Showing posts with label finals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label finals. Show all posts

December 13, 2008

Finals Space Filler

You've got your little tricks to superficially fill space in papers. Try this one if your intellectual stimulation is at its limit and you've got nothing else to say, from Columbia's Bwog:

If you're writing a paper and need another page or two but have nothing more to say (surely, we can all relate!), you should bump up all the periods to size 14 font. It's impossible to tell (on the page or printed out) if the paper is double-spaced, and it results in an extra page of text. Right before our eyes, the history paper of a friend grew from 7 to eight and a half pages. It was breathtaking.
Or, make the periods smaller if you're well over any page limit and have nothing left to cut out, you overachiever, you.

Bwog: How'd you Like to Finish Your Papers?

December 10, 2008

Final Exam Calendar And Locations

Here is the breakdown of the final exam calendar with exam locations. Also, you can indulge yourself in mapping out your exam schedule for the rest of your Wesleyan career. Good luck!

November 29, 2008

Finals Week workshops with Peer Advisors

Sara Hoffman '09 writes:

There are nine days until finals, but don't panic! Come to a Finals Week workshop with the Peer Advisors. Students from all class years are welcome. Bring your questions, schedules, and course syllabi. Email the Peer Advisors at sarnadvisors@wes with any questions.
Dates: Sunday, Nov. 30 and Monday, Dec. 1
Time: 7:00 PM
Place: Usdan 136

August 8, 2008

Fare Thee Well, Reading Week (Part Deux)

The "generic" final exam schedule for the fall semester is now up on the Registrar's website, allowing you to measure the extent of your hardships imposed by the new reading period. Among the highlights:

  • It looks like letting us out more than a week before Christmas proved to be too drastic a step for the powers that be to take. Three seemingly common class time periods--MW 1:10-2:30 (9:00), MW/WF 11:00-12:20 (2:00), and (gulp) TR 1:10-2:30 (7:00) have finals on Tuesday the 16th, the day before housing closes. I feel for those who have class at 1:10 every day.
  • Anyone who has class at 10:00 MWF (9:00) or 2:40 MW/WF (2:00) gets the unenviable experience of taking an exam on a Friday (the 12th). At least there's no evening session.
  • Strangely, there is no evening session on the 15th (Monday), either. Maybe it's just me, but my feeling is that it would've made more sense to move the evening exams to one of the preceding three exam days, which have no evening sessions.
I, for one, have developed an intense dislike of this new arrangement, as a member of both groups referenced above (as if taking a "W" in micro last semester when my average was a 90 didn't sting enough, I now have a final in the same class Tuesday evening). Share your reactions and horror stories in the comments!

August 5, 2008

Fare thee well, ye olde Reading Week

This semester, we will no longer have four or five consecutive days to procras—er, study—during Reading Week. In fact, we will no longer have a Reading Week (even if that was never the official term for it, it usually bordered on being a week).

Behold! The Academic Calendar reveals the schedule:

December 8: classes end
December 9-10: Reading Period
December 11-12: final exams
December 13-14: Reading Period
December 15-16: final exams
December 17: housing closes
Dec. 13-14—the second half of Reading Period—is the weekend.

May 12, 2008

I wish this excuse would work

funny pictures

I apologize in advance for any future procrastination this link to icanhascheezburger may cause.

May 10, 2008

Primal Scream

Sunday night
Midnight
PRIMAL SCREAM


Come outside and join us. Really, anywhere, but people like to gather in front of Olin since that's where they've made their nests.

April 7, 2008

Final Exam Schedule is Up

Today was officially a beautiful spring day, which unfortunately heralds... the coming of finals.

Check out the final exam schedule so you can start planning (they're just a little over a month away... how did this happen?)

December 19, 2007

Someone needs a kitten pile...


And that someone is me. And anyone who has the Orgo or Biochem final tomorrow. Extra kittens to those of you in MB&B208 with me who will also be taking Orgo or Biochem - stay strong.

May 12, 2007

Ottobib

Maria Pia "Imma Cutchoo" Gekas '09 sent me this link like months ago and I forgot about it. But in the midst of writing a massive research paper I have again remembered it.

Ottobib.com allows you to plug in the ISBN of a book and it'll spit out the citation. It doesn't work for all books and sometimes has errors, but it's useful.

Also, I recommend Easybib. That's fun, too.

Happy finals.

May 11, 2007

What you Could be Doing....

Remember, summer is only a week away! In the meantime, you could be thinking about all the things you could be doing right now instead of, like, reading Durkheim.

(from The American Boy's Handy Book, 1890)

May 6, 2007

Oh God, its Finals Season

Masked streaker from University of Tennessee runs through the library as students cram for finals:

December 26, 2006

Super Paper: Fall 2006

Remember this? This is what y'all spent the last two weeks of school freaking out about. Though I'm glad to hear that some of you found...creative... ways to blow off some stress (i.e. throwing a Molotov cocktail out of a window in Clark?!)

For the Spring 2006 Super Paper, click here.

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Word Count: 1,147

Her honest opinion as an outsider is not the one of awe and salvation he, as a hero, wanted, but rather one of amusement. Es irónico que Úrsula tiene que perder “el sentido de la realidad” para conocer el pasado, que quizás es más “real” (o, al menos, más representante de la novela). Achaete-scute, on the other hand, requires such high concentrations of Wingless that it is only expressed in cells immediately surrounding those of the wg-secreting dorsal-ventral compartment boundary. Considering Lewis’s view of the books as a children’s story and a Christian story, the movie therefore managed to capture at least some of the Chronicles’ own ambiguity, and translate it into huge box office success. The article's hip disdain for the "civilized hordes" mimics the ethos of Vanity Fair.
Even the Dalai Lama has endorsed meditation independent of Buddhism by creating a video called “His Holiness, the Dalai Lama on Secular Meditation” in which he explains how meditation can be compatible with any religious ideology. Generally speaking, multiculturalism carries a strong connotation of diversity, and I think it is fair to say that Sen sees Akbar as one who appreciated the value of diversity, particularly in the context of religious freedom. Yet this official return to neutrality did not benefit Spain as much as Franco had hoped; in fact, Franco’s actions throughout the conflict damaged international opinion of Spain, and after the war, Spain was denied entry into the United Nations on the basis of its pro-Axis sympathies and gestures. The sympathy and understanding and the tone of psychological realism which permeate these observations point to a fine discrimination of judgment and persuasively suggest a close identity, here at least, with the “implied author.” There is massive marble fireplace on one wall – I was surprised to hear that not too long ago, it was used regularly, during readings and concerts during the winter.
The sun, therefore, comes to represent the panoptic gaze of male dominated capitalism. “I always just thought that I was nuts. I didn’t realize that this was real” (Anonymous 2006). It may surprise the casual reader of such works as The Chronicles of Narnia or The Great Divorce to learn that their author began his academic career at Oxford as a fervent atheist. Further, all living things possess a fundamental instinct to dominate, master, and subdue. This “will to power” dominates all of our actions, views, and evaluations all of the time, but its influence is not as universal as its existence is.
Her green eyes are finally closed. It is a eulogy for mankind, lost in the separation of the self from the moment, in the deference that our active experience of life gives to our memories, to our constructions of plot. But with 5.7 million South Africans currently infected with AIDS, and over a thousand dying from it every day, it is clear that the country needs to overcome this distrust before its groundbreaking transition to democracy turns out to be in vain. En Cien años de soledad, esto se puede ver en una revelación de Aureliano, a quien “no se le había ocurrido pensar hasta entonces que la literatura fuera el mejor juguete que se había inventado para burlarse de la gente.” King espouses the polar opposite theology of his namesake.
Also, since fourth wall designations are not often used by the American deaf theater community, an intimate, non-proscenium setting would be appropriate. En esta posición privilegiada, personifica uno de los temas más importantes del libro: la verdad que reside debajo del exterior de la realidad. Despite all the people with whom he had surrounded himself in life, in death, he is forgotten. We see, in other words, the practice and promise of queer world-making. Development discourse has come to be recognized by the supposed recipients or “targets” of development as a litany of hollow, unfulfilled promises. Those that pass him in the park cannot begin to intuit his need to speak.
Once in place, the precedent of one group’s power over another continues to reinforce that very power, strengthening the system and keeping it from collapsing. His miniatures capture a paradise in tiny, perfect time capsules, thus protecting it from the ravages of time he fears so much. Therefore, all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. Vronsky appears in part XIII just long enough to be seen traveling to a seemingly pointless war and towards a seemingly pointless death. Rather than a “wordless and healing intimacy,” love acts as an escape from the social conditions that construct it as an unattainable illusion.
The few, in pursuit of personal power, can sow superstition among the masses and take advantage of technological developments to destroy democracy, all in the name of progress. The fact that the issue was often construed in racial terms drastically simplifies the reactions and attitudes of city officials and residents. The novel gives no indication of what might happen to Jessamy; if she recovers, she could find herself feeling even more lost than before without even the mercurial friendship of TillyTilly to ground her. De esta manera, podemos entender a la historia de Don Quijote como un estudio de la psicología del individuo que recorre siglos de teorías, últimamente mostrando que la locura y la cordura, como dijo Freud, no son tan exclusivas o simples como uno pudiera pensar. And a divided consciousness among the powerless could result in apparently disjoined interests, creating a malleable view of issues and making manipulation possible.
By this point in the piece, Lay's experiences with four Mexicans have been magnified into an indictment of the entire country. Yet the shame belongs to the man at the keyhole; it is his red face, his confession. He certainly lived true to that statement. Unconvinced that the Israelis would curtail their nuclear ambition, neighboring Arab states began securing Soviet weaponry for themselves. For all of her claims of deep motherly love, Anna never truly thinks about Serezha as a full person whose feelings she should be concerned about outside of the context of herself.
From this, no definitive truth on Pharoah’s feelings towards the plagues and Moses can ever be gathered, so the reader, with the fatherly guidance of YHWH, must determine for himself the ultimate truth of the Israelite’s plight and liberation from Egypt. We have all been banned from child contact for the time being for fear that we will reinstate the old hierarchies. Though Bynum claimed that female piety amounted to the empowering acceptance (and reinterpretation) of social roles that emphasized the fleshiness of women and placed them as controllers of the domestic realm, Salih demonstrates this that this definition of female piety is too narrow and does not accurately encompass the lived experiences of all religious ‘women.’ As we see in “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room”, the corporation truly did manifest psychopathic tendencies.

December 21, 2006

Hangover Helpers

Finals are over. You've turned in a 20 page paper with 3" margins and 13pt font and you just couldn't care less at this point. You're making a last minute run to Metro at 8:42 to pick up what your body will hate you for later. And well, you wake up and your liver is wreaking its revenge.

So what are some ways to ease the pain of a hangover? Chow lists the top ten:

1. Painkillers
2. Water
3. Taurine
4. Pedialyte
5. Fried Food
6. Marmite or Vegemite on Toast
7. Ginger
8. Soups such as Menudo, Poutine, Hejangguk, Pho, or Borscht.
9. Honey
10. Hangover Pills

December 19, 2006

A Complete Waste Of Time

There are two types of people that exist during Finals Week. These two types of people are depicted through the following scenarios:

Scenario One:

Person 1: "Yes! I FINALLY finished my CSS paper! Ugh, I don't even want to look at these notes again"
::rolls notes into paper balls and throws them into wastebasket. misses::
"Fuck"

ThrowPaper

Scenario Two:

Person1: "DONE with finals, bitches! Let's get crunk!"
Person 2: "HELL YES! Let the merrimaking ensue!
::later on that night:: "Man...now I have to walk this sorry drunk home."

Walk The Drunk Home

Either way, A Complete Waste Of Time knows your woes.
WARNING: Do not go to the above website if you have work to do!

Online Bubble Wrap

Nervous? Stressed?

ONLINE BUBBLE WRAP!!!

December 15, 2006

Bunnybaby can't take it anymore

Bunnies don't take to pressure very well.

December 14, 2006

Mission in Snow Drift Land

Someone sent in an anonymous tip to destroy you all:

You thought Winter Bells was fun?

Try Mission in Snowdriftland.

Reading Week is Lame

Please list your gripes about reading week here so we may all suffer communally like the communists.

Here are some of mine (Many are lab related. Last year, before I could afford a laptop, I suffered in computer lab hell quite a bit, especially during finals. I'm sure there are plenty of you still out there.):

Gripe #24526: People streaming sports games in the PAC Lab when it's obvious everyone else is trying to get a computer.

Gripe #2502: Vegan not being open.

Gripe #2503: Summerfields not being open.

Gripe #98552: Olin not being open 24 hours like Sci Li.

Gripe #105481: Olin's thermostat being perpetually stuck at 34 degrees.

Gripe #999282242: Computer lab camping. (When you claim a computer, pile all your shit around it and then leave for hours.)

Gripe #10588: Last-minute emails from professors essentially changing what they want out of your final paper two days after you've finished it.

Gripe #100003: The development of an immunity to caffeine.

Gripe #338582: People who carry on extremely audible cell-phone conversations telling the person on the line that they are in a library, working on a final paper, what the paper is on, what they want for dinner and that they had sex last night. Thanks for sharing!

Feel free to add your own in the comments.

The Essential Reading Week/Finals Mix

Here are four songs to get you through the next week. I have been listening to these every morning to get pumped. And man, I am so PUMPED!! It's so EXTREME!!! I'm so fucking ENERGIZED that it's 5:30am and I am watching my friend play Final Fantasy XII!!!!

I'm not even going to tell you their names. It's a guessing game. You like games, yes? Especially ludicrously easy ones? Unlike your life right now? Fine, okay, the song titles are in the file names, I don't even care.

Man, fuck finals.

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