Who's got assignments for over xmas???

ApeXaviour

I'm just messin with ya

Any more pegs I can take down?

Agent Smith

you can take the washing off my washing line if you like, plenty of pegs there

Pet

David19 wrote:

Aren't you dropping out for the rest of the year pet?

Good memory, but yes, I'm still considering it, I have until the 30th January to decide. I probably will go back, I'm not sure where I'd like to travel to, and by the time I'd have it all organised and such it'd be May anyways. And if I don't travel, then I'll end up staying at home and getting depressed, so it's best I fill my time with something.

In short, I'm still weighing it up.

David19

You could always finish the year and take the whole of next year out? I'd do that but I've already wasted one year in college.

Pet

David19 wrote:

You could always finish the year and take the whole of next year out? I'd do that but I've already wasted one year in college.

I don't think so really. I have some personal reasons for wanting to drop out, and by the time October comes around, they will hopefully have been resolved. But definitely, once I graduate (IF I graduate!) I'm taking an *extended* gap year.

Chick

whats all this business I hear about re-registering?

You've to re-register around the 13th or so of January, in order to get the second part of your fees paid for by the state.

Final date for re-registering is the end of the month. Kinda handy cos if you drop out, you only have to pay half fees...

Chick

But do we have to pay reg fees again?

David19

No, you don't pay a reg fee again. If your paying the course fee for the year(about 5gs) and you only payed half at the start of the year then you pay the other half. I think thats right anyway.

Chick

Oh ok thanks, I was just wondering.:)

sleepingbeauty

i have a couple of maths assignents to do but meh ill do them the weekend before we go back..im really not in a 'study' kind of a mood at the mo so theres no way im doing them now..its all good

re-reg...woh totally forgot about that, i have no idea where i put that letter...ah im sure someone in my course will no when we have to re-reg..im in such a breezy mood at the moment

snorlax

does anyone else find it really hard to concentrate/ attempt to study during christmas holidays? iv an essay and exam due directly after xmas but im finding it mad hard to get anything done.
i went into the libary the other day and only just survived an hour. it was like Belarus or something, not a soul to be seen! only people in Hamilton were postgrads.
i wish we could just have holidays completely off and didnt have to be worrying about study/assignments etc. hopefully 3rd year will be easier!

David19

snorlax wrote:

does anyone else find it really hard to concentrate/ attempt to study during christmas holidays? iv an essay and exam due directly after xmas but im finding it mad hard to get anything done.
i went into the libary the other day and only just survived an hour. it was like Belarus or something, not a soul to be seen! only people in Hamilton were postgrads.
i wish we could just have holidays completely off and didnt have to be worrying about study/assignments etc. hopefully 3rd year will be easier!

Yeah its hard enough doing assignments during the year, nevermind doing them at christmas with all the festivities and alcohol. I have about four assignments myself and i haven't even looked at them yet.
You're right, down with christmas assignments!
Anyway im off for another beer...

ApeXaviour

snorlax wrote:

hopefully 3rd year will be easier!

Probably best you harbour some contingency hopes..

snorlax

i live in hope! why what year are you in?

vinks

ah yes the wonders of xmas assignments, every year its the same with being left with loads of work to do.

stoopidkid

I've a stupid Chemistry test a week after I go back.. which would be fine if I actually had a clue what was goin on and had done it for the Leavin Cert.. It's bummin me out! My labs have been switched from morning to afternoon.. I think I'd rather finish early than stay in bed for an extra hour?!? Nollaig Shona

Pet

You're new.

If you're a first year, then that means I have a test too..which I don't know about. And I did chemistry for the Leaving, but barely understood a bit of it, so I'm equally ****ed!

Chick

I was a chemistry kid too but it's completely useless to me now!

wait no... i had one piss easy lecture on chemistry as part of some biology thing...

sleepingbeauty

snorlax wrote:

i live in hope! why what year are you in?

he's in 3rd year iirc

Pet wrote:

If you're a first year, then that means I have a test too..which I don't know about. And I did chemistry for the Leaving, but barely understood a bit of it, so I'm equally ****ed!

yeah you 1st years have an mcq (multiple choice quiz..) after xmas in chem Pet, well I had one last year anyways...theyre fun- you can make a nice pattern on your answer sheet since its multiple choice (i didnt study so thats all i could do!!)

Pet

theyre fun- you can make a nice pattern on your answer sheet since its multiple choice (i didnt study so thats all i could do!!)

Bahahahahahaha, that sounds like fun, looks like I'll be making pretty patterns too.

Chick

thank god for multiple choice

saved my ass for biology i reckon

John

MCQ is the work of the devil, just tests what you don't know. Much prefer essay type questions

Chick

But at least you can guess!


You just "guess" an essay!

ApeXaviour

No you waffle an essay..

I'd be of the opinion of John, but scientific essays as opposed to ones with subjective marking..

Problem questions are the best imo, like physics/maths. When you come out of the exam you can tell almost exactly how well you did!

John

Chick wrote:

But at least you can guess!


You just "guess" an essay!

Of course I don't guess an essay but generally you're familiar with most of the topics if not on the fine details (and the fine details are what is asked on an MCQ). I wouldn't consider myself bad at chemistry but I failed the MCQ in first year despite having studied. When I did the essay paper for which I didn't do as much study I got more marks because I could show what I knew as opposed to just guessing.

Kevin_rc_ie

that's probably because you're good at english and writing essays in general. some ppl are really capable of hiding what they don't know and taking about 40% knowledge of a subject and geting 50% in the exam due to a good ability for writing the essays.

Pet

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

that's probably because you're good at english and writing essays in general. some ppl are really capable of hiding what they don't know and taking about 40% knowledge of a subject and geting 50% in the exam due to a good ability for writing the essays.

Ohhhh yeah, that's me right down to a T. I am the GOD of waffling my way through things. For one of my comparatives at the LC, I read the book ONCE, and wrote an essay on it, complete with marvellous embellishments.

Essays are my friends. MCQs, however, are more like those annoying relatives that you can't stand, but have to grit your teeth and smile at and make more gravy for just so that they can't criticise you like they did last year when you spilled wine on their cream trousers (and who the hell wears cream trousers anyways!? This is not the 80's, you dip****, go back to killarney).

Yeah. talk about a run-on sentence

Chick

Try spilling red wine on the 2month old carpet Pet...

DublinWriter

I'm doing a part-time Masters in TCD and I've 1/5 of a group assignment to submit by Jan 16th.

Basically, I'll crack open the ol' Jagermeister, type about 2,000 of personalised rantage within an hour, spend a further hour trawling google trying to back it up with the relevant citations, and basically the job's OXO.