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saben
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Registered: May 2003
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I got a 63.5% for Japanese, which was above the class average by 4%. I thought I'd be somewhere in the 50-65% deadzone, close to failing, but still the good side of it. That means overall for Japanese I got a 58ish. So a decent pass. I hope I can improve next semester so that I don't have to go through similar stresses to what I put myself through this one. I got a 0% for 1 assignment and 2 tests (worth 16% total). So I actually averaged about 70% on the pieces of work I actually submitted. Which isn't bad.
And I'm learning more about the Japanese language, which is the main reason for me doing the subject in the first place.
Look at this tree. I cannot make it blossom when it suits me nor make it bear fruit before its time [...] No matter what you do, that seed will grow to be a peach tree. You may wish for an apple or an orange, but you will get a peach.
Master Oogway
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marc
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Registered: March 2003
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I'm glad that is over for you..... now you have to develope a dicipline of study time.... once you get into a good routine it will all improve as well as get easier.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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Marc said,
>I'm glad that is over for you..... now you have to develope a dicipline of study time.... once you get into a good routine it will all improve as well as get easier.
Honestly, it does.
I spent the first year and a half of my degree (half of it) fighting it, wondering what on earth I was doing there, procrastinating and feeling out of place. I got within a couple of marks of failing my first year. Timmy knows how down I was about it all: it was about that time I first talked to him online (and came here).
But once I got to the half way point I realised that the end was in sight, and if I could just apply myself in a few strategic places (essays, my dissertation, my final assessed project) then I would have a good chance of doing reasonably well. If you plan ahead (and especially if the course is modular) you can make sure that what you are learning about is what interests you. In my case that was essential. I'm happy to spend days in the library reading if the material is interesting; I can't bear it if it's not.
I finished my degree just over a week ago and found out the final classification yesterday. I still don't quite believe it.
David
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Good for you, Shem -- and good luck for the future.
David
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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That's two people who have cracked the "how to get great marks and grades" conundrum. Each of them also plans in having a life as well as studying.
Be like them with a damned good set of qualifications, do not be like me. I failed.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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That is great news. Didn't want to dilute my congratulations with my advice 
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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congrats, my friend
Aden
Odi et amo: quare id faciam, fortasse requiris.
Nescio, set fieri sentio et excrucior
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