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It's quiet here today. This can mean either-people are working :no: or people have no work to avoid so have no reason to come on here as they're doing something more interesting.
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leala4628
It's quiet here today. This can mean either-people are working :no: or people have no work to avoid so have no reason to come on here as they're doing something more interesting.

I just got up :p: . Was working until 7:30, then decided to go to sleep (instead of lectures, where I would have fallen asleep anyways). Now off to the buttery...
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I've been working. I ******* hate Qwark Xpress SO MUCH!!!
I have to see my DOS in 30 minutes. I feel sick when I think about it, odd as I wasn't nervous at interview :s-smilie:
Tom
John's has slidey things. And Jack of all trades is definitely a negative. It's really annoying me though...I'm sure english does have another good word or phrase to label something with a lot of different uses/benefits/skills....or something....but I can't make it come into my head >.<


Polymath?
I had a long sleep (still knackered though :/), went to my one lecture of the day and am now off to wander around town with my sister until her train at 5. I can't think of anything entertaining to do with her, other than hand in an essay on the importnace of 1492 to Sidney plodge and eat thai food from the market.
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ukebert
Well not really, as that is a negative thing, whereas Y__ was talking about somebody being good at lots of things. Jack of all trades means that you are barely competent at lots of things (i.e. me).

Craghyrax
I've always understood it as being good at everything, rather than something negative.

Geritak
I think the full phrase is 'Jack of all trades, master of none', or something like that.


I agree it's 'Jack of all trades, master of none', but I still agree with craggy, it's a positive as far as I'm concerned.
new pratchett just arrived from amazon :woo: thats my work for the rest of the week ruined
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_of_all_trades,_master_of_none
munro90
new pratchett just arrived from amazon :woo: thats my work for the rest of the week ruined

Take That was delivered for me :smile:
SoapyDish
I'm doing the latter...I'd rather crack the material now, and sort exam technique later, than be able to write a perfect essay with no content.
Excalibur

I think at this stage it's better to go with the latter - you'll be using your essays to revise later, and the extra reading you do for these now are also useful.
I agree. But I really thought that from the way the first essay was set (i.e. NO MORE than 2 sides - formatting hers) we were meant to do all the essays that way. How wrong I seem to be. :s-smilie:

The worst thing is that I've given my supervisor possibly the worst presented essay ever (bloody diagrams :mad:, annoying restructurings all the way through). :frown: I know that I just need to like, learn the stuff first and think about the direction of the essay, before I do the essay. As opposed to doing something first so that I can start it and go back to it.

Similarly for PoO, although I'm only part-way through my first (as usual :rolleyes:). So it looks like I'll attempt a rewrite. And then submit both versions.
leala4628
I have to see my DOS in 30 minutes. I feel sick when I think about it, odd as I wasn't nervous at interview :s-smilie:


Good luck with your meeting - I hope that it goes well and you feel better having sorted it all out :smile:

I really need to finish doing the reading for an essay but have an overwhelming urge to go home and sleep :s-smilie:
ukdragon37
Polymath?


It's not in common use nowadays though, it seems. (Perhaps because it's so much more difficult to be a polymath nowadays?) Moreover it seems to have the connotation of being good in various academic fields rather than in general. There's also the phrase "Renaissance man", but that also seems dated.
leala4628
It's quiet here today. This can mean either-people are working :no: or people have no work to avoid so have no reason to come on here as they're doing something more interesting.


Almost; I've spent the morning and early afternoon writing an essay, the afternoon drifting from place to place deciding what to do next. I have entirely no energy, and somehow have to be lucid this evening for a party.

I have also discovered one other thing; reheated, greasy coffee looks and tastes like crude oil.

How did the interview go, if you've returned?
My DOS gave me a different story to my tutor. He said it's extremely difficult to change subject and he'll have to speak to the senior tutor. This is coming from someone who has lost one student off his course to do Medieval languages and gained one from history in the space of a weekend.

My tutor said it wouldn't be a problem and gave me loads of tales about people who'd changed successfully :confused:
leala4628
My DOS gave me a different story to my tutor. He said it's extremely difficult to change subject and he'll have to speak to the senior tutor. This is coming from someone who has lost one student off his course to do Medieval languages and gained one from history in the space of a weekend.

My tutor said it wouldn't be a problem and gave me loads of tales about people who'd changed successfully :confused:

That's to be expected since it makes little difference to your tutor if you change course but probably reflects negatively on your DOS to be losing students. It should be up to you in the end though, so stick at it and it should be OK.
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leala4628
My DOS gave me a different story to my tutor. He said it's extremely difficult to change subject and he'll have to speak to the senior tutor. This is coming from someone who has lost one student off his course to do Medieval languages and gained one from history in the space of a weekend.

My tutor said it wouldn't be a problem and gave me loads of tales about people who'd changed successfully :confused:

Well so what. All you need to do is listen and smile when he tells you its difficult. You don't need to say anything. Just repeat again that you would like to change if its possible, in a certain tone. And then wait and see. He will then have to go away and sort it out. In all likeliness he's just saying that, but even if it IS difficult, the difficulty will be his to deal with not yours, so you can just smile sweetly and wait.

Did he explain why he had been worried about you?
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leala4628
My DOS gave me a different story to my tutor. He said it's extremely difficult to change subject and he'll have to speak to the senior tutor. This is coming from someone who has lost one student off his course to do Medieval languages and gained one from history in the space of a weekend.

My tutor said it wouldn't be a problem and gave me loads of tales about people who'd changed successfully
What are you trying to change to?
Craghyrax
Well so what. All you need to do is listen and smile when he tells you its difficult. You don't need to say anything. Just repeat again that you would like to change if its possible, in a certain tone. And then wait and see. He will then have to go away and sort it out. In all likeliness he's just saying that, but even if it IS difficult, the difficulty will be his to deal with not yours, so you can just smile sweetly and wait.

Did he explain why he had been worried about you?

Yes, that was because I was supposed to do a ''freshers diary'' for the website and I pulled out of it and the woman in charge had contacted him and said she was worried I was feeling under pressure.

He just made me feel really bad as he went on about all the things I was feeling guilty about anyway-being accepted through the English and Education selection system etc etc. The thing is, both courses get a similar amount of applicants and they're not totally different in the skills they require so I don't see that much of a problem. It is me who's paying tuition fees and while I realise it's annoying for those dealing with us trouble makers it's not as though it's a drastic move.
azhao
What are you trying to change to?

Theology :cool:

I told him all about wanting to be a priest a while ago when he asked if I was religious which was slightly embarrassing.

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