I Wish I Thought Of This Sooner

[JuCa]

The advantages of living in a seminary with optional adoration on Monday night from 9-10 and again on Thursday evening from 4:30 - 5:30 (when we have Evening Prayer)

You are all in my prayers

God Bless

Guess that's what i get for going to a secular college...blah

sista 2b...i have no help for ya...its 10:36 and i have a final that i have to do well in tomorrow and i have not even started studying...any help memorizing a binder of notes? the only thing i can think of is to keep rewriting and rewriting it

[Theologian in Training]

ne one got tips for memorizing poems? 

i've got to memorize a sonnet for Brit Lit.

Poor soul the centre of my sinful earth

these rebel powers that thee array;

Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth,

Painting thy outward walls so costly gay?

Why so large the cost,having so short a lease,

that all i got and i had to cheat on the last line and the puntuation. 

finals don't even start for me till Friday. :funeral: i don't know how much longer i can take my school!!   

I love poetry, have a BA in English, and most of my classes were poetry. I even used to write once upon a time.

I found the best way to memorize a poem was to recite it slowly, let it really seep in, not only listen to the words, but let yourself be touched by them. If that happens, you don't force yourself to learn the poem, you want to memorize it because it has become so beautiful.

Case in point:

Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary, over a many forgotten lore. While I nodded nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, as of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. T'is some visitor I muttered, only this and nothing more....I could go on, but I will stop now

Probably one of the most beautiful poems, very difficult to memorize given the cadence and language, is Pablo Neruda's "Tonight I can Write." Absolutely beautiful poem, not the easiest to memorize...I still don't have that one, despite the thousand times I have probably read it.

I think all i have is: "Tonight I can write the saddest lines, write for example....blank

Sorry for the tangent...been studying ecclesiology all night, needed a break.

God Bless

[littleflower+JMJ]

theo...do you want to take my british literature test for me tomorrow?

i have to read and know stuff from alex pope, samuel johnson, francis beacon, john milton, john locke, lady mary wortley montague, oliver goldsmith and 20 other authors and their works..

:sadder: this is not fun.

[traichuoi]

when i was in school, i had to have two things in order to study:

beer and snacks

it always works for me...man, i miss college.

*grabs beer and peanuts*

[Theologian in Training]

2 down, 2 to go. Man, thank God for Power Point, it has saved me yet again. I created another one for my ecclesiology exam, which I just had. I did well on that one too.

I think I finally found a method that works incredibly well for me.

God Bless

[Theologian in Training]

when i was in school, i had to have two things in order to study:

beer and snacks

it always works for me...man, i miss college.

*grabs beer and peanuts*

LoL

:: :thatsfunny: :haha: :beer:

[Theologian in Training]

Keep me in your prayers today. I have a Pastoral Psychology take home final that I have to write, and I have absolutely no motivation to write it. Granted, it will help in judging whether or not to send the person to a psychologist, but the stuff we had to read, coupled with the stuff we were taught, was about as fluffy as a pillow. Of course, there were times when we got stuff straight from the book, but the books we had to read were...eh.

Pray for me now as I undertake this laborious task.

[littleflower+JMJ]

Keep me in your prayers today. I have a Pastoral Psychology take home final that I have to write, and I have absolutely no motivation to write it. Granted, it will help in judging whether or not to send the person to a psychologist, but the stuff we had to read, coupled with the stuff we were taught, was about as fluffy as a pillow. Of course, there were times when we got stuff straight from the book, but the books we had to read were...eh.

Pray for me now as I undertake this laborious task.

go theo! go theo!!

YOU CAN DO IT!!!!!!!!!

[Theologian in Training]

  go theo! go theo!!

YOU CAN DO IT!!!!!!!!!

After taking a nice nap, I am almost done...

Woo Hoo!

:clown: :clown: :clown:

Homer Simpson comes to mind for some reason (prolly losing my mind):

Homer: That's it! You people have stood in my way long enough. I'm

going to clown college! [leaves]

Bart: I don't think any of us expected him to say that.

:clown: :clown: :clown:

[Theologian in Training]

Amazing! This idea is catching on, I told another seminarian about this idea, and he came to me tonight to tell me it works. He was very happy that I told him about this idea.

Woo Hoo!

God Bless

[Theologian in Training]

I just learned about a few more success stories.

If you act now, I will also throw in a free Power Point presentation at no extra cost.

Operators are standing by.... :lol: