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Hiya guys. im 3dgE and im just startin to post here now so excuse my abrupt disturbance at hand. I am currently attending Memorial University of Newfoundland found in Newfoundland (DUH!!!) where I am currently studying to become an Engineer. I dunno what field of Engineering exactly im gonna major in right away, but hopefully i'll know when it comes time to apply for it. I am a First Year student where i wll be studying for a total of 6 years.

:If you think it's long, the degree length was actually shortened like 2 years ago. From 6-7 years to 5-6 years

We have shortened classes today because of Martin Luther King Day so I have a nice long break right now. I don't have another class until 3:45 so I'm just going to hang out for awhile. I could go to the assemble, but I don't think thats going to happen.

I also wanted to find time to work out on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but yesterday during the time I wanted to go I fell asleep. I probably needed the sleep anyway. So I worked out today and since I'm in the routine now I'm going to try and workout Wednesdays and Fridays. Maybe one day on the weekend too, but I usually get my stuff done in two days.

Also, how is everyone elses eating habits? I try to eat two meals a day, but for most days thats just not enough so I use my two meals that I am allowed and get a little extra from the restaurant on campus for a third meal. I rarely go out to eat or anything like that, but do occasionally.

Getting back next Tuesday. I've been practicing waking up at least at 9 because I'm ending up going to bed at 6 am and waking up at 2 pm (I keep doing this whenever I have a long break and feel like crap when I have to readjust to my normal wake up time)

At 1/13/09 09:45 AM, Corky52 wrote: I have to buy this program before my classes next week called Live Text. I'm going to end up using it every year until I graduate now, but it's just more money that I have to through out there now.

I never heard of it. What exactly is Live Text used it for?

At 1/13/09 10:01 AM, 3dgE wrote: Hiya guys. im 3dgE . . .

Welcome.

I am currently attending Memorial University of Newfoundland found in Newfoundland (DUH!!!) where I am currently studying to become an Engineer. I dunno what field of Engineering exactly im gonna major in right away, but hopefully i'll know when it comes time to apply for it.

You can't go wrong becoming a MechE.

At 1/14/09 12:41 PM, Corky52 wrote: Also, how is everyone elses eating habits? I try to eat two meals a day, but for most days thats just not enough so I use my two meals that I am allowed and get a little extra from the restaurant on campus for a third meal. I rarely go out to eat or anything like that, but do occasionally.

My eating habits were horrible in college. I worked in an office in the Student Union and all I ever ate was fast food crap for lunch. When I lived on campus, I usually went to the cafeteria, which was a little healthier, except it was buffet style. Yeah Freshmen 15; it's true.

Depending on the day, I would eat third meal. You know, for those long nights.

At 1/14/09 01:03 PM, Fleshlight wrote: Getting back next Tuesday. I've been practicing waking up at least at 9 because I'm ending up going to bed at 6 am and waking up at 2 pm (I keep doing this whenever I have a long break and feel like crap when I have to readjust to my normal wake up time)

Yeah, I planned on practicing it, but I never ended up actually doing it until the night before. I've been good about it here so far. I think the biggest thing is the diet. Because if you eat really shitty you just get extremely tired and you end up not wanting to wake up in the morning. So far I've been alright.

At 1/15/09 07:31 AM, reverend wrote:

At 1/13/09 09:45 AM, Corky52 wrote: I have to buy this program before my classes next week called Live Text. I'm going to end up using it every year until I graduate now, but it's just more money that I have to through out there now.

I never heard of it. What exactly is Live Text used it for?

I make presentations and stuff on it. I need to use it just for my major and that's it. Like the portfolio that I show to get my teacher certificate and stuff has to be shown on there.

My eating habits were horrible in college. I worked in an office in the Student Union and all I ever ate was fast food crap for lunch. When I lived on campus, I usually went to the cafeteria, which was a little healthier, except it was buffet style. Yeah Freshmen 15; it's true.

Depending on the day, I would eat third meal. You know, for those long nights.

Well I thought eating in the cafe was a little bit better, but I looked at some of the nutritional stuff last night and everything is just filled with fat. Looks like everything has 20 grams of fat or more in it. As long as I work out and everything this should be fine, but I'm thinking about having a day every week where I just eat vegetables and fruit because I usually end up eating more than 200 grams of fat in one meal.

At 1/15/09 07:31 AM, reverend wrote: You can't go wrong becoming a MechE.

I liked the idea in the beginning, but now that im doing some beginner level engineering courses from each field (which im required to do nowadays) i can't seem to make my mind up now. i really liked doing stuff within digital logistics, so i might try to get within electrical engineering

At 1/14/09 12:41 PM, Corky52 wrote:

Also, how is everyone elses eating habits?

shitty lol. i hardly eat breakfast, and if i do its like two slices of toast and some juice or water. today i added an apple to the mix as well lol. but yeah, if i dont get that then i get a breakfast sandwich at mr. sub.

Lunch is usually a sub or a burg from good ol' DQ. and supper is either a)nothing cuz im not hungry
b) a good homecooked meal than god. tonight its hot turkey sandwiches (YUM!!!) or c) a sub from the subway that i work at.

I eat the competition up lol

At 1/14/09 12:41 PM, Corky52 wrote:

Also, how is everyone elses eating habits?

Hot pockets and frozen hamburgers nearly every day. Starbucks serves as my main breakfast, if I'm out of breakfast hot pockets I'll go there and get a bacon egg and cheese sandwich and a grande mocha. Also, being in Philly, Philly Cheesesteaks. If I don't have at least one a week, I start getting withdrawal symptoms. Ironically the ones that the street vendor sells are better than the ones at the local pizza place, and about $2 cheaper. I'll also occasionally eat hot dogs and salad too, and texas toast. Naturally a lot of soda and candy too. Ice cream when the weather permits. Going out to eat means cheesesteaks/Wendy's/5 Guys.

XD best diet ever. Actually I don't eat that much in a day and I worry sometimes that I'm undereating. I got a little bit depressed/stressed out at one point and had to force myself to get up off my ass and make dinner. (at 10 pm) I only weigh around 120 lbs but I've always had a super fast metabolism, and I seem to have gained a very small amount of weight so that's comforting I guess.

I cook all my meals. For breakfast, I usually do something with eggs. For lunch I eat whatever was left over from the night before, or whip up a sandwich (made mac n cheese from scratch yesterday so I've got that to finish up). Right now, I'm about to get a beef stew going.

I always eat a proper supper, usually something like soup or a tuna mayo sandwich or something around midnight, usually a sandwich at uni around 1-2pm, and a couple of times a week i'll squeeze in time to get a bowl of cereal in the morning.

So anyway, just bagged myself a flat for next year (I don't know what the deal is in US universities, but in most unis in the UK it's common practice to be in halls in the first year, and then rent your own flat for 2nd and 3rd years.

Put down a £300 deposit on a four bedroom flat (going with three friends from my course), it's gonna be awesome. £66 pppw, (£268/per person per month), double beds in three of the four bedrooms, nice lounge, gas hobs, I can't wait.

At 1/15/09 08:23 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: So anyway, just bagged myself a flat for next year (I don't know what the deal is in US universities, but in most unis in the UK it's common practice to be in halls in the first year, and then rent your own flat for 2nd and 3rd years.

It differs from place to place, depending largely on the accomodations of the university and the housing costs in the area. Princeton had guaranteed housing for all 4 years, which was awesome because the housing cost in the town was astronomical.
But I think most universities here only guarantee housing for the first 1-2 years, and then you either move off-campus or try and get an upperclassman dorm.

Put down a £300 deposit on a four bedroom flat (going with three friends from my course), it's gonna be awesome. £66 pppw, (£268/per person per month), double beds in three of the four bedrooms, nice lounge, gas hobs, I can't wait.

I don't know how the dollar compares to the pound right now, but that seems really inexpensive. Congratulations.

At 1/16/09 06:54 AM, Timmy wrote: It differs from place to place, depending largely on the accomodations of the university and the housing costs in the area.
But I think most universities here only guarantee housing for the first 1-2 years, and then you either move off-campus or try and get an upperclassman dorm.

Yeah, you can live on campus as long as you want but it probably is 10 times cheaper if you move off as soon as you can. OU requires that you live in the dorms for one year (unless you actually live in Norman before you applied) but you can live in upperclassmen dorms or the university owned apartments, if you wish. Of course, most choose to rent houses since cost of living is cheap here in Oklahoma.

Put down a £300 deposit on a four bedroom flat (going with three friends from my course), it's gonna be awesome. £66 pppw, (£268/per person per month), double beds in three of the four bedrooms, nice lounge, gas hobs, I can't wait.

I don't know how the dollar compares to the pound right now, but that seems really inexpensive. Congratulations.

That converts roughly to $398.68 for his deposit and $356.15 per person per month. Not bad I say, but does that cost include utilities (water, gas, electric, etc) and such or is that separate?

WHATUP
im an auto tech student at Southern Illinois University
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WE PREGAME HARDER THAN YOU PARTY!! lol jp

a cookie to whoever can tell me what a saluki is!

Ever get in one of those moods where you just tell yourself, "I'll do the work tomorrow". Well I've been saying that since Monday now. I honestly have to stop and just get all of my work finished today so I can watch football tonight and have Monday off with nothing to do. Hopefully I actually do it this time.

Meh, I have examns next month (way too early!) and a lot of studying to do until then. :/
Worst of all is that 3 examns are on the same day! Maybe the profs where thinking: "Well, 12th of February seems like a good date." and they all put their examns there. Good thing is that I don't HAVE TO take the examns on that date*, as there is another date at the end of March. It's still annoying.

* it wouldn't even be possible to take them all on the 12th, as the times are overlapping each other.

At 1/18/09 01:15 PM, Corky52 wrote: Ever get in one of those moods where you just tell yourself, "I'll do the work tomorrow".

yes, it's called procrastination. This usually happens to all the subjects I don't care for, like art history. Essay every week which I put off till the last minute, literally: Rhetoric ends at 10, I go to the computer lab and type like I'm on crack, and at 12 I hand it in. Drawing class, however, I work my ass off on all the projects because I actually have fun doing it.

At 1/18/09 04:39 PM, Fleshlight wrote:

At 1/18/09 01:15 PM, Corky52 wrote: Ever get in one of those moods where you just tell yourself, "I'll do the work tomorrow".

yes, it's called procrastination.

I have that mood sometimes. You need to try to break away from that habit or it can be come continuous habit. What I do is make a list of what I need to do on a sticky note. Then I plan to have a time management objective to finish whatever is needed to be done.

The best part is when I finish my work I can rip up that sticky note with joy.

At 1/17/09 09:53 AM, reverend wrote: That converts roughly to $398.68 for his deposit and $356.15 per person per month. Not bad I say, but does that cost include utilities (water, gas, electric, etc) and such or is that separate?

Utilities aren't included.

Also, the price is fantastically good for me, I'm paying around £118/week at the moment for my halls of residence, so it's almost half the price.

At 1/18/09 04:39 PM, Fleshlight wrote:

At 1/18/09 01:15 PM, Corky52 wrote: Ever get in one of those moods where you just tell yourself, "I'll do the work tomorrow".

yes, it's called procrastination. This usually happens to all the subjects I don't care for, like art history. Essay every week which I put off till the last minute, literally: Rhetoric ends at 10, I go to the computer lab and type like I'm on crack, and at 12 I hand it in. Drawing class, however, I work my ass off on all the projects because I actually have fun doing it.

Well I find that if I dislike the subject then I won't do it until last minute and if I like the subject I still won't do it until last minute. The only difference between the two is that while working on this subject that I do like I can work very fluently and get stuff done quickly. Doing work that I don't like is long and strung out. I like to take a lot of breaks doing that.

At 1/18/09 06:29 PM, Goonie wrote:

I have that mood sometimes. You need to try to break away from that habit or it can be come continuous habit. What I do is make a list of what I need to do on a sticky note. Then I plan to have a time management objective to finish whatever is needed to be done.

See I do the little sticky notes thing and everything. I make To Do lists... I just never get them done. I notice that at the beginning of the semester I'm usually like this and at the end I'm much better at working.

Also, on another note I just got my scores back for the Praxis exams. I had to take a 1-2 hour test in writing, reading, and math. The cost 50 dollars each to take, but I need to take them for my major. If you fail you have to pay the price to take them again so I'm really happy that I passed.

I ended up passing the math and reading with almost perfect scores and the writing one I actually failed by 1 point. They luckily have a scoring system where if you fail one they will take your combined scores to see if you have a passing score that way. Since I did so well in the other two subjects I passed by my combined score. (The one I failed, I just missed by 1 point anyway)

Yea, count me in, just check out my blog posts, I've got a couple about where I attend college.

here is the link:

http://www.durhamtech.edu/html/prospecti ve/programsofstudy/cjcp.htm

in case you didn't know, my major is Criminal Justice. I want to be a CSI for my career.

Class starts in 9 hours :(

The good thing is that the earliest classes I have require me to wake up at 9 on Tues/Thursdays, while Mon/Wed. start at noon, and Friday starts at 2. Much better than the waking up at 7 and 8 AM everyday routine I was pulling last semester.

At 1/20/09 01:54 AM, 36Holla wrote:

The good thing is that the earliest classes I have require me to wake up at 9 on Tues/Thursdays, while Mon/Wed. start at noon, and Friday starts at 2. Much better than the waking up at 7 and 8 AM everyday routine I was pulling last semester.

I have class at 8 everyday except on Fridays. I had a really hard time waking up this morning as you can imagine my sleeping habit really changed for the long weekend that we had. I ended up getting up around 7:30 though. I love how I get up and blame my girlfriend for not waking me up. :P Even though she says she tried to wake me up several times, which I do believe.

It was extremely cold this morning and it was well below 0 degrees outside. I made it to class though and it was one of those classes that you just can't miss or your way behind.

I've always made a habit of scheduling the least amount of classes on Tue/Thurs since they almost 2hrs long and my attention span is only an hour long.

I've only had one class at 7:30 in the morning, Chemistry; it was in my freshmen year and I never made that same mistake again.

At 1/20/09 09:31 AM, Corky52 wrote: I have class at 8 everyday except on Fridays. I had a really hard time waking up this morning as you can imagine my sleeping habit really changed for the long weekend that we had. I ended up getting up around 7:30 though. I love how I get up and blame my girlfriend for not waking me up. :P Even though she says she tried to wake me up several times, which I do believe.

I did wake you up a bunch of times, you just stayed up to late to have the energy to wake up. :P

The misses setting the record straight. hahaha

I kid, of course.

Just went to the wrong English lecture (timetable change-arounds each term FTW), so instead of trying to find the right one, I went to my friends' Psychology lecture for an hour. Took some notes, learned about receptors, ion channels, neurotransmitters, hormones, etc etc. Was actually quite fun... but probably only because it was a one-off thing. If I had to do that every week I might cry.

At 1/21/09 05:05 AM, NEVR wrote: so instead of trying to find the right one, I went to my friends' Psychology lecture for an hour.

Heh, I once attended a Sociology lecture because I had some hours (yes, hours!) to waste. And it was so boring that I infact did weep inside...

At 1/21/09 05:48 AM, Haggard wrote: Heh, I once attended a Sociology lecture because I had some hours (yes, hours!) to waste. And it was so boring that I infact did weep inside...

Haha, ouch.

I quite enjoyed the lecture that I went to, aside from the fact that my friends who actually do psychology said that it was one of the more tedious lectures. It's always nice to learn something new though, especially when it's just a complete change of scenery from what you normally learn.

At 1/20/09 10:52 PM, FroFro52 wrote:

I did wake you up a bunch of times, you just stayed up to late to have the energy to wake up. :P

Yeah, I did I know. I stayed up late again last night (early if you think about it since it was in the morning), but I didn't do that by choice this time. I just really couldn't fall to sleep. The thing was when I woke up I was perfectly fine. I wasn't tired or anything. Hopefully getting back into the lifting weights and working out thing several times a week will help me sleep at night.

Next semester I need to schedule some things a little bit better. I'm sick of having classes at 8 in the morning. I either need to schedule it so I have Tuesday and Thursday off or make it so I just have later classes. I can't stand waking up every single day like that. Even though I'm going to have to do it for the major I'm going for.

At 1/21/09 12:22 AM, reverend wrote: The misses setting the record straight. hahaha

I kid, of course.

Ha, don't kid. I wouldn't know where, when, how, or what if she didn't organize me.

So after a long anxious wait, i finally received an offer to go to university. I'll be doing a Bachelor of Business and Commerce majoring in Property.

doubt theres anybody else here that would be going to UWS or know of it here, but thats where im off to.