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[Frumple]

You could do that, too, though. Flexible scheduling is something that's probably built into any decent adult school's methodology -- since they're often working around working individuals and people dealing with specific issues (GED prep, etc), they kinda' have to. It would be built into any decent school's methodology, but when you're running a shitty half-ass creche system, standards lower :V

For me, though, switching tracks every hour was pretty close to literally driving me insane, and notably cutting into academic performance from every angle. When I cut it back to something like two or three any one day, things became much less pressured. I was getting more done despite spending less hours a day on schoolwork, and feeling a lot better about it beside.

College after the general education stuff was goddamn bliss. Yes, give me nothing but related classes for the day, thanks.

[Skyrunner]

Study woes~

[Orange Wizard]

A rule of thumb is that the smaller the class size, the better.

It seems to plateau out below 0, as far as I know.

[miauw62]

I have no motivation left at all. One more.

[TD1]

I have no motivation left at all. One more.

I know. All the other exams have drained me. And then I look into the daunting face of biology and I think

"Awh, hell no"

[sjm9876]

Two more. The 2 hardest.
Then I can chill. Then I can watch the new films, head to a gaming cafe, frequent a couple of bars, and in general just not work.

On the subject of class sizes, my school/college had some very small classes - in fact, some were a bit too small. My Ancient Greek class at GCSE contained 3 people, and my Further Maths class contained 4 - in both of them we did as much chatting as working, because in a class that small you become used to the teachers and things get too relaxed. Of course, it depends on the teacher, but it's a general trend that holds.

[TD1]

My Business Studies class held maybe seven at GCSE. The teacher was an eejit, though.

Most stayed at the 20-25 mark for GCSE, but the only one that maintained that size after GCSE was English Literature, and people have steadily been dropping it.

[Descan]

Two more. The 2 hardest.
Then I can chill. Then I can watch the new films, head to a gaming cafe, frequent a couple of bars, and in general just not work.

On the subject of class sizes, my school/college had some very small classes - in fact, some were a bit too small. My Ancient Greek class at GCSE contained 3 people, and my Further Maths class contained 4 - in both of them we did as much chatting as working, because in a class that small you become used to the teachers and things get too relaxed. Of course, it depends on the teacher, but it's a general trend that holds.

I find that after a while, there's not much more to talk about except the work. Though, to be fair, the work *can* start tangents on it's own.

[sjm9876]

Hmmmm..... the problem is with the kind of people taking A-level Further maths (aka, 2 maths a levels in 1 option) and GCSE Ancient greek, notorious for being both pointless and overtly difficult, we all tend to be insane. Which results in a tendency to derail that could rival even Bay12. Seriously, we wrote half of a LotR musical in Ancient Greek

[Descan]

... But that's studying, innit? Using the language.

[sjm9876]

Allow me to clarify - in Ancient Greek class. The only non-course stuff we did in Greek were a load of random Oedipus jokes.

[TD1]

Oedipus jokes?

Please tell me you didn't discover a new variant of the "Yo mamma" jokes

[Truean]

Tried to go for a walk to gather and cool my thoughts etc....

Small woman with fairly large dog that is clearly too big for her to handle comes walking down the street from the other direction. This thing is pulling her everywhere and she has to full on dig in her heels and put all of her strength into restraining this mutt. The mutt is barking, jumping and pulling her like crazy....

I decide to just silently say screw it and start to turn around to just not deal with this crap. Evidently, this is not good enough.

She calls out for me to stop and "...just let us pass, cause he thinks you're in his space. He won't bite...."
My response is pretty simple "It's ok, I'll just go back where I came from and not bother you two (her and mutt)."
Her reply is pretty stupid, "Well that doesn't help me much."
Seeing this, I say, "You really need to control your animal, because if my leaving doesn't help...."

My first thought is somewhere close to being that it isn't my problem you can't control your animal.... I hate being right, because this thing breaks loose and tries to bite me. The dog is about 150 lbs, and pissed. She threatens to sue me after I kick it in the face and it runs off whimpering. I hand her my card and say "try it." By the way, your homeowner's insurance will probably force you to euthanize that dog if it knows you're now on notice that it is a biting hazard. I recommend a muzzle and obedience school. If there's nothing else...?"

I really don't like overprivileged people. Your dog doesn't trump a human being, especially if it is violent.

I am still not relaxed. Going to try and fix that. Will talk with police to head off any stupidity she may do. I don't want any action taken against the dog though (the dog warden would kill it).

Edit: overprivilledged, not "underprivileged" damn auto correct, doesn't recognize overprivilledged as a word.... Figures.

[miauw62]

I have no motivation left at all. One more.

I know. All the other exams have drained me. And then I look into the daunting face of biology and I think

"Awh, hell no"

Wait, you have Biology tomorrow too?
Heh, quite the coincidence.

[Imperial Guardsman]

wrong thread