h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Thank goodness I have three days without school. There are less than ten days left in the semester and I have come to an interesting point in my scholastic career. I'll be transferring to another uni next year and I'm trying to figure out whether I should be applying as a transfer or a freshman and if I should send my high school or college transcripts. This skipping a year of high school has really confused things, but I certainly don't regret it. I have never had an easier, more pleasant year of school. I've gotten more quiet time and free time than I ever would have had I have spent it locked for eight hours in a high school. Teachers don't care if you pay attention in class, so I can spend my two math classes writing epics and filling out forms and napping or composition class instant messenging people. I have actually gotten on top of my math homework, for some odd reason, and have made very high marks on biology tests with absolutely no studying. That's always quite satisfying.

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, so the mass amounts of cooking end at around 11AM tomorrow. I shall take pictures for all of those interested. My Uncle John arrived last night and is out Christmas shopping. My Uncle Mark, new Aunt Alycia, and Cousin Austin should be arriving in an hour or two. My older brother (*groans*) is coming tomorrow, but I shall manage. At least he will be the only one staying in our house. The other four will be next door in my grandmother's shrine.

Speaking of my grandmother, I took her to a grocery store and she was wearing blue jeans. She is eighty years old and this is the first pair of jeans she has ever worn in her life. Anyway, we were leaving the grocery store and she said, 'I can't believe it.' I asked her what was wrong and she continued, 'That's the first time I've worn dungarees in public before.'

Today I got my new shelves in the mail. I will take pictures of them next week when I get my new plants set up on them. They look quite nice and we got a great deal on them. I am extraordinarily pleased and look forward to filling them with gobs more plants...

Today I got a new pair of boots. They are gray, seamless, Canadian, insulated, and guaranteed not to leak. I am also pleased with them. What do I need snow boots for, you ask? Well, we have *such* harsh weather here in Georgia, you know...meters and meters of snow...feel the sarcasm?

Ah the great mess of schools. I can't really complain about that, it was "your been offered this" "oh ok, I will take it" "righty-oh then". However they have bugged me over again and again I will be glad to be out of it. I have a strange feeling that in a few years however I will be back to studying for my masters...

I have really no idea what thanksgiving is, never celebrated it.

mmm boots. I used to have some real nice boots for hiking, but I stopped hiking a few years back since I had no time for it (damm school!).

I will probably be 'wasting my intellect', as my father so tactfully puts it, after I get my BS. Ah, well.

Thanksgiving is an American holiday. I'd give you a history, but it bores me to tears. I did learn how to do a bunch of really cool Thanksgiving arts-n-crafts in elementary school.

Boots are quite handy if you use them. I love boots.

Yeah well at least your getting a Bachelor degree. Lots of people don't. You would be amazed at the number in the feild, actually. Having a degree is great, I will get two :p for the price of one, actually. But the work and the conditions? there shite. Next time he accuses you of wasting your intellect quote textbooks at him till he goes away. Mine tried to tell me that engineering would be better to do, but the degree isn't accredited and is a hell of a lot more work for what is a completely full field. As opposed to Lib/IT which are as rare as hens teeth. So I quoted text books at him. He hasn't raised the subject since

I reckon its kind of good that you get to do more than one subject for your degree. If you make a bad choice you're not stuck with it for your entire timetable, and you have a bit of variety in there.

On the other hand you have to spend some time doing certain subjects even if you hate them.

I get a piddling 40 credits (that's 1/9th of my degree) to replace with open units if I want. I miss my languages, I figure I should probably keep up with my maths (although I've done everything in the maths open units so its irrelevant really), I want to learn some programming languages and about networks, I want to do psychology, most of all I want to do some philosophy.



But right now most of all I want to play computer games...goodnight.

The communication core subjects were nasty but I do better in them than I do in most of the core librarianship subjects cause its pure theory. 80% of the IT subjects are stuff I have already done and bore me to death. This last year however has been stuff I didn't know which was rather shocking.

I have one choice in my double degree and I had that unit last semester. Media Industries, which was very useful. I liked it, the lecturer is a right wing fool, but what can you do?

I get bored of most computer games very quickly, its never worth me buying them.

I like computer games. I'm wasting my intellect by wanting to run a boarding kennel after I get highly educated in a field that can make lots of money. I shall stick with my 32 piddling credits a year...quite happily.

I have 24 credits a semester for a total of 94 credits to finish. However the system is completely different

So it is. Quite, methinks.

3 or 4 credit per unit, 3 after S2 2005

I honestly couldn't tell you about how many credits I need. I do know that, unless I have thirty credits by the end of next semester, I will be sleeping in the freshman dorm.

Sleeping haahahahahahaha oh thats funny, I can tell you know every dorm is noisy, has idiots that break bottles, keep on loud music at ungodly hours and so on. Your best option is to invest now in some earplugs and one of those masks they were on airplanes, if you want to sleep that is.

En Angleterre:
120 credits/year = 360 credits for a BA or BSc. Each credit theoretically represents 10 hours work, but in practice this doesn't work out e.g. my 20 credit 'IT for historians' module I've now finished after approx. 5 hours.

My 40 credits of open units is for the entire degree. I think maybe I should switch degrees to History with French next year or something.

At least they plan on continuing your degree for that time, mine is slowing being cut, I will be the last one out with it, along with 6 others.

If I go to the uni I intend on going to, I will be the first with a certain degree specialization.

I will be one of 32, thats pretty rare

So it is, so it is.

And now I think its bouncy's turn, we shall have to wait then....

Oh don't expect me to know how many historians there are here. Lots.

Ah and so we draw a conclusion to that part of the discussion and open a new one, what is everyone going to do with there shiny bit(s) of paper?