Good luck to anyone hacking their way through finals.
Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
Seconded.
However I must add: Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
Laugh now while you still can. But remember that when we've all graduated and you're just starting college, we'll laugh at you.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
According to my teacher friends, finals is FABULOUS when you're a teacher. Dead week and finals are play time!
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
I remember one Simpsons where there's a teacher faculty meeting day everyone has off while the teachers actually ride rollercoasters. Sounds like that.
Posted by hansenj (Member # 4034) on :
Finals week will be smooth sailing for me.
It's just this week that's the problem... Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
Thanks. Though it was too late to save today's exam...
...#%&$ controller design problems...
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
I need much luck to finish my exams. I have to diagram the first sentance of the Declaration of Independance. What a nightmare...
Posted by Black Mage (Member # 5800) on :
I hate finals. . .
Ugh. I know I'm gonna fail my Spanish final.
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
My mom was a TA, and during my first semester of college she recalled the day a student of hers called her about an essay they had had all semester to work on the night before it was due. At around 11:00 pm. Classy as always.
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
I hear you, Jennie. All of my big stuff is due next week. The final exams will be the easy part.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
All my big stuff is due tomorrow and Monday. And I had a big project today, so I have to do tomorrow's 6-page paper all tonight...
And I can't find any sources on my topic that I don't have to pay for, and the web is my only option because my sources have to be from France.
I'm having a little bit of a meltdown.
Posted by hansenj (Member # 4034) on :
Yeah, I've been calling this the Week of Doom (it has since turned into two weeks...)
That sounds terrible, Annie! I have to write two french papers by 9:30 tomorrow morning, but at least my sources don't have to come from France. (((Annie)))
(((everyone else that has too much stress))) Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
I've got all of next week to worry about finals - they're not until the week after. Though I do suppose I should be studying now. Funny, that might actually help me pass Greek. Turns out I lack motivation. As long as I'm pseudo-prepared for class tomorrow, I'm fine. All I have to do is memorize 35 paragraphs of Herodotus. In Greek. With the syntax of every word. Eek!
I'm not terribly concerned. My worst one will be Astronomy, because it's the day after Trilogy Tuesday Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
I can't start this paper. Physically cannot. I don't have the necessary stuff in my brain.
I guess I'll just go to bed and get up at four and then I HAVE to do it. Sigh.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
I know you can do it my brilliant Annie!
I worked on AutoCad stuff for 5.5 hours this evening until we got kicked out the lab (it was closing, we weren't being dissruptive ) and now I've spent the past half hour or so doing more. The only reason I can still concentrate is that my roomate and I went for a run outside in our T-Shirts for 20 minutes. It's snowing.
Hobbes Posted by MaydayDesiax (Member # 5012) on :
My math final's too far gone. I'm going to try and retake it next semester. Hopefully, I'll get a better grade.
For English, I get to review FotR. On the downside, I had to condense the ENTIRE PLOTLINE into 75 words. 75! Physically impossible. I borrowed from 'Book-A-Minute'. Still 125, after I cut out some of THAT! Sigh.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
Annie? *poke poke* Are you still alive?
I know what you mean about sources. I was extraordinarily put out that Dissertation Abstracts International CHARGES you for using the sources. Music Index does as well.
I know you'll make it though. Sleep some this weekend.
Thanks for the wishes of luck. I'm definitely going to need them. My finals start toDAY.
Best of luck to the rest of you.
Posted by msquared (Member # 4484) on :
You young whippersnapper crybabies. For those of us in the real world, every day is finals day. There is always some big project, proposal or job that has to be done RIGHT THE HELL NOW. None of this weeks to prepare and adjust and practice. Just do the work.
msquared(who is glad his last school final was over 10 years ago)
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
::loudly agrees with msquared::
Yeah! And if you wouldn't put stuff off until the last minute it wouldn't be so bad!
::goes back to working on funeral sermon that must be written by noon::
[ December 05, 2003, 11:11 AM: Message edited by: dkw ]
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
DKW, now that's what I call a FINAL!
Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
Horrible but funny.
quote: But remember that when we've all graduated and you're just starting college, we'll laugh at you.
True. However I think I'll enjoy my life of blissful finallessness for now.
Hope they all go/went well!
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
I survived! And it really wasn't too bad!
and I've now been awake for 10 hours, and it's 2 pm, and I have to go to a formal dinner tonight until who-knows-when.
Wheeeeee!
Posted by butterfly (Member # 5898) on :
I despise finals. Especially those given by professors who don't wait until finals week because they have to go on vacation.
As a second note: Dead week's name definitely should be changed. It's always my busiest week.
Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :
My Wednesday Arabic final doesn't start until 2 in the afternoon, so I can catch the midnight showing of RotK, get eight hours of sleep, and still get about an extra hour of study time before the final! 'Tis awesome!
Besides, on Monday and Tuesday my finals start at 7:00 am!!! I feel I am due some LotR action.
Posted by MattB (Member # 1116) on :
According to my teacher friends, finals is FABULOUS when you're a teacher. Dead week and finals are play time!
Or, in my case, a time of gnawing anticipation for the two hundred freshman essays that are going to hit my desk in five days and stare at me with their beady little metaphorical eyes.
Posted by Audeo (Member # 5130) on :
Good luck to everyone. I have two essays due on Monday (8-10 pages a piece) and my professor has declared that we're not allowed to use any internet sources. I've actually had to go to the library to find sources (gasp). My actual finals don't start until 15th and are finished on the 17th. That's nearly two a day. terrible terrible terrible The good news is that after then I can go home and sleep throught Christmas and New Year's before I come back again.
Posted by Kimo (Member # 5933) on :
Since Annie and Hobbes are majoring in each other, I wonder what their final will be?
Good luck to all you slogging out this week.
Posted by Kimo (Member # 5933) on :
Since Annie and Hobbes are majoring in each other, I wonder what their final will be?
Good luck to all you slogging out this week.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
Yeesh. When you put it that way, I guess it's a good thing that they're separated by no less than 10 states.
(I'm just kidding. I would never wish that you guys not be together. )
Posted by HollowEarth (Member # 2586) on :
quote: I've actually had to go to the library to find sources
I realize this is at least slightly sarcastic, but frankly why post it unless you want us to feel bad for you? In case the world hasn't noticed yet, the quality of web sources, unless you have to pay for them is dismal. Go learn to use the library. It pisses me off to no end that people don't like having to go there.
Posted by Brinestone (Member # 5755) on :
I've got twenty (well, now fourteen) lesson plans to write before Tuesday at 6:00. And a syllabus. And I don't remember what else.
I have one more paper, 6-8 pages, to write. It shouldn't be too bad. What will be bad is the rest of the project. Due Wednesday.
I have two "finals" on Wednesday (who knows why my professors don't believe in finals week for finals!). And then a paper due on Thursday, which I've mostly written. After Thursday, though, I have only one final. Go figure.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
I have one big paper and presentation due Monday, and then I'm done for awhile. At least I think I'm done for awhile... I'm sure I'm missing something due Tuesday...
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
*bump*
And so it begins.
My life will be better in exactly 5 days. How about yours?
*starts the countdown*
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Good luck Cecily, darling!
It's dead week for me, and I just finished my art history term paper I am a little more than relieved.
Posted by hansenj (Member # 4034) on :
Five days it is for me as well.
One response paper, one research paper, one french paper, three exams, and numerous assignments later the stress will be gone! Granted, I will still have three finals left for next week, but none of them are stress-inducing.
Oh how I long for Saturday!
Posted by MaydayDesiax (Member # 5012) on :
I get to go HOME on Friday! Real food! A soft bed! Getting a job... Wait.
Posted by kwsni (Member # 1831) on :
yay! Horse management down. I bombed the genetics bit, but the rest of it i did ok. Just in case you cared.
Ni!
Posted by BYuCnslr (Member # 1857) on :
mmm....Two take home essays, a normal chapter exam, and an in class blue book test. Then RotK! Satyagraha
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
I feel for you all. I started a 12 page research paper at 1:00 pm last Friday, and finished at 5:30 am Saturday. Only 5 1/2 hours past the midnight deadline (it's an online class). The paper sucked, but I'm done with it, and good riddance. I'm still suffering jet lag from that one.
One more 12 pager due this Friday, but in much better shape. I already did the first draft and had it peer-reviewed. Now I have 5 days to do a revision.
Official Advice for Robots and Other Paper Writers in a Machine-Like Daze: "Double-spaced" is your friend. A 12-page double-spaced paper is really only 6 pages single spaced. And 6 is a much nicer sized paper. This kind of thinking has gotten me through many a long night in front of the word processor.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Isn't it funny how you can never write papers during normal hours? Even if you try. They only happen at 2 am. And they're really fun to read the next morning.
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
*shudder*
I never reread a paper I wrote at 2 am. I just wrap it up and send it off.
By the end of my Friday-Saturday paper, I was pretty much just pulling thoughts out of the air. The whole thing probably reads like it was written by an infinite amount of monkeys.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Good luck guys. *shudders* This thread is bringing back memories, and they're not all that much fun. *represses memory of 40 page paper due the morning after a power outage*
And I think I finally understand how some of my students managed to turn in the papers they did. *shudders again*
Posted by Black Mage (Member # 5800) on :
I'm starting my term paper tonight. The one due tomorrow.
Ah, procrastination, thou insufferable bastard. . .
Posted by Miro (Member # 1178) on :
quote: I'm not terribly concerned. My worst one will be Astronomy, because it's the day after Trilogy Tuesday
Yeah, I'm seeing it at a theater that's an hour away, and then I have an 8:30 am final. That's going to be fun. Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
Man, my life may suck, but at least I don't have school during LORD OF THE RINGS WEEK!! Mwa haha haha haha!!!
Posted by LockeTreaty (Member # 5627) on :
Having only one final this semester, while taking a full course load, I feel I must tell others how to avoid numerous finals that can very well result in a stressful week or two. The key to having a simple finals week is going to a small liberal arts college. The professors tend to be too liberal to give out finals. They just can't fit in with the crowd, and I am left to reap all of the benefits.
If it weren't for Calculus I would have dodged all the bullets, but fortunately it was only a flesh wound.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Yay! My presentation on the monster paper is done!
I am stress-free for at least 24 hours!
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
Yay for you!!!
My heaviest day is tomorrow and then I just have normal finals to deal with after that.
Good luck everyone!!
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
quote: A finals Post from the Dark Side.
Well atlast I have my final written and Xeroxed. It starts at 8 am tomorrow and then there is only the grading left to do.
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
Finals: 1 Me: 1
...the tiebreaker is tomorrow...
Posted by HollowEarth (Member # 2586) on :
If your class is a joint grad - undergrad class, always make sure that you are clear on what won't be on the undergrad test, unlike what i just did.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Heh - in my undergrad/grad classes, it's usually the grad students who need extra help.
*refrains from making rude comments about fine arts grad students in undrgrad art history courses*
Posted by HollowEarth (Member # 2586) on :
naw I didn't need extra help. I just studied the wrong stuff.
You see we never had any homework due in this class. So the 'homework' we were given was never looked at discussed etc etc. So when I went to study I first did the homeworks that I hadn't done, and spent all my time on what it seemed i didn't know from there.
However this ignored the finicky details of some of the other stuff that i did need to know.
Somehow it seems to me that the grad students are getting short changed by this, i mean they get the same lectures, (only once all term did he point out something they had to know that we did not.) And the whole first level of grad inorganic chem is the same as undergrad inorganic chem. Not my problem I guess.
Posted by Lyra (Member # 6014) on :
Finals are evil. I really can't take it any more... 4 years of high school only to come to college and have both midterms AND finals...AUUUUGH I have 2 on next Monday, and a writing portfolio due then. On Tuesday I have 2 more exams. Luckily I only have one on Wednesday. I think my professors want to kill me!
[ December 09, 2003, 10:29 PM: Message edited by: Lyra ]
Posted by hansenj (Member # 4034) on :
Time for the final push! I'm completely done with five of my nine classes. (*small party*) However, it is now time to get myself in gear and write these two last stupid papers! (Both are due tomorrow at 5:00 and I haven't started either one. )
As a result, I am not allowed to come back to Hatrack (among many other things I'm not allowed to do ) until after the two papers have been safely turned in tomorrow.
Good luck to everyone else!
Until tomorrow... Posted by Brinestone (Member # 5755) on :
Hey, if you think it can't get any worse, think about my finals schedule.
I came down with strep throat Tuesday night. I did turn in the massive portfolio and make the interview then. Wednesday I had two finals and a project due. I was so sick I completed none of them. Luckily, my professors are letting me take the finals tomorrow—I just hope I'm better. Today I had a paper due, which I also didn't get done. The professor for that class is letting me turn that in late. I am now on antibiotics, but I still feel terrible, and I can't even think about how much I have to do still, and I feel that every minute I stay sick is one less minute to finish the things I have to do.
[/whining rant] Sorry to complain here, but Jon Boy's heard it all already. Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Oh no!
(((((Brinestone)))))
*makes a bowl of chicken soup*
Here, this will help.
Feel better soon, and good luck!
Posted by hansenj (Member # 4034) on :
That's terrible, Ruth! Let me know if there's anything I can do for you! (Though I'm sure Jon Boy is taking good care of you. ) But honestly, I have an extremely open finals week, so if there's anything you need (you know, chicken soup, cookies, whatever...) I'd be happy to help!
(Psst! You didn't see me here. I finished the papers, but I still have a few revisions to do, and I promise I won't come back again until after I have safely turned them in. )
Posted by hansenj (Member # 4034) on :
OK, so sorry for resurrecting this thread over and over. It seems people just want it to die (probably ignoring finals, right? ), but I just have to announce: I'm DONE! I have three more exams, but compared to the stress of this week they're nothing.
That said, this thread can now die in peace.
Good luck all! Posted by Ophelia (Member # 653) on :
My astronomy exam does not want to be studied for. Nor do I want to study for it. Why must we be forced into this tragic studying relationship? Why?
My linguistics final, on the other hand, did not need to be studied for. It was a good final. *pets ling final*
Tomorrow before noon, I will be done. Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
It's all downhill from here on out. I've got a couple of papers to wrap up and a few finals to take (Old English and semantics should be the easiest, followed by Welsh and then editing).
Well, at least one person in my household is having a good finals experience now. . . .
Posted by BYuCnslr (Member # 1857) on :
Mmmm...I just turned in my final essay (4 days to answer 3 questions) for one class, I'm completely sure I failed it because I had 1 day to write it (I was completely sick the other three), and in 45 minutes I have a Chinese final, which yet again I'm going to completely and utterly fail. tomorrow is my poli sci exam, which I'm debating on not taking (for it's not required), I suppose I'll look at the documents, and then see, and Monday I have a sit in exam that consists of three more essay questions. Goodness I love being sick during finals week. Satyagraha
Posted by Brinestone (Member # 5755) on :
Bernard, you may find that your professors will be more lenient than you think. Mine have been amazing. I mean, I'll still be busy next week, but I have been allowed a few days' slack for being sick, meaning everything will come due Monday or Tuesday next week, after I'm all better, instead of Wednesday or Thursday this previous week. I don't know. Maybe it's too late now to ask for mercy on the Chinese and essay finals, but maybe not.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
Conquistei!!!!
Ah. Life is much better. I went to the Moonstruck Chocolate Cafe for hot chocolate to celebrate.
Ahhhhhhhh....
Posted by Koga (Member # 5646) on :
I have two finals tomarrow, one of which I might actually be able to pass.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Yay for Narnia!
I love Moonstruck! Brigitte took me there - I had the Mayan hot chocolate with all kinds of Mexican goodness.
Congratulations, lady!
Posted by Lyra (Member # 6014) on :
I have 5 finals next week... and I did not sleep last night at all.. I stayed up all night with one of my high school friends working on Physics Labs. College can really be a jerk I am quickly finding out. I have been up for oooh about 38 hours straight now I think. I am becoming delirious, so why am I posting here still??? It's so addictive!!!!!*looks innocent* *runs and jumps into bed to sleep for at least 12 hours* YAAAAAAY... but boo because i have to spend from now unil 10:30 next Wed either studying for exams, writing my portfolio, or worrying about studying for exams while procrastinating. *sigh* such is life though neh? Posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan (Member # 5626) on :
I felt it was appropriate to ressurect this thread during my five minute Hatrack break while writing my final paper for American Politics. I'm on page 4 out of 8 and it's due at noon. 7 hours 20 minutes to go! And then there's the other paper... and the two essays... and the two finals I have to study for. ::dies::
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
You'll make it RRR!! I have nothing but love and sympathy for you all.
I got sick, yea the very DAY after finals ended. So now I'm sick on Christmas break, but I guess I should be happy that I made it over the finish line beFORE I collapsed. (I'm trying to see the positive side of everything. ) Brinestone and Bernard, I hope you're doing better. (and anyone else that's sick.)
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Annie is done!
(techinically, she is done with her finals... saying nothing about the 200 other people's finals she is responsible for before tomorrow at 5:00. But this is beside the point)
Let the wild rumpus start!
Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
(To the tune of, "Ya ba ba ba ba DA! Ya da da da da da.")
I've got one exam left! Only one exam left.
This time tomorrow, I'm done. Of course, no sleep for me tonight. But then, how is that different from any of the other exams I've written this term?
Posted by Black Mage (Member # 5800) on :
WOW! I mean, wow!
My SPanish final was easy! I studied so hard and it was, like, basic. It's like getting a battering ram, you know, backing up a good distance, then just when you're about to hit the door someone opens it and now the momentum's carrying you onward and you're slightly off-balance and wondering when and if you'll hit a wall.
Thanks to Terry Pratchett for a good simile I could paraphrase.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
Yay you guys!! I'm proud of you!! Posted by sarahdipity (Member # 3254) on :
I finished my finals today. I then went and saw Return of the King. Now I'm sitting up working on something else. It's almost like work is some strange drug I can't get off of.
Posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan (Member # 5626) on :
I have my last exam at 9 am, and I haven't studied for it at all. I went to bed at 3:30 and got up at 5. Sigh. And it's my birthday! What a great day to fail an exam.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Happy Birthday RRR!
Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :
I'm done, I'm done! All three evil papers in, and only 16 final exams left to grade, and I'm DONE DONE DONE!
For me, this was the semester that just would not die!
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
quote:According to my teacher friends, finals is FABULOUS when you're a teacher. Dead week and finals are play time!
o_O
The earliet I have been to bed this week is 1 am last night. Two days this week it's been 2 am, and two days (counting Sunday night) it's been 4 am. And that's been wrapping up the quarter and preparing my finals and keys. I've only actually graded two out of my six classes. The rest of the grading is coming home with me for over the break.
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