End of the Semester Procrastination Thread!

[BlueFire]

Who's done with their semester? Who's almost done?

I'm trying to get through three papers right now.. they're all due next week (One on Monday, one on Tuesday, one on Thursday)

aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh :drool:

[BreakABone]

I don't know if end of work counts as well, but as most of you know I was told our facility was closing down... now its been almost 2 months in like 3 days, and since than I just haven't been motivated to go the extra step. I don't think I've worked a full week in those 2 months and I haven't done any paper work.

[gekko]

One more final (physics, ewwwwwwww) and one assignment due Friday. So basically, after my test tomorrow I gotta qet that damn game networked. Friday at midnight it all ends, for better or worse.

[Fox 6]

have 8 final exams, 2 weeks work placement and 1 presentation to do!

[Bond]

Three weeks left. Four finals. In pursuit of academic excellence.

[KillerGremlin]

Man, everyone on this forum is hardworking and studious. I'm a bit of a slacker, especially during second semester. I have a 20-page paper and a 10-page paper I am working on. I'm currently studying kinda for 3 finals, plus one exam coming up.

I'm taking 2 summer classes though, which means commuting, weathering hot Chicago weather, and yeah.

Right now I'm pursuing Psychology still but I'm minoring in Gender and Women Studies. My school has a pretty awesome GWS program and I figure it will be helpful when I hopefully go and do therapy. Right now I plan on jumping into grad school and snagging a Masters in Psychology. One day I'd like to do relationship therapy and work with people. In the mean time I'd like to settle on some fun research job, tons of stuff out there....anxiety, drug use, sexual dysfunction, phobias...psychology is a broad field. If that fails I might go work with the school system, Illinois has lots of jobs in that field.

I hope that my 2-years as an Engineer gives me life experience over my peers, and while I'm anti-social and never leave my room (I have a phobia of talking to people), I hope that BaB can help me develop the personality to rock a future job interview. I've noticed that I'm a little better at math and computers than a lot of my fellow psych majors people, and I have 3 solid years working hands on in the IT field which means I'm competent enough at using Excel and surfing the web.

Anyway, I really should get a degree in procrastination because I know what that's all about....

[Vampyr]

I have two weeks left after this one - next week is so called 'dead week' (we still have classes though, haha), and the week after is finals week.

Right now I am dedicating all of my time to working on a Doom-like FPS game for my graphics class (I'll post it when I'm done), but after that I'll have to start studying for a variety of computer science/math classes...numerical analysis, logic and computational theory, and electrical engineering.

Going to be a sucky couple of weeks, but I can't wait until it's over with.

[Seth]

I had my history exam on Tues and my Personality Psych exam last night. Wrote my term paper yesterday....which was due yesterday. Now I just have Cognitive Psych left and that's tomorrow. Then...freeeedom, of the authentic kind. ha. good luck to all of you in your academic endeavors.

[ZebraRampage]

I have one more finals left, it's in Highway Engineering. It's tonight at 5:30 PM. I only had four classes so far. I already have grades for two of them. For Steel Structures 1, which is a Steel Design class, I got a B, and for my joke of a class Underground Coal Mining I got an A+. That coal class's grade consists of three parts; take home midterm, take home final, and attendance.


On Saturday, I have the Fundamentals of Engineering exam, which isn't required for engineers to take, but if you want to have your PE, Professional Engineer, in the future, you need to start by taking the FE exam. The PE is a status next to your name like MD. It gives you the ability to stamp the drawings and everything on a project. You basically get more responsibility and a higher salary.

Anyway..the FE exam is 8 hours long. It's split up into two 4 hour sections. The first section is about general engineering stuff that most engineers from all disciplines should know, like all forms of Mathematics (Calc 1-3, Matrices and Linear Algebra, Differential Equations), Chemistry, Computers, Ethics, Engineering Economics, Probability and Statistics, Statics, Dynamics, Mechanics of Materials, Materials Science, Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics.

The second part is on your specific field of engineering, which is Civil Engineering for me. So I'll be focusing on topics like Soil Mechanics, Structural Analysis, Structural Design(Concrete and Steel), Hydraulics, Environmental Engineering, Surveying, Transportation, Construction Management and Materials.

So it should be fun, especially considering I'm sick and I probably won't get any sleep the night before.

In a little over 2 days and a few hours I'll be on summer break until August though!

[manasecret]

My 65-year-old mom is graduating from university on May 9. I think she finishes her finals and papers this week.

How many sons get to drink to their mom's graduation? I'm pretty excited. Rice University ain't easy, either.

[Dyne]

I'm allllllllllllllll done. And I got a job at EA, too! Perfect timing.

[Vampyr]

I'm allllllllllllllll done. And I got a job at EA, too! Perfect timing.

What's your position, exactly? Are you a developer?

[Bond]

I'm allllllllllllllll done. And I got a job at EA, too! Perfect timing.
Oh my god. YOU DIDN'T MAKE A THREAD ABOUT THIS?!?!?!


Congratulations!

[ZebraRampage]

Ah, just finished my last final. Now to take the FE Exam on Friday, but at least I'm done with school. Congratulations Dyne.

[The Germanator]

As a college dropout, I'm getting a kick out of this thread. I guess college dropout isn't quite how I'd describe my situation. I've made a decent living doing a super fun thing. I guess it just depends how long it lasts...

[KillerGremlin]

As a college dropout, I'm getting a kick out of this thread. I guess college dropout isn't quite how I'd describe my situation. I've made a decent living doing a super fun thing. I guess it just depends how long it lasts...

I wouldn't call you a college dropout either. I'd say you're an opportunist, pursuing a once in a lifetime opportunity. You're gonna have a much more fun time at your 20-year high school reunion than most people. And think of the life stories...I know you guys are a small indie band and you tour at mostly smaller venues (amirite?), but I'm sure you have your fair share of stories.

[Vampyr]

I like how there is a Live Warhammer Online event right in the middle of the busiest time of the year for me.

[gekko]

It's over!!!!! Finished that stupid networking assignment with 20 minutes to spare. It's over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I go back in a week.

[BlueFire]

I'm finishing my 22 page paper today. No question about it. Then I can work on my other paper all of tomorrow.

The worst thing about this is the fact that the weather is going to be fucking amazing these next two days. Today the high is going to be in the high 70s and tomorrow, the high will be at 83. It's April in Boston!! :( I want to have fun.

[Bond]

I'm finishing my 22 page paper today. No question about it. Then I can work on my other paper all of tomorrow.

The worst thing about this is the fact that the weather is going to be fucking amazing these next two days. Today the high is going to be in the high 70s and tomorrow, the high will be at 83. It's April in Boston!! :( I want to have fun.
That's the worst: trying to focus on studying while the weather outside is wonderful.

The weather starts to take a turn for the better around a week or two right before finals here. Ugh.

[ZebraRampage]

I just finished my 8 hour FE Exam, and now I'm officially on Summer Break. I have to wait another week until I can move out of my apartment though, but that's okay. I'm so exhausted from that test though.

[Fox 6]

So im about to go into Final numero 1 today.


That will only leave 7 left.


Tomorrow seems like the toughest out of any of them tho. Colour Management and Cost estimating.

[Vampyr]

Today was a good day.

I got back my third exam grade in Political Science 101...had a 102 on it. The prof also told us that if we were happy with our current grade in the class, we could keep it and not take the cumulative final. I have an A, so I'm definitely skipping that crap.

Also, my Numerical Analysis professor (one of the hardest classes I'm taking this semester) told us the same thing. I went up to his office after class to find out my current grade, and it's an 88.25. I told him I was cool with that, because I have a big project I'm working on and it wouldn't be worth the time spent studying when I could be working on it.

He looked at me for a few seconds, typed in a few things on his keyboard, and said, "You have an A."

I was like..."Wow, thanks a lot! :D"

So today I got two exams knocked off, and A's in two classes, leaving only 2 exams and 1 project to go! :D

[BlueFire]

Today was a good day.

I got back my third exam grade in Political Science 101...had a 102 on it. The prof also told us that if we were happy with our current grade in the class, we could keep it and not take the cumulative final. I have an A, so I'm definitely skipping that crap.

Also, my Numerical Analysis professor (one of the hardest classes I'm taking this semester) told us the same thing. I went up to his office after class to find out my current grade, and it's an 88.25. I told him I was cool with that, because I have a big project I'm working on and it wouldn't be worth the time spent studying when I could be working on it.

He looked at me for a few seconds, typed in a few things on his keyboard, and said, "You have an A."

I was like..."Wow, thanks a lot! :D"

So today I got two exams knocked off, and A's in two classes, leaving only 2 exams and 1 project to go! :D

Hate you.



...but not really. That sounds great.

[ZebraRampage]

So I got rest of my grades today. I only had four classes this semester.

Underground Coal Mining: A+
Steel Structures 1: B
Highway Engineering: B
Intro to Psych: A-

I thought that I was getting a B for psych, since I couldn't go to the final because I was so sick. The class only required four test grades, and the final was a fifth grade, so it wasn't required to take, but my four test grades averaged to an 86.5. I guess that there was a curve that brought it up to at least an 89.5.

[Fox 6]

Just did one exam, very very easy.


Have another in half an hour. w00t w00t

[BlueFire]

Turned in my 25 pg paper today.
Have a 15 pg paper due tomorrow. I'm at 6 pages, but it's a mess since I'm changing crap in my outline.
..running on four hours of sleep. gah. not sleeping tonight.

I typically dislike the end of the semester, but this semester... everything just piled on at the end.

[BreakABone]

Turned in my 25 pg paper today.
Have a 15 pg paper due tomorrow. I'm at 6 pages, but it's a mess since I'm changing crap in my outline.
..running on four hours of sleep. gah. not sleeping tonight.

I typically dislike the end of the semester, but this semester... everything just piled on at the end.

You know when I visited you had this nice little calender what days you should start stuff and how far along you should be

You were prepared!

What happened?

[Acebot44]

No midterms or final exams this quarter, just three final papers that aren't due for about 5 weeks :p

Have a case summary due for my Negotiation class this friday, but that shouldn't be too difficult. Also, I'm TA'ing a class this quarter, which has been one of the easiest and most gratifying things I've done in college thus far.

[Jason1]

Lets see left I have a 4 page paper due Friday which I have started on, a 5 page paper and an 8 page paper both due a week from today, one of which I have started on. I also have a group presentation to give today, but that should be pretty easy. After that, im done forever!

No job yet though...:(

[Fox 6]

Done 3 exams as of yesterday. About to do 2 more today!

[ZebraRampage]

Most of the stuff in my apartment is packed now, so I can't wait for Saturday when I get to move out. My ex-girlfriend is moving a lot of stuff out today through Friday. I just put her futon together in her new apartment, and I didn't run into her roommate, who is pissed at me, but the friends of ex-girlfriends are always like that..but I was really glad not to run into her. Anyway..I should have rolled all over the futon, because I went to the doctor again today, and they diagnosed me AGAIN, except now I have mono. So maybe I could give it to her with by spreading my saliva over everything! I probably won't do that though.

[BlueFire]

My first final is in four hours.

Last exam is tomorrow at 9 AM. After that, I'm freeeeeeeee

[Vampyr]

I'm done.

Starting summer enjoyment now.

[KillerGremlin]

I'm done.

Starting summer enjoyment now.

Is summer enjoyment like afternoon delight?

[Bond]

Two down, three to go.

[manasecret]

My 65-year-old mom just graduated from Rice last Saturday! And she all but had a heat stroke. The ceremony was outside, in the early Houston summer heat, which was around the mid-nineties and humidity of 1000%.

[BreakABone]

My 65-year-old mom just graduated from Rice last Saturday! And she all but had a heat stroke. The ceremony was outside, in the early Houston summer heat, which was around the mid-nineties and humidity of 1000%.

Not that it would mean much, but tell your mom congrats.
That's awesome.
And a hell of a mother's day gift.

[Bond]

My 65-year-old mom just graduated from Rice last Saturday! And she all but had a heat stroke. The ceremony was outside, in the early Houston summer heat, which was around the mid-nineties and humidity of 1000%.
That is amazing! What did she major in?


Three down, two to go.

[Fox 6]

2 more days at the office, and then 1 week to wrap things up then done!

Too bad i got work the very next day at 4am :lol:

[manasecret]

Not that it would mean much, but tell your mom congrats.
That's awesome.
And a hell of a mother's day gift.

I will try, though I imagine explaining who you are will be interesting.

And yeah it was a great weekend for her, minus the heat exhaustion. My girlfriend and I put on a Mother's Day brunch at our place and it turned out perfect. My girlfriend is amazing at putting these things together. I'm good at cleaning...

That is amazing! What did she major in?

BA in English. She started at Rice some 40 years ago, but then dropped out two years or so in. She then decided to finish it off just a few years ago, I guess for that sense of accomplishment. I didn't know how I would feel exactly when she graduated, but when it came I felt very proud of her. Now I understand why everyone makes a big deal out of someone else's graduation, but when it's you graduating and in the middle of the ceremony, you don't quite get (though you appreciate) why everyone is so proud. At least that's how I felt.

[KillerGremlin]

Well all my grades are posted, looks like I swept the board with straight Bs.
Thank you paper writing skills. *hugs self*

[Bond]

Four down, one to go. Almost there!