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Durham General Chat Thread

LastGrape

yeah weeks are thursday-wednesday, not mon-fri/sun.

Depends which you look at. There are 2 types of weeks.

One type of week runs:

Michaelmas week 1: thurs-weds, week 2: thurs weds, etc. to week 10
Epiphany week 11: mon-fri, week 12: mon fri, etc. to week 19
Easter week 20: mon fri, week 21: mon fri, etc. to week 28

However the other type starts from the beginning of September (Academic year style) and runs week by week, including the holidays. So freshers week is something like Week 5.

Always confused the HELL out of me lol! :rolleyes:

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generic hybrid

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...According to my flatmate, who checked the department notice board, the tutorial actually is tomorrow. :rolleyes:

I look forward to some cramming in the library tomorrow morning.

I guess tutorials don't run on the Thursday-Wednesday schedule then.

Reply 7562

Hopping Mad Kangaroo

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generic hybrid

...According to my flatmate, who checked the department notice board, the tutorial actually is tomorrow. :rolleyes:

I look forward to some cramming in the library tomorrow morning.

I guess tutorials don't run on the Thursday-Wednesday schedule then.

Did you put the correct week into the central timetable checker?

Reply 7563

generic hybrid

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Yes.

I've got a 9am tomorrow so I guess after that I'll just run to the anthropology department and sort it out then. Urggh.

Reply 7564

Fields

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dobbs

However the other type starts from the beginning of September (Academic year style) and runs week by week, including the holidays. So freshers week is something like Week 5.

Starts at week 10. We're on 13 now. It's confusing but much less so than the Thursday - Wednesday weeks.

Reply 7565

Christo

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I love the internets.

Reply 7566

dobbs

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Christo

I love the internets.

I love you :love:

Reply 7567

arkbar

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I like Cyber geographies, it discusses online communities,like you guys. We're all cyber-disfunctional.

Reply 7568

RobbieC

15

Your spelling is dysfunctional. N00b

Reply 7569

generic hybrid

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l0l arkbra u just got PWNEDDDD

^o)

Reply 7570

eggman

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I know I shouldn't have, but i lol'd

Reply 7571

dobbs

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arkbar

I like Cyber geographies, it discusses online communities,like you guys. We're all cyber-disfunctional.

It's funny when Mike Crang starts going on about how "Avatars are names that people hide behind when online, if you go into chat rooms you will see things like 'hot chick' and 'skater dude'. It's a way of presenting your semi-virtual self across cyber-realities"

In other words, he was in an 'adult' chat room last night talking to the 'hot chicks' and thought he could make a lecture out of it :wink:

lol goooooooooooo geography!!! :rolleyes:

Reply 7572

Itchynscratchy

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with my latest reppage I am now triple shinyfied.

*is proud* :biggrin:

thanks River, and the other mystery person who I thought was river but turned out not to be

Reply 7573

Fields

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Itchynscratchy

and the other mystery person who I thought was river but turned out not to be

It was me. I clicked on the thread with the intention of typing the exact words 'Durham Track is pants', only to find that you had already done so. Amazed at this incredible coincidence, I decided to rep you.

Rep me back if you want :wink:

Unless you're talking about something else, of course.

Reply 7574

RobbieC

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dobbs

It's funny when Mike Crang starts going on about how "Avatars are names that people hide behind when online, if you go into chat rooms you will see things like 'hot chick' and 'skater dude'. It's a way of presenting your semi-virtual self across cyber-realities"

In other words, he was in an 'adult' chat room last night talking to the 'hot chicks' and thought he could make a lecture out of it :wink:

lol goooooooooooo geography!!! :rolleyes:

Wow, if that's really the content of some geography lectures, then perhaps it's not just queens departments devaluing my precious degree.

Do some ****ing quantum mechanics or something. Cyber geographies... what a crock.

Reply 7575

dobbs

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RobbieC

Wow, if that's really the content of some geography lectures, then perhaps it's not just queens departments devaluing my precious degree.

Do some ****ing quantum mechanics or something. Cyber geographies... what a crock.

I'd like to know how the content of a course devaluates your degree? I'm not arguing, I just want to know. Because surely the only things that are making your degree of any value, if you go by league tables, are all the random things that they put into that. One of which is not "the content of random courses" :p:

Plus, although I slagged off Cyberspace Geographies for the way it was taught, you need to realise that what they were aiming to teach was actually good stuff. Especially if they had spent more time on looking at the effects of CCTV and the monitoring of society. Very interesting stuff.

Some bits, I admit, were ****.

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Slender Loris

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Random 2am observation/question/thoughts: you know how you can share your iTunes library? Is the network divided up or something, because surely more than a handful of people across the whole uni would be connected at any one time? The most I've seen sharing at one time is about 7 (it's always the same people), and the most I've seen connected to mine is 3. And all the people who have theirs on there have bloody terrible taste in music (including the guy in the next room: not only can I access his library but I often hear it through the wall...). It's weird to think that there are people out there looking through/listening to my music... learning what REAL music is. :cool:

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Hopping Mad Kangaroo

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archaeologygirl

Random 2am observation/question/thoughts: you know how you can share your iTunes library? Is the network divided up or something, because surely more than a handful of people across the whole uni would be connected at any one time? The most I've seen sharing at one time is about 7 (it's always the same people), and the most I've seen connected to mine is 3. And all the people who have theirs on there have bloody terrible taste in music (including the guy in the next room: not only can I access his library but I often hear it through the wall...). It's weird to think that there are people out there looking through/listening to my music... learning what REAL music is. :cool:

The network is divided up into individual sections, yep. Plus you would get in trouble if caught.