The Official "rant/bitch/moan" Thread

Brian · 08-03-2009 05:30PM

Did no study yesterday.. and the exhaustiong I'm feeling after badminton is making me think I'm not going to get any done today either..

tolosenc · 08-03-2009 05:38PM

scruttocks wrote: »

Anyone else having trouble attaching with myzone of late?

Yes. Only in FF though.

godtabh · 08-03-2009 05:57PM

TheAmateur wrote: »

+1, except mine's not til tuesday... so I suppose I don't have it as bad... What exam have you got? 1E2 calculus for us 1st year engineers... you'd probably prefer to have ours actually, you being in TP an all, integrating with your eyes closed...:pac:

Baza210 wrote: »

Did no study yesterday.. and the exhaustiong I'm feeling after badminton is making me think I'm not going to get any done today either..

They are probably the simplest exams you will do in trinity.

Mine dont start till Friday but I'll have spent 14 hours this weekend studying and its a pain in the arse. Lucky I'm broke and there is nothing else to do

TheAmateur · 08-03-2009 07:36PM

Well there's one definition I'll definitely know for the exam... the definition of cold comfort;

They are probably the simplest exams you will do in trinity.

now i just hope it comes up :pac:

Peleus · 08-03-2009 08:49PM

i was planning on studying everything on the exam this weekend. went to ennsikillin on saturday and went out that night. then went on xbox live all day today. so basically that leaves tonite and monday to study this entire exam.

so fu*ked...

anyone know where the past maths exam papers are, can't find them anywhere. thanks.

Jonathan · 08-03-2009 08:50PM

Peleus wrote: »

i was planning on studying everything on the exam this weekend. went to ennsikillin on saturday and went out that night. then went on xbox live all day today. so basically that leaves tonite and monday to study this entire exam. so fu*ked...

anyone know where the past maths exam papers are, can't find them anywhere. thanks.

Only the annuals are available online.

Brian · 08-03-2009 10:40PM

Baza210 wrote: »

Did no study yesterday.. and the exhaustiong I'm feeling after badminton is making me think I'm not going to get any done today either..

So.. that came true.

Fad · 08-03-2009 11:33PM

Baza210 wrote: »

So.. that came true.

Dont start that replying to your own comments crap...............Bad things will happen, or at least start to happen.

mathew · 08-03-2009 11:36PM

Baza210 wrote: »

So.. that came true.

ah sure a day should be loads of time to study for it :P

Brian · 08-03-2009 11:52PM

Baza210 wrote: »

Dont start that replying to your own comments crap...............Bad things will happen, or at least start to happen.

What are you on about? Get mod status or gtfo.

mathew wrote: »

ah sure a day should be loads of time to study for it :P

It'll be half a day by the time I wake up tomorrow.

oogyoop · 09-03-2009 12:20AM

It bugs me that because I'm on placement, I get NO Easter holidays whatsoever!

ApeXaviour · 09-03-2009 04:25PM

I have no sympathy

ApeXaviour · 09-03-2009 05:28PM

I thought term was over... why the heck is college so busy? And people so loud in the hamilton? I seriously want hit that bint who keeps shrieking nonsensically

Sir Ophiuchus · 09-03-2009 05:51PM

Schols.

Jonathan · 09-03-2009 06:02PM

I hate licking examination booklets..

mathew · 10-03-2009 01:06AM

Had a really nice chineese in Jimmy Chungs today after our class exam.. Turns out it wasn't so 'nice' after all.. Just thrown it all up :-( hope i'm recovered tomorrow.. Serious study needed for schols on wednesday.. :-( :-(

Podge_irl · 10-03-2009 01:25AM

My essay (paper review project thingy) is not going well. Its significantly harder then I had anticipated and I'm feeling quite stupid.

Ugh.

scruttocks · 10-03-2009 06:16AM

I have a schol exam today, spent last night puking my ring. Lovely.

PurpleFistMixer · 10-03-2009 01:48PM

*joins vom-wagon*

On the upside, at 4am this morning when I was revisiting the food I forced myself to eat yesterday (considering I've eaten almost nothing since Saturday), I was thinking about basis vectors... Now here's hoping I'm well enough to actually sit my linear algebra exam tomorrow morning.

mathew · 10-03-2009 03:20PM

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

*joins vom-wagon*

On the upside, at 4am this morning when I was revisiting the food I forced myself to eat yesterday (considering I've eaten almost nothing since Saturday), I was thinking about basis vectors... Now here's hoping I'm well enough to actually sit my linear algebra exam tomorrow morning.

have some feel good vibes

I had the same kind of experience.. All I could think about while having another look at the chineese was double and triple integrals.. I couldnt get them out of my head at all.. Was a bit weird...

mathew · 12-03-2009 12:07PM

I HATE learning off proofs. It just seems so pointless.
I know the formulae, I know they can be proved if needs be. I'm told they work and know when to use them. Why do I need to know how to come up with them??
And its not even knowing how to come up with them. It just a matter of learning the steps off by heart, which is even more pointless.
This sort of learning does nothing for me...

Jonathan · 12-03-2009 03:11PM

mathew wrote: »

I HATE learning off proofs. It just seems so pointless.
I know the formulae, I know they can be proved if needs be. I'm told they work and know when to use them. Why do I need to know how to come up with them??
And its not even knowing how to come up with them. It just a matter of learning the steps off by heart, which is even more pointless.
This sort of learning does nothing for me...

You have prove yourself as a scholar :P

scruttocks · 12-03-2009 03:13PM

mathew wrote: »

I HATE learning off proofs. It just seems so pointless.
I know the formulae, I know they can be proved if needs be. I'm told they work and know when to use them. Why do I need to know how to come up with them??
And its not even knowing how to come up with them. It just a matter of learning the steps off by heart, which is even more pointless.
This sort of learning does nothing for me...

I dunno, in my learning-off-proofs days I often found that the proof gave me a) an insight into the relationships that make the theorem true, and helped me understand it better, and b) good methodological ideas for solving problems in exams.

mathew · 12-03-2009 03:40PM

scruttocks wrote: »

I dunno, in my learning-off-proofs days I often found that the proof gave me a) an insight into the relationships that make the theorem true, and helped me understand it better, and b) good methodological ideas for solving problems in exams.

Its not theorems tho.. its formulae..
So derivations rather than proofs probably.

They're fairly uncomplicated formulae, just have long derivations. It does give a bit of an insight into where the formulae come from but I still dont see the point in having to learn the derivation off.

I dont believe in learning by rote at all, I do think we should know and understand all of the formulae and equations we use.. But I still think its quite pointless having to learn the derivation by heart just to reproduce it in an exam. It doesnt really test anything other than memory, and short term memory at that.

Asking questions that involve manipulation of the general formula would be far more beneficial and give a much better representation of what we know..

Podge_irl · 13-03-2009 04:40AM

mathew wrote: »

Its not theorems tho.. its formulae..
So derivations rather than proofs probably.

They're fairly uncomplicated formulae, just have long derivations. It does give a bit of an insight into where the formulae come from but I still dont see the point in having to learn the derivation off.

I dont believe in learning by rote at all, I do think we should know and understand all of the formulae and equations we use.. But I still think its quite pointless having to learn the derivation by heart just to reproduce it in an exam. It doesnt really test anything other than memory, and short term memory at that.

Asking questions that involve manipulation of the general formula would be far more beneficial and give a much better representation of what we know..

I guess the point of the exam is trying to test that you know where the formula came from. That is different form knowing it off by heart (and by no means do I mean to imply that I always did the former), but ultimately a lot of lecturers view giving formula questions as easier then calculation questions and they are there to help you. But there is the argument that if you don't know where an equation came from then you don't understand it (I don't necessarily always agree with this).

Tricity Bendix · 14-03-2009 07:53PM

I drove all the way to Waterforward to watch the Skyfest but we arrived late after littering Ireland's tidiest town. Having to watch it on a tiny TV in travellodge.

shay_562 · 15-03-2009 09:40PM

Back in Ireland

Long-distance sucks sometimes.

devinejay · 16-03-2009 03:48AM

On Boards at 3:50 in the morning.....:(:mad:

Brian · 17-03-2009 02:50AM

devinejay wrote: »

On Boards at 3:50 in the morning.....:(:mad:

Find some more active fora man.. ones with alternate timezones (Badminton's popularity in Asia ftw), or ones with no respect for timezones at all (they generally begin with a /)

Jonathan · 17-03-2009 03:02AM

devinejay wrote: »

On Boards at 3:50 in the morning.....:(:mad:

Yea and sync your clocks.
That post was a whole 2mins off.

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