Anyone behind in their studies!
10-17-2009 at 04:47 PM
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This makes no sense. How can you be behind if your assignment is due in a week and you are working on it a week before? You will always have work, you can't read a whole book and do all the assignments the first week of September:S
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Agree. Being behind literally means that you are behind....not that you just have some work to do!
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10-17-2009 at 05:01 PM
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i was ahead for a good hour lol, then another 4 assignments were released
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Just another example of what I'm talking about.
Anyways this is dumb, call it what you want.
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10-17-2009 at 05:38 PM
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I can't believe you guys are arguing about what "being behind" means. Stick with it meaning 'being behind' and get on with your lives ! Or better yet, the time it took to write the posts could've been used for being un-behind/catching up or whatever you want it called
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10-17-2009 at 05:45 PM
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I can't believe you guys are arguing about what "being behind" means. Stick with it meaning 'being behind' and get on with your lives ! Or better yet, the time it took to write the posts could've been used for being un-behind/catching up or whatever you want it called
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I don't think I was arguing. Just expressing my opinion.
But you are right. There are definitely better things to do!
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10-17-2009 at 05:56 PM
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I never feel "ahead" no matter how much in advance I'm doing my work. Yes, you always have work, and therefore are always behind.
In other words, if an assignment has been "assigned" then you're behind until that assignment is finished. That's how I percieve it.
As far as I'm concerned, I'll be behind until I retire... IF then.
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It's better to think you are ahead in life than behind. Its a little more positive What you're saying sounds so depressing.
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10-17-2009 at 05:57 PM
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I don't think I was arguing. Just expressing my opinion.
But you are right. There are definitely better things to do!
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Hmm, by arguing, I meant 'discussing'
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10-17-2009 at 05:58 PM
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It's better to think you are ahead in life than behind. Its a little more positive What you're saying sounds so depressing.
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But it's also not the best to deceive yourself and think you're ahead and that life's all 'peachy' when you have a ton of work to do
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10-17-2009 at 06:07 PM
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But it's also not the best to deceive yourself and think you're ahead and that life's all 'peachy' when you have a ton of work to do
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Well you are clearly ahead of things if you are on here, discussing what being ahead and behind means, right? At least I hope so
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10-17-2009 at 06:12 PM
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All I know is that when I feel 'ahead,' like when I have all my assignments due on the same day and I've slaved all night to finish them, I feel entitled to rest...I wind up spending a week vegetating.
Far more productive to be 'behind' in my opinion. :p
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10-17-2009 at 06:36 PM
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I agree. When I'm ahead even if I know its just supposed to be one day of rest I usually end up resting a lot longer than I'm suppsoed to.
Being behind keeps me stressed and keeps me working.
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Ha yea it seems like everyones falling behind, there was even a short blurb about that on this blog
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10-17-2009 at 11:36 PM
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All I know is that when I feel 'ahead,' like when I have all my assignments due on the same day and I've slaved all night to finish them, I feel entitled to rest...I wind up spending a week vegetating.
Far more productive to be 'behind' in my opinion. :p
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haha I don't think I would ever be able to not do any work for an entire week. I would feel too guilty. It is pretty sad.....university has conditioned me to feel guilty if I don't study.
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Ha yea it seems like everyones falling behind, there was even a short blurb...
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But getting back on topic, I agree. Midterms make most people fall behind in some courses (i.e., courses that they dont have midterms for) and get ahead in other courses (i.e., courses that they have midterms for). But once the midterm for the course you are behind in approaches, you get all caught up again.
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10-18-2009 at 12:34 AM
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haha I don't think I would ever be able to not do any work for an entire week. I would feel too guilty. It is pretty sad.....university has conditioned me to feel guilty if I don't study.
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Oh I feel guilty, that's like 80% of the problem. lol.
It's what I call, 'guilty-rest.' I'm sure you all know what I mean, where you think to yourself "I should probably be working" but you decide whatever it is you're doing is more important at the given moment...then you do that for 1000 moments, and suddenly a week's passed by.
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10-18-2009 at 12:50 AM
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after 3 consecutive mid terms, i spent all day today watching seasons 1-6 of the office. I do feel kinda guilty but i console myself through recalling the awkward moments created by Michael Scott and the witty remarks made by Jim Helpert.
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10-18-2009 at 09:59 AM
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Yeah... I'll be ahead when I graduate. :|
I'm never ahead, I always have some readings to do for some class. I tend to be ahead on assignments though.
But ya, Midterms? Ohhh man. The being behind on readings thing kills you. It's killing me right now. :0
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