Finals Week

[TeresaBenedicta]

Anyone else drowning under the immensity of finals week?

Whew. I'm barely keeping my head above water. Mostly due to an absolutely terrible take-home economics course. I've already spent over 5 hours on this blasted thing and I'm not yet finished. I'm not an econ major-- this is the first econ class I've taken (and it's a 400-level course). And the majors in the class are struggling with the exam too. It's killing me!

Almost finished with it, though. Then two more in-class finals and one take-home. And then I'm finished-- for good! Graduation on Sunday.

Crazy.

[HisChildForever]

I had two fairly large term papers due in the past couple of weeks.

My finals week is not TOO terrible. I had one this morning at 8am which required me to wake up at 5:30am, so I could take my time getting ready and leave in plenty of time (school is about 45 minutes away). I have another tomorrow at 2:30pm so I can sleep in, but my studying today has not been very productive since I am so tired.

I also have a take-home exam due Friday morning (submitting online, it is for my online class - annoying because it is almost as long as the term paper was!). I have to get that done tomorrow because Thursday I go to school for a meeting (you know how some professors make you come in even if there is no final ), then Mass, then I do have the afternoon but I have to work not too long after.

[Christie_M]

I barely finished mid-terms last week and it was horrible--3 essays, math exam and music test--- and still working on other projects. But finals aren't until first week of June! Can't (and don't) want to imagine how finals will be.
Good luck to all you taking finals now though!

[elizabeth09]

This Friday is my last day for finel exams. (got two) Starts at 7 am and then ending at 11 am.

[HisChildForever]

7am???????

[Vincent Vega]

Last week and this week have been exam weeks for me (though I also have one single solitary exam next week and the week following), and my brain is melted...not good, considering I have three papers to write tomorrow (one History of the Americas, two chemistry) and one the following day. After that, though, the next one isn't til the 21st, so I have something of a reprieve.

[Christie_M]

[quote name='elizabeth09' date='11 May 2010 - 09:39 PM' timestamp='1273635558' post='2109200']
This Friday is my last day for finel exams. (got two) Starts at 7 am and then ending at 11 am.
[/quote]
Ugh. does that class usually at 7am? prayers for ya if that's not the normal time. 7am classes stink! luckily my final for one class starts at 8am, and not 7, so an hour more than normal to sleep in lol

edit: at least I [i]think[/i] it starts at 8am. hm, I should find that out...

Edited May 12, 2010 by Christie_M

[TeresaBenedicta]

[quote name='elizabeth09' date='12 May 2010 - 12:39 AM' timestamp='1273635558' post='2109200']
This Friday is my last day for finel exams. (got two) Starts at 7 am and then ending at 11 am.
[/quote]

Whoah! Sorry to hear that!!

Both my in-class finals are at noon. One tomorrow, one Thursday.

[IgnatiusofLoyola]

There are people who will tell you that the time you're in school is the best time of your life. Not a chance--for many reasons. Heck, if this is the best time of your life, what are you going to do for the next 60 or 70 years if it's all downhill? It isn't. More than likely, you'll enjoy other times in your life yet to come much more than school.

For one thing--no finals. I would have said, "No papers," except that my job for many years essentially consisted of writing papers. However there was one BIG difference. Someone else paid ME to write--I didn't pay someone else to "let me" write papers.

Hang in there!

[TeresaBenedicta]

[quote name='IgnatiusofLoyola' date='12 May 2010 - 12:49 AM' timestamp='1273636178' post='2109208']
There are people who will tell you that the time you're in school is the best time of your life. Not a chance--for many reasons. Heck, if this is the best time of your life, what are you going to do for the next 60 or 70 years if it's all downhill? It isn't. More than likely, you'll enjoy other times in your life yet to come much more than school.

For one thing--no finals. I would have said, "No papers," except that my job for many years essentially consisted of writing papers. However there was one BIG difference. Someone else paid ME to write--I didn't pay someone else to "let me" write papers.

Hang in there!
[/quote]

I'm kind of sad to be leaving school. I'm one of those nerds who loooooves school. Makes me really wish I were going on to grad school.

But yeah. I certainly hope that life after school is not downhill!! That would be rather disappointing!!

[Vincent Vega]

[quote name='IgnatiusofLoyola' date='11 May 2010 - 11:49 PM' timestamp='1273636178' post='2109208']
For one thing--no finals. I would have said, "No papers," except that my job for many years essentially consisted of writing papers. However there was one BIG difference. Someone else paid ME to write--I didn't pay someone else to "let me" write papers.
[/quote]
This might not have been directed at my post, but I want to clarify anyway - by paper, I don't mean "sit down at the ol compy and write a paper" paper, it's a subdivision of an exam (in IB terminology). Every exam proper is made up of smaller units (papers), typically for SL, two, and for HL, three (though some only have one, like music) that are anywhere between one and two hours each, all of which for any given class are combined with the respective internal and external assessments for said class to produce the final score for the subject area (and these then are totalled (assuming all other prerequisites like CAS, TOK, EE have been satisfactorily completed) to determine whether or not one receives his IB diploma.

[TeresaBenedicta]

Finished with my Econ take-home! Woot!

[IgnatiusofLoyola]

[quote name='USAirwaysIHS' date='11 May 2010 - 10:57 PM' timestamp='1273636665' post='2109211']
This might not have been directed at my post, but I want to clarify anyway - by paper, I don't mean "sit down at the ol compy and write a paper" paper, it's a subdivision of an exam (in IB terminology). Every exam proper is made up of smaller units (papers), typically for SL, two, and for HL, three (though some only have one, like music) that are anywhere between one and two hours each, all of which for any given class are combined with the respective internal and external assessments for said class to produce the final score for the subject area (and these then are totalled (assuming all other prerequisites like CAS, TOK, EE have been satisfactorily completed) to determine whether or not one receives his IB diploma.
[/quote]

USAirways--You can't impress me with your fancy schmanzy school lingo. I worked for years for actuaries, and they are the BEST at coming up with sentences that no can (or wants to) understand, with IT folks coming in a close second.

Plus, ANYTHING you had to do in college, I had to do worse for my job, except that our deadlines were MUCH shorter. But, I got paid--actually paid quite well. But, I spent so many years writing that I can't do write anymore--and certainly not for fun. Instead, I bore people with too-long posts. [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/smokey.gif[/img]

BTW--My answer wasn't directed at your post. I don't even remember your post. [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/shock.gif[/img] I will make up for this serious omission on my part by going back and reading it now. [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/cool.gif[/img]

[IgnatiusofLoyola]

[quote name='TeresaBenedicta' date='11 May 2010 - 10:52 PM' timestamp='1273636365' post='2109209']
I'm kind of sad to be leaving school. I'm one of those nerds who loooooves school. Makes me really wish I were going on to grad school.

But yeah. I certainly hope that life after school is not downhill!! That would be rather disappointing!!
[/quote]

If you love school, be sure you work for an employer that has an educational reimbursment program to pay you to go back to school. You'll still be working, so it may only be one class at a time, but you could easily end up with another degree or two. You're not the only one who feels this way--in fact, people look at me funny when I say I didn't like school,because I graduated with honors and went on to grad school, so I did well, and voluntarily went college for another two years. But, I did it as a means to an end.

I love learning new things, but I want to learn what I want to learn, not what someone else thinks I should learn.

[she_who_is_not]

I'm almost done!!! Though I am convinced I've failed all my exams so far. Can we all just pray that my exam tomorrow has a question on abortion or gay marriage. Something I know about. I'm prepared to talk about constitutional limitations to health care reform or expansion of 1st amendment principles but I would much rather write about something I really know for four hours rather than the more speculative alternative. I've been try to understand economic substantive due process since Feb. and I still don't really understand what the congruence and proportionality test means which actually has nothing to do with eco. sub. due process but.... I also think I understand the Commerce Clause, which is funny because I remember it from undergrad and everything I've learned this semester is just swimming in my head and I'm so sleep deprived I might just pass out. It will all be worth it tomorrow, because I will be 2/3 of the way through and I most I will have 9 days of exams left in my entire life. Unless I go for a PhD or Canon law degree, but I'm not going to think about that today. I'll think about that tomorrow. I'm going to finish this review tonight and not fail tomorrow.