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*#@!)(#%&! 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!
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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.
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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.
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.
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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 Posts: 3932 | Registered: Sep 1999
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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.
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I feel so drained emotionally and physically that I can't even feel happy. Hopefully that will come later.
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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."
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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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....
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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.
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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. Posts: 247 | Registered: Dec 2006
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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
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One final down, three more to go. Still not done with my final paper in my English class - it's due Friday.
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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.
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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.
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*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!
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.
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That sounds HORRIBLE Insanity Plea! What sort of program are you in, and how do I stay out of it?
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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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. Posts: 14428 | Registered: Aug 2001
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