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Re: Study Buddies (AKA NOW LET US ALL NOT FAIL CLASSES AND S

Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 7:17 pm
by Tetrunes
On the paper, start with a quote relating to the subject, such as:
one of these wrote:A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
-Robert Frost

A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.
-Douglas Dunn

A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.
-Thomas Harrison

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-Paul Valery

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
-E. M. Forster

A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
-Anne Stevenson

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
-Oscar Wilde

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
-W. H. Auden


A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
-Wallace Stevens

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
-Yevgeny Yevtushenko
And just keep writing.

Re: Study Buddies (AKA NOW LET US ALL NOT FAIL CLASSES AND S

Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 7:31 pm
by D-vid
Failed a mini exam today. Blugh. We had 30 minutes for 3 tasks and that was not really enough.

Re: Study Buddies (AKA NOW LET US ALL NOT FAIL CLASSES AND S

Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 12:04 am
by Sol Reaper
Runes wrote: stuff
Thanks, I never really thought of that. I'm sure it'd win me some points with the teacher though. Also, due to a realization that I'll explain in more detail in the Confessions thread at some point in time, I've figured out a way I can write this essay without being stupid about it (overthinking, criticizing, nit-picking) so I'm sure the quote will help immensely. For now I'm off to do that essay and fucking ace it.

Re: Study Buddies (AKA NOW LET US ALL NOT FAIL CLASSES AND S

Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 2:09 am
by Sol Reaper
HEY GUESS WHO GOT HIS ESSAY DONE

CERTAINLY NOT THIS TOOL

SPOILER ALERT IT ACTUALLY IS ME

THIS WAS A TRIUMPH

Re: Study Buddies (AKA NOW LET US ALL NOT FAIL CLASSES AND S

Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 10:43 am
by Dire
Well done!

Re: Study Buddies (AKA NOW LET US ALL NOT FAIL CLASSES AND S

Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 4:44 pm
by Tetrunes
3/9 reports complete

just started on the 4th one.

Re: Study Buddies (AKA NOW LET US ALL NOT FAIL CLASSES AND S

Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 9:10 pm
by D-vid
I really hate how all my classes have vastly different difficulties.
There's one where I could just never go to and would probably still pass the exam easily, and there's others where I need to prepare a whole week for and still be nervous if I manage it.

Re: Study Buddies (AKA NOW LET US ALL NOT FAIL CLASSES AND S

Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 10:30 pm
by SaintCrazy
I know that feel. It's that time of year where grades are pretty much arbitrary.

"Yay I got an A in this class!"
"Boo I got a B- in this class!"
"Yay I got a C in this class!"

:psyduck:

Re: Study Buddies (AKA NOW LET US ALL NOT FAIL CLASSES AND S

Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 2:00 am
by Sol Reaper
So after my essay victory, I realized I still need to do Major Works Journals (basically a page or two full of mini-summary and mini-analysis of a book we read) and my book report on Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. Thankfully this one's just a study guide full of questions instead of a study guide, character chart, and analytical essay like nearly all of our other book reports.

Re: Study Buddies (AKA NOW LET US ALL NOT FAIL CLASSES AND S

Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 8:58 pm
by Sol Reaper
So I'm gonna be doing my book report for the rest of the day, and tomorrow I'm going to a friend's house to work on our final exam grade, the Major Works Journals.

See y'all later.

Re: Study Buddies (AKA NOW LET US ALL NOT FAIL CLASSES AND S

Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 9:47 pm
by Tetrunes
AAHHHHH! I said 'und' instead of 'y' in Spanish today. I hope four years of foriegn language is worth all(e) this confusion


I have a PowerPoint in German on 'mein Traumhause'
10 Slides

Re: Study Buddies (AKA NOW LET US ALL NOT FAIL CLASSES AND S

Posted: Fri May 04, 2012 10:59 pm
by Sol Reaper
Over halfway done with my book report and going strong. Taking a small break as my mom's coming home with Sonic ice cream stuffs and at the rate I'm going I'll be done by tonight.

Re: Study Buddies (AKA NOW LET US ALL NOT FAIL CLASSES AND S

Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 12:33 am
by Sol Reaper
AWWW TO THE YEAH

Finished all of my study guide questions!

Re: Study Buddies (AKA NOW LET US ALL NOT FAIL CLASSES AND S

Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 5:03 pm
by Sol Reaper
I've finished 2 and a half of my 5 Major Works Journals due this Tuesday. I'm feeling p good about them too. However I'm not out of the fire just yet; I need to do a small essay for Economics and then figure out what's up with my English III grade (the make up credit that will null my progress towards graduation if I don't pass it).

Also I feel like I'm the only person using this thread now. I'm sure you guys have stuff to report on too. :P

Re: Study Buddies (AKA NOW LET US ALL NOT FAIL CLASSES AND S

Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 5:31 pm
by Sol Reaper
Cool. And regarding starting essays, Need_Runes4 gave me a daisies good tip earlier in this thread: start with a quote related to the subject. It makes writing the body of your essay a hell of a lot simpler and I can't thank him enough for sharing that with me.