Raise your hand if you want the semester to be over!!!
I've got three papers and a final left to go. Two of the papers are due by Wednesday and I haven't started one yet. And instead of working on them, I'm starting threads on Hatrack. Yay procrastination!
Posted by Rotar Mode (Member # 9898) on :
It may be a sign that my mind is decaying that I can't even remember my schooling.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
END IT. END IT NOW.
I have: 15-minute Presentation (tonight) 10-minute Presentation (Wednesday) Leadership Dynamics paper (um....I forget) Leadership Dynamics article papers (about eight bajillion) Marketing plan (Dec. 13) Take-home Final (Thursday) Take-home Final (Dec. 13)
Death. Please.
-pH
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
I don't have that much left, but I burned out a long time ago.
What I have
Paper due tomorrow (or Thursday, but I'd like to get it over with) Group paper due Monday. Finals every day Monday-Thursday of next week Online review thing that I was supposed to do today, but the file is of a type that apparently doesn't exist, so I can't.
So, not too bad, if I could only make myself care.
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
Aye, I'm struggling to finish my research paper which is due tomorrow. I've got about 7 pages of 12-15 and oh it's getting harder and harder.
Posted by libertygirl (Member # 8761) on :
AHG!!!! I'm such a procrastinator I saved all my pre-finals stuff for this week... 2000 word reasearch paper 5 essays Humanities test Spanish test English test Tons of math h/w then comes finals week. yay. : (
Posted by krynn (Member # 524) on :
man...
i just took my physics lab finale today. very tough. i was suprised since the labs were so easy. i have a calc exam tomorrow, a pol. sci. exam on thursday, and finals for lecture start monday. i will have one each day from mon-wed. so close to being done, and yet this next week and a half is about 40% of my total grade. very stressful.
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
15-20 page paper due Wednesday, research done, needs to be written 10 pager due next week Wednesday, not even close to being started Hell Poetry final next Tuesday Lucretius final next Wednesday Herodotus final next Thursday
Then... lots of drinking. Posted by Tinros (Member # 8328) on :
I feel lucky. Since I got sick, I had to drop most of my classes. I just have a Music Theory final tonight, an Aural Training final Wednesday morning, and a piano final Thursday afternoon. Joy.
Posted by Launchywiggin (Member # 9116) on :
This semester is already over in my head.
Posted by Jhai (Member # 5633) on :
Raises hand!
Tomorrow: 15 minute philosophy thesis presentation, followed by questions from prof. + classmates Wednesday: 15+ page Econometrics project due... it's only 40% of our grade for the semester, and I'm still fiddling with data! Thursday: Philosophy thesis due Friday: Econometrics project presentation for 15 minutes Next week: Probabilty & Stats (400-level class) final, Philosophy Senior Seminar Final, 10+ page Advanced Logic Paper due, 4 grad school applications.
Then I get 6 weeks off. And next semester will be much easier - independent study of Philosophy of Econ (400 level), independent study for Economics Senior Honors Thesis, independent study of Advanced Micro (grad text), Decartes to Kant (history of philosophy 200-level), and Probability & Stats II (400-level).
It sounds hard. It will be hard. But it'll be a cakewalk compared to this semester. Oh, and today I need to write up the syllabis for my philosophy of econ independent study for next semester.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
I just keep telling myself that next semester means two independent studies...two glorious independent studies.
-pH
Posted by The White Whale (Member # 6594) on :
Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
I have a flash website due on tuesday (preview at http://www.planet-v.com ), my Hatrack commercial due on Thursday morning, a 20 second short traditionally animated, 30 storyboard panels and an ethics presentation on violence within the family.
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
Four finals next week, a 10 page research paper in English (I am about halfway done at this point) and a 10 page conversation analysis due in linguistics. On the analysis I have the transcript typed and part of my analysis done, but need to do some research for it before I can finish.
Busy, busy busy.
Let's not even get into my personal obligations right now - well, let's do it briefly. Three drama performances in the next three weeks at church, my kids choir that I teach is performing one more time this season. A banquet tonight that I was responsible for decorating a table for and one of the dramas is also tonight and I'm not only in the thing, but responsible for making all the costumes. Also this week are 1)and end of the year banquet for my daughter's scholar's bowl team 2) my middle daughter's performance in a play at school and 3)my middle daughter's gymnastics team's Christmas party. All of which I must attend and bring food to.
I've got to learn to say no around the holidays.
Posted by scholar (Member # 9232) on :
Baby becomes full term at the same time the semester ends, which is really making me anxious to have semester over. Of course, my husband has about a million chores for when his finals are over (retile the bathroom, baby proof the house, a whole bunch of yard work, etc).
Posted by SoaPiNuReYe (Member # 9144) on :
I have a 52 in math. I want to get this semester over with. Posted by crescentsss (Member # 9494) on :
quote:Originally posted by SoaPiNuReYe: I have a 52 in math. I want to get this semester over with.
Oy. Are you taking geometry or trig? I can help you with geometry and some of trig over email, if that's feasable.
Posted by The White Whale (Member # 6594) on :
I know a lot of students feel towards the end of the semester, but I always feel more of . Everyone is working so hard, and the groups usually mesh together real well, so as much as I am looking forward to the end of the semeseter, I'm sad that the brains I have been working with and the material I've been working on will all be in the past.
Does anyone else feel like this? Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
I only have one big project and two finals. But I'm also ready.
Posted by Flaming Toad on a Stick (Member # 9302) on :
I have SIX, count'em SIX final exams, each worth 40-50% of the grade. I hate it! Make it stop, please make it stop!!
And I'm free to help people with math. High school math is a good relaxation exercise for me.
Posted by SoaPiNuReYe (Member # 9144) on :
quote:Originally posted by crescentsss:
quote:Originally posted by SoaPiNuReYe: I have a 52 in math. I want to get this semester over with.
Oy. Are you taking geometry or trig? I can help you with geometry and some of trig over email, if that's feasable.
its functions trig and i just figured out what I was doing wrong. We were learning about law of cosines and ambiguous case and i was switching sine for cosine on my test when i needed to use the law of cosines. Posted by Euripides (Member # 9315) on :
Can I post here if I've already finished?
Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
quote:Originally posted by Euripides: Can I post here if I've already finished?
You're just throwing yourself to the wolves.
*howl*
Posted by crescentsss (Member # 9494) on :
quote:Originally posted by The White Whale: I know a lot of students feel towards the end of the semester, but I always feel more of . Everyone is working so hard, and the groups usually mesh together real well, so as much as I am looking forward to the end of the semeseter, I'm sad that the brains I have been working with and the material I've been working on will all be in the past.
Does anyone else feel like this?
NO
grrr Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
I've got a test to grade, two projects to grade, a final to write and grade and then final grades to make out. Trust me the end of the semester isn't any better from the professor end of things.
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
One paper done! Two to go and a final!
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
It's not much of a picnic from the college admin perspective either.
And I don't get winter break off.
Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :
Ugh.
1 program to write 2 physics problem assignments, overdue (but won't be docked -- I hope) 1 physics problem assignment yet to be assigned 1 algorithms problem assignment 5 physics lab write ups (she said we could turn em in whenever pretty much, so of course they got left to the last minute) 2 finals -- both are gonna be extraordinarily painful, one's gonna be take home I think, when it comes to math/comp sci and take home is exam is not a good thing. 1 38 page paper on Dark Matter to read and present 1 2 - 4 page paper to write and present -- this'll be the easiest of all my work.
And this is with only two real classes. One Computer Science and one Physics.
Posted by Dr Strangelove (Member # 8331) on :
1 paper worth 50% of my grade 1 final exam (in class essay) 1 10 minute French presentation 1 cumulative French final 1 computer literacy exam (cake walk) 1 history exam (cake walk)
Overall I really don't have it bad. A lot of stuff was due this past week. Two of my classes today almost got out of hand, people are so ready for school to be over.
Posted by Evie3217 (Member # 5426) on :
Count me in. I've got: 3 papers 2 Exams 1 Presentation 0 time
It should be a fun couple of weeks. Plus, I have to get Xmas presents for everyone I know.
Oh, and I just finished my 20 page paper at 5:30 Monday morning. Transcribing interviews is absolutely evil. NEVER DO IT!
Posted by Hank (Member # 8916) on :
quote:Originally posted by The White Whale: I know a lot of students feel :wallbash: towards the end of the semester, but I always feel more of :grouphug: . Everyone is working so hard, and the groups usually mesh together real well, so as much as I am looking forward to the end of the semeseter, I'm sad that the brains I have been working with and the material I've been working on will all be in the past.
Does anyone else feel like this? :dontknow:
I know what you mean. I've had semesters like that. This just isn't one of them.
My brain's so full of book learnin' that it refuses to absorb any more. And exams are NEXT week. (incoherant grumblings)
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
quote:Originally posted by The White Whale: I know a lot of students feel towards the end of the semester, but I always feel more of . Everyone is working so hard, and the groups usually mesh together real well, so as much as I am looking forward to the end of the semeseter, I'm sad that the brains I have been working with and the material I've been working on will all be in the past.
Does anyone else feel like this?
Sort of, I'm really sad my group in my poli sci class is going to be broken up. We get along well and talk and joke around and everything. I think that's just because I'm going through a really lonely phase and am searching desperately for anything resembling friendship.
The semester, though. I want that to be over right away, so I can go home and get the real thing.
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Oh dear god... *raises hand*
I have had the semester from HELL. I'm a voice major, and I haven't been able to sing for a good half of the semester. And this week IS going to kill me. I promise.
Posted by Coccinelle (Member # 5832) on :
I am so happy that this semester is almost over. I'm also quite pleased that for the most part I haven't seriouly procrastinated any of my work so I only have one paper left to finish. Of course, it's a 20 page lit review that I haven't started writing and it's due tomorrow, but at least I'm not trying to do it along with five other projects : )
I'm trying to avoid stressing about school by rewatching Buffy.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
Well, the presentation last night kind of sucked, but I think I get extra points for my ULTRA DRAMATIC opening. It was on an alternative energy company, and we had to go last, and everybody else had gone on about how much electricity we were using.
So I turned out all the lights and started talking.
The group turned them back on for the stupid slides. I wanted to turn them back off again at the end, but my group did not fully appreciate my flair for theatrics.
Today, I put together a new product development presentation...and hopefully spend five hours researching for my marketing plan, since I'm getting paid to do it.
-pH
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
The semester is never over when you work.
Cherish your lazy days of school, kids...
Posted by Dr Strangelove (Member # 8331) on :
quote:Originally posted by Evie3217: Count me in. I've got: 3 papers 2 Exams 1 Presentation 0 time
and a partridge in a pear tree. Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
quote:Originally posted by The Rabbit: I've got a test to grade, two projects to grade, a final to write and grade and then final grades to make out. Trust me the end of the semester isn't any better from the professor end of things.
Oh yeah. Forgot about the 60 quizzes and papers I have to grade by Monday. Silly me. Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
quote:Originally posted by Dr Strangelove:
quote:Originally posted by Evie3217: Count me in. I've got: 3 papers 2 Exams 1 Presentation 0 time
and a partridge in a pear tree.
At least SHE gets pears. *sulk* I want pears.
-pH
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
*throws pears at pH*
Posted by Tinros (Member # 8328) on :
one exam down, two to go.
Posted by Katarain (Member # 6659) on :
I took my only exam. I think I got a high B on it, or a low A. It depends on how well I guessed at the ones I was having trouble at. Even a low B would be acceptable. I got a 97 and a 100 on the other two exams, so it's not as if a low B will even matter.
I'm finishing up one of my papers to be turned in this afternoon.
Tonight and tomorrow I'll be writing a 12-page paper. I've done the research for it, but I haven't written ONE single, solitary word. Thankfully, it's a research paper, so does not require original thought. *phew* It was originally due today, so I'm very thankful for the extension to Thursday at noon. I needed the time for my OTHER paper.
But Thursday at noon will be my breathe-easy day... I can't wait.
Posted by ReikoDemosthenes (Member # 6218) on :
I just wrote my first final and I have two more to write this week, along with a few papers to do this week, as well. Although I may be able to get an extension to Monday for the one paper, which will take off a LOT of the pressure. Then it'll just be one last final in a week or so and plenty of time to study for it.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
I have 14 pages of marketing plan finished...and it's not even halfway done, and I haven't even done any research yet.
Maybe I won't die?
-pH
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
quote:The semester is never over when you work.
Cherish your lazy days of school, kids...
I don't like this statement, one bit. I've worked in the "real" world, right smack in the corporate rat race, and I'm a full time mother of four kids - a REAL job that never ends - and yet I think that college exam weeks are among the most stressful of times possible.
It's a tad belittling to call us "kids" and talk as if we don't know what real stress is, because we don't work in the "big bad wide world" yet. There is a particular level of stress that comes with finals that isn't comparable to anything I've ever experienced in the real world and I'm certainly old enough and experienced enough to be able to say that fairly confidently.
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
Paper 3 of 4 due tomorrow at noon. I've got four pages done (of 8-10). It's going to be a long night.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
quote:Originally posted by kojabu: Paper 3 of 4 due tomorrow at noon. I've got four pages done (of 8-10). It's going to be a long night.
What's it on?
I kind of put together my presentation for tomorrow night...it's for one of those professors who gives you no guidelines at all just to see what you come up with when you panic and realize that you don't quite know what he expects, like it's an academic Rorschach test. Fortunately, I've had him for something like four of my undergrad classes, so I have a vague idea. But I still don't know what he really wants on a presentation; I've only given one of those for him before, and it was two and a half years ago, and he gave ma a B or B+.
-pH
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
I have to write about a statement Tocqueville made regarding religion and the US ("enthusiastic, almost fierce spirituality such as cannot be found in Europe") using the readings we had as examples. We also have to talk about whether or not the "religious madness" has been the dangerous, irrational phenomenon that Tocqueville feared.
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
Just got my grade back for the first of my finals. She graded on a range and is going to decide which end to take after assessing all of our stuff together. I got a high B/low A. I'm not too worried, since I have As on everything else in the class, and have been participating both in and out of class.
For my paper, I have 649 of the 1000-1300 words needed. However, all of them are topic sentences. I swear I'm never outlining again.
After that it's just a ton of reading and the tests themselves. I can't wait for it to actually be finals week.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
*#@!)(#%&! I just got the @)($*@&!# take-home final for my @$)(*#@&@! international business class, and it's due by @$(@*&!ing Thursday! Now I have to spend tomorrow on this in addition to my @)($*!@&%ing marketing plan and presentation!
-pH
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
I just woke up an hour before my alarm went off because my heart was racing so fast thinking about everything I need to do.
I guess it's good I started caring. I would have preferred to get the sleep, though.
I think I'm coming down with something; I'm completely exhausted all the time, even if I get eight hours of sleep.
Posted by Katarain (Member # 6659) on :
This paper is kicking my rear. I'd be better off if I DID have to write an original thesis.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
I'm coming down with something as well. I started hacking up a lung last night.
Ugh, I very well might just go back to sleep, if possible...
-pH
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
I have about 6 pages of a 15-20 due... today.
Crap.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
I got excited about my marketing plan again. I talked to my client, and I called some ad reps, and it just sounds really cool to be like, "I'm with the LSBDC, and I have a client who's interested in..."
They're sending an intern to bring me a media kit. AFter the ad rep offered to meet with me in person, and I declined because I have far too much to do today.
Unfortuately, what I REALLY need to be worried about right now is my international business take-home final, but...it's soooooo boring.
-pH
Posted by Coccinelle (Member # 5832) on :
quote:Originally posted by Carrie: I have about 6 pages of a 15-20 due... today.
Crap.
hey! me too!
mine's due at 6pm. At least my reference list is neatly typed up. Maybe I'll get some credit for good research since the paper's crappy.
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
quote:Originally posted by Coccinelle:
quote:Originally posted by Carrie: I have about 6 pages of a 15-20 due... today.
Crap.
hey! me too!
mine's due at 6pm. At least my reference list is neatly typed up. Maybe I'll get some credit for good research since the paper's crappy.
Hehe... I'm at 12 now. I've still got a fairly in-depth example to go, as well as actually writing an introduction and conclusion. I think I can hit 15... I hope I can, at least. My references are also pretty Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
I just had a moment.
I'm writing this letter from St. Bernard to Thomas a Kempis. It's not been going very well. I'm getting about 100 words an hour, and most of those words aren't mine, they're quotes from either person. I've been having a lot of trouble writing anything of substance in my own words.
Well, I just wrote something original, and I stopped, and reread it, and it sounds exactly like something Bernard would say.
It's little moments like this that let me get through the end of the semester.
Posted by Katarain (Member # 6659) on :
It's over. I'm done.
I feel so drained emotionally and physically that I can't even feel happy. Hopefully that will come later.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
I woke up this morning with the death flu.
Take-home exam #1 due at 11:59pm tonight.
Death flu making it impossible for me to think straight.
-pH
Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :
I've got a test tomorrow, and pathfinding program (with paper) due Monday.
But after that (and finals) I'm done!
--j_k
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
Praise God, I got an extension on the take-home exam. I asked for one day, and he was like, "Absolutely not. You will take three days. You sound like you need it."
I think I'm going to go sprawl on the sofabed.
-pH
Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :
quote:and pathfinding program (with paper) due Monday.
Ouch! Best get started on that ASAP man. You know people groan when I say that comp sci majors work harder than humanities majors, but it's so fracking true. The comp sci equivalent of a paper is a program. I know people who can pump out papers in a couple of hours. At worst it takes a day or two of hard work, including research, minus procrastination. A program can take weeks of hard work including research and minus procrastination. And what's worse is that we're not usually given quite enough time. And you can't just write it and be done with it. It has to work and not crash.
I wish you luck JTK.
Posted by Coccinelle (Member # 5832) on :
quote:Originally posted by Carrie:
quote:Originally posted by Coccinelle:
quote:Originally posted by Carrie: I have about 6 pages of a 15-20 due... today.
Crap.
hey! me too!
mine's due at 6pm. At least my reference list is neatly typed up. Maybe I'll get some credit for good research since the paper's crappy.
Hehe... I'm at 12 now. I've still got a fairly in-depth example to go, as well as actually writing an introduction and conclusion. I think I can hit 15... I hope I can, at least. My references are also pretty
Did you finish? I submitted an 18 page beauty at 5:45. 15 minutes early!
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
I did. 15 pages on the nose, turned in at 3:30 yesterday! I was also the only one to get it in before 5:00 yesterday afternoon - go me!
Heck, go us!
Posted by Coccinelle (Member # 5832) on :
yay! That's wonderful! It's so nice to have the big evil paper done Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
I have 9 pages done of a 10 page conversation transcript and analysis that's due tomorrow morning. Now I'm searching through all my sociolinguistic literature to find some more reasearch I can bring into it to make it longer. I dont' want to just pad the word count, I want there to be some substance to it, I have an A in this class right now and want to keep it and this analysis is 25% of my grade.
It is fun though - we got to pick what we wanted to transcribe and I picked sports talk radio. I think I'm going to pull in some stuff from Deborah Tannen on male conversational style - that should add some weight to the paper and be relevant.
[ December 07, 2006, 02:30 PM: Message edited by: Belle ]
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
So, my groupmate was going to take all our bits of the paper and put it together so that it actually makes sense and is in some sort of order.
Well, if this is her idea of that, I suddenly understand why I get good grades.
I'm currently redoing. Of course, that implies that she did something other than copy and paste everything into a word file. Which she didn't.
Posted by Jhai (Member # 5633) on :
I'm losing my motivation.... and I have a huge project and presentation in Econometrics tomorrow. I just want to curl into a big ball on my bed and sleep for three days.
Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
The existance of the "last class of the semester" threat makes me REALLY wish I were done. =( Though it sounds like I'm definately not the only one overloaded with work. It would be better if the topic of this one history paper weren't so unbelievably vague.
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
15 page paper due Thursday (technically Friday, but I'm leaving Thursday). I've got a page so far and no real clue as to where I'm going with it. Also started a study sheet for the test on Thursday. Four more days....
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
I finished the final project for my independent study (in only an hour and a half!) and now I'm stuck on lame take-home final #1. Which I need to finish before midnight. I have a few little things to turn in for independent study still, but I figure I can take care of those early tomorrow morning. Take-home final comes first.
And I'm so TIRED! I want to go back to sleep!
-pH
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
I FINISHED TAKE-HOME FINAL #1!!
-pH
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
And it's before midnight for you, right? Yay! Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
quote:Originally posted by rivka: And it's before midnight for you, right? Yay!
Yes! I am the winner!
Now I get to wake up tomorrow and camp out in the library for two days!
-pH
Posted by Snail (Member # 9958) on :
Seems like I'm having it easy compared to most of you people.
I only have four exams to go and two projects I need to finish off.
The thing I'm most stressed out is handling the paperwork to getting my new study plan approved. About a year ago they changed the degree structure in Finnish universities to fit some stupid overall EU formula, and that means I can't finish university with the same study plan I started it. Not that changing my study plan is difficult in itself, it's just paperwork... and I hate paperwork. Posted by Insanity Plea (Member # 2053) on :
In an attempt to try to make everyone else feel a little better about their workload, my end-of-semester schedule:
1-hour philosophy colloquium presentation (colloquium includes all three philosophy professors, and 7 students) Done
15-page research paper for said colloquium presentation Done
15-minute presentation on a policy proposal pertaining to constitutionalism and national security Done
16-page policy proposal
10-page final paper on U.S. political thought
30-page final paper on historiography and social structure.s
Total page count: 71 Pages completed: 15 Percentage done: ~21%
I'm just looking forward to finishing so I can start writing other papers over the break.
See y'all in a couple more months.
Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :
quote:Originally posted by Alcon:
quote:and pathfinding program (with paper) due Monday.
Ouch! Best get started on that ASAP man. You know people groan when I say that comp sci majors work harder than humanities majors, but it's so fracking true. The comp sci equivalent of a paper is a program. I know people who can pump out papers in a couple of hours. At worst it takes a day or two of hard work, including research, minus procrastination. A program can take weeks of hard work including research and minus procrastination. And what's worse is that we're not usually given quite enough time. And you can't just write it and be done with it. It has to work and not crash.
I wish you luck JTK.
Hehe. The funny thing is, I'm not a CompSci major. This was for a class called "Minds and Machines." I was trying to show how hard subconscious human tasks are to program. Just turned in in, though.
The hardest part was all the vector geometry. To be honest, I'm kind of surprised at how well it turned out
--j_k
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
I invented a new unit of measurement last night. "Square kilometers per airport."
Gar....I need to order new glasses....but I need to go camp in the library...
-pH
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
I am nearly finished my last essay of the year. It's about Einstein and General Relativity, the Great War and the 1919 eclipse.
Theeeen I have one charity performance with the choir I'm in and three exams and then I'm DONE!
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
Two classes entirely finished with. All papers completed. Just three more finals to go.
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
One final down, three more to go. Still not done with my final paper in my English class - it's due Friday.
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
How long does it have to be?
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
Ten pages. I've written five. I shouldn't have too much trouble finishing it, I just have to sit down and make myself do it.
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
*does the Happy-I-Don't-Have-the-Topic-for-my-10-page-Paper-Due-Wednesday Dance*
(edit to correct day due - I wish it were Thursday...)
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
I feel really, really awful, and I don't know why.
I got about 5 or 6 hours of sleep last night, which made it impossible for me to study today until the bright idea of taking a nap occurred to me around 4:30, so I napped until 6, went to dinner, and then started studying again. I still feel awfully exhuasted, though, and I feel like I'm racing against the clock to get all the studying done that I'd planned to do earlier in the day.
Added to that, I'm spiraling into depression about things completly unrelated to finals. And my mom has been emailing me about all these things to do when I'm in town, when I was just looking forward to relaxing and getting the massive amount of not school related work that I've been putting off until break done. So I don't really have anything to look forward to anymore, when the thought that I could go home in 4 days was the only thing getting me through.
I'm sorry to complain. I'm hoping by getting it out there I'll be able to get back to work and get things done.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
*hugs for blacwolve* I'm sure it'll get better. My mom can be the same way when I get home. I just want to lie around and relax, and she goes all crazy about how I don't do anything but lie around all day...and I'm like, Mom! It's my break! This is ME TIME!
Maybe she's just excited to have you home.
-pH
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
quote:Originally posted by pH: *hugs for blacwolve* I'm sure it'll get better. My mom can be the same way when I get home. I just want to lie around and relax, and she goes all crazy about how I don't do anything but lie around all day...and I'm like, Mom! It's my break! This is ME TIME!
Maybe she's just excited to have you home.
-pH
I'm sure she is, she just expresses that excitement by wanting to go on outings and stuff constantly. And I like doing stuff with her, but I rarely get a moment to myself.
Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
That sounds HORRIBLE Insanity Plea! What sort of program are you in, and how do I stay out of it?
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
I FINISHED MY SECOND TAKE-HOME FINAL!!!!
I am the winner!!!!
Now I have all day tomorrow to finish up my marketing plan.
-pH
Posted by Insanity Plea (Member # 2053) on :
So I lied, I returned in my unstructured procrastination.
quote:That sounds HORRIBLE Insanity Plea! What sort of program are you in, and how do I stay out of it?
If by "horrible" you mean "horribly awesome." I'm a philosophy and political science double major (senior) at a small liberal arts college. The philosophy program (currently) requires two semesters of colloquium which is where you spend the semester researching a topic in philosophy (due), present on it, and then finish with a first draft of a paper that could then possibly be revised and polished for publishing. I just happened to end up drawing a later presentation date, so I'm including it in my "finals schedule" (I actually would have liked to do it far earlier). The policy proposal is also actually supposed to be the cumulative of a semester's worth of work, but eh, the rest of school gets in the way. The 10 page final paper is just that, nothing really special. The 30 page paper, however, is beautiful. It is literally 100% of the grade for the course, which is technically a 300 level history course, however, it was actually a seminar on historiography and the philosophy of mind (with bits of neurobiology, and academic history tossed in). The course read a major book a week (I'm talking books like The Aesthetics of Memesis here, not any random novel) along with major readings in the philosophy of mind. The seminar met once a week for 3 hours, and was entirely amazing. This paper is going to be my crowning achievement of the semester. In fact, as I'm writing this post I just starting another book from the library that looks very promising. I'm writing on building an understanding of how we understand and negotiate structures using the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as a catalyst, through small vignettes (think Mrs. Bridge). And once I'm done with the semester, I can start working on papers for conferences in the spring!
(There actually is no sarcasm in this post at all.)
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
I GOT A 97.4% IN LEADERSHIP DYNAMICS!!!!
I thought I still had two more postings to make!
WOW!
-pH
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
*high-fives*
Posted by Jhai (Member # 5633) on :
I was feeling deathly ill today. I literarlly could not think through the big fuzz cloud in my head. But, thank the gods, there were free professional massages being offered by ResLife. Ten minutes later I felt like a person again!
Now I just have one more final and a paper to finish.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
My marketing plan is 31 pages long, and I still haven't even TOUCHED a couple major sections.
And it's not even 5pm yet.
I'm going to go pick up my new glasses and have some dinner. I deserve it!
-pH
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
Thirty-nine pages.
Still not finished.
Meeting with the client tomorrow to work out nitpicky details.
What amuses me is that really, this isn't nearly the longest of these kinds of assignments I've had. I think my undergrad music finance midterm ended up being 60 pages, and the final project was 90.
-pH
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
I am going to die. This stupid Lucretius paper isn't writing itself, and it's due at 2! &@*$^$#@*# Lucretius!
3/10 pages, but I can probably drop that to 8.5...
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
I can't get into my Othello paper either. Which tells me it's typical end of the semester brain fog, because I LIKE Othello.
I have only one final remaining - on Friday and this final paper to do and that's it.
Today, the biggest portion of my Language and Culture class was an essay question - "Describe the differences between prescriptive and descriptive grammar and give illustrations of what the implications are for speakers of African American Vernacular English in public schools."
That's not verbatim, but that was the general gist of the question - definitely one I could wrap my head around and something the professor and I had already talked about at length after class, several times. I read it and looked up at him and grinned and he just smiled back at me, it was almost as if it was designed for me. Posted by SoaPiNuReYe (Member # 9144) on :
I'm going to fail math. I have no idea what I'm doing anymore...
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
One more final that's worth 40% of my grade. It's for my statistics class, I have about 88% right now and I really, really want to get an A in the class. It's at 8 am tomorrow morning so I have ten more hours to study.
<---Goes back to work.
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
One final left, tomorrow morning at 9. I've got a mild headache so I'm probably going to take something before I go to sleep. And then I'm done and going home!
Posted by Jhai (Member # 5633) on :
I only have a paper left: Advanced Logic. Due on Friday, but I really, really, really want to get it done before I fly home tomorrow morning. I think I'm physically incapable of doing work right now, though...
And I still need to PACK!
Posted by Friday (Member # 8998) on :
I've got three Finals left: Data Analysis, and Engineering Materials tomorrow, and Statics on Friday. It's gonna be a fun!
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
I'm DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE!!!!!!!!!!!! Now off to home for a glorious three weeks of doing nothing!
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
I only get two and a half weeks of doing nothing....but it's still two and a half weeks of doing nothing!
....maybe I should work today and tomorrow, though.
-pH
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
I actually get five weeks, but I'm doing something in three weeks.
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
I would have three and a half weeks were it not for my international business class, which is sending me to South America.
-pH
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
Done.
*collapses*
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
Someone needs to kick me in the behind and get me to finish this stupid paper. I still only have six pages done. I've worked on it this morning but I've just made changes to what was already there, not added new material.
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
Update:
The Lucretius paper managed to finish itself, and the ensuing final... wasn't bad! I didn't fail it, and I definitely have a solid B in the class (which is perfectly fine by me. )
Last night, I actually studied for the final I have today, which kicks major frakking butt, and it'll be a cake test as well.
I'm almost done, and it's all gone (relatively) well!
Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :
Ugh, still not done. Classes are over, but now I have a week to wade through piles and piles of work before finals. This is going to be fuuunnn.
Incidentally, I miss paper writing. I have one paper this semester for the peer mentoring seminar, it's so easy and relaxing compared to all my other work. I just have to write, piece of cake. Sure the ideas need to make sense and come together and such, but doing that's not so hard.
It's so much easier than trying to analyze or write computer algorithms. And a Sunday picnic compared to trying to solve Schrödinger equations.
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
Page nine. Yes, nine.
Actually, I have about 9.25 pages done, so I'm getting closer. I even think I'm on my last point now, and will soon be able to move onto the conclusion.
I think, counting all the time spent reading source material and researching, I've spent more than 12 hours on this paper. I suppose it's worth it, considering the paper's worth more than 25% of my grade in this course, but when I hear classmates talk about how they just sit down and bang out a 10 page paper in 2 or 3 hours I wonder if I'm no good at this or they're just that much better.
Of course, my grades on my papers are generally higher than theirs, but not that much higher. One person in particular claims she wrote a paper in 1.5 hours that took me more than five - I made an A, she a B. I worked more than 3 times longer and only received one additional letter grade. Frustrating.
Posted by hansenj (Member # 4034) on :
Too many people in this thread are done! Four days of this torture left for me.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Belle, there's a pretty substantive difference between a B paper and an A paper. It makes sense that it would take significantly longer.
In any case, every person works at their own speed, neh?
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
Just got my grade back on the final I took this morning.
80% That's a solid B for me in my second class this semester. Still haven't gotten the other three back. Looks like my GPA is taking a nosedive.
(I know this sounds stupid, but before this semester I had a 3.95- that is, one B on my transcript. Suddenly, that number has tripled. I don't have that many things going for me, I hoped my GPA would pull me through.)
Posted by pH (Member # 1350) on :
I just found out that I get to take three of my four classes next semester as independent study.
You have no idea how much I love independent study. I get ridiculously bored in class because everything moves SO SLOWLY that I don't have the attention span for it.
So chances are, classes that would be three hours a week will take me one hour.
-pH
Posted by Dr Strangelove (Member # 8331) on :
I'm sorry blacwolve. I'm the same - I have one B. In Intermediate Alegebra no less. I ended up acing College Algebra and becoming a math tutor. I was seriously pissed at that B. What's your major?
In other news, I finished today. I think I'll get all A's, but its possible I could end up with 3 B's. That would make me sad, but oddly I would be OK with it because I actually learned quite a bit from the classes I struggled a bit in. In those classes, for the first time learning was a higher priority to sucking up and getting a good grade. It was ... odd.
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
I'm finished. I still have to take a final in this class tomorrow, but that is no big deal, this paper is worth much more than the final.
I must admit, I'm actually kinda proud of it. Not too bad, considering that getting the darn thing done was like pulling teeth for me.
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
My major is political science. The B's are in two Spanish classes and a undergrad/grad Statistical Quality Control course. I'd sort of like to do something combining statistics and liberal arts in the future (market research, maybe?) so the Statistics particularly bothers me.
Posted by libertygirl (Member # 8761) on :
I'm DONE!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!! I know I got two A's and one B and the other class is either an A or B. Hurray!! Unlike stangelove I'm extremely happy with my intermediate alegebra B
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. Everyone is working so hard, and the groups usually mesh together real well, so as much as I am looking forward to the end of the semeseter, I'm sad that the brains I have been working with and the material I've been working on will all be in the past.![[Dont Know]](graemlins/dontknow.gif)
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I'm going to fail math. I have no idea what I'm doing anymore...
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Four days of this torture left for me.