University timetables-fucking useless

[Greebo]

Doing a degree is different to being at school.
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FAO Bob_the_lost:
You might think lectures can be skipped and friends will sign you in if they have to - maybe they can, but your marks will suffer in the end.
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All that free time is for you, as an adult, to arrange how you do your coursework and private study. I bet by your first deadline you'll be praying for 25 hours in the day just so you can get everything (including your own laundry) done.

FWIW there should be some way of doing part of your coursework onsite, between lectures - definitely see the person in charge of the subjects you've taken about that.

 

[Belushi]

FWIW there should be some way of doing part of your coursework onsite, between lectures - definitely see the person in charge of the subjects you've taken about that.

There's the Library for starters, or just find an empty room.

 

[Santino]

FWIW there should be some way of doing part of your coursework onsite, between lectures...

We used to call them libraries. Sometimes they are called computer rooms and have banks of beeping machines where the books used to be.

 

[baldrick]

Nope, i've got 7 hours a week

you've got it made, i really don't see what you're moaning about.

with those hours you could do 9 -5 on your coursework with an hour or two at a lecture and have every single evening free.

wrt to the re-scheduling of one of your modules - i very much doubt they'd have done that unless it was absolutely necessary. however, have a word with your head of year or exams officer, i doubt you'll be the only one in that position. i'm sure you can sort something out

 

[Donna Ferentes]

To be fair, the timetables often are a bit skew-wiff when they first come out - rooms double-booked, people asked to be in two places at once, that sort of thing.

Having to hang about for hours is a real pain too. Obviously (what with being a qualified librarian and all) I appreciate there's libraries, but you don't necessarily want to sit in one for five hours. If we're relating it to the world of work, it's as if they gave you a one-hour shirt in the morning and then a one-hour shift in the afternoon and you had to hang around between the two. Actually, didn't Burger King in Scotland try to do just that a few years ago?

It may be unavoidable and I really don't think people should lay into te people who produce these timetables in the way that the OP did, but at the same time I can understand the frustration.

 

[spanglechick]

I can see, in reality, it's not a particularly friendly timetable - but I have to say it never occurred to me to be pissed of when my lectures / seminars etc were timed unhelpfully.

We were always given a sense that we were on a full time course so we were suposed to be studying full time - in the library, or whatever. If we (in reality) spent five hours over a pint of cider and some cheesy chips in the middle of the day, I did always feel that I was being a bit slack. In fact, our Drama society got in trouble for organising dress rehearsals during the college day - even though no one was missing lectures.

 

[Belushi]

Having to hang about for hours is a real pain too. Obviously (what with being a qualified librarian and all) I appreciate there's libraries, but you don't necessarily want to sit in one for five hours. If we're relating it to the world of work, it's as if they gave you a one-hour shirt in the morning and then a one-hour shift in the afternoon and you had to hang around between the two.

It isnt really though is it as your meant to be working independently in between the lectures.

And theres always the Students Union

You and I used to have the same employer btw Donna, I was in admissions though.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

You worked for the Force of Evil? I never knew.

 

[Belushi]

You worked for the Force of Evil? I never knew.

Yeah, in South Ken until two years ago. I never mentioned it when I was there 'cos Im cagey about my real identity

It explains my complete lack of sympathy for students.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Ah, you should have let me know.

The library there is bloody awful.

 

[Belushi]

Ah, you should have let me know.

The library there is bloody awful.

I couldnt abide the bloody Rector, were you there when they tried to pull that dodgy merger off?

 

[steveo87]

I have two major gripes:

What sort of braindead moron puts a student down for a single hour of lectures a day and expects them to attend? Let's be realistic here, that's not likely to result in a full lecture theatre. However it gets worse, what sort of complete mental pygmy does that for two days a week, putting one of them in the 9-10 slot and the other in the 5-6?


The second is slightly more annoying. They've moved one of my modules to the spring term. This means i'll have the most work when my project (worth about as much as two or three modules, i can never remember) is due. I picked an easy but fun one , a difficult one and an interesting but un taxing one for the autumn. I picked another hard one and an interesting one for the spring.

So which one do they move to the spring? The hard one, which just happens to be a "strongly recommended" prerequisite for the other hard one i've got that spring.

Two days in one week where i'll spend more time in lectures than i will commuting. My project timeline obliterated (because if i stick to it i'll tank in the two hard modules this spring), the only possible bright side is that thanks to my pathetically slim timetable i can now learn about Digital Design with VHDL. I probably will just to give me somewhere to sit while i wait for the rush hour to end...

[/rant]

This is why I quit, couldn't be arsed with slaving over a course that was run, maintained and attended by people who at no point actually wanted to be fucking journalists.
For example, out of the 16 people on my course, 8 of them went through clearing!
In other words on the 20th of August 2006, the majority of my class didn' know what they were going to do swith the rest of their life.
I reckon they watched Anchor Man that evening and the phoned Edge Hill.
I mean whats the fucking piont of clearing? I spent my last year at college working my arse off to get on this course and then I turn up and we end up doing an entire simester (Sp.) on basic media practises, or basically MEDIA STUDIES!!

I got a lot of raised eyebrows when I said I'd quick. But I regret nothing and can't wait to get on with my life.

Uni's shite, mate

 

[Donna Ferentes]

I couldnt abide the bloody Rector, were you there when they tried to pull that dodgy merger off?

I think so, it's hard to remember. Besides, I wasn't on the main campus and so was out of touch as we were essentially in outer space. (If anybody from SK was required to come over, you understand. If we were required to go there, it was two stops down the Piccadilly Line.)

 

[steveo87]

I have to do fucking shorthand this term.

Unlucky

 

[Laney]

Timetable's largely what you make it. You can spend your extra time in the union pub or in the library, drinking or working. Just because you only have to be on campus for one hour doesn't mean you can only stay for one hour. Next year I am planning much more productive use of my time (... doesn't help that the pub is about two hundred feet from the library...!)

Sometimes there are scheduling issues which are annoying, mind. Next year each history student has an option module and a variety module. Depending on your choice, the variety takes place in either Semester one or Semester two. Regardless, your dissertation will still be due in after Easter.

 

[jæd]

Two days in one week where i'll spend more time in lectures than i will commuting. My project timeline obliterated (because if i stick to it i'll tank in the two hard modules this spring), the only possible bright side is that thanks to my pathetically slim timetable i can now learn about Digital Design with VHDL. I probably will just to give me somewhere to sit while i wait for the rush hour to end...

So, you might have to learn how to structure and prioritise your time to fit around the needs of others...? That's never, ever going to happen outside of Uni, now is it...

 

[Donna Ferentes]

So, you might have to learn how to structure and prioritise your time to fit around the needs of others...? That's never, ever going to happen outside of Uni, now is it...

Well, it would require appreciation of the problems of others, I suppose. Can you advise him on how to take a generous-minded approach on this issue?

 

[jæd]

I got a lot of raised eyebrows when I said I'd quick. But I regret nothing and can't wait to get on with my life.

So I'm guessing you're a full time Guardian writer by now...

 

[steveo87]

So I'm guessing you're a full time Guardian writer by now...

Nah, but the dream is still alive, Fox are head hunting me for the position of head of political clarity.

 

[Kripcat]

We get to choose our own loading, it's swell.

Only in 3 days a week, earliest class is 10:30 latest is 4:30.

 

[Bob_the_lost]

So, you might have to learn how to structure and prioritise your time to fit around the needs of others...? That's never, ever going to happen outside of Uni, now is it...

I can schedule my study and workload around fixed, inconvenient points. At no point in time have i ever been told i've got to like it.

Imperial's registration process, now that was a case study in things not working right.

I know exactly how to get the project done on time, by completely ignoring their deadlines and having the draft copy done by christmas. I don't know how i'm supposed to manage to study two topics that effectively follow on from each other in parallel.

 

[jæd]

I know exactly how to get the project done on time, by completely ignoring their deadlines and having the draft copy done by christmas.

This is how I got a lot of Uni assignments done. I had the additional advantage that I avoided working in groups for nearly all the group assignments. Saved a *lot* of time.

I don't know how i'm supposed to manage to study two topics that effectively follow on from each other in parallel.

Study them sequentially, starting from about now. With luck there'll be a point where you'll know enough about the first to bootstrap yourself into the second...

 

[Bob_the_lost]

Grrr, time to fire up amazon and place the mother of all text book orders again...

 

[crustychick]

moan moan moan

fucking students

they don't know how good they've got it

*grumble grumble*

 

[Treebeak]

I do full days, Monday & Friday, fucks up weekends away

The whole of my three years I had mondays and fridays off. Winner!

 

[Orang Utan]

I had Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays off

 

[axon]

Nope, i've got 7 hours a week.

Monday: 2 hours
Tuesday: 3 whole hours
Wednesday: 1 hour (9am)
Thursday: 1 hour (5pm)
Friday: Sweet FA.

Have you contacted the European Court of Human Rights?
I went to Imperial, and I knew some computer science students. They seemed to spend a lot of their week playing Doom.

 

[butterfly child]

I can see, in reality, it's not a particularly friendly timetable - but I have to say it never occurred to me to be pissed of when my lectures / seminars etc were timed unhelpfully.

We were always given a sense that we were on a full time course so we were suposed to be studying full time - in the library, or whatever. If we (in reality) spent five hours over a pint of cider and some cheesy chips in the middle of the day, I did always feel that I was being a bit slack. In fact, our Drama society got in trouble for organising dress rehearsals during the college day - even though no one was missing lectures.

Were they really chips, spangles? Ours claim to sell cheesy chips but they're potato wedges.. fucking potato wedges

 

[butterfly child]

The whole of my three years I had mondays and fridays off. Winner!

I hate you.

 

[butterfly child]

I had Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays off