Right, so who here is a student like me?

Aren't essays a proper bitch? I have a Roman essay due in at 11am tomorrow. It has to be 2,500-3,000 words (so blatantly 2500).

I have currently written 1,771 words. It is 2:34am.
I would normally have to be up at 8am to go to my first seminar. It will be a pain to miss this as I will then not get the reading for next week.

I have a comprehensive set of notes and planning on the desk in front of me - it has been staring back at me for approximately 11 hours (I guess I sat down to type at around 3pm, but did nothing but play guitar and browse the internet).

This essay is marked and counts towards my grade (a miniscle amount).

AND I JUST CAN'T BE FUCKED!!

Do you ever get in that position where it would be so easy to type up the rest of the essay, but you would rather be doing ANYTHING else?

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So what have I done to tackle this problem?

I have created an overly long thread on UK Thrash. It is now 2:37am.

And now, delirious from tiredness and the useless soup of Roman facts in my head, I have created a colourful array of smilies:

Use this thread to avoid doing your own essays.

2,651 words, it's 4:58am, and I am ready for bed.

Phew.

I have a presentation in about......2 hours and I have to prepare a powerpoint thingy, write 300 words on the importance of the product lifecycle, and draw 4 different ones out.

Why am I doing this now?

Because like a dickhead I was sitting at my Ps2 playing Pro 6 non-stop!

I'm so glad I'm not a student anymore

It's a laugh but all the work!!

I get to do an oral presentation on hardcore punk for my course!!

James wrote:2,651 words, it's 4:58am, and I am ready for bed.

Phew.

Congrats man!

I remember for the end of my college course we had a final hand in date and I still had 11 out standing piece of work due in and two days left before I met my maker.

I stayed awake both days and raged them all with plenty of coffee and water.

Never, ever again.

Hmm, my first essay of 3rd year isn't due in for 6 weeks and isn't part of my grade (100% exam in 2008 though). I love doing languages, it makes Uni life so much easier. I'm going to have an ABSOLUTE bitch of a 4th year sadly.

I've just finished my first essay. It was fairly short (1000 words) and it won't count to anything, but I've never done a literature essay before so I haven't got a clue how well I've done.

Ha! i often think back to how much I enjoyed being a student. Just constant partying and lying in late, drinking and stuff. But doing the essays sucked dude! I had to shit loads on my degree and I'm the laziest person I know! The system I ended up using was to get loads of books on the subject (either from the library or, I'm afraid, buying them), skimming through them and underlining all the relevant passages. Then you can just use those points to reinforce your own, or the contrary, but it pads the fuckers out dude! Plus it makes your bibliography look awesome.

So on the one hand, as I type this at work doing absolutely NOTHING and getting paid for it, it sucks that I had to get up early this morning. It sucks that I have to go to bed early and not drink too much or I'll feel like shit tomorrow. And it sucks that I'm bored out of my brain most days! But at least, once I've left work, that's it. Essays suck even more!

True essays suck major gonads (what a silly word), but I was thinking today how I expect I'll miss uni once it's over - it's already going so fast.

Anyway, I finished the essay at 5am, and get this - got 3 hours sleep then powered it to my first seminar for 10am, then powered it to my second (essay deadline) seminar at 11am. Then I powered it to the library where I still am now, taking a break from reading some dull Feudalism articles.

I'm meant to be going Jitsu tonight as well. How hardcore is that!

Thats the good thing about computing degrees dont have tedious essays to do, instead you get a load of gay assigments to do which you probablly end up writting more than 3000 words anyway for. With the designing, implementing and testing.

I'm currently putting off a crappy OpenGL assignment where I have to draw a flower then have it appear at different sizes around the screen. The coding part isn't too bad just the design and testing are allways wank, more so the testing as it tends to gets tested as I go along

Right bitch when you get 4 assignments around the same time for each module to do aswell, bastards.

I've just been given my first two assignments - in Java programming and database design. From the looks of things it isn't too bad - design a cash-till system in Java, and design (not implement) a database to handle a visual arts class register using multiple tables and relationships.

Oh joy

this is what my good friend stuart haigh managed to do in one all nighter of "doing uni-work".

http://www.metalbrew.co.uk/shit.swf

he is also doing computer science...

well done stu!

I'm at Uni and have to do a LOT (LOT!) of "critical contextual research", basically meaning I watch movies and then read articles about them before compiling all that information into mini essays. The writing isn't difficult, but theory blows. I'm doing Baudrillard and The Matrix right now. Baudrillard is a CUNT.

Hostile wrote:I'm at Uni and have to do a LOT (LOT!) of "critical contextual research", basically meaning I watch movies and then read articles about them before compiling all that information into mini essays. The writing isn't difficult, but theory blows. I'm doing Baudrillard and The Matrix right now. Baudrillard is a CUNT.

Yeah, I always thought the idea of watching movies and writing about them wouldn't be too bad. Then my brother brought home all these Italian neo-realist movies for his degree...not exactly fun, let's put it that way.