Hooboy I have to complete this Annotated Bibliography before five PM today.
It's going to be a long night.
Why did Portal 2 have to launch tonight? Chell, you vile temptress...
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered Userregular
edited April 2011
Apparently I made the honor roll for college last quarter. My parents were alerted to this via some mail today and thus I was alerted to this by a voice message from my father proclaiming that I shall carry our family onwards into the bold future.
You know something's wrong when you're filling out group evaluations and you realize it was just you and another dude who did all the work. I'm being pretty generous because I know one of the others was sick and another plays in a band, but I can't think of any creative input by them. Maybe my partner and I took too much charge in this? If we hadn't, this might not have gotten done. Heck, I don't know if they're fully prepared for our presentation tomorrow.
I'm not saying it's a good excuse, it's just what happened. I couldn't come up with anything he contributed to the presentation prep so I put that down on the evaluation.
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edited April 2011
So yesterday I only caught the first hour of my classes before I had to meet my friend at the hospital, due to roof-falling-incidents the previous night. We had substitutes all day and I was banking on fluff and now I have a billion trillion homeworks, two grammar functions to deduct meaning from on my own, and a speech still to give tomorrow.
Bad decisions, friends. Immunity does not come with age.
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"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
I got my exam results from the written exam in February, I got a Merit.
I guess my best wasn't good enough. I should resit but I don't know how I can do any better than what I did last time because I put everything I could into it. I just don't know what to do.
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Lost Salientblink twiceif you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered Userregular
edited April 2011
What does a merit mean? You will have to excuse my ignorance.
I know generally how you feel, though. One of the reasons I've been not foruming much lately is because my last semester I got straight C's, which is a pretty hard blow for me (yes I'm that kind of student). And at first I really felt like... what on earth could I have done differently? I tried my hardest, and studied a lot for the tests, and I just felt like it was hopeless.
But I thought about it alot and I decided that, given that my other option was to give up, I'd just have to reformulate my old study habits. I'm spending way more time stuffed into text books, meeting up with people to study, and getting tutoring from native speakers these days, which sucks, but the flip side is I"m also doing much better in my classes in general - so far. Fingers crossed.
Anyway, my point is, perhaps take a step back and see if there are different approaches to studying/prepping that you could take in the time leading up to your exam. Lame as it is, have you considered maybe looking into finding a person who could proofread/discuss practice essays (or whatever form your written exam took) with you?
I'm just saying, don't give up because you feel hopeless right now. Try your best to think of it as an opportunity to hone your skills even further before the next time.
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"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
It goes Fail -> Pass -> Merit -> Distinction. Like getting a B rather than an A.
Its one of those exams where you just memorise, and those have never been my strong points, where are my coursework has always been top. I had a lot on at the time with work but I do feel hopeless, you're right. I did writing the facts out, speaking them aloud, great on the practice tests and had my family help me study. But on the day there were questions that came up that I (and the other girl in my class) had never heard of. I thought I'd be okay because I'd tried my best.
You are right though. I guess I'll just have to try again, though I feel like I've tried all the approaches I can and part of me thinks I'm just not good enough.
I bet the other girl I go to classes with got a distinction, but then, I work twice as much as she does. But that should be no excuse. This is horrible. I can't believe I'm going to have to resit.
Don't compare your own results to other people in your class. Everyone has their own strongpoints and studying style and other circumstances and so on. It's a disappointment for you, but comparing results isn't going to do anything but making make you feel down because someone else might have gotten a better grade.
You're working a fulltime job, so what you have is practical experience, which is probably a lot more important in your profession than theoretical skills (correct me if I'm wrong here, I know almost nothing about floristry!). Are they allowing you to check your results in detail? If so, go there and see what you did right and wrong. It might just be the way you wrote the answers rather than you not having the knowledge!
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well in organic chem diagrams, some constituents will be written backwards or normally based on their orientation, to show proper atomic connectivity
what happened is that the students did it incorrectly with water
Is this you with Hunter?
Aww.
Need a hug?
Nah, comes with the territory.
I'll more likely kill myself accidentally throwing cyanide waste into some acidic water by accident, anyway.
my genetics professor said that back in his day, they used to wash their hands with toluene
Benzene, not so much.
Besides, I'm Kermit anyway. Waaaaaaaaaaaaahh!
quickly
statler or waldorf
For who, you or me?
Because either way Stale & Druhim are easily those guys.
damn kids
but you, on the other hand, happen to be involved in theater and film and shit.
and i was always a fan of gonzo when i was a kid
I think Kermit works just fine.
I didn't want to presume. :P
It's going to be a long night.
Why did Portal 2 have to launch tonight? Chell, you vile temptress...
You know, because of all my errors.
kpop appreciation station i also like to tweet some
I have somehow gotten sidetracked into watching clips from the musical Camelot instead of writing about Gawain.
Good job me.
I'm listening to Flight of the Concords "Business Time".
Maybe if this was a paper on Lancelot I could pretend but...Yeah.
Bad decisions, friends. Immunity does not come with age.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
In an hour I've gone from 258 lines to 256. I think it's safe to say that I'm procrastinating.
Whoo.
I guess my best wasn't good enough. I should resit but I don't know how I can do any better than what I did last time because I put everything I could into it. I just don't know what to do.
I know generally how you feel, though. One of the reasons I've been not foruming much lately is because my last semester I got straight C's, which is a pretty hard blow for me (yes I'm that kind of student). And at first I really felt like... what on earth could I have done differently? I tried my hardest, and studied a lot for the tests, and I just felt like it was hopeless.
But I thought about it alot and I decided that, given that my other option was to give up, I'd just have to reformulate my old study habits. I'm spending way more time stuffed into text books, meeting up with people to study, and getting tutoring from native speakers these days, which sucks, but the flip side is I"m also doing much better in my classes in general - so far. Fingers crossed.
Anyway, my point is, perhaps take a step back and see if there are different approaches to studying/prepping that you could take in the time leading up to your exam. Lame as it is, have you considered maybe looking into finding a person who could proofread/discuss practice essays (or whatever form your written exam took) with you?
I'm just saying, don't give up because you feel hopeless right now. Try your best to think of it as an opportunity to hone your skills even further before the next time.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
Its one of those exams where you just memorise, and those have never been my strong points, where are my coursework has always been top. I had a lot on at the time with work but I do feel hopeless, you're right. I did writing the facts out, speaking them aloud, great on the practice tests and had my family help me study. But on the day there were questions that came up that I (and the other girl in my class) had never heard of. I thought I'd be okay because I'd tried my best.
You are right though. I guess I'll just have to try again, though I feel like I've tried all the approaches I can and part of me thinks I'm just not good enough.
I bet the other girl I go to classes with got a distinction, but then, I work twice as much as she does. But that should be no excuse. This is horrible. I can't believe I'm going to have to resit.
You're working a fulltime job, so what you have is practical experience, which is probably a lot more important in your profession than theoretical skills (correct me if I'm wrong here, I know almost nothing about floristry!). Are they allowing you to check your results in detail? If so, go there and see what you did right and wrong. It might just be the way you wrote the answers rather than you not having the knowledge!