So who is not looking forward to going back to college

NADA

Only a week left of holidays. Trying to do a College assignment. Ah I don't want it all to start back up again? Anybody else feeling the same?

ApeXaviour

Strangely enough no. I don't go to lectures really (they just dont work for me), I have a full set of notes already (thanks to a recently graduated friend of mine who's easily bribed with red wine). So I get up when I want and do the work and study in a subject I love at a time that suits me.

What I'm not looking forward to is my final year project report deadline of jan 8th however. That will require some anxiety ridden binge work... So I feel your pain in that regard anyway.

prothalamium

ApeXaviour wrote:

I don't go to lectures really (they just dont work for me).

Now I totally agree with this, certainly where English lectures are concerned anyway. I also think that this should not be the case.

Calm Horizons

Well if it's anywhere near as assignemt-heavy as Michaelmas term was (4th year comp/elec engineering), then no I am definitely not looking forward to it.

I mean, I have to do my bloody project on top of whatever course-projects and assignments I'm given plus we have more lecture hours; madness.

John

I can't wait because I'll be starting my research properly! Plus I should get an article finished and sent off for publication by the end of January

Although, I do have a bollocks essay due for a course on tutoring I took.

Nietzschean

Calm Horizons wrote:

Well if it's anywhere near as assignemt-heavy as Michaelmas term was (4th year comp/elec engineering), then no I am definitely not looking forward to it.

Dunno about elec but the comp eng courses i took in 4th year all eased off entirely with assignments to allow people work on their projects...

Time Magazine

I'll miss the late nights and late mornings, but I'm very happy to be going back.

Troglodyte

Personally I'll be quite happy to be back. Holidays have gotten a bit boring at this stage and Christmas was a bit meh.

I'm looking forward to going back. I'm sure I won't feel so positive when term starts though.

NADA

I really hope the timetable for the train is updated a bit. I mean wtf is the story with having no trains north between 1:15 and 3:45. It's such a bitch on Mondays and Thursdays.

ApeXaviour

Actually when are term, lectures etc. starting? I really haven't the slightest...

This day week.

Dave Larkin

Ah, it should be grand heading back to college. I'm looking forward to it, anyway. We'll see how we all feel when term starts, I guess.

cianclarke

Looking forward to getting back to the campus, going for a wander around.
Not looking forward to the hillary term timetable, and going back to work.

Stargal

DCU doesn't go back til February. It'd be ok if there was loads of stuff to do, but there's only a dissertation proposal. Plus it's going to be all new courses so you can't even revise stuff. Bit ridiculous.

Mslug

Oh lord, I have so much work to do, So much I shouldn't be prancing on boards.

John

stargal wrote:

DCU doesn't go back til February. It'd be ok if there was loads of stuff to do, but there's only a dissertation proposal. Plus it's going to be all new courses so you can't even revise stuff. Bit ridiculous.

Visit a few museums in town and expand your horizons

Stargal

John wrote:

Visit a few museums in town and expand your horizons

I'm reading loads of books. Loads. If I finish them all then I'll be very impressed with myself. Museums could be good though. Especially given my precarious financial situation.

gymrabbit

Stargal write a book.

Stargal

Yeah I could do a Secret History/Rules of Attraction-style book about Trinity and write about the debauched side of college, with really obvious aliases for everyone and outing all the best places to have sex. With a relevant and intriguing commentary on the social mores and practices of the college-going community, naturellement.

europerson

stargal wrote:

Yeah I could do a Secret History/Rules of Attraction-style book about Trinity and write about the debauched side of college, with really obvious aliases for everyone and outing all the best places to have sex. With a relevant and intriguing commentary on the social mores and practices of the college-going community, naturellement.

I'd buy that. It would be quite funny, I'd say.

Pet

If you're doing a Secret History-style plot, make sure to use SF Russian in place of the Classics/Greek students. Trust me on that.

Stargal

europerson wrote:

I'd buy that. It would be quite funny, I'd say.

Not funny. Accurate, disturbing, revelatory and occasionally sexy maybe, but not funny.

Pet wrote:

If you're doing a Secret History-style plot, make sure to use SF Russian in place of the Classics/Greek students. Trust me on that.

Yeah somehow Social Policy wouldn't create the same air of timeless knowledge of all things that classical studies does. But Russian? Really?

stargal

stargal wrote:

DCU doesn't go back til February. It'd be ok if there was loads of stuff to do, but there's only a dissertation proposal. Plus it's going to be all new courses so you can't even revise stuff. Bit ridiculous.

My heart bleeds for you.