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Reply 160

hobnob

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the_alba

Talented third years count just as well! I'm envious of your early morning work ethic. I'm such an Oblomov (sluggard).

I've read Goncharov, actually. :wink:

No need to be envious, though; I only get up that early when there's an emergency. For some reason it works better for me than real all-nighters.

Reply 161

Ethereal

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Hello all

Reply 162

Ethereal

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the_alba

Here's a question. Those of you with articles / essays / theses to write, do any of you actually manage to write anything decent before at least 8pm? Are night-owl tendencies general among postgrads? Or is it just me?

I wrote both my undergrad dissertations through the night hours. As for the PhD thesis it will have to be evening/night time as I'll be doing it round a full time job!

Reply 163

hobnob

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Ethereal

Hello all

Welcome to the thread. :smile:

If you think you're grumpy enough to qualify, you can join GOGSoc here.

Reply 164

Ethereal

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hobnob

Welcome to the thread. :smile:

If you think you're grumpy enough to qualify, you can join GOGSoc here.

Already did :p:

Reply 165

hobnob

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Ethereal

Already did :p:

Yay!

While you're waiting to be approved, you can practise overusing the :mad:

smiley...

Reply 166

Ethereal

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hobnob

Yay!

While you're waiting to be approved, you can practise overusing the :mad:

smiley...

I use it in real life when undergrads get under my feet. I'm doing a PostGradDip in Legal Practice (needed to qualify as a Solicitor) just now and we have 3 hour intensive workshops. Halfway through we get a 15 min break to go get ourselves a drink and if you get behind undergrads in the corridor it's touch n go if you make it. Slow gits!!

Reply 167

the_alba

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Ethereal

I use it in real life when undergrads get under my feet. I'm doing a PostGradDip in Legal Practice (needed to qualify as a Solicitor) just now and we have 3 hour intensive workshops. Halfway through we get a 15 min break to go get ourselves a drink and if you get behind undergrads in the corridor it's touch n go if you make it. Slow gits!!

Thank jove for the facebook group 'People Walk too Slowly'.

Reply 168

nikk

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hobnob

I'm the opposite, actually. Anything I write after 8pm is usually pretty rubbish, so if I absolutely have to finish an essay, I prefer getting up early (between 3 and 4 am) to staying up late.

I'm similar, in that after 8pm by brain puts its slippers on and settles down for the evening. I don't ever get up any earlier than 7am or work past 9pm, no matter how much work I have on.

Ethereal doesn't seem :mad:

enough to me....
:mad:

Reply 169

the_alba

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nikk

Ethereal doesn't seem :mad:

enough to me....
:mad:

I think moaning about the slow undergrads was fairly :mad:

Reply 170

ChemistBoy

OP

16

Undergraduates generally clog up corridors and slow things down, that is the nature of things. Some of them also seem to think they have a divine right to speak to you when it is convenient for them, and not for you.

Reply 171

Fazorme

On behalf of all undergraduates ever, I hereby offer this apology. We're sorry :frown:

Gonna be a grad, yeeeeeh

Reply 172

the_alba

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We were all there once. Let's just put it behind us and move on.

Reply 173

Ethereal

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I'm sure I didn't walk slowly and clog up corridors. I was normally in a rush to get out :p:

Reply 174

the_alba

12

I'm feeling depressed because some idiot advertising-wannabe negged me for comments I made on the Oxford forum about undergrads going to work in meaningless big money corporate jobs because all they care about is earning potential. It has made me grumpier than ever. Why did I get involved?

Neg reps have such bad consequences for my mood for the rest of the day, which is so stupid! Am feeling at my most :mad:

for weeks. :mad:

Reply 175

the_alba

12

Ne'er mind, I'm over it now. Where has everyone gone? You're not all working, are you?!?!?!

Reply 176

shiny

12

the_alba

I'm feeling depressed because some idiot advertising-wannabe negged me for comments I made on the Oxford forum about undergrads going to work in meaningless big money corporate jobs because all they care about is earning potential. It has made me grumpier than ever. Why did I get involved?

Neg reps have such bad consequences for my mood for the rest of the day, which is so stupid! Am feeling at my most :mad:

for weeks. :mad:

It's funny that. I just read in a Cam alumni magazine about some girl who spent a year after Cambridge in Investment Banking and thought just that!!!

Reply 177

Fazorme

I helped out at an open event for potential firsts years last week. Their happiness and optimisn is sickening! Can't they see... can't they see? Cynicism and coffee are their future.

One of the oferees asked what the worst thing was about University. I shot her in the face.

Reply 178

Wise One

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Fazorme

One of the oferees asked what the worst thing was about University. I shot her in the face.

So, gun-toting postgrads, then? :p:

Reply 179

the_alba

12

Just finished the last essay for the MSt before the dissertation. I had to finish a bibliographical essay on Beckett on Wednesday night, which weighed in at around 6000 words. I just managed (Friday night) to finish the second one on Joyce and Mangan, weighing in at a whopping (and word-limit violating) 7300 words.

I am knackered. Thoroughly. Knackered. 13000 words in a very short space of time. The dissertation is only 10000 and I have the whole of next term to write it - should be a doddle!

Phew. Knackered. Jaysus. And this is my 250th post. Let the good times roll. I'm going to bed.

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