Post Here if You're Procrastinating - The Oxford Chat Thread Mk2

Fell into the Cherwell today for the second time in two punting trips, beginning to think it might not be my best skill

I quite like being in Oxford with nothing to do, even if I am slightly oddly in a building of just me and alumni.

I'm hating it...just constantly feasting and drinking and messing about.

I'm hating it...just constantly feasting and drinking and messing about. I feel like I ought to be working...

Well I'm crap with breaks. I know I'm meant to be producing an article but the more people badger/ask about it the more I just sort of....relax.

I've won some awards to travel to some conferences and I just...can't/won't prepare. I'm going to turn up and be like "durrrr I'm a retard".

I've decided that I need a hobby. Perhaps cheese collection.

my boyf and his dad have to kick the crap of him

I applied and won some crap because peeps like my research. Which always amuses me, the idea that I "research" rather than drink copious amounts of Scotch and type like a crack addled monkey.

I can't really censure that kind of behaviour, I mean my family has a pretty mental history (and Wikipedia!) in the old country when it comes to feuds.

I applied and won some crap because peeps like my research. Which always amuses me, the idea that I "research" rather than drink copious amounts of Scotch and type like a crack addled monkey.

I can't really censure that kind of behaviour, I mean my family has a pretty mental history (and Wikipedia!) in the old country when it comes to feuds.

I was at a coffee place directly outside of Magdalen the other day, the Moroccan place...do not recommend.

This is a very vague question which will probably get vague answers, but for those studying/having studied humanities (in particularly history and languages), during term time when there are not a lot of exams etc, how long were you expected to revise in your spare time per day, not including writing essays etc? I know I will probably eventually find out myself, but I just don't want to put too much on my plate, thanks!

Do you mean revise for exams? I didn't really start doing revision in any structured way until four weeks into the vacation before the Trinity term in which I had Finals. My time before that was pretty much filled up with class work, essay writing and theses (I wrote two rather than one). If I saw a book that was relevant to my previous courses I might pick it up and flick through it, but not much more than that. On the other hand, being very History-specific, the Disciplines course really forces you to think about issues with relation to all of the topics you've done, so I guess you 'revise' in some sense whilst working on that.

My one piece of advice for revising history is: read new things! I had, bizarrely, a lot of fun in the run up to Finals because I was actually learning new stuff. If you did your notes well at the time, revising the stuff you already studied should be the work of a few afternoons. It's getting the interesting angles and tidbits that makes revision both fun and (I hope, will let you know on 9th July...) effective.