College Thread • Page 26

Schools have a fall break?

 

In Canada, there’s a few universities that just have a week off in February, but most have started to take a week off in fall too to help with mental health

 

I get a couple days for Thanksgiving but no break this week

 

That’s awesome. I could totally use a break. I took my one of my English midterms and then next day we had to start reading a new book lol and I’m come onnnnnnn

 

I don't think fall break is a usual thing but I know friends who go to more ~intensive schools tend to get them.

 

Lol I have homework due in an hour and I haven’t even done the reading. I told myself I’d start kicking ass now that midterms are over but I also told myself that I deserved a break now that midterms are over

 

Had another "signed up for a class but never went and now its way beyond me possible of getting a passable grade" nightmares a few nights ago. When with those stop? I've been out of school for 1.5 years now...

 

My mom is 57 and still gets them

 

This is a dark future

 

Wonderful. I don't have stress at work either, so I don't really know why it keeps happening. I did skip a lot, some classes only showing up for exams, but I passed them and got the degree, soooo idk.

 

When I was younger I always had the paranoid fear that they could revoke degrees and the like so I feel ya

 

Haha that's a good one, actually! I'm sure that will find a way to work itself in. The director of my program let myself and others graduate without one of the requirements because the professor teaching that class failed 80% of the class. He was an old school physics prof who would fail most of his class for physics 1, but myself and tons of other people in my program had taken and passed physics 2 already. Department head said fuck it apparently. Maybe that's a unconscious fear that plays into this?

EDIT: My degree is in biology, btw, physics 1+2 were gen ed for science majors.

 

Lol, so we have a research paper due at the end of the semester in my English Theory class and today we went to the library to learn how the research database works and my professor goes, “By now I’m sure you have read your primary work, if not twice over...” Dude must be crazy. All my classes, plus midterms, plus life. There’s no way I’ve managed to read another book in between all that

 

that dog shit paper i wrote still got a high C and i have an opportunity to rewrite it. also finished a midterm paper yesterday that is due tomorrow. i feel very blessed. god is real.

 

woof, if that happened to me I'd 100% be having those dreams, too. Why'd so many people fail?

 

It's sounds like a cheap answer, but it was the professor. He was in his 80s, really old
school, tests were like 100% more difficult than lecture stuff. For a math based course, your entire grade depending on 15 questions. Fellow students just could not anticipate the depth of the questions of the exams. Questions that had equations and concepts not covered in class or listed in the extra reading lists.

He was late postin grades so physics 2 (different prof) got past add drop period without his grades being posted so everyone stayed in the class even though the should
not, myself and everyone else did great with the arguably harder material.

 

Finally doing the reading for the homework that was due last night

 

My professor was handing back our exams the other day and she called my name, so I went up. She folded it before it giving it to me, hinting it probably wasn't a good grade. But then as she handed it off to me she smiled at me and mumbled something, so I thought, oh, maybe she's congratulating me on doing good. Nope, a fucking 50

 

savage :(

 

This exchange demands to be analyzed

 

This is fucked

 

here i am, skipping class again. i'm using (most of) this time to put my apartment back together after having it recently fumigated, so at least i'm being productive?

 

I’m skipping too. But only because I slept through my alarm, so I don’t have much of a choice. I will aim to be productive as well but...we’ll see

 

my essay deadline got extended a day lol

im gonna do it today anyway so im not stuck at my computer on halloween

do i drink while trying to apply post modern theory and social critique to the picture of dorian grey or do i just slog through it? i argue that im really just getting into the mindset of the characters

 

God dammit. Turns out I have an essay due tomorrow night. I have class all day so I can’t do it then. I really wanted to see a movie tonight but I guess that’s out the window