Well, it’s 10:41pm now, and I’ve decided to change my essay topic. The essay I have to hand in tomorrow is now going to be about Neanderthals, and the evidence for them being a separate spcies from us. That is, assuming I don’t change my topic again.
I’ve got a 7-10 page term paper to write for philosophy, and I don’t even know when my biochem final is. THe paper is due mon morning, so if my biochem final is on Monday, I’m screwed! (b/c I haven’t been to biochem since the last exam, as usual)
You all are giving me the shivers I start grad school again in the fall and I know the nightmares about unfinished projects will begin around August 1.
Then again it cannot be as bad as undergrad classes were - My last term paper on “sand dunes” sucked and the department head let me know it too though I still managed a 3.5 overall gpa by the end of my sentence at WMU.
Now you guys get back to work and do not open internet explorer at all!
Well, I’m trying to think of some more brilliant things to say about deceit, religion, and ethnicity in Ariosto and Tasso, but since I already have nine pages and some notes I’m not too concerned. What really worries me is the paper on medieval alliterative poetry that’s due in a couple of weeks; I don’t even have a topic at this point, and the professor doesn’t seem to like any criticism that has been written after 1960 and isn’t about linguistics. As I don’t know much about linguistics and do not possess a time machine, this is beginning to look like a problem.
Oh, and there’s also the final exam for the Czech class I decided to take in a fit of madness, not to mention 38 of my own students’ final projects to grade.
Before May 13, I have to read three papers, implement the algorithms they suggest, compare them and possibly make a paper out of it.
Also, I have to do a litereature search for Unsupervised Speech Recognizer Training. And ofcourse read them too and make an informal presentation before May 13.
I should be studying for my geography test tomorrow. But I am so tired and the topic is so boring - soil science.
I’ll get some sleep now and study more later. Really.
"Then again it cannot be as bad as undergrad classes were "
Oh, Cagiva, Cagiva. . . you have no idea. Your sense of unfinished work will be chronic, neverending, with no relent. You will think things like “Oh Boy! It’s Summer! i guess now i can take intensive latin. . .” “Oh Joy! Christmas Break! now i can revise that prospectus without having to teach discussion section. . .” Welcome to HELL!
Right now I am not pulling togather a bibliography for the exams I have to take in August to be ABD by Fulbright application time. It took me 8 months to study for my minor exams and I haven’t even started reading and I think I am doomed.
Mblackwell- what’s your art paper supposed to be on?
I’ve got two large research papers due this Friday. Right now I’m on a business trip/vacation in San Diego, and won’t be home until Thursday night. I’ve got all my sources here and a little lap top computer to work on, but I have no idea when I’ll actually work on them. I mean, I’m on vacation!!! Maybe it would have been smart to write them before I left…
I’m supposed to be doing a program in Java that finds and displays the shortest path between two cities (in a small map). Not sure if I’ll ever actually get around to it–I don’t need that class to graduate.
Our group has a buttload to film on Monday for our German short movie, which is due in three weeks. It’s not easy for American high schoolers to make a foreign language indie film in just four weeks.
I’m still procrastinating. Between bouts of reading, I found time to change my user name (I was Ballybay), go to the grocery store (had to get rice) and clean the house (my bathroom sink is gleaming).
I’m being eviscerated in GD and I just want those who are tearing me apart to know I still have 7.5 pages left and I’ll come back tomorrow some time to fight back.
I have a paper about the novel Humphry Clinker, by Tobias Smollett, due at noon tomorrow. It must include references to at least two secondary sources. I haven’t written a word of it, but I have read some critical essays about the novel this morning.
I have a major paper in microeconomics due on May 10, and a test in that class this Thursday.
I have a fairly difficult C++ program to write by Thursday, with a README file due on Tuesday.
In fall semester I did my internship for my Writing minor, only since I didn’t get the requisite number of hours in, I got an incomplete. I finished the actual internship part of the intership in winter, and now all I have to do is write a two page reflection letter about what I did and what I learned doing it. Two pages. Two freaking pages. I’ve not written a word. This two page paper is technically 5 monthes late. I might try to work on it tonight.
For my Art major I had my Senior Art Review in the Winter semester. It includes putting up a solo show, taking slides of your art, giving a presentation to the art faculty, and then writing a summary of What You Learned and putting everything together in a portfolio. The show is over and done with, the slides are taken, the presentation went swimmingly. I just have to write the summary. There’s no state page requirements, but I’m sure they’re not expecting more than a page or two. Another two page paper. Haven’t written a word. This is also technically incomplete, because winter semester ended mid-April.
I’m thinking of starting both papers with: “This experience taught me a lot of things. And stuff. Things and stuff, mostly.”
Ok, I’ll check in then. I’ll be writing my programming in C final tomorrow afternoon. Have I studied? Barely. Do I care? Somewhat. Of course, I’ve procrastinated for every other final, so it’s not new for me. Hopefully everyone else gets their projects done. Good luck!
Ugh. I’m facing my first “C” or maybe even not passing final class grades, ever. I have structures homework due Tuesday–I’ve been working on it for a week and it still isn’t right, so it’s getting turned in half-assed. I have two finals on Tuesday–one Materials final from j*ck-*ss know-it-all jerk teacher who wants to nail us to the wall with his tests, the other a thermo final, and I don’t know how to study because the tests are never anything like the homework. Then I have two more finals, one on Wednesday, one on Friday. Haven’t started studying for either yet.
Just finals… 'cept I have 4 on wednesday, and anything more than 2 is considering “conflict” at this school. yeah… two finals in the same time slot. I signed up for them just to see how far I can push myself.
You want to kill yourself, pan!?!?! Go and tell the people in charge that you have conflict, they might make it less bad, like 2 in two different days!!!