Durham students workaholics???

I did no work for my A-levels pretty much(4000 word coursework...written on the morning it was due in LOL) but now I'm here I spend all my time constantly panicking that it's going to catch up with me and I'm going to be thrown out.I quite like working hard anyway because my course is interesting.

Though I did spend all afternoon in bed.

How did you find the HOD exam?

I literally can't fit in 12 hours a day. For a start I need at least 8/9 hours sleep. My housemates reckon a regular 6 is the optimum for our age...*******s!

Very weird.NOTHING about australopithecines etc...stuff we spent,like,an entire term on.Very strange.

I think it went OK though. I answer questions 2,3,4....2 was OK,it was about what can be inferred from skeletons,used a lot of Neanderthal examples(and the word 'infer about 2000 times)...something I actually revised!Question 3..natural selection....kind of ran out of things to say after about 25 minutes of writing so i started waffling.Oops. Question 4...a that was a piece of piss! The one about Homo sapiens...

I did get very scared when I first turned over the paper,went down the page and went 'Nope...haven't revised that...haven't revised that....haven't revised that...' LOL.

God I hope I pass!

How about you?Which questions did you do?

Hmm,in other news...the evening I was intending on spending revising for tommorow's exam culminated in a long walk into Durham, smoothies in Brown Sugar then back to Collingwood and an evening in the bar discussing bra sizes.Great.And I lost all my notes(left them somewhere and can't find them...)...so I might be screwed.

If there is something on participant observation or visual stuff it might be alright .

My HOD exam was terrible. I did the homosapiens question which went ok, and I number 10 (I think) which was pretty feeble and I started the skeletons question and then ran out of time. It was a nightmare basically, but there's not alot I can do about it now.

Discovering Society is going to be crap. If there is something on participant observation or visual stuff it might be alright but it's all just so boring. Meh.

I'm the same,I need so much sleepIt's silly.I get about 8 hours a night but still get really tired unless I have an afternoon nap. Yesterday it lasted ALL afternoon.I couldn't sleep last night though because I was so angry that someone took all of my milk and I'd been looking forward to a cup of tea all evening!It was quite funny,I was ranting on like 'WHAT IS THIS WORLD COMING TO?' and I left a note in the kitchen saying that whoever did it 'ruined my day' hahaha.

Anyhoo,I have an exam in an hour and a half LOL...done so little preparation it scares me.But meh it's only 50% and it's only an elective.

AwwI think a few people had a bit of a difficult time with that exam.It was quite random.

I was glad about Discovering Society...got questions on the only two topics I'd actually revised(ethics and mixed methods)...so thank god.But I don't think I did very well for various reasons.I did put the module convenor's research into my answer though LOL.

I got a headache halfway through,went really hot,thought I was going to faint...all I wanted to do was go to sleep,sob.

People and Cultures tommorow-mildly concerned about this exam.I'd be happy if something on hunter-gatherers comes up,one of those 'define four of these terms' questions and...hmm,maybe something on multiculturalism.

Ooh great I shall focus on those,even if I do swear we haven't actually done anything on participant observation this year!

Ah well,the questions on it in past exams seem to be the kind you can bull your way through.

I think I shall focus on those three and maybe caste(seems to come up a lot) and multiculturalism,Dr.Campbell said in the lecture on it...'err...you might want to listen to this because it might come up in the exam...'

So I need to do the reading LOL.

Was that the lecture on globalization? I am going to go through that at some point today when I have revised everything there is know about peasants.