School Blows

[Judith]

This thread is for everyone who's just SICK of college.

[grinner]

I loved college... I was in it for 10 years... and only left because I needed money.

[Judith]

Well, this is my first year as a grad student, and I'm fed up.

I'm also on new meds that make me really sleepy, so that's making life as a student even more difficult.

[fermicat]

I spent 8 years in college. If grad school paid more money, I would never have left!

Sorry to hear that it's not going well for you though. It has its ups and downs. Hang in there and better times will be ahead.

[Judith]

I think I got a middle of the semester slump that just didn't go away.

[Darth Buddha]

Hey, it is worse if you go back after ten years in the work force (my life), so gut it out now.


What ya studying?

[Judith]

I was a lit major...right now I'm nondegree...next year I will be in the MFA fiction program.

[Darth Buddha]

O.K., ignorant philosopher/chemist/psycholigist/statistician here...

What means MFA?

OH, and as something to help out with the sleepies and the groggies (me too)...

MORE LIGHT!

I just upped my office from a mere 250 watts of incandescant to a frelling maximum of 1,000 TOTAL WATTS OF HALOGEN FIRE!

(about half of that is indirect in the form of "can" lights from Lowes - they are the renters best substitute for track lighting)

[Judith]

Originally posted by Darth Buddha
O.K., ignorant philosopher/chemist/psycholigist/statistician here...

What means MFA?

Jeez...you're all of those?

Master of Fine Arts.

[pathfinder]

hey j-dog, at least you graduated on time!

[Judith]

Originally posted by pathfinder
hey j-dog, at least you graduated on time!

There's no shame in doing your undergrad in more than four years...I just got lucky cause I took summer school, and also, a lot of the classes I took cause I was just interested in them...I found out later that they fulfilled a lot of requirements.

[Darth Buddha]

Don't have the degree in stats yet (that's what I'm in NOW), and the others are just Bachelor's.... so really more a matter of stupidity than intelligence. A double major does NOT help you get into graduate or medical school. It CAN destroy your health (I was sick, ON MY BACK for almost a year with mono, chronic fatigue, and god knows what else), and it makes you LESS employable!

Oh, in addition to MORE LIGHT that I edited in above... my mono/chronic fatigue experience has clued me in on stuff to increase your energy level. Any of these might help. Don't try them all at once (a friend of mine did, and she drove her husband insane for the first week).

MORE NUTRIENTS...

O.K.

Vitamin B-100 Time Release (CVS Brand, buy-one-get-one or 50% off sale best price around)

This gives a bit of a buzz -- especially when combined with the protein supplements below -- or a tuna sandwich. Add in a hard cider and I'm flying high as kite -- I call that my "football fan" cocktail. Really adds to the game.

Calcium (Sams's "Members Club" Brand best price around) 1000 mg Calcium

Magnesium (Vitamin World monthly 30% off sale) 1000 mg Magnesium

Hit on the fact that large doses of magnesium increased energy levels when I had mono. Magnesium supplements noticeably improve energy levels for me. Subsequent studies seem to be bearing this out. Problem is that you have to balance intake of Calcium and Magnesium or an excess of one will make you deficient in the other. Oh, remember, Magnesium is a laxative...

Potassium (CVS Brand) 300 mg

Vanadium (Vitamin World) Vanadyl Sulfate 10 mg

Both of these have a lot to do with metabolism. I'm not sure I feel an effect, but I'll take it on the science.

Flax Seed Oil (Vitamin World or Sam's) 9,000 mg

Omega 3 Fish Oil (Sam's Club) 3,000 mg

These seem to have an effect as well (make a big difference on dry skin too). Makes one hell of a lot of sense when you look at how much of the Omega-3 and related fats are in the brain. Doses on this order have been shown to have an anti-depressant effect as well. I'd bet on that panning out in years to come. Makes sense the same way transfatty acids (bad) and mono-saturated oils (good) made sense -- long before the evidence was in -- based on biochemistry.

Protein Supplement (100% Egg) with...
L-Glutamic Acid 3393MG
L-Tryptophan (naturally occurring) 313MG
L-Alanine 1471MG
L-Arginine 1387MG
L-Aspartic Acid 2598MG
L-Cystine 660MG
Glycine 892MG
L-Histidine 576MG
L-Isoleucine 1446MG
L-Leucine 2147MG
L-Lysine 1734MG
L-Methionine 876MG
L-Phenylalanine 1487MG
L-Proline 995MG
L-Threonine 1161MG
L-Tyrosine 995MG
L-Valine 1624MG
L-Serine 1756MG

This stuff is THE SHIZNIT (do I have to pay stellar royalties each time I use that). I take it, I feel the burn for hours. Affects mood too. May be just because I'm limited to EXTREMELY lean red meat (read game), white meat poultry, and fish, so I may be amino acid deficient in some areas. A friend of mine who is also protein limited (soy/peanut/milk allergies primed by work exposure to Azithromycin) notes the same buzz.

Gingko Biloba (Sam's Club) 180 mg

If I take any more, I go on an OCD trip (as if I'm not anal retentive enough already), so it has some sort of effect, but I'm not 100% sure if it is a good one.

ENADA NADH Sublingual (Vitamin World, sole source to my knowledge) 10 mg

This is a naturally occurring co-factor in cellular metabolism. I save this stuff for finals, all nighters, and the like. It has been shown to have effects on those who are chronically fatigued. I find the effect very similar to smoking or nicotine gum. Too much and I even get geeked out like nicotine.

ALCAR Cocktail twice a day (still looking around for a source better than Vitamin World)
250 mg Alpha Lipoic Acid
2,000 mg L-Carnitine

I know people who can't tolerate this much L-Carnitine -- they claim it makes them "over wound". Even some heavy duty body builders. I can take twice this and really notice nothing other than I tend to be a little warmer. There are clinical trials under way at this dosage to see if the effects on memory, performance, increased mitochondrial efficiency and decreased mitochondrial damage are the same in humans as in rats.

[eta_carinae]

I was a super-senior when I graduated last may. Now I'm in grad school too and I feel like I have no social life. Between my school work, and my teaching assistant jobs, I never get to go out anymore :( I just keep telling myself, "self, it's only for two years!" I am already starting to feel a bit burt-out though.

[pathfinder]

okay, well at least you found a subject your interested in. what am i going to do with a degree that concerns rocks and arrowheads?

incase you haven't noticed i'm big on the self-pity today.

[Judith]

Originally posted by pathfinder
okay, well at least you found a subject your interested in. what am i going to do with a degree that concerns rocks and arrowheads?

incase you haven't noticed i'm big on the self-pity today.


I can totally beat you on self pity any day.

I think first you need to pick between rocks and arrowheads.

[Judith]

Darth. thanks for the tips. I'm trying to look into a diet (not a diet diet) that can boost my energy/reduce depression. Those will help.

I had mono in college too. I don't remember a lot of that semester.

[pathfinder]

i think the fact that i'm staying in school right now is impressive enough.

[Darth Buddha]

Mono sucks. Damaged my liver. Had me coughing up blood.

Had strep six times (confirmed) and apparently encephalitis too during that time too. I was tested for just about everything BUT encephalitis at the time (lukemia, lupus, you name it) because the doc just couldn't believe mono was doing all that.

For depression, there is also SAM-e, another supplement. You can get it reasonably cheap at most warehouse clubs, and when it goes on sale at drug stores. I know folks who take as much as 2 grams a day (though they seem a bit punchy to me after a mega dose... sort of Robin Williams like, if you get my drift).

My dad takes a much smaller dose for arthritis, and swears by it.

But the best part is that there is actually some real science behind it... it has be prescribed in Europe for both uses, I am told, for years.

[Darth Buddha]

Originally posted by pathfinder
i think the fact that i'm staying in school right now is impressive enough.

Yep.

And I think rocks and arrowheads are cool.

If you don't have the love, you aint gonna like grad school. Rocks and arrowheads, I'm betting, are for the love.

[Eve11]

((Judith_Shakespeare))

From what I can tell, grad students aren't supposed to have lives. My first semester (Statistics MS/PhD program), our department head said, "I expect at least fifty hours a week of work from you." Most of us were way more than that. I would come in at 9 or 10am and not leave until 1 or 2am, every day. Plus 8-10 hours a day on weekends. It wasn't all work, but they were really long days. 80+ hours per week easy.

Now I don't do nearly that much, because I completely burned out after a year. But I know how you feel. You'll get through it. Remind yourself that you love what you're doing, even if you hate it.

It also helps to get off of caffeine if you drink a lot of it. I drastically reduced my caffeine intake and while I did get headaches for a few days coming down, afterward I had a lot more energy.

[Darth Buddha]

Good point on the caffeine.

If you can't go cold turkey, at least limit yourself to no caffeine after noon or so... that way it isn't frelling with your sleep.

[Judith]

And...I'm off too class, and taking my "I hate school" attitude with me.

Even though it's the class I like.

Everyone welcome path, and pick on her for me. :D

[pathfinder]

my real love is for the rocks, but then i had...well, let's just call it a breakdown, and i was frightened to go back. so i switched to the arrowheads.

[NYPinTA]

Originally posted by Judith_Shakespeare
This thread is for everyone who's just SICK of college.

You know, I was gonna say that it is much better then not going at all... then I saw some of the hell you college folk went through and now I'm not so sure.... LOL.
Wait, yes I am.

It's better then not going! Trust me!

[generic_screenname]

This should sum up my veiw of my experience of college:

College is to Farscape as High School is to Tremors.

[generic_screenname]

To further illustrate this (and pad my post count) here is my bio from classmates.com:

I hated High School. I lived day to day hoping to maybe get hit by a bus. Then I went to college, and everything changed. College was amazing! Everyone was really nice and classes were only like every other day. I met a bunch of cool people and can honestly say there was never a dull moment. The same time every day this homeless guy would ride his tricycle down the street, yelling "Huh! Huh! Huh!" We got a new dean just about every semester and I actually saw a computer explode. It was great.

I still manage to get myself into the weirdest situations, but I guess that's part of what makes life fun. Maybe if I figured that out earlier I would've enjoyed High School more. Or maybe that kind of enlightenment can only come from waking up in really, really strange places.

I got an internship in Boston at a small graphic design firm. At first I had to do a lot of grunt work, making deliveries, buying toilet paper and women's shoes(no kidding, pink $80 freakin' women's shoes!) and walking Saul the Jewish Dog. I tried to quit about five times; we even had a going away party, and then my replacement quit after only two hours and I don't know what happened. I finally gave in, so I guess I work there full time now.

[Judith]

Originally posted by pathfinder
my real love is for the rocks, but then i had...well, let's just call it a breakdown, and i was frightened to go back. so i switched to the arrowheads. \

Go back to the rocks. You like the rocks.

I'm really going now.

[eta_carinae]

Originally posted by pathfinder
my real love is for the rocks, but then i had...well, let's just call it a breakdown, and i was frightened to go back. so i switched to the arrowheads.
I liked rocks too. But I couldn't really think of anything I wanted to do with them, so after I got my geo degree I decided to move on to other things...

[pathfinder]

Originally posted by Judith_Shakespeare
\


I'm really going now.

who wants to bet she's back in minute?

[grinner]

Hey Buddha... what about Vitamin E? Or a B-complex mix? Those are two important ones that my doctor told are two groups that 80% of all American men are low on. Especially the vitamin E... which will help you recover from muscle pulls etc...

[Saajak]

:Sigh: I miss my college days. 10+ hours a day in class or lab. It got so bad that the phrase "a really tall cow" was hilarous. I'd give almost anything to be able to go back. I didn't get REALLY stressed out until I took two semesters of Organic Chemistry. You know it's bad when you get your final exam on the first day of class!

High School wasn't so bad for me. 99% of my classes through all four years were with the same people. You might not think this odd, but my graduating class had almost 200 people in it. I was in all the advanced classes, and we all kind of stuck it out together.

[grinner]

Originally posted by Darth Buddha
Good point on the caffeine.

If you can't go cold turkey, at least limit yourself to no caffeine after noon or so... that way it isn't frelling with your sleep. dude... I can drink caffeine all day and still sleep 7 hours.

[pathfinder]

Originally posted by eta_carinae
I liked rocks too. But I couldn't really think of anything I wanted to do with them, so after I got my geo degree I decided to move on to other things...

i'm interested in planetary geology, which my school does alot of.

what did you end up doing?

[Eve11]

You know, cretkid on Kansas has a PhD in geology or some such. She does cool rock things.

g_s, I loved college too. Grad school isn't bad, but it's a different animal. Anyone who goes into grad school thinking it will be like college is in for a hell of a wakeup call. You really need to treat grad school like a job (she says, while goofing off and posting on FMD), because even with fewer classes it still manages to take up most of your time.

[eta_carinae]

Originally posted by pathfinder
i'm interested in planetary geology, which my school does alot of.

what did you end up doing?

I took a class called "extraterrestrial life" where we talked about other planets, that was actually really fun. There was a girl in my remote sensing class that was doing a project using remote sensing on Mars. I think that actually sounds like fun.
I, however, am retarded and thought environmental engineering sounded like a good idea. HA! Actually, I do like it, it's just really hard (chemistry is my worst subject, and this is very much a chemistry discipline). In fact, I'm supposed to be leaving to go meet my chemistry study group so we can get this week's homework done!

[Darth Buddha]

Originally posted by grinner
Hey Buddha... what about Vitamin E? Or a B-complex mix? Those are two important ones that my doctor told are two groups that 80% of all American men are low on. Especially the vitamin E... which will help you recover from muscle pulls etc...

You are so right...

The B-100 I mentioned is a high potency B-Vitamin mix. Time release is key on this stuff, or all you do is piss bright yellow for two hours, and then it is gone.

On the OTHER hand, if you ALSO take Zinc (which will make your whizz blue) you can get a really funky green effect!

Body chemistry aside, there's Vitamin E. I'm an idiot to forget that... I personally take 800 I.U. of mixed tocopherols.. that's not just one isomer of Vitamin E, but the full spectrum.

Brings to mind the Beta Carotene thing where some studies show an effect and others don't... IF you take beta carotene, definitely pay the extra for the mixed carotenoids (that includes the "sight vitamin" lutein, I believe).

[pathfinder]

that class sounds cool. i had to preregistar today, for next semester, and there were NO interesting offerings. i think one of classes i ended up with was "peopleing of the world". i miss the rocks.

[grinner]

Originally posted by Darth Buddha
You are so right...

The B-100 I mentioned is a high potency B-Vitamin mix. Time release is key on this stuff, or all you do is piss bright yellow for two hours, and then it is gone.

On the OTHER hand, if you ALSO take Zinc (which will make your whizz blue) you can get a really funky green effect!

Body chemistry aside, there's Vitamin E. I'm an idiot to forget that... I personally take 800 I.U. of mixed tocopherols.. that's not just one isomer of Vitamin E, but the full spectrum.

Brings to mind the Beta Carotene thing where some studies show an effect and others don't... IF you take beta carotene, definitely pay the extra for the mixed carotenoids (that includes the "sight vitamin" lutein, I believe). I take 1000 I.U. of Vitamin E daily... but then the Doctor had to put me on a arthritis medicine after my body started to absorbe all the existing scar tissues in my joints. I am a lot more flexible... but the joints hurt.

[vikingscaper]

Right now, I am tired of college. I get to register next week for my final semester and guess what, the one class that I need to graduate isn't being offered. After this semester, I will be 6 credits shy of graduation so I am hoping that my advisor will be able to work something out for me.

[pathfinder]

i hear you, viking. i got into the major i'm in right now because i saw it as the quickest way out. hope things work out!

[grinner]

Originally posted by pathfinder
i hear you, viking. i got into the major i'm in right now because i saw it as the quickest way out. hope things work out! why did you go to college if you wanted to get out quickly?

[vikingscaper]

The problem is, I have had my major since day 1 but it is my minor that is given me all of the problems. If it wasn't for the fact that I didn't get the internship that I had applied for, I would have been graduating in December. Oh well.

[pathfinder]

i was doing fine until i went abroad for a semester. i had a...breakdown when i came back and fell behind. now i'm still in school while everyone else i know has graduated. so, i switched my major so i could get out faster.

[grinner]

ah... that makes more sense.

[pathfinder]

well, arrowheads is an easier (if less interesting) major than rocks. go figure.

[talyn3]

Is it just me or does buddha sound extremely medicated???

[NYPinTA]

:spew: Hmmmm..... :eh:

[Darth Buddha]

Originally posted by talyn3
Is it just me or does buddha sound extremely medicated???
Supplemented might be closer to target...

Unless you mean my POSTS sound like I'm medicated..

Sorry to say, this is my unmedicated state of mind.

Edited to add:
Found out recently I haven't been absorbing nutrients right for years, entirely independent of the supplements I'm taking.

[Judith]

Originally posted by pathfinder
i was doing fine until i went abroad for a semester. i had a...breakdown when i came back and fell behind. now i'm still in school while everyone else i know has graduated. so, i switched my major so i could get out faster.

That's NOT true. K hasn't graduated...H will take a couple more years. It's only the boy and I who graduated, and we stuck around at the same old school for grad college. So you shouldn't feel bad. You should do what you are actually interested in.

[stellar]

College isn't that bad. I'm thinking about going back for my Ph.D. The good thing about being in college for a long time is the ladies. I keep getting older, they stay the same age :) Yeah I stole that line from Dazed and Confused. It's 100% true.

[Darth Buddha]

Dude, I'm there, and believe me... chasing even some of my fellow graduate students would feel like robbing the cradle.

[Lord Loser]

College girls (shudder)... I can't believe they're so young. I too had a rough time squeezing 4 years of college into 5, but I managed. Good times, just wish I'd have concentrated more on the important things.

As for vit's and min's, my favorite -- niacin. Gotta love the flush...

[Gaussian]

Originally posted by Darth Buddha


Had strep six times (confirmed) .....

I only had it four times. My senior year. I really wondered if I could finish but I did.

Actually, I really enjoyed college. It was probably one of the best times of my life. (Met most of my life long friends.........and the hubster!)

Oddly enough, though, I did have nightmares about being late for a final exam for months after graduation. Repressed stress?

[eta_carinae]

Well, I just got home from class and am exhauseted, as usual! The only thing that keeps me going is that this is supposed to benefit me in my search for employment (one day, far, far off in the future). Man, I hope it is worth it!

[Judith]

Originally posted by eta_carinae
Well, I just got home from class and am exhauseted, as usual! The only thing that keeps me going is that this is supposed to benefit me in my search for employment (one day, far, far off in the future). Man, I hope it is worth it!

Oh, god, that is too funny.

Sorry...I got my BA in lit last year. Can't find a job...not anywhere. Not in my field, not as a waitress, not anything.

Once I get my MFA degree, I'm gonna get a vet tech degree so I can actually support myself. (Plus, that way, I can have two careers I love).

Although my plan on getting a masters degree, then following up with a community college degree really baffles my highly educated parents. Hey...I can't help it if there are TWO things in my life that I would love doing...writing and working with animals...I could never pick just one.

[eta_carinae]

Originally posted by Judith_Shakespeare

Although my plan on getting a masters degree, then following up with a community college degree really baffles my highly educated parents. Hey...I can't help it if there are TWO things in my life that I would love doing...writing and working with animals...I could never pick just one.

Where do you work with animals? I work at our local animal shelter. I love to spend time with the animals and the people there - it gives me such a nice break from the super-technical and very mind-numbingness of school. Sometimes I think I should give up this whole grad-school thing and just work at the shelter full time...

[Judith]

Originally posted by eta_carinae
Where do you work with animals? I work at our local animal shelter. I love to spend time with the animals and the people there - it gives me such a nice break from the super-technical and very mind-numbingness of school. Sometimes I think I should give up this whole grad-school thing and just work at the shelter full time...

I don't work at one yet. I volunteer at a totally volunteer run no-kill shelter. When I get my masters, I want to get a degree in vet tech, so I can get a career working with shelter animals. I don't care if it doesn't pay a lot...it would be worth it in job satisfaction.

They're also training me to be an adoption consultant at the shelter I volunteer at.

What do you do at your shelter?

[eta_carinae]

I do pet adoption counseling, as well as PR stuff for the shelter. We are blessed in that it is a fairly large shelter, so we have alot of really great programs. My particular specialty is the Pet Care Cruiser, a trailer that has been renovated to be a mobile pet adoption unit- we go around town to different locations and interact with the public. We usually take 6 or 7 animals out with us that we can adopt right off the Cruiser! In addition to that, I have a lot of fun doing fund-raising activites, an integral part of any shelter, no matter what their financial status is. Our shelter isn't strictly no-kill, we do euthanise under very specific circumstances, but we have been able to place 100% of our adoptable animals since 1996 (meaning that we don't euthanise for lack of space, we keep them until they get adopted). Right now I am working there in a volunteer capacity, but sometimes I think I would rather work there as a full-blown employee than go to school to be an engineer!

[AgentSun]

ugh college is the best and sometimes the worst. i love the friends i've made here, especially a few guys who are awesome and they're some of my closest friends. and i'm sitting here and i have to deal with teachers who dump 40 pages of reading on you every night...

[Judith]

Originally posted by eta_carinae
Our shelter isn't strictly no-kill, we do euthanise under very specific circumstances, but we have been able to place 100% of our adoptable animals since 1996 (meaning that we don't euthanise for lack of space, we keep them until they get adopted).

I don't really judge shelters that have to euthanize animals. I see that fact as a societal problem: some shelters will always have to euthanize animals until people learn to take proper responsibility for them. There are just too many stray animals, and not enough space. I think the Arizona Humane Society is somewhat like your organization in that way...they aren't strictly no-kill, but they haven't had to euthanize an adoptable animal for fourteen months. I would work for them in a heartbeat. I plan to get training in adoption counseling at my organization and then apply to the AZ Humane Society, or AAWL, which are our two shelters well funded enough that they CAN pay for these positions. Of course...I would still volunteer at the place I'm at now..I'm really attached to them.

[Saajak]

I have a friend from college currently working at the Humane Society in Tucson. I'll have to ask her.

[eta_carinae]

Originally posted by Judith_Shakespeare
I plan to get training in adoption counseling at my organization and then apply to the AZ Humane Society, or AAWL, which are our two shelters well funded enough that they CAN pay for these positions.

It's been my experience that the Humane Society will take just about anyone who wants to volunteer. My shelter is the Humane Society of Boulder Valley, when I started working there I had very little experience with shelter animals (I had worked at a vet clinic in high school), but they trained me to the point that I now drive the Cruiser. It'a a completely volunteer-driven operation, with a few staff members that help with setting up contacts and such. But only volunteers actually take it out into the community or to special events. Sometimes I am amazed at the faith they put into us! Most of the people that want to volunteer at the Humane Society are kids that want to spend time with animals. I'm sure they'll be grateful to have someone with the experience that you have. In fact, the summer before last (when we were having all those fires) the Humane Society of the United States actually voluteered to fly me (all expenses paid) to Durango to help out there. But I chickened out when they sprung it on my so un-expectedly.....I'm still kicking myself for that! :headbang:

[trinamick]

I forgot how much I hated homework until I went back to school. I take classes from a community college 6 hrs away. Most of my classes I take online, but I have had to take a couple as telecourses. Those sucked big-time! I like online classes, because I can work on them in the wee hours of the night (morning?), during free times at work, etc. There's no way I could fit traditional classes into my schedule. I work full-time, and I homeschool my nephew. Plus, in January I start again as a high school speech judge, so I will have even less free time.

My problem now is that my college doesn't offer an online math class, which is a prerequisite for several of my classes. I've looked all over in NE and some in WY or CO, but no luck. There isn't a college close enough to take a course on campus, so I'm still not sure what I'll do. To top it all off, my advisor is a moron. She never has a clue what classes I still need to take, forgets to register me in classes, signs me up for things I've already taken, etc. I was better off before I declared a major! :irate:

[eta_carinae]

Originally posted by trinamick
To top it all off, my advisor is a moron. She never has a clue what classes I still need to take, forgets to register me in classes, signs me up for things I've already taken, etc. I was better off before I declared a major! :irate:

My undergrad advisor was a bit absentminded too- I was constantly reminding him about things we had already discussed. But he always came through in the end. I'm suprised your advisor signs you up for class- everywhere I've ever gone it was the student's responsibilty to do that. I'de be pissed if I got signed up for a class without my knowledge!

On a lighter note- I figured out a really hard chemistry problem today all on my own that other people had to go to office hours to get! I'm feeling pretty damn smart right now (which is a nice change from the usual feeling of retardedness) :charge:

[Judith]

Originally posted by eta_carinae
My undergrad advisor was a bit absentminded too- I was constantly reminding him about things we had already discussed. But he always came through in the end. I'm suprised your advisor signs you up for class- everywhere I've ever gone it was the student's responsibilty to do that. I'de be pissed if I got signed up for a class without my knowledge!




My undergrad advisor is the reason I graduated college. My school is SO beaureaucratic, and I took a lot of independant study classes so I could focus more on creative writing. She totally knew how to make the system work in a student's advantage.

Eta and Trina...what are your majors?

[vikingscaper]

After the last Spring Semester ended, my advisor was supposed to contact me about soem things that I was to help him with over the summer that would go for my minor. As things go, he went out of town after the semester was overand I sent him an email asking what the situation was. He emailed me back that he would be getting back to me about the work that I had to do and guess what, he never got back to me.

[Alexxia]

Ooh...college rant zone...ehm, lemme see...
Actually, I've not encountered many problems here aside from the horrible course availibility. I'm a sophomore (technically a junior next semester), and already I'm having increased difficulty fitting in the classes I need. I was ahead of the game with AP credits, but I'll be lucky to graduate in four years with my double major and minor. So far I've taken a full load every semester (i.e. 18 credit hours), which has me running around much of the day, but I want to take advantage of the international study program in London, where they don't offer as many credit hours. I'm thinking summer classes will be necessary if I don't want to be a student my entire life. Has anyone here attended law school? I'd like to know what I've gotten myself into.

[Saajak]

I guess I was lucky with my advisor, too. HUGE Trek fan, many LONG cenversations when I stopped by her office. I just found her address (she's now teaching out East), and am going to contact her and get her thoughts on the current state of Trek and her opinion on Farscape.

[Judith]

Originally posted by Alexxia
I'm thinking summer classes will be necessary if I don't want to be a student my entire life. Has anyone here attended law school? I'd like to know what I've gotten myself into.

Not me, but my dad's a lawyer, and my mom's in law school right now. Are you in law school now, or preparing for it? From what I've heard, the first year is VERY difficult, but then it gets easier.

[Alexxia]

I'm in second year undergrad now. I've also heard that the first year is hard, and that worries me. I was hoping to join the USN after I earn my undergrad, then go to law school, but I don't want to be too long out of practice if it's as difficult as people say. :help:

[eta_carinae]

Originally posted by Judith_Shakespeare
Eta and Trina...what are your majors?

I just got my bachelor's degree in environmental geology, with a minor in biology this spring. I'm in grad school now for environmental scinece and engineering.

What about you Judith?

[Judith]

I graduated with a BA in Lit in may. I'm nondegree right now...next year I will be purusing my MFA in fiction. Then it's off to vet tech school.

Oh, that's right, you were talking to pathfinder about geology.

So what do you want to do once you get out of grad school?

[Judith]

Originally posted by Alexxia
I'm in second year undergrad now. I've also heard that the first year is hard, and that worries me. I was hoping to join the USN after I earn my undergrad, then go to law school, but I don't want to be too long out of practice if it's as difficult as people say. :help:

What's USN?

[trinamick]

Originally posted by Judith_Shakespeare

Eta and Trina...what are your majors?

I am majoring in Business Administration with a focus in marketing. It's not exactly my top interest, but I am an office manager in a law firm, and my boss thought it would be the best way to go. He is paying my tuition, so I told him I would let him suggest what he thought was the best. Little did I know he would choose this! Just when I thought I was going to finish school some time this century, he mentions the other day that maybe I would be interested in taking some real estate classes and getting my broker's license (our office also runs an abstract company and a real estate company)! I may never get out of school! I've taken all the halfway interesting classes, so now I'm down to the really boring ones.

Eta, I'm not sure why she does it that way. Maybe it's because I'm six hours away, and she thinks I won't do it right online or something. I had actually registered for classes one quarter, and she changed them to what she thought I needed more! I was not pleased! Plus, she is not helpful in finding certain classes I need or being accommodating at all. I think she was assigned this position and isn't getting paid any extra for it!

[Darth Buddha]

Sorry about your problems with your advisor, trnamick... but it sounds familiar.

I've had multiple advisors...

One for my philo degreee.... (dud)

One for my psych degree... (ego-maniac)

One for my chemistry degree... (way cool)

And now a graduate school advisor.

Except for the chem advisor, I would have been better off on my own, all cases.

[Eve11]

Buddha, that is some serious schooling! I did math and computer science double degree in undergrad and have moved on to statistics. However my thesis research will most likely involve intelligent tutors and mathematical/computational models of human thought; thus, much working with cognitive psychologists. Although I currently know zero about psych.

[eta_carinae]

Originally posted by Judith_Shakespeare
I graduated with a BA in Lit in may. I'm nondegree right now...next year I will be purusing my MFA in fiction. Then it's off to vet tech school.

Oh, that's right, you were talking to pathfinder about geology.

So what do you want to do once you get out of grad school?

Yeah, that's the eternal question, isn't it? I'm not 100% sure, but right now I'm going to focus on the "sight charicterization and remediation" track. This would involve cleaning up contaminated sites (ie: acid mine drainage, agricultural runoff, bioremediation, etc). Alot of people at my school are actually there because they have an excellent wastewater treatment program. I never really thought about wastewater treatment before. Now I have already learned WAY more then I ever wanted to know about it.... I had no idea how complicated it is!
Ultimately, I don't really know what I want to do. An environmental consulting firm, or maybe the EPA or BLM, or then there could be some really cool things to do with the UN, I don't know. I just want to do something that isn't boring and helps people :)

Hmmmm. With an MFA in fiction and a vet tech license, maybe you will work at a vet clinic (or animal shelter) and write books in your spare time? That would be cool. Or you could probably do a bang-up job creating PR stuff for the shelter!

Originally posted by trinamick
Eta, I'm not sure why she does it that way. Maybe it's because I'm six hours away, and she thinks I won't do it right online or something. I had actually registered for classes one quarter, and she changed them to what she thought I needed more! I was not pleased! Plus, she is not helpful in finding certain classes I need or being accommodating at all. I think she was assigned this position and isn't getting paid any extra for it!

Oh, man, that would make me so mad! It definetly sounds like your advisor is not as interested in the quality your education as she should be. I don't know what you could do though, being so far from the campus and all. It souds like you are handling it well though....just keep on truckin' and you'll get through it all!

[trinamick]

I wish my boss would suddenly think, Hey, maybe she should take classes to be a paralegal instead, or I wonder if she would be interested in law school? That would be much more interesting than the classes I'm in now. I can't even describe how much I hate my econ class. I like the teacher and the format, but me figuring out graphs is like a monkey doing a math problem! I just sit here cross-eyed and drooling, hoping that some divine intervention will write the answers on the wall for me!

[talyn3]

I feel stupid compared to others on here. My lack of brain power is disturbing.

[eta_carinae]

Originally posted by talyn3
I feel stupid compared to others on here. My lack of brain power is disturbing.

Don't worry about it, I feel stupid at school all the time!

[eta_carinae]

Originally posted by trinamick
I wish my boss would suddenly think, Hey, maybe she should take classes to be a paralegal instead, or I wonder if she would be interested in law school? That would be much more interesting than the classes I'm in now. I can't even describe how much I hate my econ class. I like the teacher and the format, but me figuring out graphs is like a monkey doing a math problem! I just sit here cross-eyed and drooling, hoping that some divine intervention will write the answers on the wall for me!

Ha ha ha ha! I feel like that when I'm looking at graphs sometimes too. Sometimes it seems like my chem prof forgets that we don't know all the stuff he does- like it makes sense if you know it already, but if you don't then you get confused.
Maybe you should re-evaluate the whole "letting the boss decide my classes" thing.... I mean, that's a really sweet deal you have there, but if you're not happy, is it worth it? Maybe your boss wouldn't mind it if you wanted to pursue something else? The least you can do is try.

[trinamick]

Well, if it weren't for the fact that he's now agreed to pay for my books too, I would say something. However, this degree will probably be the most beneficial for the job I currently have. Actually, his legal secretary is moving, so I will be picking up the slack until he decides to hire someone (usually takes several months). Maybe now is the time to broach the subject of paralegal courses! :D

[Alexxia]

Originally posted by Judith_Shakespeare
What's USN?
United States Navy (My dad was Royal Australian Navy, and he loved it).

[Judith]

Originally posted by eta_carinae


Hmmmm. With an MFA in fiction and a vet tech license, maybe you will work at a vet clinic (or animal shelter) and write books in your spare time? That would be cool. Or you could probably do a bang-up job creating PR stuff for the shelter!




Working at an animal shelter and writing would be my ideal life...that's what I'm planning on. I am also taking a class on writing for non profit organizations, but I am finding...between my class and volunteering at the shelter, that I would rather work hands on with animals, than writing grants or something. Not that I'm knocking people who DO make a living that way....it's very important...but I just don't think it would make me happy. When I work with animals I want to be able to give them all hugs, and when I write, I want it to be fiction. :D

[Judith]

Originally posted by trinamick
Well, if it weren't for the fact that he's now agreed to pay for my books too, I would say something. However, this degree will probably be the most beneficial for the job I currently have.

Does the job you have make you happy?

Some people are really opposed to this, but you could always apply for student loans, maybe?

[Judith]

Originally posted by Alexxia
United States Navy (My dad was Royal Australian Navy, and he loved it).

Well, if it's what you really want to do, you should go for it. My mom was a social worker for years, and now she's in law school. And yeah, her first year was hard, but she did it, and now she's in her third year, and she's gonna graduate in May! So not everyone goes straight into law school.

Listen to your gut feeling. What do you think is best for you?

[eta_carinae]

So I've got some tests next week, and I really don't want to take them. And I just feel like complaining about it. I am so tired of taking tests and doing homework, and trying to figure out problems that take days to solve. :sweaty: I can't wait for christmas break!

[trinamick]

I know the feeling. I have a unit test due by midnight tonight in Professional Selling. It's all essay questions, and just one question has a 700 wd minimum! I can usually BS pretty well, but good lord! I'm gonna be making crap up!

[eta_carinae]

Originally posted by trinamick
I know the feeling. I have a unit test due by midnight tonight in Professional Selling. It's all essay questions, and just one question has a 700 wd minimum! I can usually BS pretty well, but good lord! I'm gonna be making crap up!

:rollin:

How long is 700 words? It seems like alot for just one question. I remember having to write 15-minimum pages for papers before....I hated that. I'm a very concise writer, and I used to have trouble filling up enough pages. And if I do decide to include enough stuff to fill up that entire amount it seems like it takes forever to get through it all. Makes me terrified of doing a thesis....

[Judith]

I have a 20 page paper that I've been putting off due at the end of the month!

You'd think that since I majored in English Lit...that would be no problem for me.

Can you believe...besides stories...I've never written anything over ten pages?

[eta_carinae]

The hardest thing for me was to get used to "technical" writing, as opposed to pursuasive writing (as I was used to from things like philosophy). It is so dry, it almost hurts to write it. I usually end up spicing mine up so I don't go insane trying to finish it! I never wrote any really long papers until I was almost finished with my bachelor's.... I think the longest paper I've written is 16 pages. There were so many citations in that paper it took me almost two hours to do the works cited page!

[Judith]

Will this semester drive us all nuts before it's over?

[eta_carinae]

mmmmm.....yes. Which only makes me think there was something subconcious about my choice of avatar.

[Judith]

Alright...bets on who has a breakdown first?

What is your avatar...I can't see it...my display is all screwed up.

[eta_carinae]

I think it is the crazy Aeryn from Crackers Don't Matter. I could be wrong though (I didn't make it myself, I'm too lazy).

[Judith]

I thought it was either crazy Aeryn, or Aeryn falling to the Ice Planet, but I couldn't tell.

Like I said, my display is really fuzzy.

I need a new 'puter.

[eta_carinae]

ooo... Aeryn falling to ice planet. I like that one too. Maybe I'll have to change after this semester is done sucking the life out of me.

[Alexxia]

It is, indeed the crazy Aeryn from CDM. I loved that episode!

[eta_carinae]

Originally posted by Alexxia
It is, indeed the crazy Aeryn from CDM. I loved that episode!

Me too! Especially the part with the puke. I was laughing so hard I was crying when I saw that the first time.

[talyn3]

CDM is one of the classics and my favorite.

[trinamick]

I won't say for sure that I'll be the first to go this semester, but I guarantee by the end of it, I'll be in a corner somewhere, rocking back & forth and sucking my thumb!

All told, this test should end up being about 6 or 7 pages long, but for only five questions, that seems a bit excessive to me. Maybe this is a sign that I wouldn't be a good salesperson. I can't BS enough!

[talyn3]

The problem is that almost no matter what you do, you have to be able to sell people on stuff. That sucks.

[eta_carinae]

Originally posted by trinamick
Maybe this is a sign that I wouldn't be a good salesperson. I can't BS enough!

Then how would you ever survive in the law profession! :rollin: I'm sorry. I had to. It was just to good.

[trinamick]

:D Ooh, good point - maybe I do need this Professional Selling class - gotta be able to sucker a judge!

[Judith]

Originally posted by trinamick
I won't say for sure that I'll be the first to go this semester, but I guarantee by the end of it, I'll be in a corner somewhere, rocking back & forth and sucking my thumb!

All told, this test should end up being about 6 or 7 pages long, but for only five questions, that seems a bit excessive to me. Maybe this is a sign that I wouldn't be a good salesperson. I can't BS enough!

Trina, how did your test go?

[trinamick]

I haven't found out yet, but he should post our tests results tomorrow - it took me forever to finish that. Does wonders for carpal tunnel! :(

[talyn3]

You know those days when it seems like everythings against you, yeah, those suck. I'm taking a nap.

[Judith]

Originally posted by talyn3
You know those days when it seems like everythings against you, yeah, those suck. I'm taking a nap.

Man, a nap sounds like a good idea. I'm trying to fight against it. I should be doing homework. But it's cloudy and sleepy out, and there's no school tomorrow...

[eta_carinae]

Ahhh....naps. Those were my favorite way to spend the afternoons as an undergraduate. Now I don't have time for them anymore :cry2:
On a brighter note, I had one of my tests today, so now there is only one left for this week! And my chem prof (who is also my boss, as I am the TA for the chem lab) said I did an "excellent job on a very difficult lab" - and he made a point of telling me in person! :bgb: I'm very excited about this.

[Judith]

Originally posted by eta_carinae
Ahhh....naps. Those were my favorite way to spend the afternoons as an undergraduate. Now I don't have time for them anymore :cry2:
On a brighter note, I had one of my tests today, so now there is only one left for this week! And my chem prof (who is also my boss, as I am the TA for the chem lab) said I did an "excellent job on a very difficult lab" - and he made a point of telling me in person! :bgb: I'm very excited about this.

Awesome Eta!

I never did get the nap, though I never made any progress on my homework either, so I'm not sure what the point of staying awake was.

[talyn3]

i got two hours of fluffy futon unconouisness(sp?) in. I'm content again.

[eta_carinae]

Yeah, I do that too. I won't do something because I am going to do something else, and then neither end up getting done and I've just wasted an hour. I think that is a big reason why I have trouble getting everything done on time....

[eta_carinae]

Originally posted by talyn3
i got two hours of fluffy futon unconouisness(sp?) in. I'm content again.

A two hour nap.....those always make me groggy. I can only take them if I have time to spare when I wake up to actually wake up. Like a half an hour or so.

[tesseract]

Jumping in a bit late here, but when I saw folks talking about college, I just couldn't let it go by. I'm a grad student who's currently working on my dissertation--talk about your loooong papers! :D I generally like school (I'd better, since I'm planning to become a professor as soon as I get my degree), but it's definitely a stressful occupation. I'm currently freaking out about the job search process, which is totally overwhelming. The academic job market is just so competitive, it's quite scary.

[Judith]

Good luck tesseract!

What is your major?

[Johnsgirl727]

:bump:

[eta_carinae]

Sooooo.... I just had my second chemistry exam today, and well, I don't know what to say. He pretty much told us exactly what to study, what kind of problems there would be (there were only 2), and expected everyone to get 100%. This is a complete 180 from the first exam, where he said nobody would get 100% (because he wanted to test how much we knew, and if someone got 100% then he wouldn't be testing the extent of their knowledge). So, the first question was fine, some graphs that I think everybody knew how to make. But the second question. Oh the second question. I don't know what happened....I know I can do it, I am sure of that, my prof even said he knew I knew it. But for some reason NOBODY got the answer right. NOBODY! And he thought we would all get 100%! A bunch of us went to his office after the test, where he worked out the problem for us. And as he did it, you could just feel the collective "...oh..." as we all saw what we were supposed to do. I stayed afterward (because I'm the TA, we needed to "discuss" some stuff) and he was asking me what I thought was happeneing. Because, obviously if everyone gets it wrong it means he's not conveying something properly. I think I would have figured it out, given enough time. I'm baffled. Makes me feel retarded. But I'm not freaked out about not passing, since everybody else got it wrong too and he can't fail everybody :dunno:

[trinamick]

Well, our prof finally got our tests graded. I ended up with a 95, but after all the time I took on it and the number of pages there were, I think I should have gotten about a 120%! :D That thing sucked big-time!

He informed us awhile back that we would have to do a videotaped sales presentation - not my favorite idea. This week he tells us that the presentation planning (about 10 pgs) was due Wednesday. I barely got it done by the deadline. But now the presentation has to be videotaped and sent in to him by tomorrow. It's a 10-15 min presentation and we are not allowed to use notecards! Holy dren! How am I supposed to do that?! I was on speech team in High School, and I still can't improv like that! Who does he think I am - Wayne Brady?! :irate:

[talyn3]

I only have 4 projects due like next week. Loads of fun, I tell you.

[Judith]

I'm reading Virginia Woolf's "The Years" for my 20 page paper on Woolf's views on imperialism. It was one of the books my professor suggested if I wanted to pursue this topic.

The only references to imperialism so far, are not very significant. And I'm freaking out because maybe I'm missing something...maybe there's something there that's obvious and I'm just too dumb to get it!

[tesseract]

Originally posted by Judith_Shakespeare
Good luck tesseract!

What is your major?

I'm in a department called Communication and Culture. It's a mix of rhetoric (the study of persuasion in public address and public culture), film and media studies, and ethnography and performance studies (the study of various groups and cultures, usually by someone who both observes and participates in another culture). I focus mostly on rhetoric and media studies.

Our big annual convention for the Communication field is coming up next week, and so far, I've been asked to do four preliminary interviews for jobs. So I'm very excited--and even more anxious to get the dissertation done in a timely manner!

[eta_carinae]

Originally posted by trinamick
Well, our prof finally got our tests graded. I ended up with a 95, but after all the time I took on it and the number of pages there were, I think I should have gotten about a 120%! :D That thing sucked big-time!

Congradulations! A 95 is nothing to sniff at. That's awesome you did so well.

[i]He informed us awhile back that we would have to do a videotaped sales presentation - not my favorite idea. This week he tells us that the presentation planning (about 10 pgs) was due Wednesday. I barely got it done by the deadline. But now the presentation has to be videotaped and sent in to him by tomorrow. It's a 10-15 min presentation and we are not allowed to use notecards! Holy dren! How am I supposed to do that?! I was on speech team in High School, and I still can't improv like that! Who does he think I am - Wayne Brady?! :irate: [/B]

Hmmmm.... well, it is videotaped, perhaps you could have some cue-cards (sp?) that would be off camera? You wouldn't want to read them, obviously, but if you practiced a few times before you tape it and then have the cards to look at you would probably be ok. I think people on tv do it all the time....

[trinamick]

Ooh, good idea - I'll tape them up on the walls, so that it looks like I'm casually looking at various focal points, rather than staring at one spot for cue cards - I like it, I like it! Actually, I'm supposed to be writing the rest of it right now, but I have BSer's block and I can't think of anything else to ramble about!

[Alexxia]

I'm gonna :bump: this thread, 'cause it's exam time again. Joy. :pissed:

[trinamick]

Well, it's nearing the end of the semester for me. I have a 700 word paper due by tonight that I haven't started. I have no idea what I'm going to do it on (it has to be one of our assigned readings) and I don't really care. I've got raking to do...and TV to watch. It's not due til midnight. I'll wait till later. :D

[Alexxia]

Ah, to be that carefree.... :headbang:

[DentArthurDent]

by the way... welcome pathfinder... :rollin:

I'm still trying to figure out how to afford to go back for a PHd. in history... the downside is I have taken a lot of Programming courses for professional types, so I am STILL burnt on school. OI, it suck to get sent by work to learn a language. They assume you are an 'expert' after a week, because that's what the liturature says...

"I need that website by COB today." 'Um, that would be the one you STILL haven't given me requirements on?' "Figure it out YOU'RE THE EXPERT"

AFD

[DentArthurDent]

Well, it's nearing the end of the semester for me. I have a 700 word paper due by tonight that I haven't started. I have no idea what I'm going to do it on (it has to be one of our assigned readings) and I don't really care. I've got raking to do...and TV to watch. It's not due til midnight. I'll wait till later. :D

so either you're the worlds fastest typist... or the paper isn't worth much...

I had one once that was worth very little, so I just took the zero - I was too busy with other stuff...

and the bastard gave me an INCOMPLETE. Then he gave me D- on the paper I slaved to make frelling fantastic... He had the cajones to tell me I'd never amount to anything [not ment as a rough kick in the pants to do better]...
I looked him in the eye and said "why should I, you never have!?!"

heh, was kind of a Punk when I was younger...

[trinamick]

so either you're the worlds fastest typist... or the paper isn't worth much...

I had one once that was worth very little, so I just took the zero - I was too busy with other stuff...

and the bastard gave me an INCOMPLETE. Then he gave me D- on the paper I slaved to make frelling fantastic... He had the cajones to tell me I'd never amount to anything [not ment as a rough kick in the pants to do better]...
I looked him in the eye and said "why should I, you never have!?!"

heh, was kind of a Punk when I was younger...

Well, we have had three essays due so far. The first one I forgot about until 9:30 the night it was due. I rushed through it and finished by about 11:45. My prof told me how well-thought-out it was, and she could tell I had given it a lot of effort. Riiiggghtt. Anyhoo, the second paper I decided to try a little harder on. Spend a bit more time, a whole day or more. When I got it back, she had made tons of corrections and suggested things I should have put in it, etc. WTF? So this time, I'm gonna go back to microwaving it and hopefully do better. I work better under pressure anyway.

[eta_carinae]

Studying for an exam I have tomorrow..... it sucks because if I do reasonably well on the test (90 or better) and my group does well on our presentation (90 or better) then I have a shot at an A. So I'm totally burnt out from doing all these damn projects, and I want an A, so now I have to work hard so I can (hopefully) do well on this test. If I didn't want the A that bad, I would just settle for a B. I'd have to do pretty bad to get worse than that.
It's just that I've had so much due this week and last, and I still have stuff I have to finish for next week, and I want to do well, so it stresses me out. And I need to find a job, which doesn't help :rolleyes:

[Third EYe]

I loved college... I was in it for 10 years... and only left because I needed money.


Play the lottery

[Alexxia]

Studying for an *edited for content* I have tomorrow..... it sucks because if I do reasonably well on the test (90 or better) and my group does well on our presentation (90 or better) then I have a shot at an A. So I'm totally burnt out from doing all these damn projects, and I want an A, so now I have to work hard so I can (hopefully) do well on this test. If I didn't want the A that bad, I would just settle for a B. I'd have to do pretty bad to get worse than that.
It's just that I've had so much due this week and last, and I still have stuff I have to finish for next week, and I want to do well, so it stresses me out. And I need to find a job, which doesn't help :rolleyes:
:scare:You said...The "E" Word!:eek2:

[AgentSun]

i'm completing my freshman year of college next week. wow. time flies!

i went through a small slump, but i was lucky to have good classes i actually enjoyed, therefore i never really dreaded going to most of them. a few of them were deadly though. i had an evangelism class that made me so bored i almost cried.

[eta_carinae]

:scare:You said...The "E" Word!:eek2:

oooo.... sorry. I know, it's a scary thing to say! At least this time tomorrow it will be over....

[Third EYe]

I was so excited about starting college, and I was just as excited a few years later. I wasn't excited about the kids I had to share time with in class. I'm refering to some of them, not all. They irritated me, like bugs. I had to let it go, and I still enjoyed my time overall.


I plan to go back, just as soon as grinner wins the lottery and sponsors the Third Eye must stay in school and learn how to stuff a basketball, make cheese and sew seedless grapes college fund.

[vikingscaper]

The final week of my college career finally starts next week!:woohoo: The only bad thing is that next week is not going to be an easy week for me. I have two portfolios that I need to compile for two of my classes and I have to give a presentation on Monday. I have finals the following week and graduation is on the 15th! Pretty soon, my countdown will finally be to zero!

[Alexxia]

oooo.... sorry. I know, it's a scary thing to say! At least this time tomorrow it will be over....
Actually, it won't be over for me until...Saturday. Then I will rejoice and be bored while I wait for commencement.

[eta_carinae]

Although my last ex** is tomorrow, I still have two project papers and a presentation due next week. So I won't technically be done until next Thursday. But after tomorrow, the pressure doesn't rest entirely on my shoulders any more....phew!

[trinamick]

:woohoo: Finally! I finished my essay. The prof said final draft had to be in the ballpark of 700, so I figure 665 is close enough. And since my rough draft and final draft were one and the same, no editing! (if it worked for Louis L'Amour, surely it will work for me) :D Of course, I still have two more assignments to finish by midnight, but at least the big one is out of the way!

[Alexxia]

I'm finished with exams! :woohoo:
Now I'm stuck in Nowhere, NC with nothing to do but pack, and no place to go until after the choir sings at Graduation on Saturday.
:bored:

[Aeryn_Sun99]

YAY for being done with exams....I've still got 5 weeks left in this quarter, and 3 quarters left after this one....so I'll finally graduate next spring....AND I can't wait....I've been at my school for entirely too long, and I'm ready to be done.

[Jul]

I'm seriously burnt out on school in the worst possible way right now... we have two weeks left and I have my whole year-long research project due Wednesday after next (of which parts are written and parts are not, gotta refine the lit review and the discussion section) and a psychodiagnostic assessment, which is late but :shrug: and a multiple choice final next week...

I want to write a very long letter to my school requesting that they think about changing their terms into quarters instead of semesters, because I'd rather have 10 week courses than 15/16 week courses and have the year split into 3 rather than 2... whatever...

thank goodness once this semester is done I have a month and a half off...

[eta_carinae]

Yeah, I'm getting tired too. I've got a paper due Tuesday and a project presentation/paper due Thursday. And then I'm done! But I start again the following week with OSHA training and summer school. Blech.
Oh, and I have an interview on Wedesday :D I'm super excited, but super scared too...

[trinamick]

Part of my classes are semester and part are quarter, so it's difficult keeping them straight. I have some classes that overlap, so occasionally I hit panic mode, trying to get all my assignments done, and then I realize that class has several weeks yet to go! Right now, I'm taking my math requirements as a correspondence course, since the college didn't offer it online. I'm trying to get it done by the time my semester classes end, so I can get in the classes for next semester that have a math prerequisite. I had forgotten how much I hated homework until I started all this, but it comes back to you quickly! Blech!