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Book
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Good luck to anyone hacking their way through finals.
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Seconded.

However I must add: [Taunt]

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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.
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According to my teacher friends, finals is FABULOUS when you're a teacher. Dead week and finals are play time!
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I remember one Simpsons where there's a teacher faculty meeting day everyone has off while the teachers actually ride rollercoasters. Sounds like that.
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Finals week will be smooth sailing for me.

It's just this week that's the problem... [Angst]

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Thanks. Though it was too late to save today's exam...

...#%&$ controller design problems...

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I need much luck to finish my exams.
I have to diagram the first sentance of the Declaration of Independance. [Frown]
What a nightmare...

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I hate finals. . .

Ugh. I know I'm gonna fail my Spanish final.

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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.
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Jon Boy
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I hear you, Jennie. All of my big stuff is due next week. The final exams will be the easy part.
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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.

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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))) [Smile]

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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 [Big Grin]

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Annie
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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.

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[Kiss] 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 [Razz] [Wink] ) 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. [No No] [Big Grin]

Hobbes [Smile]

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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.

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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. [Angst]

Best of luck to the rest of you.

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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)

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::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 ]

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DKW, now that's what I call a FINAL!
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[Eek!] [ROFL] Horrible but funny.

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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!

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Annie
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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!

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I despise finals. Especially those given by professors who don't wait until finals week because they have to go on vacation. [Mad]

As a second note: Dead week's name definitely should be changed. It's always my busiest week.

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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.

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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.

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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.
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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.

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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.

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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. [Smile] )

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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.
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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.

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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...
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*bump*

And so it begins.

My life will be better in exactly 5 days. How about yours?

*starts the countdown*

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Good luck Cecily, darling!

It's dead week for me, and I just finished my art history term paper [Big Grin] I am a little more than relieved.

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Five days it is for me as well. [Angst]

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!

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I get to go HOME on Friday! Real food! A soft bed! Getting a job... Wait.
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yay! Horse management down. I bombed the genetics bit, but the rest of it i did ok. Just in case you cared.

Ni!

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mmm....Two take home essays, a normal chapter exam, and an in class blue book test. Then RotK!
Satyagraha

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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.

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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.
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*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.

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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*

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I'm starting my term paper tonight. The one due tomorrow.

Ah, procrastination, thou insufferable bastard. . .

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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. [Razz]
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Man, my life may suck, but at least I don't have school during LORD OF THE RINGS WEEK!! Mwa haha haha haha!!!

[Taunt]

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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. [Taunt]

If it weren't for Calculus I would have dodged all the bullets, but fortunately it was only a flesh wound.

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Yay! My presentation on the monster paper is done!

I am stress-free for at least 24 hours!

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Yay for you!!!

My heaviest day is tomorrow and then I just have normal finals to deal with after that. [Smile]

Good luck everyone!!

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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.
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