The Avoiding Essays Thread

by **MartinC** on Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:35 pm

Creeping_Dave wrote:
MartinC wrote:[

Go on then, spill the beans, what course are you doing?

I hope you never see me at University, because I have to pretend to be nice in order to get friends.

by **Metal Iain** on Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:41 pm

James wrote:I just realised this on Sunday night:

by the end of term:

- 5000 word Egypt essay
- 2500 word Roman Empire essay
- 2500 word Medieval essay

10,000 words before Christmas!

AAAAAARRRRGHGGGHGGAAARMMAGRAAANEEEESCHMIIIIIIEERLAAAAGGRRAAAH!

Nae luck man!

Can't believe I've only got a 3000 word essay on communist-era Poland and a presentation on Scottish Politics.

I reckon I'll be doing more languages (Hungarian and Latvian) next year to keep my work load this low. By the end of Uni I could have knowledge of 6 languages.

:lol:

by **Creeping_Dave** on Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:44 pm

MartinC wrote:
Creeping_Dave wrote:
MartinC wrote:[

I'm in my second year studying Computing. It's extremely boring lol.
Which campus are you based at? I don't think I've met anyone studying English (long may it continue haha). Are you living in halls?

hahaha don't worry your secret is safe with me..... or is it? :dance:

by **MartinC** on Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:47 pm

I'm in my second year studying Computing. It's extremely boring lol.
Which campus are you based at? I don't think I've met anyone studying English (long may it continue haha). Are you living in halls?

hahaha don't worry your secret is safe with me..... or is it?

Yeah computing sounds shit. Do you know anyone called Andrew Waite? He does computing I think (or something to do with computers). Our course is based at City Campus in and around all the buildings there. I still live at home at the moment. I live in a town called Matlock, so it doesn't take too long to get a bus to Chesterfield and then a train over to Sheffield - and Hallam is just over the road from the station. It saves me a fair bit of money to say the least.

by **Creeping_Dave** on Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:54 pm

MartinC wrote:Yeah computing sounds shit. Do you know anyone called Andrew Waite? He does computing I think (or something to do with computers). Our course is based at City Campus in and around all the buildings there. I still live at home at the moment. I live in a town called Matlock, so it doesn't take too long to get a bus to Chesterfield and then a train over to Sheffield - and Hallam is just over the road from the station. It saves me a fair bit of money to say the least.

Can't say I recognise the name no.
Yeah, I'm at City Campus too.. I'm there right now haha I should probably get going...

Ah right that's not too bad then, I know quite a few people who are living at home and travelling in. It'd probably cost me too much money to do that though.. hmm I'll be wary now everytime I walk through the station which is at least twice a day lol.

by **Lee MT** on Tue Nov 21, 2006 8:44 pm

Fuck theology. I do not wish to write about the debate over religious language.

by **Destruction** on Mon Dec 04, 2006 2:29 am

I have some gay Java traffic control system to design and program which I have idea how to do and has to be on on friday.

I also have 5 assignments to do over xmas which just isnt going to happen at all, considering if I fail 1 I fail the year and theres no way I'm going to do all of them to a decent standard.

by **James** on Mon Dec 04, 2006 6:51 pm

I made the most brilliant discovery today - I had read the course material wrong, the Egypt essay only has to be 2500 words long!

felt like doing this in the library - :dance:

by **MartinC** on Mon Dec 04, 2006 11:45 pm

I was meant to start my 4000 word essay today, but I was in a car accident, so I used it as an excuse not to bother.

by **Hostile** on Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:44 am

My granddad died last week and I've been saving up the grief for the next time someone confronts me on missing a deadline so I can claim "family tragedy". Ooh-rah!

by **MartinC** on Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:01 pm

Hostile wrote:My granddad died last week and I've been saving up the grief for the next time someone confronts me on missing a deadline so I can claim "family tragedy". Ooh-rah!

Haha, you're going to Hell.

by **Raging Paul** on Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:41 pm

5000 word 20-odd page 3rd year Physics Lab Report is killing me.
I gave in a draft yesterday and my supervisor said he doesnt 'believe' any of it. Its due in tomorrow. :wall:

by **Bestial Bill** on Tue Dec 05, 2006 1:52 pm

It does have some really nice graphs though...

by **MartinC** on Tue Dec 05, 2006 3:00 pm

The best thing about doing English is that there is no right answer, which bodes well for people like me, who just blag their way through essays with good grammar and punctuation.

by **Bestial Bill** on Tue Dec 05, 2006 8:48 pm

Ditto Philosophy to some degree, although that doesn't mean it's easy. At least the workload is comparatively low though - my essays are only 1500 or 2000 words long, my dissertation is only 6000 words and I only have one exam.