Currently Active Users.. Aka procrastinators :P

Grindylow

Sooo.. I was casually browsing Boards while studying >_> and it dawned on me that:

196 (34 members & 162 guests) are viewing the Leaving Cert forum currently..

I would say go study but then I'd be a hypocrite..

PS: Making this thread was great procrastination..

So, tell us the tales of your procrastination?

My greatest attempt was that yesterday I made an apple pie rather than studying.. I have no idea why..

Junai_Dahma

*sniffs*
Well, actually, I'm on a STUDY BREAK.
:rolleyes:

TheRepeat

Ahhh what haven't I done to procastinate? Cleaned my bedroom a million times, went for walks to 'clear my head', baked cupcakes, cooked dinner, hoovered the house and, without doubt, trawled through Boards and Facebook. It makes me feel great seeing how many of us procrastinators there is. We'd give Hamlet a run for his money! :P

Grindylow

Same... Since yesterday...

GoldFour4

Yeah I was shocked by the amount of people online. Perhaps some are searching in vain for whats coming up?

I like to tell myself that by answering other peoples questions on subjects, Im actually testing myself.

partyatmygaff

Sheesh people... Have you never heard of multitasking?

:pac:

Bbbbolger

We have a piano downstairs that my sister used to play. I decided to mess around on it one day to avoid study. I now know 5 songs on it without having played it before! They're not too shabby either :P. I have my computer on in front of me as I study as, every so often, I really do need to look up something for engineering/geography etc. I do look through a few posts on my breaks though!

Grindylow

It's gotten even higher now! :pac:

241 (38 members & 203 guests)

polka dot

I helped my family move house on Friday/Saturday. Then packed up all my stuff even though I'm not moving house until the end of June. :rolleyes: Hoovered the stairs, organised about a million sheets of paper, trawled through boards.

Fireball07

I'm doing it to get into Hamlet's mindset so I can really identify with him for English Paper 2.

flyaway.

I've just finished making Rice Krispie buns. Totally productive.

PoisonIvy

I'm listening to tchaikovsky while on the this, and have convinced myself this counts as music study

Grindylow

flyaway. wrote: »

I've just finished making Rice Krispie buns. Totally productive.

Om nom nom I hope they were white ones..

I've just put my dinner on so I plan on studying when it's done!

NotExactly

Noel2k9 wrote: »

241 (38 members & 203 guests)

I'd say the night before English paper 2 there will be even more online. I'm guessing well over 200 guests.

TheFullDuck

I take comfort from the fact other people are on here and I feel less bad about not studying as much!

Digits

NotExactly wrote: »

I'd say the night before English paper 2 there will be even more online. I'm guessing over 100 guests.

How does that make sense? When there's 203 guests on now?

TheFullDuck

Digits wrote: »

How does that make sense? When there's 203 guests on now?

Maybe he forgot a 0? :pac:

Patriciamc93

Well between yesterday and today I have completed one fifth of my over posts on boards....... Two days before the leaving cert

nommm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFKLVlkGXI4

This is basically me for the past week.

Fbjm

I've... Gone on boards. Just finished off a fruitloaf too, if that's something.

pockets3d

Everyone talks about cleaning their rooms when they're procrastinating but im the opposite.
My form of studying seems to take the form of finding sheets related to what im supposed to be studying and them scattering them across the floor.

It's a queer mess alright, can't wait til the leavings over just so i can walk freely in the dark without slipping on Hopkins biography.

J_E

Like, I've done the work for the 2 years so I'm not feeling too worried about anything. I know what I know now.

nicenri

Watching Pirates of the Caribbean and telling my parents its a source of inspiration for English paper 1. Don't know what I'll say when I go to watch home and away later.

pockets3d

nicenri wrote: »

Watching Pirates of the Caribbean and telling my parents its a source of inspiration for English paper 1. Don't know what I'll say when I go to watch home and away later.

Australia is a case study for geography.
Even if ya don't do it just let on.


I convinced my parents that i was learning ratios with the K/D in COD.

Grindylow

nicenri wrote: »

Watching Pirates of the Caribbean and telling my parents its a source of inspiration for English paper 1. Don't know what I'll say when I go to watch home and away later.

You're listening to their dialect in case they pop up in one of your aurals..

>_>

Always amazes me when people are like: zomg you're on the internet you should be studying...


Can hardly study every minute of the day..

PurpleVintage

Procrastinating? Hm let's start from the beginning... aka, 5th year.
So, I missed an average of 1/3 of all my classes throughout 5th year, and when I decided to give my teachers the honor of showing up for their class, I showed up with nothing more than a maximum of 2 books for the day, maximum 2 copies (although THATS an overestimation), and the occasional pen...

6th year started out okay... I did some study in October, all for nothing as i've obviously forgotten all about it. To date, I only actually bought 1 exam paper, altho I do own 2 ... I do own all the books tho... so many that i wish I actually didnt.
And altho I did decide to buy more copies in 2011, I thought they looked better in my shelves, unused and undamaged. In other words, I own 1 Geography Copy, which was actually very neat until I started to use it for every other subject (except maths), and most importantly, notes to send to friends during class.

Conclusion? I have to learn off 3 effing books for History in the space of 1 week most of it 100% from scratch (since the only classes I payed attention to throughout the year was Geography, i'm learning most things in the other subjects by scratch, no joke)... 4 initially, but i'm leaving out 1 of them. I have to learn off section 2 and 3 of Biology, a lot of it from scratch. I have to study a crap load of vocabulary and grammar for French, and i'm THIS fekin close to failing Foundation Maths. Altho that's not entirely my fault, as I havent a clue about PM, and was well able to pass Ordinary Maths before.
Geography i'll pass.. and English I HAVE to pass. Dropped down from Higher level just to minimize the amount of stuff I have to learn... so I can focus on History (well, that was the plan, but from the looks of it, it's so I can have more time to watch my totally enlightening tv soaps)

So lads, still feeling bad about your 10 minute break? From all that, it might seem like I dont care about my future... but i've been stressing out about the LC wayyyy before most people even thought of it. Been frantically researching about colleges and plcs since the Summer '10. I just DONT UNDERSTAND why I cant do the same with studying.

As for how much i've studied today... well I did 1 hour of biology and maths combined.
Well, i'm off to watching yet another episode of my favorite tv soap. To be fair though, it IS my first today. I spent all afternoon cooking and browsing these boards. FML.

RANT OFF /sigh

Bonkers_xOx

I just keep going for walks... sure Wordsworth would have wanted me to appreciate the nature and not stay in my room all day.

enaeknala1

Get up around 12 r 1, have lunch grand job. Mess around da house play with my little brother n sister for an hour r two all of a sudden its half 2 r 3 o clock. Time for masterchef australie.....DOUBLE BILL..! Killer! Dat takes me to around 5:45. simpsons at 6, home and away at half past, dinner around 7. All of a sudden its it nearly 8o clock and then something good is usually on tv that generally takes me til 11 or 12. Then to top it all off I stay up until like 3 in the morning watching the basketball play offs...!

When am I supposed to study...:( ? ?

FML!

Framble

In the past week I've baked 6 different kind of cakes, ran 56 miles, gotten a black belt in karate, read 5 novels, learned how to play the saxaphone (I'm pretty good) and gotten a girl pregnant. All so I wouldn't have too study.

J_E

Framble wrote: »

In the past week I've baked 6 different kind of cakes, ran 56 miles, gotten a black belt in karate, read 5 novels, learned how to play the saxophone (I'm pretty good) and gotten a girl pregnant. All so I wouldn't have too study.

It's ironic...in procrastinating you've actually become a really motivated and achieving person :P

B_Fanatic

Just think, in three days the dozens of english notes scattered everywhere will be useless! English P2 is definitely the killer

LC2010HIS

Just spent allll day writing Boland essays when I vowed to have other poets done .... screwed

LittleMissLost

I've spent my whole day on boards and eating. I swear to god I'll have gained a stone by the time these exams are over.

I'm FÚCKED for the LC How do you even study eng Paper 1?!?!?

LC2010HIS

LittleMissLost wrote: »

How do you even study eng Paper 1?!?!?

The FUN bit of english?:D:D I love it!
Tomorrow afternoon up to countdown 806

Ill be.....

Reading sample answers for comphrehensions

Glancing over letter formats, radio, reports, diary entries

Finding useable quotes

Underlining phrases in a few of my novels and characters

flyaway.

I've been listening to French songs on Youtube for the last hour. That counts as French study right? :P

Iceboy

LittleMissLost wrote: »

I've spent my whole day on boards and eating. I swear to god I'll have gained a stone by the time these exams are over.

I'm FÚCKED for the LC How do you even study eng Paper 1?!?!?

I learned off a good essay for the comprehenion so hopefully I can link it in with one of the topics, if not then an on the spot essay will have to be written which I suck at.

LittleMissLost

Iceboy wrote: »

I learned off a good essay for the comprehenion so hopefully I can link it in with one of the topics, if not then an on the spot essay will have to be written which I suck at.

I can NOT learn off! :P but fair plé duit!

what about section A? How do you go about answering the Q's.. I haven't a cluuuuue :rolleyes:

Iceboy

LittleMissLost wrote: »

I can NOT learn off! :P but fair plé duit!

what about section A? How do you go about answering the Q's.. I haven't a cluuuuue :rolleyes:

With section A you should be writing about 3/4 of a page to a page for the first 2 questions (15 marks) and around a page to a page and a 1/3 for the third one (20 marks)

Make sure you have a short introduction into each answer, this will be your first paragraph, in it you should outline the main points of your answer that your going to discuss (lets say 3 points) and then your next 3 paragraphs will consist of expanding on these points. This is the structure I use and it got me almost full marks in my mocks.

Hope this helps

Grindylow

I just went to see X Men: First Class...

It was so much better than study

LC2010HIS

Fudged for Paper 2 i think..

1 and a half poets done