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wyndslash · 03-31-2011, 10:23 AM

home. tired. 13 hour day at school.

Latinandgreek · 03-31-2011, 11:14 AM

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Originally Posted by wyndslash

home. tired. 13 hour day at school.

Brutal. I am so glad tht I don't have any more of those. Anyone who tells me that being a student is cushy should thy doing a thirteen hour schoolday, and then come home to study some more and then tell me hw cushy it is.

Mortis · 03-31-2011, 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Latinandgreek

Brutal. I am so glad tht I don't have any more of those. Anyone who tells me that being a student is cushy should thy doing a thirteen hour schoolday, and then come home to study some more and then tell me hw cushy it is.

Sounds like being self employed, except I can't get a student loan

Crusader · 03-31-2011, 02:38 PM

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Blind people talking shop. Boring ...

Hey, I resent that comment. I'm not blind, I just can't see further than 60cm!

Today went much better with the contacts. I found it much easier to put them in and take them out. I did however notice a considerable amount of red veins in my eyes after wearing them for the recommended 5 hours. I'm not sure if it's just part of the normal adjustment process or if it points to trouble brewing.

badgoodDeb · 03-31-2011, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Crusader

Hey, I resent that comment. I'm not blind, I just can't see further than 60cm!

Today went much better with the contacts. I found it much easier to put them in and take them out. I did however notice a considerable amount of red veins in my eyes after wearing them for the recommended 5 hours. I'm not sure if it's just part of the normal adjustment process or if it points to trouble brewing.

I think thats fairly normal. I had contacts a while back, and found the newer soft ones a WHOLE lot better than the former hard types. I would up having enough allergies that my soft ones grew "gunk" too fast, so I quit using them. However, with the modern disposable ones, that might not be a problem. I ought to try them again ..... Perhaps ....

Rumpelteazer · 03-31-2011, 05:58 PM

Planning a trip to the Keukenhof in case the weather will be as good as they are predicting at the moment next Thursday or Friday. Last time we went to Schiphol by train and then took the bus to the Keukenhof. But it was so busy we had to wait in line for over an hour to get onto a bus. This year we're going to Leiden by train and catch a bus from there. The train ride is longer but hopefully we won't have to wait for the bus that long.

I shouldn't forget to charge the batteries of my camera.

wyndslash · 03-31-2011, 08:01 PM

just woke up. no school today, but need to start studying for finals next week

bjones6416 · 03-31-2011, 08:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer

Planning a trip to the Keukenhof in case the weather will be as good as they are predicting at the moment next Thursday or Friday. Last time we went to Schiphol by train and then took the bus to the Keukenhof. But it was so busy we had to wait in line for over an hour to get onto a bus. This year we're going to Leiden by train and catch a bus from there. The train ride is longer but hopefully we won't have to wait for the bus that long.

I shouldn't forget to charge the batteries of my camera.

I had to google Keukenhof. Now I'm totally jealous -- it looks gorgeous. Yes, please make sure your camera is operational so you can share some pictures!

Latinandgreek · 03-31-2011, 08:39 PM

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Originally Posted by wyndslash

just woke up. no school today, but need to start studying for finals next week

Best of luck on your exams!

wyndslash · 03-31-2011, 08:57 PM

thanks

phenomshel · 03-31-2011, 10:26 PM

Avoiding a mid term essay. I'm supposed to be writing about Amy Tan's story, "Two Kinds". It's either an excerpt from The Joy Luck Club, or a short story based on it. I have to analyze it in terms of three concepts we have discussed in class so far. Those include symbolism, irony, conscious/unconscious, repression, Oedipal/Electra complexes, etc. and so forth. I'm stuck.
Last week the professor gave us a choice between Oedipal/Electra complex and repression. I found both in the selection and ended up getting carried away and turning in a paper twice the length of what she asked for. This week I can't get past the second paragraph!
The story originally caught my interest because I recognized Amy Tan's name, and I subconsciously tied it to the Tiger Mother story that's been in the news. But I'm finding this impossible to analyze. I think it's too late to change stories, too, darn it.

mountain_lion · 03-31-2011, 11:49 PM

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Originally Posted by phenomshel

Avoiding a mid term essay. I'm supposed to be writing about Amy Tan's story, "Two Kinds". It's either an excerpt from The Joy Luck Club, or a short story based on it. I have to analyze it in terms of three concepts we have discussed in class so far. Those include symbolism, irony, conscious/unconscious, repression, Oedipal/Electra complexes, etc. and so forth. I'm stuck.
Last week the professor gave us a choice between Oedipal/Electra complex and repression. I found both in the selection and ended up getting carried away and turning in a paper twice the length of what she asked for. This week I can't get past the second paragraph!
The story originally caught my interest because I recognized Amy Tan's name, and I subconsciously tied it to the Tiger Mother story that's been in the news. But I'm finding this impossible to analyze. I think it's too late to change stories, too, darn it.

Oh yes... I know the feeling, my group and I are trying to complete an assignment for a class (Management Information Systems) but... we are in my home... we rather be watching the Boston and St. Antonio game than the MIS class...I want to cry ...

phenomshel · 03-31-2011, 11:59 PM

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Oh yes... I know the feeling, my group and I are trying to complete an assignment for a class (Management Information Systems) but... we are in my home... we rather be watching the Boston and St. Antonio game than the MIS class...I want to cry ...

Oh, bless your heart. I know it's bad with me when I'd much rather be doing dishes than doing the assignment. The paper is written and referenced, I'm trying to run it through a couple of online plagiarism detectors to triple check that I referenced everything correctly, though with a parenthetical citation after nearly every sentence and an abundance of quotation marks, I don't see what I could have missed. Thank goodness I'm only referencing two pieces. But our school uses SafeAssign, and to be honest, that piece of software scares me. It gives false positives on correctly referenced material, and if the professor doesn't check, the student is left having to prove their case to an appeals committee. NOT a situation I want to find myself in, even if it turned out they found me innocent.

desertblues · 04-01-2011, 01:41 AM

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........... I'm trying to run it through a couple of online plagiarism detectors to triple check that I referenced everything correctly, though with a parenthetical citation after nearly every sentence and an abundance of quotation marks, I don't see what I could have missed. Thank goodness I'm only referencing two pieces. But our school uses SafeAssign, and to be honest, that piece of software scares me. It gives false positives on correctly referenced material, and if the professor doesn't check, the student is left having to prove their case to an appeals committee. NOT a situation I want to find myself in, even if it turned out they found me innocent.

Yes, I can relate to that. It gives one an anxious feeling if there's only a murmur of not having correctly referenced material. It also has to do with integrity of course. But it's strange; you can get the same weird feeling of 'guilt' one sometimes get's when seeing a police-man..........' did I do something wrong?'.

Latinandgreek · 04-01-2011, 01:48 AM

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Originally Posted by desertblues

Yes, I can relate to that. It gives one an anxious feeling if there's only a murmur of not having correctly referenced material. It also has to do with integrity of course. But it's strange; you can get the same weird feeling of 'guilt' one sometimes get's when seeing a police-man..........' did I do something wrong?'.

I can relate, too. I've actually had nightmares about incorrectly referencing material (probably because I've got about 300 pages of my dissertation written and I know I must have incorrectly referenced something, somewhere, but it will take me two weeks to find it. Grrr.) I've got to finish off an article tomorrow, too, I'm dreading doing the final editing.

03-31-2011, 10:23 AM	#29146
wyndslash Wizard Posts: 2,951 Karma: 3000001 Join Date: Feb 2011 Device: Kindle 3 wifi, Kindle Fire	home. tired. 13 hour day at school.

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Rumpelteazer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,350 Karma: 27919658 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Utrecht, the Netherlands Device: Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition	Planning a trip to the Keukenhof in case the weather will be as good as they are predicting at the moment next Thursday or Friday. Last time we went to Schiphol by train and then took the bus to the Keukenhof. But it was so busy we had to wait in line for over an hour to get onto a bus. This year we're going to Leiden by train and catch a bus from there. The train ride is longer but hopefully we won't have to wait for the bus that long. I shouldn't forget to charge the batteries of my camera.

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wyndslash Wizard Posts: 2,951 Karma: 3000001 Join Date: Feb 2011 Device: Kindle 3 wifi, Kindle Fire	just woke up. no school today, but need to start studying for finals next week

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03-31-2011, 10:26 PM	#29156
phenomshel ZCD BombShel Posts: 4,793 Karma: 8293322 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: The Frozen North (aka Illinois, USA) Device: iPad, STB Kindle Oasis	Avoiding a mid term essay. I'm supposed to be writing about Amy Tan's story, "Two Kinds". It's either an excerpt from The Joy Luck Club, or a short story based on it. I have to analyze it in terms of three concepts we have discussed in class so far. Those include symbolism, irony, conscious/unconscious, repression, Oedipal/Electra complexes, etc. and so forth. I'm stuck. Last week the professor gave us a choice between Oedipal/Electra complex and repression. I found both in the selection and ended up getting carried away and turning in a paper twice the length of what she asked for. This week I can't get past the second paragraph! The story originally caught my interest because I recognized Amy Tan's name, and I subconsciously tied it to the Tiger Mother story that's been in the news. But I'm finding this impossible to analyze. I think it's too late to change stories, too, darn it.