... I hate lectures
Jan. 12th, 2013 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaberettOkay. So.
My department teaches third and fourth years together, with options taught on a two-year cycle. Because I intermitted, and because there are a limited range of options, I now get to play the happy fun game of working out What To Take to minimise overlap with my third year, though I do have leave to repeat one option (of three).
There are two papers I'm intending to take which I haven't sat before: they're available only to fourth years. They involve 2 9ams, and two 3.5 hour mornings, but that's okay, right?
... except the obvious choice of course to repeat - the one that's changed most in terms of who's delivering it, and so on - is the afternoons of those days. As in, I would end up with two six-hour days a week (seven when you count the seminar beginning immediately after the end of the second practical), and... I'm not actually sure I can do that.
FOR ADDED FUN AND GAMES, one of the other options (the one that has the most overlap with the project I'm just finishing up!) would involve being lectured by my supervisor from last year: which, er, I have just about managed to stop spiraling into panic every time we pass each other in the department or, you know, I see her name unexpectedly.
So maybe I will take the third option (of which the downside is bumping me up to four 9ams a week) and just write a bunch of really controversial stuff in my essays on mantle plumes. Ugh.
If you are thinking of lecturing me about how Real People have to work 8-hour days, or how needing to be awake and functional at 9am four days a week is Not That Big A Deal, then just. don't. Okay? Thanks.
My department teaches third and fourth years together, with options taught on a two-year cycle. Because I intermitted, and because there are a limited range of options, I now get to play the happy fun game of working out What To Take to minimise overlap with my third year, though I do have leave to repeat one option (of three).
There are two papers I'm intending to take which I haven't sat before: they're available only to fourth years. They involve 2 9ams, and two 3.5 hour mornings, but that's okay, right?
... except the obvious choice of course to repeat - the one that's changed most in terms of who's delivering it, and so on - is the afternoons of those days. As in, I would end up with two six-hour days a week (seven when you count the seminar beginning immediately after the end of the second practical), and... I'm not actually sure I can do that.
FOR ADDED FUN AND GAMES, one of the other options (the one that has the most overlap with the project I'm just finishing up!) would involve being lectured by my supervisor from last year: which, er, I have just about managed to stop spiraling into panic every time we pass each other in the department or, you know, I see her name unexpectedly.
So maybe I will take the third option (of which the downside is bumping me up to four 9ams a week) and just write a bunch of really controversial stuff in my essays on mantle plumes. Ugh.
If you are thinking of lecturing me about how Real People have to work 8-hour days, or how needing to be awake and functional at 9am four days a week is Not That Big A Deal, then just. don't. Okay? Thanks.
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Date: 2013-01-12 10:12 pm (UTC)I was actually thinking that I would wince at the two 6 hour days a week having worked 8 hours days for the past 4 years. Seminars/uni work generally are a whole other type of work than office or any other.
I would embark on that plan with great hesitation to be honest, that is a seriously taxing schedule, physical problems or other aside.
Fucks you off, doesn't it? Getting stuck like this with rock/hard place choices. Sigh life, sigh.
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Date: 2013-01-13 01:37 pm (UTC)It doesn't sound like any of those options are good. I did online for my university (see about about feeling like death after work 100% of the time) so I've got nothing useful to say at all, but if you need someone to talk to, I'm here.
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Date: 2013-01-14 10:00 am (UTC)On which grounds I'd recommend adding more "get up for 9am" days over doing longer days; mostly because I find that I benefit enormously from getting up at the same time every day. But I'll go ahead and assume that ymmv and this does not work for everyone.