Remaking a sheet of notes during an exam sounds like exam technique failure 101. How can you afford that time?
Remaking a sheet of notes during an exam sounds like exam technique failure 101. How can you afford that time?
It takes about 2 minutes. I wouldn't do it for a maths exam or anything, but noting down a sheet of keywords and dates really doesn't take long.
Aye, but if you know them well enough to rewrite a crib sheet, surely you can just remember them for the course of the exam? I can sort of understand going in with outline essay plans/structures for certain questions/topics if that is how you are being tested, but even then, by the point you've lodged it in your brain well enough for it to be there at the beginning of the exam, is it really going to leak out before the end? I can understand why it might be preferable in terms of making sure you cover everything, but then I go back to the original point about time.
Possibly, but I've found having prompts helpful. If I've got my notes condensed anyway, then I might as well jot them out while they're fresh in the memory from 5 minutes ago. It makes planning your answers so much easier as well. There's no point risking your mind going blank.
End of year deadlines have all pushed back a week because there've been problems with IT services, apparently. Hasn't effected me in the slightest, but I'll definitely take it.
Someone kicking off next to me in the library because they've fucked up her login. She's just shouted "I JUST WANT TO PRINT OFF SOME FUCKING SHAKESPEARE"
What's the consensus on swearing in a dissertation title?
Bollocks to it.
I'm a bit worried I'd get my head chopped off by ISIS, but I like it.
‘Fuck Islam!’ Rejection of conservative Islamic ideology through a punk-inspired pursuit of Western Muslim identity.
I think that's alright.
"Swearing is not only fine, but encouraged."
Wasn't expecting that back from my tutor.
I like it.
Socio-Cultural Anthropology. - ANTH 202 - 001
Modern History of Islamic Movements. - HIST 240 - 001
Intermediate Italian Intensive. - ITAL 216 - 001
Introduction to Moral Philosophy 1. - PHIL 230 - 001
'mon.
We must have covered three of those here. Ask them if you can skip a term.
Four courses only? Are you on trimesters?
Looks good, Spoon. The variety should keep you interested. Is that a first year of four?
Do you actually learn anything at North American universities or do you just waste your life (and money?) on a series of introductory non-courses?
He's studying in Canada.
But yes, there is a lot of time wasting. But the College Experience.
Has Canada detached itself whilst I wasn't looking?
Anyway, it was more of an honest question than the pithiness perhaps suggested. What do you end up with? Is it just a 'college degree'? Presumably there must be some subjects where you can't spend your time pissing about taking foreign languages and existentialism on the side or does that all have to happen postgrad?
Just noticed you wrote North American, my bad.
Depends where you go and what you study, but there are usually a lot of general education requirements. The first two years tend to be a lot of intro classes to all kinds of stuff. The last two years it depends on the student, really. You can take advanced courses if you want, but you can also get away with taking the bs ones for the full length. All degrees have space for 'pissing about taking foreign languages and existentialism on the side.'
The science and math ones are a lot more specified and intensive. Even with things like philosophy you can get pretty intense in the last couple of years if you choose. Me I don't know exactly what I want to study most, so I'm taking a year (I have enough credits to graduate in three years, but I'll do four because why not) to piss around and see what's shit and what's interesting. But yeah, my courses at the moment are setting me on the fine path to Starbucks.
@Pepe the Italian counts for six credits. But 4-5 classes is pretty standard, especially four in the first semester while you sort your life out / join a million clubs.
Fuck the haters, Spoon. Enjoy it, because what comes next is not pretty whatsoever.
Engineering is more specified since the ABET requirements need to be met. That, however, does not make it more specific. If anything, it gives you less leeway if you really wanted to get deep into a specific area.Originally Posted by Spoonsky
Four classes is a good number. I probably wouldn't go any higher than that if possible. It just makes you put less attention into each of them.
Graduated on Sunday. Existential as fuck. Enjoy this shit, Spoon, and do as much as you possibly can.
It really is actually. I had a bit of a wobble after uni as I suddenly had to consider my life more than a year into the future.
Socio-Cultural Anthropology. - ANTH 202 - 001
Modern History of Islamic Movements. - HIST 240 - 001
Intermediate Italian Intensive. - ITAL 216 - 001
Introduction to Moral Philosophy 1. - PHIL 230 - 001
'mon.
He's going to do a Boydy but with enough privilege to actually get a job out of it at the end.
I could do electives on my course. Did both on History, which really opened my eyes to how boring historians are.
I did a couple of English Literature modules and donned the shit out of them. English Lit is really great because you can argue any old shite so long as you back up what you're saying.
The hidden message of the book is that Scout Finch was actually black herself, as is shown...
The world would be a better place if higher education was strictly vocational.
My students had their final exam the other day, and I've just done two straight days of marking. I'm concerned I made the exam possibly a question too long. Still, there's a good spread between 50 and 100. Possibly a couple more fails than I'd like, so there may have to be a little bit of scaling.
Trying to do a 'Sounds of English' assignment for Monday.
I have no fucking idea what any of that means in the last 2 columns.
They mean that you should be paying more attention.
I tried, it went in one ear and out the other.
The subject is complete shit and makes me feel like a drooling mongo because I just don't get it.
Said goodbye to my counselling coursemates yesterday, after two years of studying together.
It was totes emosh.
I got 85% on my history dissertation and 65% on my English dissertation. I was expecting about 10% less for each, so obviously I'm rather chuffed. Overall I got a 2:2 by 1% which I should be able to appeal and make a 2:1. Unfortunately Sussex give second year a 40% weighting, where as I believe most universities usually give 25%. 25% would have just scraped a 2:1. I recognise I left it far too late to pull my finger out after mucking about in second year, but there have been events that have made the last few years extremely shit at times.
That is good. What was it on?
The role of religion in Nation of Islam and Five Percent Nation engagement, using hip hop lyrics and interviews to show that it wasn't important.
Just reading through my dissertation feedback now.
"Please get in touch if you would like to discuss trying to get this published -- we'd need to get it read by a black power expert, but I think there is significant potential here."
If I get fucking published nobody will be able to dispute that Team Refuge are the biggest dons.
I love the idea of having a title that reads 'Black Power Expert'
That'll be me soon enough.
Appeal was successful so got the 2:1, which is a relief. Graduation was actually quite fun too. I was expecting to be crap, but the fat bloke from Goodness Gracious Me is chancellor and he was pretty good. The clapping gets a bit much though.
Well done Offy. What are your plans now?
Cheers, mate. I wanna stay in the area. There are loads of creative roles around so hopefully I'll find something soon because I've only got another month and a bit that I can live rent free. Suppose I'll try and get published on the side as well but the 'black power experts' are busy until Autumn term starts.
Played Onshore.
My exam is next Saturday and I've been putting in about 4 hours roughly a day for the past 2 weeks. At the weekend I did an 8 hour stint. Fuck this.
Can you believe work have booked me in on another full day training course 2 HOURS AWAY 6 days before my exam? Absolute cuntery.
I'm nearly finished my course notes, I'll have to revise the shit out of them (about 60 pages of key points), do the practical stuff, and finally take 3 practice exams, maximum twice. All that in about a week.
What's your exam on?
I was going to say routers as a joke but it's actually routers.
Why is that a joke?
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