Finals week blues: a time line of suck

set alarm for 5:55.... PM oops

punch in at at 7:02AM

back at school by 2-PM

3-PM professor emails clarify that the essay questions on the study guide for tomorrows final are take home essays, not just for review....

3:05PM Vending machine takes 1 dollar but will not take any more dollars or give me my dollar back

11:00PM I run out of coffee

11:01PM I remember the school cafe gives out free coffee during finals week at 10:00PM :D

11:03PM discover that all real coffee is gone leaving me with decaf :'(

12:15PM finish essays and find my Corrado

12:15:30 find my door lock frozen (of course my driver side handle is busted)

12:16PM climb through hatch to unlock passenger door and clinb through tracking snow and salt everyhwere

12:17PM flip headlight switch on... nothing happens, recently fixed switch has un-fixed itself

12:18PM drive home singing along to Billy Joel "Piano Man" at the top of my lungs like an idiot with a folded up receipt jammed behind my brights switch stalk to keep my brights on.... like a bigger idiot

12:45PM bitch about it all on GRM

Good luck to everyone fighting their way though finals week! God knows we need it.

Already done with them, I only had one . Best case senario I get a 3.53, worst case I get a 2.8. eh...

Best of luck to you

after a little more than a year out of school, i am not missing finals one bit. good luck with yours, btw

i have one more tomorrow then i'm done! (until next semester )

I have one more final today for my math class at 3-5 this afternoon. This morning there is a chem session that is just for extra credit (which I'll need).

Awww poor baby. Finals week....Oh that's sooo hard...Wait 'til you're finished. Then you get to go to work everyday.

Sounds like he does go work to work everyday as well...

I have 2 down and 2 to go plus one more paper. And yes, I have to work every week day like everybody else as well.

trust me, I am not dreading the work-a-day lifestyle...But I am dreading next semester. only one more.

Four and out BABY!

Blah. I have a final to take this evening, and another one on Monday.

I love working 40+ hrs/wk then going home to study.

I worked full time for 2 years, but I much prefer devoting all of my time to 18 credits per semester.

I pay the same ($3,600) for 12 credits or 18, so I aim to get my money's worth.

Finals haven't too bad, I think I was actually more stressed out two weeks ago then I was this week, simply because I was worried that I'd lose my B's in 3 classes, but I pulled them up, and the finals should solidify them.

My birthday is December 12th, in the middle of finals. I was always writing papers on my birthday throughout college.

Good luck on getting through your finals, all!

Things get better when you're done with school.

minimac wrote: Awww poor baby. Finals week....Oh that's sooo hard...Wait 'til you're finished. Then you get to go to work everyday.

I was working everyday for the last 10 years, got tired of being a monkey and decided to go back to school and finish my education. I'm now working on 2 majors at once and 2 minors, along with doing extra lab work, heading up a research project and running 2 businesses. Even though winter break starts for me next week I'll still be up at campus every other day working in my lab.

Its no wonder I'm tired all the time.

minimac wrote: Awww poor baby. Finals week....Oh that's sooo hard...Wait 'til you're finished. Then you get to go to work everyday.

Uhh work is an hour away from school and I have to take classes that are only offered once a semester in the middle of the day. I work 3 days a week and go to school full time. I work every break I get, I also help out with the family business, and I'm on an FSAE team. Between work and school my days run 7AM to 8PM when things are light. When tests and projects get heavy all nighters aren't that rare. I work Saturdays too and take side jobs to keep my bills paid. I have always loved my jobs and internships. I can't wait for a normal full time job schedule, but I know it's best to stick this school thing out till the bitter end and keep my bills paid while I do. I don't even think I have it bad. I know many people that run their schedules even more ragged than mine. But take away my coffee and freeze me out of my car when its dipping into the single digits... Yep it's my party and I'll cry if I want to.

Awww poor baby. Finals week....Oh that's sooo hard...Wait 'til you're finished. Then you get to go to work everyday.

I hope you are kidding. School is the absolute most terrible thing on this planet, bar NOTHING. At least when you work you get PAID for your hassle. It was incredibly hard for me to leave my nice cozy city job with pay of $22/h, benefits, and three weeks STARTING paid vacation. I'd rather be doing plumbing and heating right now then be in school. With school, you get NO time off. The schedule is retarded, and you are always broke. How can going to school be any better then working unless your taking some good-for-nothing bachelor of arts degree?

Its funny how people like my father say this, and half of his time is spent sitting at a control panel...

4pm - 12am study

set alarm for 3:30am. study

exam 8-10

study 10-1

exam 1-3

study for exams the next day..

even though I'm not a premed student, most of my core classes have me grouped in with them. They sure as hell know how to kill a curve

I'm finally done. Just woke up from sleep after a double-all nighter though.

I took both MIS 513 an dMIS 502 finals at the same time, normally 4 hours alotted but since I am "off site" I got two hours for both...

eh, one day I will have my masters degree and then I can look forward to middle managment......

Of cours this is while I work 50 hrs a week and raise 3 kids, payattention to my wife and manage a 5 bedroom house and am active in my local food pantry.....and stuff.

HiTempguy wrote:

Awww poor baby. Finals week....Oh that's sooo hard...Wait 'til you're finished. Then you get to go to work everyday.

I hope you are kidding. School is the absolute most terrible thing on this planet, bar NOTHING. At least when you work you get PAID for your hassle. It was incredibly hard for me to leave my nice cozy city job with pay of $22/h, benefits, and three weeks STARTING paid vacation. I'd rather be doing plumbing and heating right now then be in school. With school, you get NO time off. The schedule is retarded, and you are always broke. How can going to school be any better then working unless your taking some good-for-nothing bachelor of arts degree? Its funny how people like my father say this, and half of his time is spent sitting at a control panel...

The whole concept is that you might find a better job after all your time and effort where you aren't breaking your back to make your bills. Congratulations on your job, but you are prolly already close to that "glass ceiling" most people hit when they have jobs like said.

I just finished 3 finals today. Only needed to take one and only bothered to study one. Also got a theory paper back after I finished one of my finals and the professor wants to publish it, which is amazing for an undergrad (what he tells me).

What's everyone going for?

Environmental Geography and Land Use here. Classes aren't overly tough, but I'm not a good student either. I would have rather gone for Engineering or Vetenary science, but I hear advanced Chem and Physics makes a lot of people change their majors and waste lots of money, so I decided to go with something I enjoy, even if it isn't the highest paying field.

Congratulations on your job, but you are prolly already close to that "glass ceiling" most people hit when they have jobs like said.

That job is long gone. I would have hoped it was obvious that I am back in school ;) I am just finishing up my 1st term (so done a 1/4 of) a 2 year Instrumentation Engineering Technologist program.

The problem I have with school is I find I am bored to tears (this program) or I am stressed to the max and ready to kill the world (4 year engineering degree). There is no "in between" it seems which makes school incredibly hard in my eyes. I think I have 90+% in all of my courses going into finals, which makes me a bit sad and bitter for some reason I would rather work anyday of the week then be in school, and hopefully this shorter education I am taking will allow me to succeed succesfully and prosper.

PHeller wrote: What's everyone going for? Environmental Geography and Land Use here. Classes aren't overly tough, but I'm not a good student either. I would have rather gone for Engineering or Vetenary science, but I hear advanced Chem and Physics makes a lot of people change their majors and waste lots of money, so I decided to go with something I enjoy, even if it isn't the highest paying field.

Was Environmental Engineering for a little while (Drexel University) now Environmental Science... seeing how I'll need at least grad school to get a job, I'm about to start the process to transfer into a Geohydrology program somewhere else. I spent 4 years on a water well rig and 6 months on a CPT rig during a co-op. So going by that, I'll probally have more work experience in the field than most of my professors.

Well I'm done with my last test, it was math I blanked on 2 problems that are basically things I would NEVER need to use...

Anyway as for my degrees my majors are in Biology and Anthropology my minors are in History and Geology. I do Biology field work and starting to do some paleontology work and I'm heading up a research project that will eventually go into the field for paleontology research.

PHeller wrote: What's everyone going for?

Actuarial Science. The weed out class is next semester, so we'll see how I do.

Materials Engineering

calculus 2 class and i will likely have to repeat to get the required C to take calc 3.

i think i am setting the curve for my E&M physics class

dynamics and mechanics of materials are both fun classes that im doing well in.

exams are next week..

Just did that. Graduated. Bout time. Whew!