The University Thread

[Michelin]

Well, end of 4th semester is coming quickly, semester work (hydraulic/electric crane) coming up in a week and final exam week coming up in two weeks. Gosh, this semester went by way too quickly.

Worst part is, I couldn't get a job. Been freaking insane to get accepted anywhere.

 

[Team THRT Drift]

 

[Brutaka]

At this point I just sit all my paperwork and laptops on my lap.

 

[Beeblebrox237]

Real life:

 

[FoRiZon]

Real life:

Get back to work or you're fired.

 

[Lizard]

Real life:

You need to take workplace efficiency classes.

 

[CinnamonOD]

Well, I have two weeks until the class period is over, so I'm flooded with homework, tests and all that bad stuff.

My accounting's final project is almost finished, it's just a matter of adding some details and making it look good.

And tomorrow is my math final, I need at least 30/56 points to pass, that if I don't get less than 80 points in my 3rd math test that I will present, which is not that easy to make happen, but it's possible.
I'll aim for a perfect score tomorrow, so I'll study really hard this night.

I have another final project, which is due friday and nobody on our team has done anything at all.

That and your everyday homework/small projects and we have an stressed AJ

 

[Team THRT Drift]

Well, I have two weeks until the class period is over, so I'm flooded with homework, tests and all that bad stuff.

My accounting's final project is almost finished, it's just a matter of adding some details and making it look good.

And tomorrow is my math final, I need at least 30/56 points to pass, that if I don't get less than 80 points in my 3rd math test that I will present, which is not that easy to make happen, but it's possible.
I'll aim for a perfect score tomorrow, so I'll study really hard this night.

I have another final project, which is due friday and nobody on our team has done anything at all.

That and your everyday homework/small projects and we have an stressed AJ

I've almost snapped four times now. I've got my last Thermo midterm tomorrow, prepare for my last Orgo lab... do a long ass lab report for another chem course due Wednesday and prepare for the last lab in that course, do two health essays, and a project, plus online assignments, quizes, homework.... yeh... not fun.

 

[CinnamonOD]

I did the math final earlier today, and I got the highest grade of the class, 44/56.
Shows how bad the entire class is doing in math.

 

[Brutaka]

I did my first ever partner speech Monday: 16 min, our teachers said we had one of the most creative speeches with the most credible sources they had seen out of the class, unfortunately we were very stale with emotions so they recommended we take acting classes.

Just started thanksgiving break. After that I got one more week of class, followed by finals, and then I'm done with classes.

 

[CinnamonOD]

There's no need to attend to acting classes, just stand in front of a mirror, and practice your speech looking at your eyes, do your facial movements as notable as possible, voice tone and feelings will come by doing that.

Also, I just finished my accounting's final project.

 

[Brutaka]

There's no need to attend to acting classes, just stand in front of a mirror, and practice your speech looking at your eyes, do your facial movements as notable as possible, voice tone and feelings will come by doing that.

Also, I just finished my accounting's final project.

I show very little emotion to many things, I'm very nonchalant. I do think acting classes would still help me to express my emotions better or atleast fake them.

 

[FoRiZon]

Well, my uni is okay, i guess.

 

[AlvaroF]

Freshman year in Mechanical Engeneeiring for me and the damn thing couldn't more different from high school. It's tough, it involves tons of work of which I wasn't even ready to face. But I've been getting used to this, my first round of tests it's now over. A laboratorial report and presentation left and a MatLab mini exam. Then off to a troubled January with exams and a few resource tests that I have to take, and 2nd semester is up. This has gone very fast, unusually fast.

University is one hell of an experience, you have the hard work, study everything, and the social life, It's amazing and I'm loving each day and I'm only halfway through the first year in a five year adventure. Bring it on!

 

[Lizard]

The science students seem to have it good when it comes to studying.

All I get is reading 200 page books that somehow make terrorism boring.

 

[Jet Badger]

I'm so glad I'm almost on the final straight of my college education. Not paying for it and didn't even have to buy a single textbook in 3 years. Hell even the notebooks come free because some companies give them away as advertising Thinking about it, so much cheating and half-arsing the assignments will probably not result in particularly good specialists

On the other hand... maybe that's what makes a good engineer? Finding the easiest solution to a problem and the minimum amount of resources needed to accomplish a task? Yes, that must be it.

 

[Swagger897]

SO... Here I am again in the same predicament that I was stuck in from last semester. I get flooded with assignments from multiple teachers, with a crazy amount of homework to do. It's all online, so if I want to look up the questions I can, but I'd take paper assignments any day over online.

Why? Well take it this way:

A teacher doesn't have to grade the online assignments, so he/she can enter as many as they want, containing as many questions as they desire, and flipping and flopping between sections within the book.

However, on paper, the teacher has to locate a question bank, and can only select a reasonable amount of questions per assignment, as they'll have to grade each and every one.

With online assignments, typically just one has 400 questions, and I'm given two a week to do (this is just one class here folks). Paper assignments generally stay at 50 per assignment, and it's only once a week, and then two tests, containing 25 and 50 questions.

So, adding the other three classes I take, I find it impossible to manage school time, family time (I don't mean seeing them and saying "aww.. so nice to see you.." no, I mean doing work around all three of our homes (2 immediate family, 1 grandmother), doing work for neighbors, and doing work for another neighborhood (which pays exceptionally well so I won't cry that much about it, the other neighbors, meager).

I remember in elementary school it was 1 hour of homework a day, for all subjects. Middle school was 15 minutes for each class, 7 classes total. Still, not that bad. High school was about 30 minutes for 4 classes a day, depending on classes (AP, ADV, honors, that other big one, etc...).

College: Work your balls off until they've created a mold in the chair you sit in. At least that's how it goes for me, and it's ridiculous for just a two year school. I ask my friends in the 4 year schools that they go to where I had planned to attend before career swapping, and they say they do jack ****.

Nothing more pisses me off, than knowing I'm having to work my tail off for most of my classes which won't even transfer.

 

[Team THRT Drift]

SO... Here I am again in the same predicament that I was stuck in from last semester. I get flooded with assignments from multiple teachers, with a crazy amount of homework to do. It's all online, so if I want to look up the questions I can, but I'd take paper assignments any day over online.

Why? Well take it this way:

A teacher doesn't have to grade the online assignments, so he/she can enter as many as they want, containing as many questions as they desire, and flipping and flopping between sections within the book.

However, on paper, the teacher has to locate a question bank, and can only select a reasonable amount of questions per assignment, as they'll have to grade each and every one.

With online assignments, typically just one has 400 questions, and I'm given two a week to do (this is just one class here folks). Paper assignments generally stay at 50 per assignment, and it's only once a week, and then two tests, containing 25 and 50 questions.

So, adding the other three classes I take, I find it impossible to manage school time, family time (I don't mean seeing them and saying "aww.. so nice to see you.." no, I mean doing work around all three of our homes (2 immediate family, 1 grandmother), doing work for neighbors, and doing work for another neighborhood (which pays exceptionally well so I won't cry that much about it, the other neighbors, meager).

I remember in elementary school it was 1 hour of homework a day, for all subjects. Middle school was 15 minutes for each class, 7 classes total. Still, not that bad. High school was about 30 minutes for 4 classes a day, depending on classes (AP, ADV, honors, that other big one, etc...).

College: Work your balls off until they've created a mold in the chair you sit in. At least that's how it goes for me, and it's ridiculous for just a two year school. I ask my friends in the 4 year schools that they go to where I had planned to attend before career swapping, and they say they do jack ****.

Nothing more pisses me off, than knowing I'm having to work my tail off for most of my classes which won't even transfer.

Try drawing reaction mechanisms, resonance structures, crown ethers, newman projections, fischer projections, etc. online on some stupid program that is somehow worse than MS Paint....

^All Organic Chemistry assignments...

Like you, I'd rather do it on paper... you know... the way they want us to do it on the tests

 

[Prince.M5]

I have just started my fifth and penultimate semester earlier this week. Sounds like a tough semester yet as I have 5 final papers, a total of 17 credit hours and a lot of heavy subjects like International Business Law, Marine and Aviation Insurance and Customs Practice.

I was also nominated to be a part of the college's Student Representative Council but I turned it down as I don't want to be adding more workload into what is already a damn heavy semester!

 

[Kitten]

8 days of classes left well not classes just review, and finals. The next two weeksish will be brutal. But it will be worth it because i get 5weeks off


9th Pre-Calc Final Part 1
16th Pre-Calc Final Part 2
14th 8Page Paper due for English 101


Well for Chemistry i have no clue.

 

[CinnamonOD]

It's the end of the semester and I still don't know all my grades.

I barely passed math, btw.

 

[AnthonyD1993]

All I need to do in order to graduate is do an internship. I won't be able to do that right now, however, because I missed the deadline to do it in the Winter term. I'm planning on doing it at the end of the Spring, and I should hopefully have my degree in the Summer.

 

[Brutaka]

Classes are done and now for finals. My first ever legitimate College finals!

 

[AlvaroF]

Horrible first round of tests, all my friends and study partners having good grades and I'm struggling to keep myself floating. I've studying like I've never done it in my life, for nothing apparently. My final hope is finals, but I took such a heavy dent from these horrible grades that I have no longer the confidence to do anything further and I just started college. Worse is that this is the easy part. Not going well, not going well at all.

 

[Stephan]

How can I avoid cramming? I have the ability to stock knowledge but the problem is I keep cramming.

 

[Beeblebrox237]

So, my university sends my "placement tutor" to come visit me on my industrial placement. Which is great, but they didn't actually tell me he was coming. I only learned about it when my boss asked if I was ready, and I thought he was having a laugh. Eventually we realised that they had done nothing to actually organise the visit, and had assumed that I would be free. Unfortunately, because people who work in academia don't seem to understand how the real world works, I am quite busy on the day he arrives. I've got a half day so I'm only in during the afternoon and I have a number of things to work on and follow up in that time.

Of course, I should have expected as much from the same office that tried to manipulate students into doing awful placements in order to improve their stats.

If you can't tell, I really want to be shot of academia and continue working a proper job. Also, a grad's salary wouldn't be unwelcome.

 

[Lizard]

If you can't tell, I really want to be shot of academia and continue working a proper job. Also, a grad's salary wouldn't be unwelcome.

So do I. Half a year left.

Then I need to do a masters likely. I am taking a break first though.


And I understand people not telling you stuff. Like one of my lecturers refusing to tell me when he is available to speak to.

 

[Beeblebrox237]

So do I. Half a year left.

Nice, you're almost there!

Then I need to do a masters likely. I am taking a break first though.

Oh, don't remind me. I could probably get away with going back for a year and leaving with a bachelor's based on my year of work experience, but unfortunately in the field of engineering almost nobody goes without a master's. In the 15 grads we took on this year 14 have an Meng or MSC.

 

[Kitten]

It's the end of the semester and I still don't know all my grades.

I barely passed math, btw.

I don't think im passing Pre-Calc :\, I have to re-take it next semester which is okay for me, We missed to many classes anyway.

 

[FoRiZon]

So, one or two of my current semester has to be retaken with a short semester, i believe. I have a bad feeling about this since this is my first time and im on the third semester. Will be taken after the 4th semester so it may be more. If anyone has gone through it, then tell me.

Also, anyone gone holiday? Me is next week from now. As usual will be busy for the first 2 weeks.