Posted by Lindenblüte on October 24, 2006, at 8:25:07
In reply to Re: Midterm time » Poet, posted by Lindenblüte on October 23, 2006, at 19:02:37
Oopsie- I think I hit "back" on my browser and then posted duplicate messages. Sorry all!
I'm SOOOO happy no more exams. Just papers to write.
Racer, I'm glad that you were able to retake that exam. It must be really difficult to go through what you're going through. I would love to create an extra 6 hours a day for Racer to lie and snuggle on her couch with her nice kitties, play with her yarns and get the icky feelings out of her body and mind.
I'm sorry it's so hard right now. Are you convinced yet that the world will not END if you get an F, a curvaceous F or another grade? It will all be okay in the end. I know that you must be going through a LOT if your grades are slipping, given your tendency towards perfection grades that you posted about this summer.
All the other students, remember that your best work is the work that you do when you're not jammed between deadlines.
Take a moment of your "free time", like a Saturday morning, and do some internet research on a topic that you found intriguing from one of your lectures or texts. Just 20 minutes. You can do anything you want- draw a picture of your favorite receptor, or compose a melody to go with the Neopolitan chord progression that you were struggling with all week long.
Twenty minutes to re-energize your "learning" brain, and motivate yourself to slogging through the nitty gritties and the ugly work. Keep a reminder of your little project by your workspace. You found an interesting article on a psychology topic? Print it out, read it and take notes. Then hang the article near your workspace (or your cartoon of a chemical reaction (benzene rings making friends with eachother through a dehydration reaction handshake!; or your little melody; whatever you create)
Studying is not much of a reward to our creative mind, but if you can keep that part engaged, it will help a lot.
I like taking notes with interesting pens on pretty stationary, attempting to do different versions of handwriting for different ideas.
hugs and hot cocoa for all y'all hard at work.
I'm gonna get back to my D-Nial (that's the code name for my dissertation project- now occupying roughly 20gb of my brain's hard-drive space)
D-Nially yours,
-Lip.s. if you need a chuckle, remember that you're posting on http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/studs/
GO STUDS!!!!! YEAH!!!!
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