Writing papers on Friday and Saturday nights sucks the big one.

[checkyourprez]

ya know what im saying.


I would much rather be out drinking some beerce chasing some girls than writing a paper on if the United States can learn anything from the Danish welfare system.


I know its only a couple more days of busting ass before summer (atleast until the second session of summer classes starts) but it doesnt make tonight any better.

:(

[Kid Presentable]

Good luck, man. I just came out of that situation, and I'm probably going back into it next year with post-grad shit and shit.

[checkyourprez]

just finished two massive dongers. one was due monday that went over well. the other i just finished at 3 am stateside. which is due tomorrow (well today i suppose). i had been working almost nonstop from the time i get up in the morning until the time i go to bed, barring eating, for the past 6 days. i really need to stop procrastinating. but i dont do anything unless i feel the pressure of it needing to be done. im glad its over but it sure as hell sucked balls, i will have to give time management a try.

although i still have to make a power point presentation before 6 pm the 22nd which i have all day to make. but then again i havent made a power point presentation in at least 5 years.

but i cant imagine its going to be that hard, right.



after that and i am home free for a bit. this weekend its finally supposed to get into the 70s here. that + beers + nothing on my mind = (y)

[Adam]

I made a powerpoint presentation once and why powerpoint always makes crap presentations. It was well received.

Its the only way to study really. Get to a point where its impossible to catch up but you have enough common sense in you that it needs to be done so you do it. I've always said I'll stop procrastinating but when video games, porn, sunshine, girls, beer and other things exist - how the hell aren't you supposed to procrastinate?

Grats on getting it done - you won't be worse on the course. There is always one other who gets about 4 extensions.

The people who do piss me off are those that have the course work handed in 2 weeks after the question is given and then brag how they finished early.

[HotAndWet]

dongers.

lol

[Deep_Sea_Rain]

Word man...I know what you mean. I have a paper on spiral dynamics in the American Southwest that I'm struggling to finish up before the weekend. I won't be stopped from seeing Observe And Report! :D

[p-branez]

there's nothing better than being able to turn your brain off at the end of the semester.

[ET]

I once wrote a 6 page paper about the rise of West Coast hip-hop and how it has affected the music world in general. My English professor gave me an A and wrote a note on my paper to see her after class. She thought that I didn't write it so I spent 10 minutes talking about the East Coast scene. She told me to have a good summer.

Also, fuck Powerpoint.

[checkyourprez]

im back at it.

although this time its a thursday.

and i have a final pape for my summerclass due tomorrow by 5. which would be cool if i didnt have to work at 9, until 4 tomorrow.

8-10 pager, which isnt shit really. but i just started it about 1230. had all the research done, just been putting it off. im on page 5 so far though. banging it out pretty good.


that drug war in mexico makes for a quick write.

[checkyourprez]

7 pages.

gettin there.

[checkyourprez]

8.

[checkyourprez]

9.

almost ten.

and on the conclusion.

i spit that lethal shit son.

[checkyourprez]

10.

done bitches.

right as its starting to get light out and the birds are chirping. 2 hours of sleep before work and then the last summer festival of the year tonight in rochester. hollllller.

[Kid Presentable]

haha have a soccer ball of a time, my negroid.

[checkyourprez]

the master of procrastination is back. and you all know what they say about procrastination!!!

this time is a ridiculous situation i have gotten myself into, which i am not helping by posting on this board. but i just need to work on shit like that. do some work. stop, break, surf the web, then get back to work.


alllllright. so i have a 23-25 page paper due for this 590 class and this is not going to be pretty.

2 pages done so far. its due by 9:30 pm on monday, its currently 7:30 pm on sunday.

the research is done, although i havent read through all of it, which will undoubtedly eat up some time.


i have no idea why i put myself in these pressure situations. but i always seem to suck the days dick nice and good, so heres to hoping its going down like that again!

[kaiser soze]

I think every paper I was due on the monday I didn't get into until the weekend before - unless we had to hand in incremental rough drafts, research, bibliographies, intros, outlines, etc.

[jabumbo]

what the hell kind of subject really needs 25 pages worth?


research papers get boring after about 3 pages, no matter how solid the writer

[checkyourprez]

what the hell kind of subject really needs 25 pages worth?


research papers get boring after about 3 pages, no matter how solid the writer

some bullshit in global mass communications.


my topic, a case study on the role of civic journalism in the breaking of the 70 year reign of PRI ruling party in mexico as opposed to the lack of civic journalism in venezuela and the breaking of their 40 year oligarchic control by socialist hugo chavez.

its gonna be a load of shit let me tell you.

is supposed to be all professional like. i need an abstract, intro, theory/lit review, method, findings, conclusion.

so in reality its almost like several smaller papers in one larger paper, but still this stuff is wack.

[kaiser soze]

so in reality its almost like several smaller papers in one larger paper, but still this stuff is wack.

exactly - long papers always are built from smaller elements. I like to imagine it as chapters -

[checkyourprez]

yea, it makes it a little easier.

6:40 in the am. going on 0 hours of sleep since 9 am yesterday. probably going to have to go all day with this one. hopefully i dont pass out at the wheel driving this to school tonight.

[jabumbo]

tell your prof to get a digital drop box, son!

[checkyourprez]

tell your prof to get a digital drop box, son!

i actually kinda lucked out. we were supposed to have our last class/test/just drop off your paper at a bar and drink some. but he ended up coming down with a cold and said you can just email it to him or drop it off in his real drop box at school. i chose the later, because i knew he wasnt going to be there and it gave me an extra hour or so to work on it.


but it was single handedly the most taxing gruesome academic task i have yet had to accomplish in my life. i feel asleep for half an hour since 9 yesterday morn. this is the least amount of sleep i think i have ever gotten in my life in a 39 hour span.

i am thoroughly ready to enjoy the next five weeks of christmas vacations.

[Planetary]

Good shit (y)

i love that feeling after you hand a big assignment in

[Freebasser]

I didn't sleep for 3 days straight once (other than the odd hour here and there) in order to finish a piece of coursework, and I was so tired that I got lost on my way home after handing it in :/

[checkyourprez]

I didn't sleep for 3 days straight once (other than the odd hour here and there) in order to finish a piece of coursework, and I was so tired that I got lost on my way home after handing it in :/

i defiantly felt weird driving home. i felt looser than the rare drink and drive i do.

[yeahwho]

Rolling doobies with papers on Friday and Saturday nights hardens the big one.

ya know what im saying.

Breh

[Kid Presentable]

Alright a project cost estimate due on Wednesday at 5:30pm, have secured a day off work tomorrow, back to work Tuesday. Sort of started, done the part worth 20%, just working out the nuts and bolts of a cost estimate for this conference deal. Been told it's not a theory exercise, but like a practical, useful estimate. Should mean the only real bastard is in the details......

[Kid Presentable]

It's tired in here, going to have a nap and get back into it.

[Kid Presentable]

More done but not enough. Tomorrow will be money day.

[Planetary]

i feel you mate, i've got a big final year project to finish off for uni in for april 28th. party time after that though, i never have to learn anything again :)

[Kid Presentable]

That's what I said...Not this thread, though. In this thread I said I'd go back. I didn't think it would be this shit, but at least it's not costing me.

[Planetary]

ha yeah education is fun until you have to do stuff etc.

it's all worth it though when you hand a piece of work in or finish a semester (y)

Good luck with it.

[Planetary]

well, this is my first contribution to this thread in a proper last minute fashion. It's 8.29pm, my dissertation has to be in tomorrow by 3.30pm.

just hit 7k words, probly going to need about 1500 more. should be done with time for a few hours sleep if i keep on track. it's slow progress though cause those 1500 include conclusion, bibliography, references, appendices etc. maybe 2000 actually.

its all good though cause tomorrow it's party time.

[Kid Presentable]

Hey man you can do this. I got that cost schedule in and it did ok. I have 2 assignments due on the same day now, but that's weeeeks away.

[checkyourprez]

Hey man you can do this. I got that cost schedule in and it did ok. I have 2 assignments due on the same day now, but that's weeeeks away.


ha i always say that shit. be like 'yea ill work on them, little bit by little bit'

never happens.

and i kick myself in the ass every time im busting out that paper.

but then i go right back to not giving a shit once im done.


schools out for summer beeeoootcchsss!!!


(actually not really because i have a summer class to take, but its only 6 weeks long)

[Planetary]

2.44am. 8141 and counting. final few sections of my practical write up, then conclusion. then it's onto the appendices, bibliography and references.

need more pro plus

[checkyourprez]

2.44am. 8141 and counting. final few sections of my practical write up, then conclusion. then it's onto the appendices, bibliography and references.

need more pro plus

getting there brosif.

too bad you werent here then it would only be 9:50 and you would have more time to do it!

[Planetary]

Well, it's in. made it to hand in by 3:06 not bad going. few little additions i didnt get to make but it was all formatted fully. didn't get chance for a proper prrof read either, but going over it adding in cross references, these things usually jump out at ya.

finished on 10,500.

who da man

[checkyourprez]

Well, it's in. made it to hand in by 3:06 not bad going. few little additions i didnt get to make but it was all formatted fully. didn't get chance for a proper prrof read either, but going over it adding in cross references, these things usually jump out at ya.

finished on 10,500.

who da man

great feeling for sure.

now enjoy the champs league tilt with 5 pints or so to boot.

[checkyourprez]

well i am in familiar territory. i have a paper due tomorrow (well today actually as it has just hit 12:00 am here) at 6 pm. its only 7-10 pages so its not to bad. although i have nothing typed yet. i do have my basic structure set and my a hand written conclusion. i do however have to reread two essays and another work before i start. i do also have to work an 11-4 shift tomorrow so its not as much time as it looks, i also wouldn't mind getting a bit of sleep!! but once im done with this, im done with my summer class and i have 4th of july cottaging to look forward to!!!


my task; choose the most important trend/event/period in american history.


my choice is the civil war.


in the words of slick rick....hereeeee we gooo......

[checkyourprez]

the sun is coming up. birds are chirping a bit. not done yet. but getting there. dont feel too too tired. hopefully i can get done by 7 and get in a couple hours of shut eye.

[Bob]

college is rough. real rough. worst part of my life. so glad it's over i feel your pain bro. college is like a big hairy guy in a van forcing you to write papers while he rapes you and calls you gay

[checkyourprez]

HA tell me about it bob. i feel like i just got buttfucked!


but alas i have finished. 6:32 in the morning. which isn't bad. i researched from when i first posted on it until 1:40ish, took a little break to have a sandwich, and then busted out the 8 pages from 2-6:30.



college was a pretty good part of my life. i dont really consider my masters college tho. its the worst part about college minus the best part. all work, and no getting fucked up and having everything paid for.

[Kid Presentable]

Yeah masters is nerd college it's fucked.

[jabumbo]

haven't you graduated yet, dude?

[milleson]

Ack! I have my first draft of my second dissertation proposal due by 3pm today. I should have submitted it last Friday but it wasn't quite there yet. I've managed to ignore it since then, and oddly it still reads like shit.

Sometimes I wish I'd stuck with getting a masters degree. Every time someone graduates, its like seeing one of those billboards that says "If you live here, you'd be home by now." If I'd gone the masters route, I'd be done by now. Fudge.

[jabumbo]

but doctor milleson just sounds SO much better!

[milleson]

Shit, doctor milleson is one of my bigger problems.

I'm going through divorce and trying to decide whether to keep my married name or revert back to my maiden name. I haven't published anything more than abstracts yet, so I still have a bit freedom with it. I figure I should suck it up and keep my married name, just to make life easier on the kids.

I personally don't give a shit, I only worry about it with respect to dating. Will a guy be freaked out by me keeping my married name?

[checkyourprez]

haven't you graduated yet, dude?

i've graduated twice so far. soon a third. maybe someday a fourth.

[Kid Presentable]

haven't you graduated yet, dude?

I finished the undergrad in 2008 (started late). Started on this one at the start of this year.

[Kid Presentable]

Bump whoops jabumbo wasn't talking to me. I have two assignments due in a week. Haven't started either of them, but done the research. Will start on Friday, I reckon. I post more often when I'm pretending to do uni work.

[checkyourprez]

burning that midnight oil again.


ironically enough the paper im writing is on russian energy. (although i must confess i highly doubt my midnight oil came from russia) however most of you would be surprised who they are supplying these days. the ruskies got the energy hook up ya dig.



this papers not terribly long only a min. of 8 pages, i just, like always, delayed starting it until 10 or so tonight (well yesterday now). its due tomorrow at 6. i work all day though, which blows. but i got a new always sunny and league to look forward to after class!!


anywho, only a couple more pages, hoping to be done by 3 or 4 in the morn.

[checkyourprez]

dunzo you strunzos. 341. not bad time.

[jabumbo]

so what are we getting our doctorate in this time?

[rirv]

I fully intend on returning to higher education at some point. I didn't realise whilst I was at university how much I actually enjoy constructing a piece of writing about something I am interested in. I wasted those years of education doing everything at the last minute and doing... OK. I'm going to save up and go back to do another degree and get some more letters after my name.

[checkyourprez]

so what are we getting our doctorate in this time?

international studies.

I fully intend on returning to higher education at some point. I didn't realise whilst I was at university how much I actually enjoy constructing a piece of writing about something I am interested in. I wasted those years of education doing everything at the last minute and doing... OK. I'm going to save up and go back to do another degree and get some more letters after my name.

i agree a bit. you wouldnt know it by my posting style on here but im a pretty good writer and can put together a paper quite well. however i am a born procrastonator. seems like i need the pressure to force me to do it. but there is no doubt many of these papers would turn out better had i started them earlier and went through a throurough revision process. but whatevers, still pull A's bro!!!

[jabumbo]

i'd love to go back for some sort of graduate study, but i don't know that i could force myself to specialize any more than i am now. if i could find a program that allowed for a somewhat general study with research opportunities that i could latch onto directed by some professor, then maybe i would go for it.

the big key now though is can i do it without having to work a regular job and still pay the bills?

[Kid Presentable]

I have to do a reflective journal, which is only four entries at 500 words a pop. I have about a week's worth of putting it off until I start doing it the day before it's due.

It's shit because you only have to reference in the first hundred or so words and then come up with opinions and apply it to your life.

Total Quality Management.

Applied to my life.

I don't have an opinion. Give me the degree and be out, bitch.