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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: kilo2 on December 09, 2010, 12:12:03 AM
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Any of you swamped with work? I am and it sucks. :cry
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Any of you swamped with work? I am and it sucks. :cry
me too man :cry
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yes :cry :furious
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It eases the pain a little knowing I am not suffering alone. :cry
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i was at the first of the week. it's all turned in and I only have one final left to take.. soooooooooooo close :cheers:
good luck to the rest of you :aok
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2 5 pagers due tues. Havent started either :D
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Part of a final and a test tomorrow, but of course it's 3:30 and I can't sleep.
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Part of a final and a test tomorrow, but of course it's 3:30 and I can't sleep.
Yeah up writing my last paper due tomorrow 5 pager so not too bad. Sad when you start thinking anything under 5 pages is short.
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missed 2 days of school this week which makes it even more hard.
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On my way to school for day 2 of Computer maintenance and management finals.
Hooray. :eek:
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Funniest thing I saw during finals week at the Academy was when one guy decided he was done studying for his last final, he taped a huge stack of books to his busted chair (we had a bad lot of chairs that broke all the time and his must have broken during finals), doused it with liquid shoe polish, lit it on fire, and pushed it out of the 6th floor window into the quad below. It was more fun because he didn't realize that a few windows down someone was rappelling out their window on a "study break", so that got a little more exciting.
And of course when they played taps every night during finals week, about half of the cadet wing would open their windows and start howling and screaming. Funny and sort of creepy too since some people were really good at screaming like they were being murdered. Good stuff, and then they went back to studying of course.
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Last final today. Western Civ. to 1660 :cry
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Got last final today.....
-BigBOBCH
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I'm still fighting with the Financial Aid people :furious I just recieved the THIRD set of the same documents I've filled out twice before! :furious :furious :furious :furious
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Yeah, these teachers I think all make plans, plot and scheme to make the 2 weeks before finals be as stressful as possible.
2.5 weeks ago they gave us the assignment. Bear in mind I only took 3 classes this semester....
Class 1:
1X 10 page essay
1X 5 page essay + in-class presentation
Class 2:
1X 18 page essay. Bastard didnt use the text the entire semester and only 2 weeks before it ends tells us to write 2 page summary on each chapter of the text. $#@$@$ :mad:
(his syllabus read: 'summaries due' but not how many or which ones or summaries of what).
Class 3:
1X 5 page essay + in-class presentation
1X 2 page essay
Im all done with them though... and out of coffee and aspirin. :airplane:
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My Daughter stayed up at A&M this past weekend preping for finals. Since her scores are good she only has one to take if I understand correctly.
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Oh the pleasures of being gradu-mi-cated.
I get to fly a cross country to a class bravo today :) . Keep pushing fellas, once you're done and free its quite fun!
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I'm almost finished, but it has sucked. I have one final, and one project to finish for next week. :rock
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I've had a final every other week for the past six months or so... CLEP and DSST tests... Hopefully some employer will see the good in that method... I'm fairly certain a few won't.
I've also had a few online classes during that time and have a paper due for one in a few weeks. I like the online format and feel like I've gotten a better education there than in most brick & mortar classrooms. I think Phoenix grad school is in my future.
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I get to fly a cross country to a class bravo today :) . Keep pushing fellas, once you're done and free its quite fun!
"get to..."? I learned how to fly right in the middle of the San Diego airspace, and now I avoid class B whenever I'm operating VFR. If already on an IFR flight plan then class B is no big deal, but if VFR it is just a big hassle. I suppose driving around at 200kts (or more if a waiver is in effect) is partly to blame for it being more of a hassle since it is easy to punch in and out of the layers quicker than expected. Still, whenever I need to get to an airport in or under Class B I just go IFR and it becomes very easy. Just gotta know which words to say and have the right charts available, and it is a piece of cake. They just hand you from controller to controller and either give vectors or tell you to fly a particular procedure and then just let you fly it. VFR in busy airspace is much harder.
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Finals are done. Now on to Christmas break until Jan 9th.
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Last full day of classes Monday then I have finals the 15th and 20th :cry
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I work at a law school. Finals start this Saturday. The Library is full of people who are studying so hard you can almost see the smoke coming out of their ears.
What makes it more interesting is that at this particular law school, in many of the classes, the final exam counts for 100% of your grade. :O
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Took my last final today. Now I'm on break until February 2nd :)
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Finals done! No college classes till Jan 17th or 24th, can't remember. Parttyyyyyy
-BigBOBCH
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Ahhh it feels good to be exempt.
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Was just informed today that my teacher for my English class will not accept my final essay for some bs reason and so now I have to retake it. [expletive deleted]. This calls for a pitcher or two of sammy.
EDIT: I cant even say that skuzzy? Seemed harmless enough.
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"get to..."? I learned how to fly right in the middle of the San Diego airspace, and now I avoid class B whenever I'm operating VFR. If already on an IFR flight plan then class B is no big deal, but if VFR it is just a big hassle. I suppose driving around at 200kts (or more if a waiver is in effect) is partly to blame for it being more of a hassle since it is easy to punch in and out of the layers quicker than expected. Still, whenever I need to get to an airport in or under Class B I just go IFR and it becomes very easy. Just gotta know which words to say and have the right charts available, and it is a piece of cake. They just hand you from controller to controller and either give vectors or tell you to fly a particular procedure and then just let you fly it. VFR in busy airspace is much harder.
Well it was my first venture into class B. It was exciting and something new. Other than being asked to fly some random altitudes it was neat. Listening to the radios, being "shoulder to shoulder" with the pros. Having jets vectored so close you can read their tail numbers. Tying down next to a gulf stream. Departing during the night and flying over the city, first night landings.
Maybe someday down the line it'll seem like a hassle, but today it was an adventure.
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on the bright side tonight I got the phone number of a very pretty girl in my class :pray
finals next week... will the double x'rs ruin my education once again? oooh the things I do for double C's :D :devil
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Took my last final 24 years ago....
...but have to take major recertifications every 7 years for one specialty and every 10 years for the other.
Never ends!
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thats why im going for archeology. Dead stuff dont require your constant re-certifying... and the equipment used is either a shovel and brush or an extremely expensive piece of gear that comes along with his own specialist to operate it. *point at spot on ground* here, here and here... and he does it.
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Lets put it this way, I have final exams coming up the 13th-17th and I think it will be a vacation compared to the last two weeks. I've come to the peak of the mountain, the worst is behind me.
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Tuesday night my Java programming final project was due, I just turned in my Technical Writing final project, and now its all gravy other than finals. Which won't be gravy, but at least its just study and do exam type hard, not deadline upcoming pull all-nighter to finish type hard.
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I'm still fighting with the Financial Aid people :furious I just recieved the THIRD set of the same documents I've filled out twice before! :furious :furious :furious :furious
Its part of the exam. Make the right choice!
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Done till Jan. 11th :aok
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Maybe someday down the line it'll seem like a hassle, but today it was an adventure.
That's cool. Doing new stuff in a plane is always fun :) I didn't mean to bring ya down, I was probably just being grumpy about my last trip into DFW airspace. I'm not exactly an "old" pilot, but I'm old enough that I take offense when someone else's conduct makes me have to "do that pilot stuff" to avoid a mishap. My last 2 trips to the DFW airspace were somewhat more difficult than I prefer for student training sorties. I don't like taking students into environments where I have to take control to avoid a mishap, but that happened on both of those last 2 trips. A philosophy of mine is that on a "normal" flight, if you have to rely on a demonstration of your best piloting skills to avoid a mishap, you are probably doing things wrong. But that's mostly because I spend most of my flight time with primary students and I need to keep things well within THEIR capabilities, not mine.
So I avoid class B when VFR :)
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A philosophy of mine is that on a "normal" flight, if you have to rely on a demonstration of your best piloting skills to avoid a mishap, you are probably doing things wrong.
Yeah that doesn't sound fun and I completely understand what you said about doing it in a plane flying right at the 200kt limit. It has to be more of a hassle, not busting space or running over some hapless cherokee like mine. My SA is getting pretty good in the local pattern here with the non english speaking students, they like to read back correct but not understand fully and do their own thing. Funny thing was I had fewer ATC instructions going into MCO airspace than I did on my solo cross country to an uncontrolled airport only 60 nm from home. MCO may be one of the least busy though or was on a low work load when I went through, I've no idea. And I didn't think of it as bringing me down, no worries.
I assume you're teaching one of the stages of flight training for the air force, it would be interesting to know how many hours on average an AF guy has when he starts flying the t-6? Ya'll do PPL (or your equivalent) in Colorado Springs in diamond aircraft right? Is that similar to a part 141 syllabus at all, or what are the typical amount of hours flown there? Sorry for the random noob questions :) .
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While I dont write papers as I am a bio pre-med major, the last 2 weeks of school are hell.
All the professors decide to put the semester final tests on the last week of classes. Next week are my actual finals.
Engineering Calc 2
Anatomy and Physiology 1
Genetics
Physics
Shouldnt be too many all nighters considering genetics is the hardest exam. Physics I find too easy and I am thankful that the anatomy exam isnt cumulative.
I will be back at school Jan. 7th and get paid to unpack equipment and stuff into the new building that the school just completed. A $48 million dollar project building a state of the art facility for all the sciences, the animal research lab that I research in, as well as a graduate pharmacy program that will get accredited within the next year.
My school is also getting university status in the summer of next year.
http://www1.wnec.edu/news/index.cfm?selection=doc.2507&DCIid=14072
This is an older picture as there are trees and grass around it now.
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The average USAF T-6 student arrives with anywhere from 20 to 100 hrs in light acft, in my experience anyhow. Some show up with hundreds or even thousands of hours (mostly guard guys) but that is pretty rare. The other NATO countries typically invest in more flight time for their students before they send them here, since just getting them here is pretty expensive and if they don't have what it takes, it's cheaper to wash them out before they even get to the US.
USAF students get an intro in the diamond, yes. They model that training after what the students will see at the main UPT bases, including stand-up emergency procedures training and the basic military environment they will be in. But it is still an introduction course, not really intended to be a rigorous screening program. There is *some* screening at every step along the way (if you are bad academically, you won't be selected, etc) but a bunch of flying prior to UPT isn't really part of the screening process.
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One of the perks of being homeschooled: I can take finals whenever I want, so this week I'm spending in newport oregon
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Wow, quite the plane to jump into with those hours. Impressive stuff, my hats off to you and those that can pull it off.