Let's Talk: Spring Semester

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BabyHeadCrab

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For all you students (or anyone really), how are your Spring terms starting off? Personally, I've got an arseload of high workload classes, but mostly pertaining to subjects I genuinely enjoy working in (literary criticism, American Medicine and Healthcare, writers of the 1900s, etc). The weather has me down a bit but the company is good and I'm trying to slug on through. Oh and I'm also taking advanced Square Dancing with some locals, I love Square Dancing. :)

Heading off to class but go ahead and drop a line on how your respective semesters (or years) are going. I'm interested!
 
Got on average eight hours of class per week, which is an improvement upon the 2-4 hours per week I had during the autumn.
 
I only take 1-2 classes per semester (work full time) and I haven't even signed up for classes yet. I think I'm taking a lit class and possible physics.
 
My Winter Quarter just started. Taking Intro to Archaeology, 2nd year music theory, jazz band, wind ensemble, applied woodwind instruction (private lessons). I also work so this is a very full quarter for me.
 
A bit more work than last semester. Taking Typography which is super interesting, but a bit of an asspain.
 
jet_porkins said:
My Winter Quarter just started. Taking Intro to Archaeology, 2nd year music theory, jazz band, wind ensemble, applied woodwind instruction (private lessons). I also work so this is a very full quarter for me.
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you'll be the best skin flute player around!
 
i'm a week in and already under a ****ton of work to get my head around. a three week editorial project for research illustration to have concept, rough and eventually a final print of by two weeks time and at the same time my illustrated book is about to go into final artwork stages which i need to have done about four weeks before the deadline so that i can implement the type/text, edit it, press, print and bind the book and then finalize all the details afterwards. i think tomorrow for my historical class we're about to get another brief for research and essays to do this term but not sure as of yet.

sun is out in falmouth but it's damned cold still, but i'm glad to be back.
 
ive finally got some film production classes which are relevant to my major, so thats pretty good. im starting out at a 3.3 too which is low enough to easily bump up a point or two or give me room to slack off.
 
I'm back and immediately having to revise for a Middle English Literature exam, after which I will immediately have to start reading Richardson's Pamela and a busload of critical literature in preparation for my first class. Unfortunately I don't know when my first class is. But that's okay, don't worry about me. I'm a disorganised student who never gets his essays in quite on time, I don't need to know when any deadlines are. And I don't organise my time in advance! Ha! What a joke! It's not like I'm going to need to know how much work I have to do and when so that I can say yes or no to whether I can come to a party or help out filming a short film. Honestly now, what do you think I am? Someone whose time is valuable?

Anyway, otherwise, it's nice to be back. I'm not unpacked properly yet and the room is small and mostly shit, but its familiarity is enough to make me happy, and seeing all my friends here again is lovely.
 
Fall Semester ends here soon(not quite yet), I'm dropping my first period as I fulfilled my need for those credits, and I'll be able to arrive at school a full hour later than everyone else! Hooray!

As well, junior projects(much like the senior project but only for Juniors) starts here soon.
****.
 
I finally got my student funding cancelled which means I am soon to be a hobo. Or then I will have to move into my mom's basement, which will be tough, since she doesn't have one.
 
Finishing up getting my Instrument rating ( I can fly in clouds, YAY!)
Got a decent load of gen ed and flight classes but physics is going to rape me. Took out a 21k loan for the semester...
 
Winter Quarter just started here. Taking Supervision, Business Law II, Operating Systems, and Finance.
 
Back to the lab, growing more plants, planning new plans.
 
I think this will be a good semester for me... most of my stress last semester came from an English class, and I have no English at all this semester! :D I'm all business all the time!

Principles of Accounting II
Computer-Based Accounting Systems
Individual Income Tax
Principles of Management
Principles of Microeconomics

Now that's a beautiful line-up if I've ever seen one.
 
More of a workload this semester, but it shouldn't be too bad; though "Racial Justice Through Law" from 7-10pm on Tuesday nights is going to kill me.
 
German 2 and Weight Training at high school.

Statistics
Marketing Principles
Human Adjustment
Photography

at my local community college. Will have my AA at the end of this semester alongside my high school diploma.
 
Qonfused said:
More of a workload this semester, but it shouldn't be too bad; though "Racial Justice Through Law" from 7-10pm on Tuesday nights is going to kill me.
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That sucks. I have Colloids & Surface Chemistry from 6:30-8 pm, Tuesday and Thursday nights. I get in to work around 9-ish and either read papers, do lab work, or go to classes (or some combination of those) all day. I eat lunch and dinner at my desk. But when I was an undergrad, I had labs from 6:30-10:30 every single week for four semesters. They took the entire time. Also, no chairs and possible carcinogen exposure. Also, they only counted for one credit hour.

This semester is really busy. Taking two and a half classes, and auditing a Transmission Electron Microscopy class -- comes out to 14 hours/week of classtime. Teaching assistant for a freshman intro class (hopefully I don't scare away any kiddos). And of course there's research to be done.

[edit] I just realized I had five semesters of night labs if I count Astronomy Lab. That is more than half my time in college :|. I'm thinking this may have contributed something to my overall misery/bitterness...
 
This semester just got a lot better:

Received in the mail today a letter from Stetson University (which I got accepted to last week) and they are offering me a $17,000/year scholarship for my "good academic standing." Along with the Florida Resident Access Grant ($2500) and the Florida Medallion Scholarship ($3000) they'll give me about $22,500/year in scholarships for a private university. Coupled with getting my AA whilst still in high school I'd end up paying for only about 1 year of college.

</brag?>
 
Au-heppa said:
I finally got my student funding cancelled which means I am soon to be a hobo. Or then I will have to move into my mom's basement, which will be tough, since she doesn't have one.
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This has the makings of an epic life story.
 
Just had the last of my four January exams. Unfortunately the last one was absolutely dreadful so I am going to drown my sorrows tonight.

On Monday I start new modules:
- Structures
- Management and Management Science
- Construction Methods and Materials

Joy.
 
i got organic chem, physics, and history of science lined up this semester. should be alright.

what is this "revising" btw?
 
I mercifully have less hours this term and my maths modules have mostly gone away and have been replaced by more physics. On the other hand my new lab instructor is a bit draconian.
 
I almost made this thread a few days ago but then I got high.

My classes this semester are History of Rome, History of Sea Power, Lumbee History/Anthropology (Native American tribe from the area), Italian level 2 and a literature class on Tolstoy. I'm liking it pretty well so far, Tolstoy is really incredible even in the first week and my Rome professor sounds exactly like John Cleese.

Jerry, iirc "revising" is Englanderman for "studying"
 
Ennui said:
I almost made this thread a few days ago but then I got high.
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Ennui said:
Jerry, iirc "revising" is Englanderman for "studying"
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Is it, though? Studying is when you're just working, revising is specifically when you're preparing yourself for an exam.
 
Sulkdodds said:
Is it, though? Studying is when you're just working, revising is specifically when you're preparing yourself for an exam.
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Revising as I know it is making corrections to an assignment, "today we are going to revise your essays......" You study before an exam.
 
Just one class. Calculus w/ Analytic Geometry.
 
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