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Last Minute Ideas

February 16th 2008 05:29

Hey I just realised since there is only a week left until Uni goes back, I am after some crazy fun ideas to finish off the break properly. Can anyone help me out with cheap, good ideas?
It is another YEAR before we get this kind of time off again.
My only idea so far is camping out on the couch watching the kind of junk I soon won't have time for.
But there has to be more to life! What does everyone else to to unwind and for fun?
Every year (dont laugh) I think wow, over the long break I will do something important, write a novel, be in a play, travel, learn the guitar, but every year I get distracted (ok lazy) and accomplish nothing. I am worried by the time Uni is over I will have accomplished nothing except get the degree, I will then go out and get a job, and never really LIVE!!!

Who else worries about this? And had anyone accomplished anything really awesome during their Uni break that they would like to brag about, or help the rest of us out with ideas?
If so, bully to you, and keep up the good life!
Some help would be much appreciated.

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How I get through it

February 16th 2008 02:48

I believe a large percentage of the reason some Grad students do not finish what they start, is that they have not found their vice yet.
There is a positive correlation between how happy a person is, and how long they wait until making a change to their lifestyle. Obvious, huh?
But how many of us apply this to our student lives? We are content to struggle though, in the knowledge that we dont enjoy what we are doing, but the end will justify the means, so its ok.
But are you as scared as I am that you wont make it through?
Everything in me says its easier to quit uni, get a job based on my undergraduate degree, and just give up in general, go the path MORE OFTEN travelled. But is this the way to start our careers, and our adult lives? I think not. I think we need to find ways to make Grad student life more enjoyable and easier to cope with. And I think it is hard to find the special something that will do that for you.

For me, it is not studying on weekends. At all. If it means staying up all night during the week in order to finish what I need to do, so be it. I ALWAYS know I have two days a week in which I do nothing but kick back, relax, watch the shows I have taped during the week and socialise. And this sustains me through the lonely, cold (unseasonably cold for February, by the way) weekday nights.
Another is studying in groups with friends, having a gossip break every few hours, and quizzing each other, making it into a friendly competition is really motivating. At least for a competition freak like moi.
And of course, I cant forget that magical formula, caffiene.
How do you get through it? I would appreciate any tips you could share!

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One week left!

February 16th 2008 02:11

Hi Grad students! I have decided to start a blog devoted to the Grad students of this world.
Because sometimes I feel like there is nothing outside of Uni, and there are some issues facing us that undergraduates, nor people in the workforce can relate to.
Things like the difficulties of having all of one's friends working and earning money. Asking you to chip in for mutual friends (extremely expensive) birthday presents, go out for a fancy dinner (just as a one off, once a week or so) or go away for the weekend. No matter how many times said friends hear "No, I can't afford to do that" they still don't quite get it, and the more you say it, the more of a cheapskate you sound like. And feel like. You start to feel like you ARE making up the fact that you can't afford it, or that you are managing your money badly.
Or is that just me?
The truth is, you are in a different life situation than them! One that you can get away with when you are under 21 living the undergraduate life, living with 3 roomates in a 2 bedroom apartment, going out everynight bar Tuesday, never doing dishes because LIFES TOO SHORT!
But now that everyone around you is "growing up" getting jobs, babies, responsibility (yikes) a clean house and a lovely home cooked meal is sudenly a point of pride. Finishing an essay suddenly sounds immature (no matter how painstakingly hard it was).
By the way who has found that part time jobs for Grad students are few and far between?
It is so hard to find a job that has hours that suit someone doing classes, a thesis, and a placement. Unless you have been working at the same place since high school of course.
What do you guys think? Any way to combat this situation?

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