST sign up for a studio art class *gulp* and switch those two courses and I'm all set. I don't actually need to squeeze anything in for summer school!!
I hope I figured this out right.
Sarah Andi
04-27-2008, 08:08 PM
Girl, that's what your adviser's for! haha
My friend takes only studio classes. eek
hardkandee
04-27-2008, 11:48 PM
Girl, that's what your adviser's for! haha
My friend takes only studio classes. eek
The poor chick that's in the advising office is supposed to take care of over 1500 students. :( She's super booked right now, so I'll make an appointment with her after graduation is over. I feel bad for her, she's super sweet but way overworked.
I'm an art history major, not an art major so the fact that someone's going to critique my drawings freaks me out!
Sarah Andi
04-27-2008, 11:50 PM
That does suck.
You don't have an individual faculty adviser?
Electrum
04-28-2008, 12:00 AM
OK- add me onto the praying for your grades list lol. I just sent in a project that is like 5 days late and am hoping to freakin' Christ that she accepts it... otherwise I have to take the whole damn course over again... (didn't realize that until yesterday urrrg)... *gets on hands and knees and prays* lol
RoseLeigh
04-28-2008, 04:30 PM
I just can't come up with a thesis topic for next year. I have to hand it on for Friday and my brain is just empty. I swear I am so not cut out for all this academic stuff. At all. I'm not a good researcher. I don't have ideas that come together at all. School is just so depressing anymore. Like a big arrow pointing to all the stuff I can't do.
hardkandee
04-28-2008, 06:37 PM
That does suck.
You don't have an individual faculty adviser?
Naw, those aren't assigned until grad school. :(
OK- add me onto the praying for your grades list lol. I just sent in a project that is like 5 days late and am hoping to freakin' Christ that she accepts it... otherwise I have to take the whole damn course over again... (didn't realize that until yesterday urrrg)... *gets on hands and knees and prays* lol
:-[ I :-[ skipped turning in a 1st draft of a research paper and I'm hoping no one will care about that. I'm kind of scared to even go to that class and have her call me out about it.
I just can't come up with a thesis topic for next year. I have to hand it on for Friday and my brain is just empty. I swear I am so not cut out for all this academic stuff. At all. I'm not a good researcher. I don't have ideas that come together at all. School is just so depressing anymore. Like a big arrow pointing to all the stuff I can't do.
:hugs:
I don't envy you having to come up with a thesis topic, but you're much better at academia than you're giving yourself credit for. If you need to bounce ideas off someone, I'm always here!
Sarah Andi
04-28-2008, 06:56 PM
I didn't even know my thesis topic until I was halfway through my literature review! Just so long as you know the general area/genre/period you want to study, you're on a good track. Ask your profs and mentors how many times they changed direction or had to do something different than they had originally anticipated. You're just burnt out right now. Give yourself a little breather or a lot of tequila!
Electrum
04-28-2008, 07:34 PM
Man, I have another freakin' quiz and small paper to do by midnight (it's 1030 here) and I in no way feel like doing it :( Online courses are a bit harder to get motivated for... so easy for me to just... sit here and... do nothing! Ha!
RoseLeigh
04-28-2008, 08:11 PM
I didn't even know my thesis topic until I was halfway through my literature review! Just so long as you know the general area/genre/period you want to study, you're on a good track. Ask your profs and mentors how many times they changed direction or had to do something different than they had originally anticipated. You're just burnt out right now. Give yourself a little breather or a lot of tequila!
Sadly I have to hand in a proposal to even get into the seminar. :( I think I am burnt out from too much paper writing etc.
RoseLeigh
04-29-2008, 06:27 AM
This is the last day I have to be up for a 9:50 class until....a long time, at least. Woooo.
Oh damn, I have an 8 am exam in 2 weeks. Still-last early class at least until September.
And thank you SA & HK-sometimes I am so discouraged with school. I got the proposal done. Whew. It's not goood, but it works. For now. I hope they accept it. I want to study the supposed 'international style' of the late Bronze Age Aegean in reference to textiles and/or personal items. It's one of those topics that make scholars go ya-huh/nuh-uh, but I think I've found enough research for a start.
$$$magnet
04-29-2008, 09:38 AM
I am seriously considering throwing myself in front of a car so I don't have to do this presentation in 3 hrs....
RoseLeigh
04-29-2008, 01:18 PM
I am seriously considering throwing myself in front of a car so I don't have to do this presentation in 3 hrs....
I am so familiar with that feeling.
sxybrat07
04-29-2008, 03:03 PM
I have to take a final tonight online. Then one more tomorrow, and I'm done for a month. Fuck. I just want to lay down and cry.
Sarah Andi
04-29-2008, 03:07 PM
Sounds like an interesting topic, RoseLeigh!
I have a final paper due in the morning, and another exam Thursday, and then...
Graduation on Sunday! Summa Cum Laude, two degrees!
RoseLeigh
04-29-2008, 06:35 PM
This is the last day I have to be up for a 9:50 class until....a long time, at least. Woooo.
Oh damn, I have an 8 am exam in 2 weeks. Still-last early class at least until September.
Damn, I lied. To myself. I still have my Friday class at 9:50. But that's IT. Then exams.
Oh and that insane math test he decided to throw in today-oh yeah, he changed his mind AGAIN and emailed it to us as a take home due Thursday. Take home=no partial credit. Jerk.
ETA: OOOH, but my thesis proposal was accepted! Oh senior year is going to be a nightmare! Yay but :crazy: and :scared:
RoseLeigh
04-29-2008, 06:58 PM
YYYYYEEEAAAHH BOYYYY!
I got 122 1/2 out of 110 points on my last math test.
Movin on up...! Looks like I don't need to rule out physiology just yet... gotta keep that 4.0 nice and sharp.
Please come take my math final.
And congrats!
BalletBaby
04-29-2008, 07:05 PM
I Graduate In A Week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations!!!!:cheers:
I have to take a final tonight online. Then one more tomorrow, and I'm done for a month. Fuck. I just want to lay down and cry.
Good Luck!!!:hug:
ETA: OOOH, but my thesis proposal was accepted! Oh senior year is going to be a nightmare! Yay but :crazy: and :scared:
Yay Congrats!!!!:cheers: