Students

[vfaulkner]

I just wanted to wish all the students GOOD LUCK! on end-of-term papers, projects, and/or exams!!

<<currently taking break from rereading notes on groundwater geology...

[pete61uk]

I've two papers (Networking Security & Database Systems) and a 'pain in the ass' database to complete before Monday. Exams start in the New Year.

vfaulkner, Geology is 'of itself' an interesting subject, as they compliment each other, do you ever get involved with archaeology?

Good luck, and chill-out over the holidays (if you can).

[vfaulkner]

archaelogy/ nope, unless you consider cleaning out a dead relatives basement and selling on ebay...
this geology class was only to fulfill general science requirements.
i have my information systems exam later today...

[pete61uk]

vfaulkner wrote:

"archaelogy/ nope, unless you consider cleaning out a dead relatives basement and selling on ebay"

Since, genetically (at least) we are all related, that's as good a definition as any. LOL.

A long time ago (many years) I saw a TV documentary on 'Gondwanaland'. Basically, about tectonic plate movements since the seas receded and land formations first appeared. Fascinating stuff!

Fingers-crossed for your exam results

[rocky1]

I just wanted to wish all the students GOOD LUCK! on end-of-term papers, projects, and/or exams!!

<<currently taking break from rereading notes on groundwater geology...

V! ~ We have far more in common than I ever dreamed imaginable.... Spent 14 years managing a moderately sized potable water system, wherein hydrogeology was often a concern in protection of the aquifer providing our water supply. Never did any course study on the topic or it's finer points, but I did come to understand our aquifer and it's peculiarities quite extensively. It was in fact, very interesting stuff! One never realizes the complexity of issues involved there until you have to deal with it all! Most people see hundreds of little pot holes and wetlands in the surrounding country side, streams, sloughs, an occasional lake, and a river or two. But they never realize how they are all interconnected, and only a miniscule part of what lies beneath the earth's surface.

Good luck on the exams! I join you in January. Begin Computer Science classes 1/13/04, it's back to school after 27 years! OUCHHHH!

[matauri]

Our students have mostly finished exams now, and its schoolie time. A time when rolls of toilet paper have to be hidden, radio aerial on cars have to be lowered, letterboxes nailed down & wet weather gear worn to nightspots! 9 weeks of hell ;-)
(summer holidays for aussie students)

Their time will come....its workforce soon ! Out into the big bad world ;-)



Cindy

[minstrel]

Our students have mostly finished exams now, and its schoolie time. A time when rolls of toilet paper have to be hidden, radio aerial on cars have to be lowered, letterboxes nailed down & wet weather gear worn to nightspots! 9 weeks of hell ;-) (summer holidays for aussie students)

Odd people, these Aussies - most of that post sort of makes sense (at least for "Makes Mental" Matauri), although the part about "students have finished exams and it's 'schoolie' time" confuses me - wouldn't schoolie time be when they go to school rather than when they're on summer break? The one I really don't get is the bit about hiding the toilet paper - when the kids are home from school up here, I buy more toilet paper - I dread to think of what they would do if we ran out...

[matauri]

Odd people, these Aussies - most of that post sort of makes sense (at least for "Makes Mental" Matauri), although the part about "students have finished exams and it's 'schoolie' time" confuses me - wouldn't schoolie time be when they go to school rather than when they're on summer break? The one I really don't get is the bit about hiding the toilet paper - when the kids are home from school up here, I buy more toilet paper - I dread to think of what they would do if we ran out...

LOL...schoolies week is just a general term to describe the mass of school leavers, and it generally lasts longer than a week too :-)

Yar..ya hide the toilet paper for sure! Or your car, local shops, or even house can be wrapped up in it!

And its because we're so odd that makes us so loveable ;-)


Cindy

[minstrel]

Yar.. ya hide the toilet paper for sure! Or your car, local shops, or even house can be wrapped up in it!

But... how to put this delicately? What do your children use instead of toilet paper? Should you be hiding the towels?

"It's 'ow' and 'yar' that keep her in her place - not her wretched clothes and dirty face" - Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady (from memory so it may not be accurate).

[rocky1]

Yar! And, here I thought it was just the juvenile attitude of America's College aged youth that scared me in respect to the future! It's a worldwide epidemic!