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Barmymoo:
Goodness, I'm glad we haven't got specifications like that. I've decided to go with a modified Vancouver style (apparently more usually used for medical papers but never mind), except that I can't present a numerically-ordered reference list; the one specification for format is that the bibliography must be alphabetical by author's surname.
And I think I'll just do it by hand, it's only a 12,000 word dissertation so it won't have thousands of citations.
Carl-E:
How do you tell someone you're tutoring that there's no way in hell they're going to make it through the course?
TRVA123:
very directly. I've had to do this once or twice.
I laid out two choices, either they would have to spend at least 3 hours a day on the subject, every day, in earnest study, or they should drop the course.
GarandMarine:
My history professor might actually hate us... we've had back to back papers for the last two months (5-6 pages, not much but a pain when it's cited material) and apparently we've supposed to have been doing a research paper on top of that...
snalin:
I'm kinda at a loss about what to do when I finish my BA this spring.
On one side, I have good enough grades to get into all of the available Comp Sci master courses. I could also go to other places in the country - there's a research laboratory (Simula, named after Simula), which offers masters programs. And I really like Computer Science, I really do, so I could definitely do my MA, and do well, and do some interesting work.
It's just that I'm skipping lectures pretty badly now, simply because I don't want to go. I'm probably gonna have to skip a course completely (I have a buffer of one course more than what's normal already done, so it'll not hurt my BA completion time, or my grades, if I just drop it), and I'm not really that motivated to do my assignments. I'm spending half of the time I should be spending working on school stuff playing games or watching youtube videos or generally being lazy, and the other half making this cute little game in Unity.
It probably comes down to that my real motivation all along has been programming games. It's really fun to program and make stuff work - but I want to make games work, not just any piece of software. I wanna work with games, and people who are passionate about games. I'm sitting on most of the skill set I need to be able to do that, and there's not really any masters programs that gets me closer to that. I should probably still take a masters - it'll look good no matter what I end up doing, and I'll get some extended insight into some interesting field, but I'm really unsure if I'll be able to pick up the motivation required.
I'll have to apply shortly, and I'm really not sure what to do. :(
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