The study stress thread

[hatfull]

Ok, this thread will probably die on its arse, but here goes:
I've just started a really difficult post grad. couse at uni, and I know there are lots of our members who are currently doing coursework/exams/revision, so I just thought it would be really good to have a place where we can offer each other support and cry on each others shoulders when it feels like it's never going to end, and offer advice if we can. This is, of course, when we get the time. I'm actually ment to be researching education laws in history, but somehow, I've ended up here. So, what's everybody else doing?

[DeliciousDemon]

This thread will never die because I'm also in the middle of a very stressful exam period and I often feel fed up, tired, frustrated ... I think I will visit here often!!!

[lilybett]

Summer hols

But fear not - my continued presence here will belie the fact that term starts in two weeks ;)

[chica]

I'm actually ment to be researching international relations, but somehow, I've ended up here. :p

[El Manzo]

Currently trying to study for a last exam and thinking about the final, huge dissertation. (Modern Philology>Italian Literature). Should have done that 10 years ago.
When I'm working I think about my studies, when I'm studying I think about my work, when I'm sleeping I think about my life.
Something wrong here, I know.

[Disappointed]

I won't let this thread die until I graduate in May (well, actually, no, that isn't true, because there is the possibility that I may go on to film school after graduation)!

[drunken goldfish]

Well, I have 5 papers due by Oct 22nd, and I'm only in the middle of the first. Stressful enough? *sobs* I am the world's biggest procrastinator, and working on the computer doesn't help since I'm constantly surfing the net instead of writing the fucking paper - my boyfriends' already threatened to disconnect us ;) .

[Pervomartovtsi]

I can't get stressed and I should :@!!!!

[M-in-Oz]

Researching Gender Representation in contemporary culture. Currently on break but of course the workload doesn't know that! So I have heaps to do, not enough time & visit this site way to often...but at least it kind of fits into the 'comtemporary culture' category.

[Midnight]

I am very stressed - no university study at all for two whole weeks now, exams are approaching and I'm usually asleep instead of attending. :D

[HIM]

Ok, this thread will probably die on its arse, but here goes:
I've just started a really difficult post grad. couse at uni, and I know there are lots of our members who are currently doing coursework/exams/revision, so I just thought it would be really good to have a place where we can offer each other support and cry on each others shoulders when it feels like it's never going to end, and offer advice if we can. This is, of course, when we get the time. I'm actually ment to be researching education laws in history, but somehow, I've ended up here. So, what's everybody else doing?


excellent idea for a thread!

i will, undoubtedly, be posting here, in order to avoid studying, from now on! i'm almost finished a Master's in Social Policy and "only" have a dissertation to write.

it's 20,000 fucking words about disability and social security policy, in the u.k. (fascinating stuff, eh?! well, it is, to me, so leave me alone!)

when it's done i'll be dead proud of it, but i'm finding it hard to get the fucker started.

ideally, i would disappear off, to a cottage on a remote hillside, with no distractions and loads of books and remain there for the next four months, emerging in jan. '07 with my completed dissertation in hand and a beaming smile on my face.

alas, life is not like that, so i guess i'll just have to get on with it. :(

as i said, excellent thread - hope it catches on!! i am now inspired to actually do something. i will get the first chapter written in the next 12 days.

thank you hatfull! ;) (i can almost forgive your purchasing that c.d. by "the feeling", now. ...almost.)

[sarahT]

If you all just sit down and do your work you won't get stressed.

[DeliciousDemon]

If you all just sit down and do your work you won't get stressed.

I wish it was that simple (at least for me) ..

[HIM]

If you all just sit down and do your work you won't get stressed.


shit... i just knew there must be special, secret trick to it, all!!!

thanks for those inspiring words!!

have you ever considered a career in motivational speaking?!

[wolve]

School has already begun for a month now, and I still haven't done anything. We already had some tests (to see how it's going - not big one, but still...I realised I cannot study anymore) and I'm way too distracted to be concentrated. Also, my exam period starts in December...So I'll guess I'll be bombing this thread then.

(If anyone has a gift of courses like Chemistry and Maths - I'll be bombing you with my questions!:))

[sarahT]

shit... i just knew there must be special, secret trick to it, all!!!

thanks for those inspiring words!!

have you ever considered a career in motivational speaking?!

But every one of you has said that you can't be arsed to do it, not that you can't do it.

[El Manzo]

If you all just sit down and do your work you won't get stressed.

Oh yeahh! I saw the light! (in a Hank Williams style).
I can see my dissertation materializing in the next few weeks.
With a relaxed smile on my face. Without Fluoxetine.

[sarahT]

Oh yeahh! I saw the light! (in a Hank Williams style).
I can see my dissertation materializing in the next few weeks.


If you write it, it will materialise.

[El Manzo]

If you write it, it will materialise.

True. I understand what you mean, and I know deep inside in my heart that you are right.
No irony here. :)

[sarahT]

True. I understand what you mean, and I know deep inside in my heart that you are right.
No irony here.


None taken.

[hatfull]

excellent idea for a thread!

i will, undoubtedly, be posting here, in order to avoid studying, from now on! i'm almost finished a Master's in Social Policy and "only" have a dissertation to write.

it's 20,000 fucking words about disability and social security policy, in the u.k. (fascinating stuff, eh?! well, it is, to me, so leave me alone!)

when it's done i'll be dead proud of it, but i'm finding it hard to get the fucker started.

ideally, i would disappear off, to a cottage on a remote hillside, with no distractions and loads of books and remain there for the next four months, emerging in jan. '07 with my completed dissertation in hand and a beaming smile on my face.

alas, life is not like that, so i guess i'll just have to get on with it. :(

as i said, excellent thread - hope it catches on!! i am now inspired to actually do something. i will get the first chapter written in the next 12 days.

thank you hatfull! ;) (i can almost forgive your purchasing that c.d. by "the feeling", now. ...almost.)

You know that CD will come between us forever!!!
Well, I've done my first lesson in teaching English lang/lit, been given another assignment, learnt how to encourage children to use ICT across the curriculum, done 4 chapters of reading on maths, written up all my notes from toay, and now I'm just going to eat quickly and do 2 more chapters of reading!!! The next person to tell me how easy it is to be a teacher is going to have the National Curriculum rammed up their arse! Oh, but I can't do that until it arrives! That's correct, the publishers of our most important, without which it is nigh on impossible to work, and/ or the Goverment, decided for fun not to let universities order the National Curriculum this year but to make each and every student ring up individually and then wait for God knows how long until they send it out! And for extra fun, nobody told the uni until just before we started our course!! I don't know why I pay my taxes.
Anyway, I'm more or less on top of everything right now, and yes I knowI shouldn't be on the forum, but it is litrally a study break. I'm being sooo good!!
Good luck for tomorrow everyone, we can do this!

[hatfull]

I forgot to say, I'm sure my ICT tutor is a Morrissey fan!! You know how sometimes it's sooo obvious without asking? He has a little mini quiff and DMs and he just reeks of Moz!! I'm going to wear my Morrissey T- shirt to my next ICT lesson to see if he comments. I can see it now 'So, you havn't done any of your reading for this week because you spent last night handwashing your Morrissey T-shirt which you won't put in the washing machine because it's a bootleg and it might fall to bits? What an excellent teacher you will make'
If he is a Moz fan he might be a forum member! Oh God!! I'm doing my reading, I'm doing my reading please don't fail me!!

[drunken goldfish]

^^LOL, good luck!

So how's everybody doing, any progress? I'm halfway through one of my papers and my goal is to finish it by Sunday. I doubt I will, though...
Here's concentration vibes for everyone (and some for me... :) ).

[Denia]

these days.. i'm a walking zombie for 120 hours and live on weekends.


(i'm surprised i can multiply 24 x 5 without a calc. mmm perhaps there's some hope in me after all)

[hatfull]

I had to go to my f*****g stupid part time job today (I can't cope with it any more! I think I'm going to quit!!!), I did 4 chapters of reading (Maths and ICT), and yesterday I did science then English Subject Knowledge. I was hanging my head in shame by the end of that!!! How can I not know so much about the structure of my first language? Does anyone here know what a Conjunction is? A Split Infinative? Even a 'Proper' noun? Tell me it's not just me that doesn't know this!!! Tomorrow, I'm doing my prep for Monday's lectures, typing up and emailing my notes, doing my maths assignment and starting my English assignment, Wish me luck!!! Hope everyone else is doing well!! I shall be expecting full feedback on Monday, and issuing detention to anyone I catch slacking!!! NO TALKING AT THE BACK!!!

[DeliciousDemon]

I'm doing well, going according to the plan, it's just that i found out that my exam will be happening a few days earlier then i expected so yes, have to work harder from now on ... if that's humanly possible.

[wolve]

I wonder, do you guys studies with music??

[drunken goldfish]

I did 4 chapters of reading (Maths and ICT), and yesterday I did science then English Subject Knowledge.
Nice going, you're an inspiration to us all :) .
Hope everyone else is doing well!! I shall be expecting full feedback on Monday, and issuing detention to anyone I catch slacking!!! NO TALKING AT THE BACK!!!
Heh, I see you've got the catchphrases down already :) . Here's my feedback: I was a really good girl yesterday but my cold came back today so I barely did anything, hopefully I'll finish this neverending paper tomorrow. Then I'll only have 4 more *sobs*.
I wonder, do you guys studies with music??
A lot of people do, but I find it too distracting. I like to keep the TV on in the background though so it's not dead silent around me. Do you? And how's your cold, by the way?

[wolve]

A lot of people do, but I find it too distracting. I like to keep the TV on in the background though so it's not dead silent around me. Do you? And how's your cold, by the way?

Well, I sometimes really want to listen to music when I study, but I know I can't because I know that I won't study good then. But music without lyrics or without good lyrics is good. Putting Smiths/Morrissey on, is suicide!

My cold is still surviving, but not that bad anymore.
How's your goldfish?

[hatfull]

Nice going, you're an inspiration to us all :) .

Heh, I see you've got the catchphrases down already :) . Here's my feedback: I was a really good girl yesterday but my cold came back today so I barely did anything, hopefully I'll finish this neverending paper tomorrow. Then I'll only have 4 more *sobs*.

A lot of people do, but I find it too distracting. I like to keep the TV on in the background though so it's not dead silent around me. Do you? And how's your cold, by the way?

I have to have music on or I can't do anything. I have loads of different things on, depending on the mood, but Moz can be quite helpful to me.
I've done some reading and typed up my notes, then had the afternoon off. Glad you're all doing well!
Hope youre cold gets better, Drunken Goldfish.:(
Keep up the good work

[DeliciousDemon]

when i'm studying i have to keep everything off as it distracts me ... it's so funny how, when you're studying, everything allofasudden becomes so interesting - every crappy TV show that you never pay attention to outside of exam periods, radio, newspapers, spam e-mails or even moz-solo (how do you think I got so hooked on this?). So I turn everything off, cram for an hour, make a pause to play some music and unwind and then go back. I wish I could be like so many of my friends who can memorize things just by casually reading them while sitting in the noisiest places but I can't ... it's too damn difficult to keep focus these days but i'm doing my best.

[BoyRacer]

Working on my dissertation for my Ph.D and its a total nightmare... mostly because when I sit down to do some work on it, I end up here for hours on end instead of doing what I should be doing. Too bad I can't find some 100 lb head to just write this thing for, then brief it to me so I can defend it. Damn my luck.

BR

[Mmmmmm]

Its no treat marking those damn papers and exams either. Mind you, I get paid to do it which makes it more lucritive but no less agonizing. Tip for y'all:
Avoid:

1. Repeating yourself over and over and over and over again.
2. Being overly pretentious with jargon and incorrectly used Victorian-era polysyllables.
3. Quoting the likes of Morrissey in an expository essay on the evolution of the jellyfish
4. Stealing other people's work (How I love to nail plagiarists)
5. Woeful stories about why its late. Tell me that it will be in on... and make sure it is.

If you hate the topics you are writing about, perhaps you are in the wrong field. Then again, exams and major papers are frequently just hoops to discourage the half-hearted. Eventually you will forget them all and the stress they caused, but you will remember every gig you attended during these years (that is unless you load up on the hooch first).

[M-in-Oz]

Well another week without getting any study done. I can see light at the end of the tunnel...but it still seems so difficult to get there. I do find that studying with music on is helpful for me, at the moment it is Ringleaders, although I don't mind a bit of Yeah Yeah Yeah's or David Bowie sometimes.

If only I could sit down and get something done! My current style of working is reading everything I can find, it feels like I can never read enough. But this leaves me with little time to write anything.

[drunken goldfish]

Hope youre cold gets better, Drunken Goldfish.

Thanks! I've had quite enough of it already...
How's your goldfish?
Uh, what? :D
Too bad I can't find some 100 lb head to just write this thing for, then brief it to me so I can defend it.
Maybe we could switch :) . What's it about?
My current style of working is reading everything I can find, it feels like I can never read enough. But this leaves me with little time to write anything.
Oh, I know what that's like. Have you also got an obsessive streak in you? ;) The key is to say: ok, my goal for today is just to write something, even it's not completely right or perfect. Once you've written something, even if you'll end up fixing it later, it makes everything a lot easier.

[hatfull]

Very true!!! I try to limit the amount I read, otherwise I just get confused about who said what when!!! I need to go and do a few more chapters of reading but I'm still doing pretty well.

[M-in-Oz]

Yes, I do have a bit of an obsessive streak. I think there is something I am going to miss and the supervisor will say..."yes but you haven't read blah blah's research..."
Anyway, I made it to the library today (suprise I am on Moz-Solo) and will aim to write something by the time I leave.

[BoyRacer]

LOL

Nothing like procrastinating.

[drunken goldfish]

Yes, I do have a bit of an obsessive streak. I think there is something I am going to miss and the supervisor will say..."yes but you haven't read blah blah's research..."

Heh, takes one to know one, my friend. I always think of all the flaws the professor is going to find in my paper, but then I tell myself they have a milllion papers to grade and they're really not going to read it half as carefully as I do, not to mention as many times as I do. Sometimes it works ;) .
Nothing like procrastinating.
Procrastinators of the world unite...tomorrow :D .

[BoyRacer]

Or next week or whenever we can get around to it.

[hatfull]

I've had fun today!!! We had a music lesson (teaching us how to teach music to young children) so I've spent most of the afternoon beating the crap outof a xylophone!!!

[vivaissy]

Procrastinators of the world unite...tomorrow :D .

dear dear this is gonna be my new catch phrase :P

[hatfull]

Well, tomorrow's another day!!! I know we're all going to get there eventually! Whether we're in one piece or not is another matter...

[drunken goldfish]

Procrastinators of the world unite...tomorrow .

dear dear this is gonna be my new catch phrase :P

Can't take credit for it, I'm afraid, though I strongly identify :) .

Question for everyone: I'm supposed to take either German or French next year, which is considered easier?

[Busy Clippers]

Question for everyone: I'm supposed to take either German or French next year, which is considered easier?

Dunno about everyone else, but I thought French was easier, but maybe because it was my grandmother's sole language?! I just wanted to read Rimbaud and Flaubert. Friends who took German were struggling. One of them is in Germany now, and no one understands her German so she has to speak English all of the time. Maybe you should think about what you'd like to read in each language and go from there?? Also, if you're in the UK, either will probably be good. Language instruction in the US is appalling. Good luck.

[wolve]

Yes! My hard labour aka studying finally pays!

Got 27.5/40 for a test of maths, and 14.5/30 for French! :)

[drunken goldfish]

Dunno about everyone else, but I thought French was easier
Really? I've always heard it as an example for a realy difficult language. My boyfriend took it for six years in high school and the only thing he knows how to say is "my name is so and so, I live in this and that street..." ;)
Maybe you should think about what you'd like to read in each language and go from there?? Also, if you're in the UK, either will probably be good. Language instruction in the US is appalling.
I'm in Israel actually, and our language instruction is probably not that good either (re: boyfriend's French :) ). I'm in university though, so it should be better, right? I'm not doing it to read anything in particular, only because it's a requirement. A stupid one at that, I really don't see how learning a language for 2 years will enable me to read academic material in it.

[Practising Troublemaker]

MUST DO MATHS COURSEWORK ARRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH:mad:

[chica]

Question for everyone: I'm supposed to take either German or French next year, which is considered easier?
Ask elder students which exam is easier to pass! Because you won't learn either of the languages, so just save yourself the trouble.
However, there is a slight possibility that you will find German easier because it's more similar to English (in case you have never learned Latin, Spanish, Italian or Portuguese.)
On the other hand, if you would really like to learn the language (and dedicate some extra time and money to the cause) it's easier to learn French because they invest more in promoting their language and culture. There is probably a French Cultural Centre where you live, so they should be able to help.

[drunken goldfish]

it's easier to learn French because they invest more in promoting their language and culture. There is probably a French Cultural Centre where you live, so they should be able to help.
There is, actually. The French really do like to promote themselves, son't they? :)
(in case you have never learned Latin, Spanish, Italian or Portuguese.)
I haven't, but I learned Ancient Greek last year. It's pure evil.

[wolve]

I would take French...plus facile que l'allemande!

[chica]

How come... I thought Dutch was very similar to German? Or maybe you're able to hear French more often, so you find it easier?

[drunken goldfish]

I would take French...plus facile que l'allemande!

Hey, no fair! I haven't learned it yet :) .

[Manic Rose]

just started studying with the open university. haven't studied at all in the years between my A Levels and starting this and get the feeling that a few weeks down the line I'm going to regret signing up for 2 courses in my first year. :eek:

[hatfull]

Yes! My hard labour aka studying finally pays!

Got 27.5/40 for a test of maths, and 14.5/30 for French! :)
WELL DONE WOLVE!!!!!!!

Can't take credit for it, I'm afraid, though I strongly identify :) .

Question for everyone: I'm supposed to take either German or French next year, which is considered easier?
I did German and failed. But I also hated French. Which one interests you more, because I failed because I was bored. And I had a bad teacher.

MUST DO MATHS COURSEWORK ARRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH:mad:

breathe!!! Just start at the beginning, take it one step at a time. I've just been on a really hard maths course, so if you get stuck I can try and help you...

just started studying with the open university. haven't studied at all in the years between my A Levels and starting this and get the feeling that a few weeks down the line I'm going to regret signing up for 2 courses in my first year. :eek:

That sounds hard!!! It's ok though, we're all here to try and help each other through it. Make a plan of when you need to do what for a start and see how you go. I'm up to my neck in the National Curriculum!!! We had English today, which was frightening, but when I saw my assessment for ICT i had to go and smoke 3 cigarettes in a row ( I don't reccommend this as a coping technique if you currently don't smoke!) OH MY GOD!!!

[Manic Rose]

MUST DO MATHS COURSEWORK ARRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH:mad:

doh! if only you'd been born a year or two later you could have avoided it as their scrapping maths coursework

I'm up to my neck in the National Curriculum!!! We had English today, which was frightening, but when I saw my assessment for ICT i had to go and smoke 3 cigarettes in a row ( I don't reccommend this as a coping technique if you currently don't smoke!) OH MY GOD!!!

it's official - studying is v bad for your health

[wolve]

How come... I thought Dutch was very similar to German? Or maybe you're able to hear French more often, so you find it easier?

Dutch sounds German when you pronounce it, but German has really more difficult grammar.
Well, it could be that it's not that difficult, because I've never learned Dutch of course! And yes, we're able to hear French more, I'm now 17 and we've been getting French at school for 7 years now. It's our most important second language (because half of Belgium speaks French and France borders Belgium!) French is a really important language, but if you want to know which one is more fun to learn, I'd say German. Love the pronunciation (I'm always having difficulties with the French 'r' !!!!).

[chica]

Love the pronunciation (I'm always having difficulties with the French 'r' !!!!).
Oh, it's awful! I particularly hate the word "s'inscrire" :eek:

[wolve]

It's possible for me to use that R in one word, but no way I could keep it up for a whole sentence! And they always spit like that! (especially my French teacher...)
Can you speak with a rolling R, chica? 'cause that's what we do over here, we always let him roll, it's great ;)

[chica]

How do you roll your Rs, wolve? :) We pronounce them like in Spanish or Italian, is that rolling? 'Cause if it is, we roll them well! :D

[wolve]

Yes, I guess so! It's the same here.
It's the hardest thing for a child to learn, the rolling R! I remember me being bullied because I couldn't pronounce it and everybody else could :(

[chica]

Oooh, that's horrible! So tell me, were you listening to Mowwissey or Mollissey at the time? Or was it Wobbie, since you were too young? Or Lobbie? :D

P.S. Am I compassionate or what!

[wolve]

You are evil, you! :p

No, I was three years old I guess. It was the Cuwe and Mozawt at that age ;)

No it wasn't - I always watched a talking dog, called 'Samson & Gert', and they motivated me to pronounce the rolling R! And btw, when Morrissey sometimes sings with a rrrrrrrrolling R, it's damn sexy! And this explains, again, why we Belgian people are so damn hot ;)

_______________________________
This is Samson & Gert:
http://www.kinderspeelplein.nl/icoontjes/samson%20en%20gert.JPG

[chica]

And this explains, again, why we Belgian people are so damn hot ;)

Remind me to point Pervo to this post! :D
P.S. You were right, that Gert is hot as hell! *evil*

[drunken goldfish]

when Morrissey sometimes sings with a rrrrrrrrolling R
Love it when he does that!
It's a shame my age is too late to learn the accent of a new language, I'd love have a french one...

[hatfull]

Wll, when all this is over, I might study a language for fun, as it really is time I learnt. I have to go to bed, I've got sooooooo much work to do tomorrow.......

[DeliciousDemon]

Well, there it is, "THE" day, day of my big exam that is tomorrow. I have spent the last month and a half cramming like an idiot, absorbing all the names and theories and more names and more theories all in hope that it will end all my suffering tomorrow.

During my very static days of studying I got hooked to this forum which is a real success knowing how allergic I am to forums. In case I pass I can't promise I'll be as active here as I am now but then again, maybe I've just said this so that I could get some of you to pray that I pass, get a life and get off your back! ;)

I'm now fairly stressed and tired but positive that it'll all be fine ... one day. I'll keep you posted on the outcome.

Good luck to all other fellow sufferers!

[drunken goldfish]

^^ Good luck! *crosses fingers*

[Pervomartovtsi]

for tomorrow I've got a test ...so I should be reading at least one of the 7 books that are considered in it...but you know what? ...I'm not gonna study...period!

[chica]

Pervo, how will you ever become a teacher?... :(

[Pervomartovtsi]

with the grace of god and with a lot of lies beneath my sleeve

[wolve]

you mean you're going to sleep with the professor so you pass?

[Pervomartovtsi]

Never...he's not even handsome...


and no, I'm just praying for ilumination and good bluff...it's about capitalism the test so I'm just cona go a destroy it!

[chica]

Never...he's not even handsome...
So if he was handsome... maybe... you wouldn't mind him being a HE? :eek: (Sir Alec has to see this!)

[Pervomartovtsi]

hahahah...if he was handsome and I was gonna get kicked out of the Uni, I may go on with a little sacrifice

[drunken goldfish]

I saw one of my professors today and I told him I'd finish my paper by tomorrow. Yet instead of working on it I come here and make earnest debates on which period exactly did Moz look the hottest. *headdesk*

[chica]

"You're The One For Me Fatty" video :eek: Yummy!

[drunken goldfish]

Thanks for your support ;) .

[hatfull]

Thanks for your support ;) .

You can do it, Drunken Goldfish!!!
I have ICT tomorrow, I hateICT! (bearing in mind how much time I spend on here, I just can't seem to get my head round computers)

[chica]

DeliciousDemon, shouldn't you be sleeping instead of fighting for the ethical treatment of dancers?

[DeliciousDemon]

Oh god no, rarely sleep before exams, go there-feel like shit-barely have a functioning brain by the time I'm up, that's my formula.

[chica]

Sounds familiar :rolleyes: And it worked a few times for me...

[Danielledelu]

I know what you mean, I love sleep, but only when I can sleep in, besides usually if I go to sleep before I have an exam/test I wake up the next morning, remembering nothing, feel crappy and almost fall alseep on the test, blah, I can't wait until there's no more test's.

[DeliciousDemon]

tiredness is what pushes me to wrap it up fast. If I wasn't tired - feeling like shit - wanting to go home I'd probably just sit there until the end, hoping for some enlightment.

This way I'm more careless about the outcome which really decreases the stress.

[chica]

I hope chatting here with us decreases the stress too... at least a little bit!

[DeliciousDemon]

oh i'm quizzing myself now just to check what I know ... another 5 chapters and I'm done

well i am not mentioning those 5 chapters i haven't even touched but i guess there's always some risk involved ..

[Danielledelu]

Does anyone make up those little songs to remember things, there so fun and catchy

[chica]

You'll be just fine... ask someone tomorrow to tell you 2 sentences about each of the five chapters you haven't touched, so that you get some general idea - just in case ;)
P.S. I'm listening to Never Had No One Ever - it makes me sad on so many levels :( Haven't voted yet.

[DeliciousDemon]

oh absolutely i have a whole system on how to memorize names and different terms i've never heard of before.

i'd give you an example but they're all in my native language and i'm afraid you wouldn't understand.

there - now you know a new thing about me - english is not my mother tongue!

[DeliciousDemon]

well, i doubt someone would be able to tell me 2 sentences about nietzsche and help me grasp him, whatever, hope he doesn't come up as he really bores me a lot.

[chica]

:confused:
But you come from Wyoming... Are you Native American then? You don't have to reply if you don't want to, of course, my curiosity is way too often way too over the top :rolleyes:

[DeliciousDemon]

oh no, wyoming was just a joke, i'm "on my way to somewhere civilized ... and maybe i'll even arrive", you know how it goes ;)

[chica]

Well good luck to you! :) Let's hope we all will...

[Danielledelu]

If we want to arrive.

wow, Demon I really believed the Wyoming deal! hah

seriously come on, don't hold out on me and Chica
you've heard the phrase curiousity killed the cat, don't break Chicas heart. Just kidding, but I am curious to know, where you really originate from, or live, but I know how it is with these crazy psychos that hunt people down, of course i'm not one, hm...

[DeliciousDemon]

well, for now, let's just say that i'm geografically closer to chica then to you!

[DeliciousDemon]

Well, a lot of you obviouslly prayed like crazy because I passed!!

[chica]

Congratulations! http://www.websmileys.com/sm/cool/653.gif

Was it A or B? ;)

[DeliciousDemon]

... it was a B, but it's not like I ever cared for grades anyway ;)

[drunken goldfish]

Go you! Shall I adopt your method of spending time on Solo intead of studying? ;)

[DeliciousDemon]

oh absolutely - study for 10 minutes/spend time reading threads for 20 minutes ... works every time! ;)

[drunken goldfish]

I finished paper number 2 (out of required 6)! Oh, what bliss! And it's no thanks to you people, as I'm here half the time I should be writing, for instance right now ;) .

[chica]

You're welcome! http://www.websmileys.com/sm/happy/028.gif

[wolve]

Where do you get inspiration, drunken goldfish? Do you have a muse? Or do you depend on alcohol? ;)

[drunken goldfish]

You're welcome!
I wouldn't laugh if I were you, since you're one of the reasons I stay up so late. If they kick me out of uni I'll know who to blame!
Where do you get inspiration, drunken goldfish? Do you have a muse? Or do you depend on alcohol?
:D My boyfriend has often suggesed that option, but so far I haven't taken him up on the offer. No, my main inspiration is the calender, telling me school starts in 2 weeks and I have 4 papers to finish *gulp*.

[hatfull]

Go Drunken Goldfish, go!!! Well done, I knew you could do it!!! Part of the reason I havn't been on since Thursday is because I've been working soooo hard to try and keep on top of everything!! Nightmare is not the word!!!! I admit, the other part involves me being in the pub, and my internet connection being crap (how the hell do I put an incriptor on my wireless? I am sick of the fact that I can't get on because everyone else in the street is using my broadband which is costing me 40 quid a month!)

[drunken goldfish]

Thanks :) . I hope I can someday be as strong willed as you ;) .

[hatfull]

I was in such a bad mood when my internet wouldn't work!!! I am never leaving the forum for three days again, in the time I've been away, new gigs are up, all these exciting things have happened, and I missed it all!!!

[wolve]

Right, so this is going to be an evening where I'll enter the wonderful world of Chemistry! Yay! :(

(If you see me here back within an hour or two, it's because I gave up..)

[wolve]

^ooph! Chemistry and me worked out just fine ;)

[drunken goldfish]

^^Looks like you and Chemistry have good chemistry :p (brought to you by The Society For Bad Puns).

[wolve]

my my :)
Talking about a pun! I had to write a little text for English, and I used a pun in it and the bastard had written next to it: 'sorry, I don't understand the pun!' And then he asked me again to explain, and then he says ' That's not funny '. How heartbreaking! But nevertheless, to quote myself:

The charming part ;) (http://forums.morrissey-solo.com/showpost.php?p=375516&postcount=825)

[chica]

Since this thread is about studying, can we go on talking about the crushes we have on teachers? :eek:

[wolve]

Look who's talking. For once it's not you and Alec who hijack a thread :p

[DeliciousDemon]

Since this thread is about studying, can we go on talking about the crushes we have on teachers? :eek:

c'mon chica give us your dirty little secret

[chica]

I'll be seeing my dirrty little secret about three times a week this year... He's cute and smart (and quite fun from what I've seen so far). That's all I'm prepared to tell you! :p

[wolve]

Your German teacher? :p

[chica]

Your German teacher? :p
That would be too perfect!
Noooo....
But shouldn't you tell us something about your English teacher, wolve? ;)

[wolve]

He's over 40! But I only worship from afar ;)

[chica]

That means no lustin'? :(

[DeliciousDemon]

aah, over 40 ... best age for a man

[drunken goldfish]

Oh, but not when you're 17! (Or 27, for that matter :) ).
Wolve, tell us the pun!

[DeliciousDemon]

Oh, but not when you're 17! (Or 27, for that matter :) ).
Wolve, tell us the pun!

well, I'd do Moz even if I was 17 or 27 for that matter!

[chica]

Or 27, for that matter :)
:eek: You ARE a senior member! :p

[drunken goldfish]

well, I'd do Moz even if I was 17 or 27 for that matter!
That goes without saying, my dear ;) . We're talking about your average proffessor.
:eek: You ARE a senior member! :p
First you call me a puritan and now old? *cries* Just how old might you be, Lady Chica?

[chica]

I ain't hidin' me age! Click on the cat ;)

[drunken goldfish]

Bah! You're just a baby! And here I thought you were a woman of the world :p .

[chica]

I hope you won't like me less... because I find you increasingly attractive now that I know your age! :eek:

[drunken goldfish]

Chica, you're the first woman I've ever flirted with, your place in my heart is safe :) .

[chica]

http://www.websmileys.com/sm/love/029.gif

http://www.websmileys.com/sm/love/216.gif

[drunken goldfish]

:o Hey, I'm just flirting, I haven't gotten to the kissing-girls part yet ;) (though my boyfriend is waiting with baited breath!) .

[chica]

Then it's time you did something nice for your man! :p

[hatfull]

Soooo..... more info on the man Chica? We won't tell! I've caught my crush looking at me for the last two days in lectures... but I'm just going to look!!! I can dream though, can't I? And for the record, he is 39 and I'm 25. I don't think that's too old though. But it doesn't matter if you're only looking...

[drunken goldfish]

Then it's time you did something nice for your man!
I do plenty, believe me! ;)
Hatfull, just go for it already! The man keeps looking at you, what more do you want? :)

[hatfull]

weeeelllll.... I'm not sure enough yet. If he was just at my uni, it would be fine, but he's on my course. I'm going to see what happens. I am happy just to look for now! (doesn't mean I'll shut up about him though)!!!

[chica]

Hatfull, just go for it already! The man keeps looking at you, what more do you want? :)
Seconded!
And we need some saucy stories around here! Don't be selfish! :eek:
(As for me, that's pretty much it so far, I'll keep you updated ;) )

[hatfull]

Oh, I have loads of those!!!! As for this certain person, I'll just keep showing a decent amount of boob, he'll soon come running!

[drunken goldfish]

weeeelllll.... I'm not sure enough yet. If he was just at my uni, it would be fine, but he's on my course. I'm going to see what happens. I am happy just to look for now! (doesn't mean I'll shut up about him though)!!!
If he's in your course then it's better not to do anything yet, since you're going to have to keep seeing him every week even if it doesn't work out. I also had a gorgeous guy in one of my courses this year. I wouldn't have done anything even if I were single - he's way out of my league. So I just spent half the class looking at him, and seizing every opportunity to help him with his Hebrew (he was a German echange student). He's gone back to Germany now *sigh*.
Chica - don't tell me a girl like you doesn't have saucy stories of her own to tell!

[hatfull]

My thoughts precisely!!!! I'm being very subtle, but he's quite often in my eye line so I can look easily. I'm sure he has no idea, and I have so much on this year (so does he) that I'm happy to just be friends and hang out for a drink of a cigarette now and then

[chica]

I also had a gorgeous guy in one of my courses this year. ... (he was a German echange student).
Typical!
Chica - don't tell me a girl like you doesn't have saucy stories of her own to tell!
A girl like me? What do you mean by that? A girl like me is too young to have that kind of stories to tell! :o
(OK, I did spend the last year gazing at someone who wasn't a German exchange student, but he was damn close! (his looks that is). Needless to say, I never learned anything on that course :p)

[wolve]

aah, over 40 ... best age for a man

I don't know if it's my hormones or age or anything, but I'm always attracted to people who are older and sometimes much older than me. It's not healthy I know, because all that can be done is daydreaming... Maybe for some of us that's all there is...

(sorry that was a moment of reflection - now back to Chica's stories:))

[Busy Clippers]

hmmm, so this is what we talk about while we're studying??!

[chica]

^^Wanna share something? ;)

[wolve]

it's okay to go offtopic ;)

[hatfull]

We are talking about men we met at uni/college
Anyway.... back to studying! n I have been trying to get an adaptor that will go from my printer to my laptop. I have been hunting all around my area, waisting hours that I needed for studying. Three shops have been out of stock, and don't know when they will get more. Today, I spent an hour and a half getting in to town on the way back from uni to go to one specific shop They had it! I bought it! I had a very slow and frustrating jpurney hom on the bus while I thought about all the things I still had to do. I rushed in, went to plug in the adapter to the laptop... and they have sold me an incompatable lead. They were ment to be a specialist shop! I sat on the floor and cried! I know I can order one on the internet, but I don't know exactly what it's called, and I am desperate for the printer. So tomorrow, at 9 am, I will not be getting Moz tickets, I will be exchanging the adapter for my printer before uni. Thank you very much Maplan Electrics FOR RUINING EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[drunken goldfish]

Woe is me! I had to drop the class with my American semi-crush because it was too much work :( . It was such a hard decision, as he looks a lot like this:
http://gfx.filmweb.pl/p/10138/po.67293.jpg
(that's Ioan Gruffudd, btw)
I need a replacement crush, but so far I haven't spotted any candidates. Grrr.

[no one in particular]

I need a replacement crush, but so far I haven't spotted any candidates. Grrr.

but maybe you will study better and learn more without a new crush...
:D

[drunken goldfish]

^^No, see, the crushes are an incentive to come to class :) .

[hatfull]

They are also a reason to waer low cut tops and homemade (by my best friend) love oil to uni :D :D :D :D

[wolve]

I managed to get through the DNA part today. Really complicated but hey, bloody interesting ;)

[chica]

I'm not stressed. I don't study! :eek:

[BoyRacer]

This fuckiing PhD program is KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLIIIIIIINNNNNNN NNGGGGGGGGGGGG me.

Starting to think this may have been a bad move. Holy crap this is a shit ton of work. If anyone gets really really bored and wants to practice writing papers, by all means let me know, because I have extras im willing to let others have a shot at writing. Christ sakes, how am i going to be able to procrastinate until the night before when each assignment is a paper with a minimum of 30 pages of typed work.....?


BR


Procrastinators of the World Unite!

[hatfull]

I have so many assignments to do, and right now, all I sem to be able to cope with is planning next weeks lessons!!!! I'm so tired all the time!!!

[Codreanu]

A Modest Proposal To Abolish Universities

About Time

by Fred Reed

July 21, 2006

I think it is time to close the universities, and perhaps prosecute the professoriat under the RICO act as a corrupt and racketeering-influenced organization. Universities these days have the moral character of electronic churches, and as little educational value. They are an embarrassment to civilization.

I know this. I am sitting in my office in Jocotepec, consorting with a bottle of Padre Kino red—channeling the good Padre if you will. It is insight cheap at the price. A few bucks a liter.

To begin with, sending a child to a university is irresponsible. These days it costs something like a quarter of a million dollars, depending on your choice of frauds. The more notorious of these intellectual brothels, as for example Yale, can cost more. This money, left in the stock market for forty hears, or thirty, would yield enough to keep the possessor in comfort, with sufficient left over for his vices. If the market took a downturn, he could settle for just the vices. In the intervening years, he (or, most assuredly, she) could work in a dive shop.

See? By sending our young to college, we are impoverishing them, and ourselves, and sentencing them to a life of slavery in some grim cubicle painted federal-wall green. Personally, I’d rather be chained in a trireme.

Besides, the effect of a university education can be gotten more easily by other means. If it is thought desirable to expose the young to low propaganda, any second-hand bookstore can provide copies of Trotsky, Marcuse, Gloria Steinem, and the Washington Post. These and a supply of Dramamine, in the space of a week, would provide eighty percent of the content of a college education. A beer truck would finish the job. The student would save four years which could more profitably be spent in selling drugs, or in frantic cohabitation or—wild thought—in reading, traveling, and otherwise cultivating himself.

This has been known to happen, though documentation is hard to find.

To the extent that universities actually try to teach anything, which is to say to a very limited extent, they do little more than inhibit intelligent students of inquiring mind. And they are unnecessary: The professor’s role is purely disciplinary: By threats of issuing failing grades, he ensures that the student comes to class and reads certain things. But a student who has to be forced to learn should not be in school in the first place. By making a chore of what would otherwise be a pleasure, the professor instills a lifelong loathing of study.

The truth is that universities positively discourage learning. Think about it. Suppose you wanted to learn Twain. A fruitful approach might be to read Twain. The man wrote to be read, not analyzed tediously and inaccurately by begowned twits. It might help to read a life of Twain. All of this the student could do, happily, even joyously, sitting under a tree of an afternoon. This, I promise, is what Twain had in mind.

But no. The student must go to a class in American Literatue, and be asked by some pompous drone, “Now, what is Twain trying to tell us in paragraph four?” This presumes that Twain knew less well than the professor what he was trying to say, and that he couldn’t say it by himself. Not being much of a writer, the poor man needs the help of a semiliterate drab who couldn’t sell a pancake recipe to Boy’s Life. As bad, the approach suggests that the student is too dim to see the obvious or think for himself. He can’t read a book without a middleman. He probably ends by hating Twain.

When I am dictator, anyone convicted of literary criticism will be drawn and quartered, dragged through the streets as a salutary lesson to the wise, and dropped in the public drains. [you go, Fred! :)]

Why is the ceiling spinning? Maybe I’m caught in a gravitational anomaly.

The truth is that anyone who wants to learn anything can do it better on his own. If you want to learn to write, for example, lock yourself in a room with copies of Strunk and White, and Fowler, and a supply of Padre Kino, and a loaded shotgun. The books will provide technique, the good Padre the inspiration, and you can use the shotgun on any tenured intrusion who offers advice. They tend to be spindly. A twenty-gauge should be sufficient.

Worse, these alleged academies, these dark nights of the soul encourage moral depravity. This is not just my opinion. It can be shown statistically. Virtually all practitioners of I-banking, advertising, and law began by going to some university. Go to Manhattan and visit any prestigious nest of foul attorneys engaged in circumventing the law. Most will have attended schools in the Ivy League. The better the school, the worse the outcome. Any trace of principle, of contemplative wonder, will have been squeezed out of them as if they were grapes.

Perhaps once universities had something to do with the mind, the arts, with reflection, with grasping or grasping at man’s place in a curious universe. No longer. Now they are a complex scam of interlocking directorates. They employ professors, usually mediocre, to sell diplomas, usually meaningless, needed to get jobs nobody should want, for the benefit of corporations who want the equivalent of docile assembly-line workers.

See, first you learn that you have to finish twelve years of grade school and high school. The point is not to teach you anything; if it were, they would give you a diploma when you passed a comprehensive test, which you might do in the fifth grade. The point is to accustom you to doing things you detest. Then they tell you that you need four more years in college or you won’t be quite human and anyway starve from not getting a job. For those of this downtrodden bunch who are utterly lacking in independence, there is graduate school.

The result is twenty years wasted when you should have been out in the world, having a life worth talking about in bars—riding motorcycles, sacking cities, lolling on Pacific beaches or hiking in the Northwest. You learn that structure trumps performance, that existence is supposed to be dull. It prepares you to spend years on lawsuits over somebody else’s trademarks or simply going buzzbuzzbuzz in a wretched federal office. Only two weeks a year do you get to do what you want to do. This we pay for?

What if you sent your beloved daughter to a university and they sent you back an advertising executive?

I think we’re having an earthquake. When the floor stops heaving, I’m going to send out for more Padre Kino.

http://www.fredoneverything.net/

[drunken goldfish]

I know most of this is tongue in cheek, so I'm not gonna respond seriously, however this

To begin with, sending a child to a university is irresponsible. These days it costs something like a quarter of a million dollars, depending on your choice of frauds.[/FONT]
is only true in the U.S. (yes, other places exist, shockingly!). I've heard some countries in Europe even provide free academic education. :eek:

[wolve]

Right, I have to study history (WOII) tonight, let's see what effect it will have!

[chica]

Oh no! I like it when you study biology... ;)

[wolve]

Have I been productive or what! Just finished this presentation for French ('les accidents de la route') and it's only for next week! Yes, I'm on the right path again...

[chica]

Wolve. http://www.websmileys.com/sm/sad/239.gif
Why didn't we have a party for your 2000th post? Where was I? Congratulations, girl, now there are two of us!

[wolve]

thankthankthankthankyou

[First of the Gang]

I must be one of the laziest people, like.......ever.

I am studying five Highers at the moment, and I put in zero effort. I really need to get stuck into all of this studying malarky if I want to succeed, but I just can't seem to get started.

It's terrible; I hate myself for it.

Any ideas on how I can get rid of my laziness?

Thanks.

[chica]

Make studying the purpose of your life? :rolleyes: (i.e. don't have a life! or the internet!)

[hatfull]

I do actually turn the internet off if I'm really working to stop the temptation. I seem to have let housework go a bit so I can study more. Actually, this weekend I've relaxed a bit because I worked so hard last week to try and keep on top of everything. My placememnts nearly over already, I can't believe it!

[helmoz]

oh god im getting so behind with my work. ive got so much to do! i cant keep up with it all!

[drunken goldfish]

I must be one of the laziest people, like.......ever.

I am studying five Highers at the moment, and I put in zero effort. I really need to get stuck into all of this studying malarky if I want to succeed, but I just can't seem to get started.

It's terrible; I hate myself for it.

Any ideas on how I can get rid of my laziness?

Thanks.

I find surrounding yourself with other studying people (e.g. in the library) often helps. This a. motivates you b. makes you feel less sorry for yourself and c. stops you from being on the internet/TV all day (key, for me anyway :) ). Good luck!

[Roma De Moz]

I have an essay on the 'Glass Menagerie' that needs to be in by the end of this month, and I haven't yet begun looking at it. What's more, I need to re-read the play because this is coursework I am retaking. Any thoughts on how I could manage my time little by little in getting this done, because I still have History work keeping me busy and I need to figure out a way of getting the work done without it hampering all my other subjects?

[wolve]

BEGIN

(instead of wasting your times on forums like this ;))

[hatfull]

If you are really sad like me, et a wall planner, and write what you want to have achieved at the end of each week on it, then you can cross it off as you go. You do have to stick to it though.:rolleyes:

[wolve]

Studying Economics,(preparing my exams. exams =/= forums)

[hatfull]

Here we go Fishy...

[drunken goldfish]

Thanks :) . I have a French test on Tuseday and Greek homework due the same day, so naturally I'm on Solo :rolleyes: .

[chica]

Wise :eek:

(bumping this thread, I mean)

[hatfull]

Yeah, i figured the fact that I have two assignments to work on (maths and professional studies) would make it an excellent time to go and get drunk and lol around today. I did clean though.

[chica]

Though it has its negative sides, I'd hang around with you guys but I feel guilty when I see this thread, so... till later I guess :o

[drunken goldfish]

Yes! Go study so we can apply for a job together! :D

[IWonder]

I'm so proud of you fishy and of you hatfull. :o

[hatfull]

Thank you, that's very kind of you to say! Wait until I pass first...

[drunken goldfish]

I'm so proud of you fishy and of you hatfull. :o
Is that sarcasm, Wonderboy? Also, I notice you left out Chica :D .

[IWonder]

And, Chica. :p

Nice to see you back, Fishy, I've missed you.

[drunken goldfish]

Ah, genuine emotion, how refreshing :) . I missed you too. I see you're back sooner than expected ;) .

[IWonder]

No, I am not back until two weeks. I'm putting all the bad people on ignore, so I do not cause trouble. :rolleyes:

[drunken goldfish]

Good. I did notice you called all women manipulative or something :p .

[hatfull]

No, I am not back until two weeks. I'm putting all the bad people on ignore, so I do not cause trouble. :rolleyes:
Very wise.

[IWonder]

Fishy, I would love to be able to be asexual, but I just aren't and women always string me along and then throw me down the well. :p It's most upsetting.

Hatfull, it is. :p

[hatfull]

Fishy, I would love to be able to be asexual, but I just aren't and women always string me along and then throw me down the well. :p It's most upsetting.

Hatfull, it is. :p
Yeah, it's not just women, men do it too. You learn to get good at taking it on the chin and trying again

[IWonder]

Is that a metaphor for punching someone if so I do not want to piss you off. :eek:

[hatfull]

Is that a metaphor for punching someone if so I do not want to piss you off. :eek:
LOL!!!! No, the rejection. Though I am somewhat scary (it's the teacher in me)

[IWonder]

I'm sure my wit would rescue me from an awkward situation. (I hope)

[hatfull]

Yeah, it would.

[IWonder]

That's great, I would be prepared to use extreme acts here (no not violence) :D

[hatfull]

That's great, I would be prepared to use extreme acts here (no not violence) :D
That's good to know!!!!! I have much experience in this area, trust me!

[IWonder]

Hatfull, you are quite something. :D

[hatfull]

Why thank you (I think...)

[IWonder]

Thinking is dangerous. :D

[hatfull]

Don't I just know it!

[HIM]

[...] You learn to get good at taking it on the chin and trying again

on the chin?

(seriously, you still need to exercise that jaw!)

now, let's try that again... open wide! ;)

[hatfull]

on the chin?

(seriously, you still need to exercise that jaw!)

now, let's try that again... open wide! ;)
Well, i'll just have to practice more, after all, I want to please you well once we're finally married...

[hatfull]

Look what I found! mind you, I don't think there's many of us still studying, i know I am and hubby is, anyone else? (Also, I just read back over how motivated I used to be and now feel a bit ill.)

[Robert Neville]

I should be learning about Lenin and Gordon Brow... oh i mean Stalin, but there's only so much russia a boy can take