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KvP:
I'm a poli sci major, and the wealth of online scholastic databases our library has access to allows me to undertake academic research from anywhere with an internet connection. I only really go to the actual library if I need a place to really focus. I should be going more often, but, eh.
Barmymoo:
I'm amazed that anyone can possibly need 80 books out of a library. I'm amazed any library can have enough books to allow everyone to take out 80 books. I'm amazed a student would have space to store 80 books. :-o
LTK:
80 books? Isn't that like one bookshelf? I think I can look into the university library from outside the building and see more than 80 books.
But 80 books is a lot to carry home with you. I was already struggling with the dozen research articles I needed for my midterm paper, nevermind actual books...
Speaking of that midterm paper, it seems I still haven't gotten any sort of grade on it. Hmm. I may need to bug my tutor about that.
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: Joseph on 06 Apr 2011, 09:33 ---I'm supposed to be submitting the paper that contains the results of my research from this semester on Friday, but I haven't done any of the analyses or even a halfway decent literature review. I've requested an extension due to Circumstances, and though my supervisor and the research course coordinator were both cool with it, they need to talk to each other to make it happen and though I've even drafted a note for my supervisor to send making the extension request I haven't heard anything back and it's really worrying because I need need need an extra two weeks to do this. And this is assuming that I can actually manage to focus enough to be halfway productive with those couple weeks, because I've basically survived the last two only by ignoring my schoolwork almost entirely (well, this is an exaggeration; I've spent tons of time trying to do schoolwork, but I just end up staring at things for hours on end without much in the way of comprehension happening) and spending far too much money on books and food and far too much time hanging out with friends instead.
Whatever though, I achieved my one real remaining goal as a student. I have all the books out of the school library right now that they let you have out at once: 80!
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joseph – increasingly i find myself burned out by tuesday in a given week. i literally wake up on any given day and just don't want to do anything anymore. being productive is too exhausting. so i know how you feel. you've got this though. hopefully you get that two weeks.
Joseph:
With regards to the books:
I didn't take them out all at once; the McGill library system allows you to renew each book an unlimited number of times so long as the book isn't requested. The books are in various places around my apartment, occupying a couple shelves and intertwined in a few different stacks. Not a single one of the books is for a class. The majority are books of poetry, or books on poetry, so I haven't tended to read them through cover to cover (though many of them I have); many others are essays where I was primarily interested in only a couple of the essays in the original book (I could post the list of books if someone wanted. I already did so on Facebook). I also just tend to get books out of the library in spurts -- having read something I'll do research on the author, the genre, the style or whatever, and search for books which it seems I might be interested in based on that.
May, my apartment is home to well over a thousand books, I would imagine. The 80 books from the library certainly isn't a problem. Also, the library has 2,590,743 print books right now, not counting journals.
Anyhow, I found out this afternoon that I got the extension I needed, and I think I should be able to make things work out. Hopefully. Just need to push through these next three weeks and I'll be done with my BSci. Plenty of time to come to terms with Problems and stuff then.
JC, let's talk some time.
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