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Title: School Holidays - 1 week progress
Post by: Flaming_Arrow on April 11, 2009, 10:43:28 pm
hows everyone going?

im behind schedule :(
Title: Re: School Holidays - 1 week progress
Post by: wombifat on April 11, 2009, 10:49:47 pm
I've done more than I thought I would, and I think I'm more in the habit of studying now, which is good :D only thing is, I'm more busy next week so I probably won't get as much done.

Mind you, I'm not really a hardcore studier...
Title: Re: School Holidays - 1 week progress
Post by: TonyHem on April 11, 2009, 10:50:12 pm
sad =[ only 1 week left yet so much h/w =[
And.. did less than planned  :'(
Title: Re: School Holidays - 1 week progress
Post by: GerrySly on April 11, 2009, 11:03:41 pm
Only read Kite Runner heh

Still gotta write 6 essays, 4-5 exercises, a reference book and a couple essays for French, waaaayy behind schedule
Title: Re: School Holidays - 1 week progress
Post by: dejan91 on April 11, 2009, 11:55:10 pm
A tad behing schedule but can get back on track with some hard work and determination.
Title: Re: School Holidays - 1 week progress
Post by: cns1511 on April 11, 2009, 11:58:44 pm
Done a fair bit.. But no where near as much as I should have by now. I guess I won't be having much fun on monday or tuesday if I want to get back on track :P
Title: Re: School Holidays - 1 week progress
Post by: dekoyl on April 12, 2009, 12:35:39 am
Uh pulling an all nighter to try and be 'on schedule'. If I have to resort to this then you can tell I'm pretty behind :P
Title: Re: School Holidays - 1 week progress
Post by: ZachCharge on April 12, 2009, 01:14:18 am
The term school holidays is dead to me...

So far on schedule...but cbs...so many graphs...
Title: Re: School Holidays - 1 week progress
Post by: kaanonball on April 12, 2009, 10:55:33 am
im on schedule, even with my high level of procrastination.
Title: Re: School Holidays - 1 week progress
Post by: mypurpleundercracka on April 12, 2009, 11:07:28 am
i tried do bout 3 hrs every day but just couldn't get stuck into it properly oh well take a break today and try again tomorrow
Title: Re: School Holidays - 1 week progress
Post by: kurrymuncher on April 12, 2009, 12:30:55 pm
Im going pretty well, just have some english and chem stuff to do.
Title: Re: School Holidays - 1 week progress
Post by: Hielly on April 12, 2009, 01:58:10 pm
I HATE PROCRASTINATION ! my schedule is stuffed, should have finished 3/6 subjects in the first week but didn't.

stress level times 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Title: Re: School Holidays - 1 week progress
Post by: hard on April 12, 2009, 02:36:48 pm
im way behind schedule. Still need to study for methods, english got like 5 essays to do, biology finished and chemistry ehhh.
Title: Re: School Holidays - 1 week progress
Post by: EvangelionZeta on April 12, 2009, 03:59:54 pm
Finished reading V for Vendetta, Euripedes' Medea, Sophocles' Antigone, Lord of the Flies, Hamlet, and watched the four hour Kenneth Branagh version of Hamlet.  Reading Oedipus the King by Sophocles tonight.  Bought Herodotus' Histories, another translation of the Iliad and The Canterbury Tales at a second hand bookstore.  Also managed to relax myself and see some friends a bit here and there.

Wait, what, schoolwork?  lol.

(I spent one night doing Methods tuition homework.  *cough*  I have five essays to write and Probability to finish off in Methods...*sigh*)
Title: Re: School Holidays - 1 week progress
Post by: wombifat on April 12, 2009, 04:05:38 pm
All of that reading will probably help you out with literature a lot. So it was still pretty productive in terms of schoolwork.
Title: Re: School Holidays - 1 week progress
Post by: hard on April 12, 2009, 04:39:04 pm
Finished reading V for Vendetta, Euripedes' Medea, Sophocles' Antigone, Lord of the Flies, Hamlet, and watched the four hour Kenneth Branagh version of Hamlet.  Reading Oedipus the King by Sophocles tonight.  Bought Herodotus' Histories, another translation of the Iliad and The Canterbury Tales at a second hand bookstore.  Also managed to relax myself and see some friends a bit here and there.

Wait, what, schoolwork?  lol.

(I spent one night doing Methods tuition homework.  *cough*  I have five essays to write and Probability to finish off in Methods...*sigh*)
wtf how much do you read?! and you're in yr 11..............
Title: Re: School Holidays - 1 week progress
Post by: dior1 on April 12, 2009, 05:17:15 pm
Way way way behind schedule. I've been called into work a few times and have a few more shifts next week along with other appointments, so my only free days are monday, friday and saturday.
So far I've done 2 maths activities, and half of the psych work I was given  eek
Title: Re: School Holidays - 1 week progress
Post by: dreamz on April 12, 2009, 05:51:48 pm
i think im going crazy and still havent read my book and havent done some hw
Title: Re: School Holidays - 1 week progress
Post by: EvangelionZeta on April 12, 2009, 08:52:51 pm
Finished reading V for Vendetta, Euripedes' Medea, Sophocles' Antigone, Lord of the Flies, Hamlet, and watched the four hour Kenneth Branagh version of Hamlet.  Reading Oedipus the King by Sophocles tonight.  Bought Herodotus' Histories, another translation of the Iliad and The Canterbury Tales at a second hand bookstore.  Also managed to relax myself and see some friends a bit here and there.

Wait, what, schoolwork?  lol.

(I spent one night doing Methods tuition homework.  *cough*  I have five essays to write and Probability to finish off in Methods...*sigh*)
wtf how much do you read?! and you're in yr 11..............

Haha, one can never read too much. 

And yeah, the introductions to the Greek plays (in particular Antigone) are actually quite useful for Lit; there's some very nice writing for me to be inspired by when I'm writing my own argued readings.  =p
Title: Re: School Holidays - 1 week progress
Post by: Hielly on April 12, 2009, 09:58:02 pm
Good on ya EvangelionZeta. I haven't even finished reading one book this holiday =="

Bit off topic: how long does it take you to read a novel,say for example 1984 by george orwell ?
Title: Re: School Holidays - 1 week progress
Post by: BlueYoHo on April 12, 2009, 10:08:14 pm
Not a lot...

2 and a half physics Checkpoints chapters done + Review Questions from book. + would like to get ahead of class and start electricity myself.

Only two or three exercises left for methods (coz i nvr do the hw, too busy doin spec, so id thought id catch up in holidays) + still need to do checkpoints for em.

Spec: I'm going thru doing all the questions i missed and other hard ones + review questions + still need to do checkpoints.


and havent started english  :-\ :-\ :-\ Going to do heaps of lang analysis because I'm crap at it, then e-mail em to teach...

and ONLY IF I finish english early (because I hate the crap out of it and am so sloww doing the work) then i'll contemplate doing ITA revision :P
Title: Re: School Holidays - 1 week progress
Post by: wombifat on April 12, 2009, 10:14:46 pm
Finished reading V for Vendetta, Euripedes' Medea, Sophocles' Antigone, Lord of the Flies, Hamlet, and watched the four hour Kenneth Branagh version of Hamlet.  Reading Oedipus the King by Sophocles tonight.  Bought Herodotus' Histories, another translation of the Iliad and The Canterbury Tales at a second hand bookstore.  Also managed to relax myself and see some friends a bit here and there.

Wait, what, schoolwork?  lol.

(I spent one night doing Methods tuition homework.  *cough*  I have five essays to write and Probability to finish off in Methods...*sigh*)
wtf how much do you read?! and you're in yr 11..............

Haha, one can never read too much. 

And yeah, the introductions to the Greek plays (in particular Antigone) are actually quite useful for Lit; there's some very nice writing for me to be inspired by when I'm writing my own argued readings.  =p

Yeah I'm studying Antigone this year as well and I've read the first play and half of the second then got bored...so I never actually got round to reading Antigone :P oh well I'll read it eventually

And to Yoho: do you mean two or three exercises left in the book? that's crazy! I'm on like chapter 5

Title: Re: School Holidays - 1 week progress
Post by: EvangelionZeta on April 12, 2009, 10:57:22 pm
Good on ya EvangelionZeta. I haven't even finished reading one book this holiday =="

Bit off topic: how long does it take you to read a novel,say for example 1984 by george orwell ?

Haha, thanks.  I've only managed because of my public transport trips.  Reading's the easiest way to pass the time on the tram/train!

I did a test years ago, and back then I could read at roughly the average adult speed...  Nowadays, it depends.  I'd guess 1984 would take me two or three hours maybe to read, if it's as long as I remember - probably closer to two. 

Finished reading V for Vendetta, Euripedes' Medea, Sophocles' Antigone, Lord of the Flies, Hamlet, and watched the four hour Kenneth Branagh version of Hamlet.  Reading Oedipus the King by Sophocles tonight.  Bought Herodotus' Histories, another translation of the Iliad and The Canterbury Tales at a second hand bookstore.  Also managed to relax myself and see some friends a bit here and there.

Wait, what, schoolwork?  lol.

(I spent one night doing Methods tuition homework.  *cough*  I have five essays to write and Probability to finish off in Methods...*sigh*)
wtf how much do you read?! and you're in yr 11..............

Haha, one can never read too much. 

And yeah, the introductions to the Greek plays (in particular Antigone) are actually quite useful for Lit; there's some very nice writing for me to be inspired by when I'm writing my own argued readings.  =p

Yeah I'm studying Antigone this year as well and I've read the first play and half of the second then got bored...so I never actually got round to reading Antigone :P oh well I'll read it eventually

And to Yoho: do you mean two or three exercises left in the book? that's crazy! I'm on like chapter 5



Oh, wow!  Which subject are you studying Antigone in? 
Title: Re: School Holidays - 1 week progress
Post by: Hielly on April 12, 2009, 11:03:39 pm
wow... 2 or 3 hours.. dam your good

this is embarrasing, but it takes me bout 30 mins to read 2 or 3 chapters
Title: Re: School Holidays - 1 week progress
Post by: TrueTears on April 12, 2009, 11:06:55 pm
Lol I just so behind in reading my book, so cbf'ed lol

But other subjects have been quite good, been doing a lot of trial exams.
Title: Re: School Holidays - 1 week progress
Post by: EvangelionZeta on April 12, 2009, 11:09:15 pm
wow... 2 or 3 hours.. dam your good

this is embarrasing, but it takes me bout 30 mins to read 2 or 3 chapters

It was a rough estimate!  Honestly, I read it years ago, and I can't remember how long it took me.

Also, 30 minutes to read 2 or 3 chapters doesn't sound bad at all, assuming each chapter is about 10-20 pages!  That'd be about how fast I go.  =)
Title: Re: School Holidays - 1 week progress
Post by: Gloamglozer on April 12, 2009, 11:10:27 pm
Haha, thanks.  I've only managed because of my public transport trips.  Reading's the easiest way to pass the time on the tram/train!

I did a test years ago, and back then I could read at roughly the average adult speed...  Nowadays, it depends.  I'd guess 1984 would take me two or three hours maybe to read, if it's as long as I remember - probably closer to two. 

Yes, public transport (or lack of these days, *coughs* Connex *coughs*).  When I used to catch public transport frequently, I used to read the paper and sometimes a book.  Although I did steer clear of The Age because it was just too big to read.  I've realised that after I've stopped reading frequently, my reading speed has dropped, which is quite disappointing at a time when I need to read fast.

Back on topic, I'm behind schedule as well.  Out of the whole week, I've only managed to do 3 days of solid work when I planned 4 days of solid work and 3 days of rest.
Title: Re: School Holidays - 1 week progress
Post by: wombifat on April 12, 2009, 11:20:10 pm
You know, I think being around all these nerds on VN has motivated me to do more work, because people at school don't really do much so I feel weird doing heaps of work, if you get what I mean?

And we're going to study Antigone in literature, but haven't started yet. I'd already read the first play and part of the second when I found that out though so it was pretty lucky really :P

I always try to read on public transport but don't normally get a lot done. Oh well.
Title: Re: School Holidays - 1 week progress
Post by: Gloamglozer on April 12, 2009, 11:30:55 pm
I always try to read on public transport but don't normally get a lot done. Oh well.

The worst is when you've finished reading the page and you're ready to flip the page until you realise that somebody is reading that page over your shoulder.  It's happened to me a few times and I didn't want to turn the page because I'd feel bad and holding the paper up for several minutes while waiting also felt very awkward.
Title: Re: School Holidays - 1 week progress
Post by: wombifat on April 12, 2009, 11:34:34 pm
lol that's pretty funny. newspaper or like an actual book?

and no, I believe the worst is when you leave your library book on the bus and have to travel to lilydale to get it back. (but this is probably getting off topic)
Title: Re: School Holidays - 1 week progress
Post by: Gloamglozer on April 12, 2009, 11:38:43 pm
lol that's pretty funny. newspaper or like an actual book?

and no, I believe the worst is when you leave your library book on the bus and have to travel to lilydale to get it back. (but this is probably getting off topic)

The newspaper.  It's only happened to me while I was reading the Herald Sun but can you imagine with The Age.

With the Lilydale case, let me guess...  It happened to you?  :P

I think we're really going off topic...  Mao, please don't eat me.
Title: Re: School Holidays - 1 week progress
Post by: /0 on April 13, 2009, 05:01:42 pm
hmm well i went to birsbaned and