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Re: University/College
« Reply #400 on: 18 Mar 2010, 16:06 »

Fucking students can't even fill out a questionnaire right, how the hell am I supposed to analyse this when half the subjects didn't even provide an answer? BLANK does not mean ZERO.
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« Reply #401 on: 24 Mar 2010, 10:42 »

god damnit I am so bored of this assignment.

So fucking bored of it.
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« Reply #402 on: 24 Mar 2010, 10:59 »

I have been sat in the library all afternoon, convincing myself that I am working hard when in reality all I have achieved is a list of things I have not done, a list of topic areas we have covered in supervisions, a list of supervisions which I haven't done any work for and a very small amount of substantive work towards those supervisions.

Basically here is the thing: I am utterly screwed, because we haven't covered everything in supervisions and I missed far too many lectures. Even if I had actually done all the work set, I would still be missing some topics.

On the plus side, I can probably still catch up on the work I didn't do in the past two terms. Hopefully the missing topics won't be critical for the exams.

A bit of a worry is that my criminal law supervisor isn't actually a criminal law specialist at all, so she isn't a lot of use when you have problems or need to ask a question. I've been defending her against this accusation all year but I have to face the fact that it's true. So I've got no way of knowing whether I've got things right or not.

ARGH why am I doing this degree? I like having measurable, achievable targets so that I can track my progress. How can I quantify whether or not I know everything that I'm supposed to know?
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« Reply #403 on: 24 Mar 2010, 11:11 »

remember that you're paying for the education.  if you don't feel you're getting out of it what you pay for, then you should talk to someone about it.  see your department academic advisor or another supervisor.  even just another professor in your field can help you make some sense of it if necessary.

i've always found that it's better to tell someone when there's a problem.  they can't help until they know something needs to be done.
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« Reply #404 on: 24 Mar 2010, 15:44 »

Yeah, I know that really but I like our criminal supervisor and she isn't completely inept, she's just a bit wishywashy. If I'd actually gone to lectures, which are technically compulsory, I wouldn't be having a problem so it is really my own fault.

Not sure I'm really cut out for academia but I am definitely cut out for university life.
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« Reply #405 on: 24 Mar 2010, 16:21 »

Man, I hate it when they lop a statistics exam and a biology exam onto a Friday and the next Monday like that. It doesn't help that there are eight and ten chapters of material, respectively.
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« Reply #406 on: 24 Mar 2010, 18:17 »

My exam timetable for my last exams (ever?) is pretty nice. Monday, Thursday, Monday Wednesday Friday.
Beats the two on one day I had last time.
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« Reply #407 on: 25 Mar 2010, 15:30 »

What the hell guys, I seriously don't know anything.

How can I have spent seven months at one of the best universities in the world and not know anything?

The obvious answer is that I am a moron who does not go to lectures.
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« Reply #408 on: 25 Mar 2010, 16:07 »

I'm an even bigger moron, because it's midnight, I'm sorta drunk, aaaand I have to finish my essay which is due tomorrow morning. Yay.
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« Reply #409 on: 25 Mar 2010, 16:56 »

I'm an even bigger moron, because it's midnight, I'm sorta drunk, aaaand I have to finish my essay which is due tomorrow morning. Yay.

Yeah, thats pretty standard for college. Go to the library hung over tomorrow and knock out an essay. This will become pretty normal procedure, especially for classes you don't like doing assignments for. Take solace in the idea that even your mediocre effort will be better than the idiot's best effort, so you're still doing a relatively good job (at least thats how it works at state schools here in PA).
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« Reply #410 on: 25 Mar 2010, 17:16 »

What the hell guys, I seriously don't know anything.

How can I have spent seven months at one of the best universities in the world and not know anything?

The obvious answer is that I am a moron who does not go to lectures.

May this is just first year finals yitters, I am pretty sure - it sounds like you have worked pretty hard, even if you have missed a few lectures, and I'm sure you'll do fine. Even if you only scrape through it's fine anyway, right? I'm pretty sure that your first year's results don't count towards your final degree at Cambridge? I mean, in my first year I got 42 in a module writing about a roughly similar topic to an essay I wrote in my third year that got a 90 - so, like, don't stress too much about year 1 ok? You're obviously very bright and I've no doubts that you'll end up doing really well!
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« Reply #411 on: 25 Mar 2010, 17:25 »

Sonof, this is cold calculation, I'm on my last semester and I'll have my BA in less than two months. I just feel like shit today, but yeah, it'll be fine. Also I write best at home, and since it's handed in over the internet I'll just finish it now and send it off before I go to bed, yay technology!

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« Reply #412 on: 25 Mar 2010, 20:10 »

Several people have said that to me (about it not counting) and I'm not sure whether or not it's true. Certainly it's your first year grades that affect whether or not you can get a vacation scheme in second year, you have to get at least a 2:1 to get a decent one, and I'm pretty sure it does count since two of the subjects are compulsory to qualify as a lawyer. But they're keeping it very quiet! I'll have to look it up. It depends what subject you do, I think.

Thanks for the vote of confidence though :) I'm swinging wildly between thinking I'm going to fail miserably and thinking I've got plenty of time to get it sorted, and I really don't know which is more true.
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« Reply #413 on: 26 Mar 2010, 01:17 »

The way it works in Edinburgh (but Edinburgh ain't no Cambridge) is first and second year don't really matter as long as you get above a 50% which determine if you go into honours or not. Then in third and fourth year those grades determine whether you get a 2.2, 2.1, or 1.

But Edinburgh ain't no Cambridge.

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« Reply #414 on: 26 Mar 2010, 08:41 »

Going to class drunk provides better results, alcoholism here I come.
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« Reply #415 on: 30 Mar 2010, 07:02 »

I'd say political, with emphasis on the semi-autonomous status of the non-England parts with their own parliaments, courts, currencies and such when appropriate, and various attempts at full independence and the resistance to that happening. Lots of material to fill out the essay because you can hit each region in turn, provide history then current events. Bonus points for talking about Northern Ireland's controversial past. If you need more you can throw in the Channel Islands which have a completely different setup.

All that just from what I can recall off the top of my head from stateside.
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« Reply #416 on: 30 Mar 2010, 07:12 »

Haha. "What problems?" We do have quite a few. As Jimor mentioned, the tension in Northern Ireland has always been an issue. The manufacturing sector that we were previously known for has declined to a state of almost non-existence, leaving many people unable to find jobs because they do not have the skills (see: closure of the mines in the 80s). The financial sector has collapsed, of course, leaving us with an unprecedented national debt, which is probably the biggest current political issue. We're still involved in Afghanistan. We have a legacy in Iraq.

I'm sure other UK forumites will provide many more salient points, I don't follow UK politics as much as perhaps I should. It tends to make me very angry or very depressed.
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« Reply #417 on: 30 Mar 2010, 07:13 »

So this is the last week of classes and because my professors do not want to deal with final exams I HAVE THREE FINALS AND A PAPER DUE BY TOMORROW WEEEEEEEEEEEEE


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« Reply #418 on: 30 Mar 2010, 13:57 »

Looking into trade schools to become an electrician. If I go to canada I don't start until next year, but I fear that if I wait another year I just won't go at all and will be stuck as a manager of a mcdonalds.
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« Reply #419 on: 30 Mar 2010, 15:50 »

Jens, a political issue that is quite big is devolution.
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« Reply #420 on: 30 Mar 2010, 16:26 »

Why Canada, Jace? Are you thinking of moving here?
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« Reply #421 on: 30 Mar 2010, 19:25 »

Yes actually! I am quite unhappy with America overall and I have heard some good things about Canada, also it is pretty close to America so I wouldn't have to deal with a huge change (except for the maple taffy based legal system allison has told me about). Also, albeit very unlikely, I'd like to hope that I could get a grant from Canada to go to school and then work there.
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« Reply #422 on: 31 Mar 2010, 04:41 »

I have just submitted my dissertation. It is 72 pages long, of which 52 are solid text. That's 18,000 words. Alongside this I have submitted about 2,400 lines of code.

Man, this is a relief.

Next up: 7 exams!
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« Reply #423 on: 02 Apr 2010, 04:55 »

I'd say go for the unfairness and suffering. It sounds like an amazing experience, and it's only one year. The bachelor will be there waiting for you for how long as you want.
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« Reply #424 on: 02 Apr 2010, 10:52 »

Yeah man, considering that a few of your posts have suggested you're pretty ambivalent towards your uni course right now, the UN thing sounds perfect. Heartbreaking, perhaps, but it'll be great experience and you'll learn an awful lot I'm sure. I have a friend who did something similar with the UN (perhaps the same thing?) before I met her and she:
a) is awesome,
b) loved it and has no regrets about spending the time and energy (both physical and emotional) required,
and c) has had loads of doors opened for her.

She is an incredibly compassionate and thoughtful individual and I'm sure her experiences doing UN-stuff helped foster that. I think you're just the kind of person who'd similarly get an awful lot out of it (in the sense that you have an awful lot of decent qualities that this could help build on), so fuckin' do it!
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« Reply #425 on: 04 Apr 2010, 05:17 »

My next assignment for basic academic skills is a research proposition. I was given ten subjects to choose from and I picked synesthesia and memory, so now I'm going to have to collect literature on the subject and see what questions haven't been answered yet. But it was also a possibility to submit a subject of your own choice, so I was considering doing the assignment on hypnosis. Although I'm not sure if that's going to work, since hypnosis seems to be a difficult and controversial subject in science. On the other hand, it's also really amazing. So what do you say, should I go with synesthesia, which is easier to work with but less amazing, or hypnosis, which will prove difficult but might also produce a better end result?
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« Reply #426 on: 07 Apr 2010, 13:53 »

Yes actually! I am quite unhappy with America overall and I have heard some good things about Canada, also it is pretty close to America so I wouldn't have to deal with a huge change (except for the maple taffy based legal system allison has told me about). Also, albeit very unlikely, I'd like to hope that I could get a grant from Canada to go to school and then work there.

Jace, if you spend too long in Canada, we may not even be able to make fun of Allison's accent together!
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« Reply #427 on: 20 Apr 2010, 19:58 »

I just got my recommendation of acceptance to Dalhousie University today.  As of this fall, I'll be working on my M.Sc. I can't stop smiling.
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« Reply #428 on: 20 Apr 2010, 21:22 »

I'm trying to decide if I should enroll in a graduate course next semester, "Women and the Law". Several hundred pages of reading per week, huuuuuuuge papers - I might not be cut out for it, but I was planning on going to grad school anyhow, maybe it'll be good for me? I'll learn to adjust. On the other hand, far less time for trifling things like bloggin' and music.
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« Reply #429 on: 20 Apr 2010, 23:13 »

I've got a 5 page paper to write and I can barely find any information on the topic, I've got a final project for C++ that I have just barely started, and two computer science tests in one day for two days next week. Finals time again.

I shouldn't be this excited.
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« Reply #430 on: 21 Apr 2010, 00:38 »

Hey, nothing important happening today, just... defending my dissertation, that's all.

You know, that thing that basically decides whether I graduate or not.

Woo!
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« Reply #431 on: 21 Apr 2010, 00:50 »

i might go to class tomorrow
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« Reply #432 on: 21 Apr 2010, 03:56 »

Good luck with the defending! Do you get to wear a little shield and brandish a sword of learning?

Guys, I thought university was meant to be where you studied something you really cared about, something you're so passionate about that you'll happily get into thousands of pounds of debt in order to sit at the feet of the world's leading experts, soaking up their knowledge and wisdom on topics that light a fire in your imagination?

If that is the case, why am I reading about the Roman civil law remedies for insults?

And if it is not the case, why the hell am I here at all?
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« Reply #433 on: 21 Apr 2010, 12:08 »

Because they feel like they need to release "Well-rounded" students into the world, rather than ones that know what they need to know for their job. Vo-tech colleges avoid that idea, but if you are doing something that isn't covered by a certification, you are out of luck there.
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« Reply #434 on: 21 Apr 2010, 15:18 »

Well-rounded? There are only two universities in the country who make Roman law compulsory , which suggests it is not necessary in order to be well-rounded. I don't want to know what I need for a job, I want to study what I care about! Which is not the muddled, messy, obselete law of people who have been dead for centuries.
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« Reply #435 on: 21 Apr 2010, 15:34 »

I spent today learning about Eeveelution, when I should've been taking notes on scientific thinking, and the history of Microsoft since 1981. Day well spent.

Ooh also I totally pulled a 2:1 in my maths when I was expecting to scrape the barrel thanks to logarithms, apparently I understood them a lot more than I thought i did because holy shit I was not expecting that.
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« Reply #436 on: 21 Apr 2010, 16:55 »

Sweet, I'm done next spring and not next fall like I originally thought.
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« Reply #437 on: 21 Apr 2010, 23:09 »

Well-rounded? There are only two universities in the country who make Roman law compulsory , which suggests it is not necessary in order to be well-rounded. I don't want to know what I need for a job, I want to study what I care about! Which is not the muddled, messy, obselete law of people who have been dead for centuries.
Then it's for the "prestige". At least you don't have to learn Latin.

Whereas I'm stuck here trying to work out what the fuck your common law did to the rules of equity.
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« Reply #438 on: 22 Apr 2010, 02:23 »

I wouldn't be surprised if May's response is that she's also learning Latin.

The presentation went okay I think! There were some grilling questions, but also some, "yeah that's true" head nods, which I thought was a good thing.

Now on to pass 7 exams and I should be able to snatch a 2:1
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« Reply #439 on: 22 Apr 2010, 03:20 »

Out of all the lecturers I have had, all bar one have actively discouraged us from using any Latin at all ever, something I find a bit annoying considering how important stuff like the equitable maxims are and how courts still drag out from time to time.

The other demanded that we know all the Latin phrases he taught us, and included them in questions in a closed-book test to make sure. I liked that guy.
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« Reply #440 on: 22 Apr 2010, 04:40 »

I don't want to know what I need for a job, I want to study what I care about!

At least your objection is the right one.  One of the saddest things in a university these days is seeing how it's now becoming commonplace for students when given an assignment to ask: "is it assessed for credit?"; they don't care about learning, just getting a qualification.  But sometimes in later life you discover that things you learnt which seemed useless at the time do in fact have some benefits; not always, though!
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« Reply #441 on: 22 Apr 2010, 07:22 »

I'm not actually learning latin, because the lecturers assume we already speak it. We have one guy who lectures half in latin, half in English without translating, so I'm learning it by osmosis out of necessity :(
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« Reply #442 on: 22 Apr 2010, 10:55 »

I wonder how many students eventually go mad, yell "It's a dead language for a reason, you fucks!" and go running out of the classroom screaming.
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« Reply #443 on: 22 Apr 2010, 11:52 »

For me it is not merely a dead language, it is a dead civilisation and as such I do not care about its law. I do not care. I DO NOT CARE. I don't care if it formed the building blocks to our civil law; if it is particuarly interesting or relevant then it will assuredly be present in one of my other (MODERN) law modules (and I'm told it does rear its head in land law).

I think I'd actually enjoy it with a decent teacher. I was thinking about that earlier - I just had a constitutional law supervision on freedom of expression and the right to privacy, and it was really enjoyable not just discussing the topic but also doing the reading for it beforehand. That's because I'm passionate about this subject, I really care. And that's due at least in part to the fact that my supervisor encourages us to discuss and think about it; she brings it to life. She does not, as my Roman law supervisor does, merely talk for an hour, telling us things that we already know from the reading. There isn't a lot else to do with Roman - lord knows it isn't a developing area of law - but still.

GAH it's so frustrating, once every fortnight I get a taste of how it can be with constitutional, and the rest of the time it is a long, cold slog up a hill in pouring rain, knowing perfectly well that when I get to the top I will just have to slide down and climb it again with another set of subjects next year.
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« Reply #444 on: 23 Apr 2010, 07:11 »

So I've totally spent the past few weeks researching and writing a paper on "The History of Microsoft Since 1981", and after reading through my essay today and seeing that it's already 500 words over limit, and unfinished, he's forcing me to cap the dates in my title. I now have the choice of either:

  • "The History of Microsoft between 1981 and 1995"
  • "The History of Microsoft between 1981 and 2000"


So I've either done 10 years extra research, or 15 years extra research. I'm actually undecided which title to roll with though, with the latter I get to include Me and 2000, if I go for the former I'm missing out Windows 98, but I can do huge amounts on the NT system, and include more things about the kernel changes.

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« Reply #445 on: 28 Apr 2010, 05:21 »

I got a conditional offer of 2.1 for a masters in media and design here. This should be achievable I hope.

Yay!
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« Reply #446 on: 28 Apr 2010, 13:30 »

Oh god, exams from Monday to Friday next week, I'm going completely insane trying to grasp all the words in the books and compendiums, this is too much at once! Couldn't they just have spread the exams out a little? On top of everything the prof decided to give us the translated versions of rather large essays to read, which would have been okay if only they were translated to Norwegian, but they're translated to Swedish! From English! First of all, if possible: Read everything in the original language (which is no problem in this case, everyone knows English). Second, Swedish is really hard to read! I don't know a single Norwegian who finds Swedish easier to read than English. In other words: The professor here managed to make it more difficult for the students to study while at the same time lowering the quality of the studying material, way to go.

On the bright side I'll be done with my bachelor as of Friday next week at 1 pm. Woo!
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« Reply #447 on: 28 Apr 2010, 14:32 »

Sounds like a really stupid move on your prof's part, Metope. Do you have any way of accessing the essays in English? Anyway, go for that end sprint!

Unbelievably enough, I scored a 35/40 on the mutliple choice test about neuroanatomy and physiology of last Friday. It had a lot of dry facts to go through, most notably all the neuron and brain structures and their functions in both human and rat, and I hadn't memorized nearly enough of them. Fortunately, the student's association has the exams of previous years posted online, and they appeared to recycle about 80 questions over the past three years, so that made me pretty confident I could get the 25 correct questions needed, but I never expected to only get five of them wrong! The next course is about 'perception and visual consciousness', whatever that means, but it's bound to be more interesting than this one. Woo, brains!
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« Reply #448 on: 29 Apr 2010, 02:23 »

Out of all the lecturers I have had, all bar one have actively discouraged us from using any Latin at all ever, something I find a bit annoying considering how important stuff like the equitable maxims are and how courts still drag out from time to time.

The other demanded that we know all the Latin phrases he taught us, and included them in questions in a closed-book test to make sure. I liked that guy.

I'm guessing that the first group of lecturers didn't share tables with the last one.
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« Reply #449 on: 30 Apr 2010, 16:19 »

I just denied my offer to University of Texas.

University of Illinois, here I come. I love corn fields! I love them so much!
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