Current Edinburgh Students Chat Thread

This!!! Starbucks is brilliant for studying. I love Grindhouse on Nicholson St. for revising as well, it's got a nice ambience (no, I'm not advertising for them).

I was in starbucks at the weekend with a writer's group, and actually got so much done! I was pleasantly surprised, I think I'll have to try this 'studying away from the flat' more often.

I like to try and go as far away from the uni as possible, like falko germany bakery in bruntsfield, centrioli on george street or pattiserie madeleine in stockbridge. There are NO students there during exam period.

Jea! Starbros



Intruiging... good shout, I'll check these out.

"Bakery" means "cake"...

I got most of the key image information from the internet tbh.
I think we're really lucky that we have the key images, last year apparently they didn't! Which scares me... I learn't all the key images, I just need to go through lecture notes after my exam on friday.

My plan-learn all key images (done), study two subjects from each semester in a a little more depth, i.e. wikipedia, going through the lecture notes there are whilst viewing the slides.

I'm concentrating on islamic art and early christian from semester one, netherlandish and renaissance in semester two. I'm pretty much ditching baroque and chinese art, minus the key images.

I think the key images provide a hint as to how the exam will be?

Alternatively, go at around 3am and you can have loads of space to yourself

I'm only "TSR famous" in actual Edinburgh to NHI and artorscience? and I don't think they'd class it as that

blahblah Grindhouse

Done .

How did everyone find the Roman World exam? I seem to remember lots of people on here did that course.

I was pretty relieved tbh, I picked A. Juvenal B. The alter of the baker C. The one about deities in the Roman world.

The only iffy one was B as I couldn't remember seeing it, but I could relate it to other tombstones around Isola Sacra and the one in front the Porta maggiore, beside also giving a general run-through of roman society/stratification, referencing petronius. I said it was a freeman in the image and I'm not sure if that was right!

How did you find it and which questions did you choose?

but the all important Rule 7 has been removed

the one which went something along the lines of

"the invigilators will announce when the exam commences, candidates may begin before this announcement is made"

basically meant that as soon as the paper was in front of you, you could begin

many a valuable extra 5 minutes have been had

Ii've done this in pencil and written on both sides of the paper and cussed 4 times and drew a picture of bin laden.

I did A. The Vindolanda tablets B. The plans of the iron age/Roman town C. The one about expansion ceasing.

I couldn't remember seeing B either! It sounds like you've done it well though. I think you are right about the freedman because of the fact that it showed the profession on the tomb. Did the inscription have libertus (sp?) in it? I didn't really look very closely.

I found it quite good; I didn't run out of things to write like last time! I think I've done well but I'll have to see .

Have you finished all of your exams yet?

Written on both sides?! O_O

Please don't panic me like that! I'm sure I'm allowed to write on both sides.

Some are some don't.

My philosophy one said only write on the right side of each page but I looked around the room and no one had given a feck and was writing ferociously on both sides just like me

I looked hard and didn't seen libertus, but guessed the same anyway. I'm sure they didn't all have to say it, just it would have been reassuring. No, unfortunately I still have two. Italian (which should be fine) and history of art (less fine). A year of study and I feel I learn't more in the last month, studying by myself. The lecture slides are very bare, and whilst I know all the key images and have done quite a few readings, my general contextual knowledge is seriously lacking. I have 6 days to cram.