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At The Back => The Dressing Room => Topic started by: GuitarIv on June 21, 2013, 06:42:38 PM
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Hey guys,
just wanted to post here whilst I'm on a short coffee break. I've got a big exam on Wednesday and I'm kinda freaking out right now. I realized it's much more to learn than I initially thought it would be and I'm having a hard time right now not losing my nerves. Any tipps from fellow students at universities? Why does a day only have 24 hours? :?
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I'm not a student now but I did do a uni degree a few years ago so I feel your pain. I will still wake up in a panic that I have so much work to do and so little time, then remember I finished uni ages ago :lol:
My advice is first thing to do is calm down, being in a panic will only make things a bigger problem than they actually are, so do what you have to do to calm down (within reason haha, hangovers are not going to help you).
Prioritize your time, don't cram to the determent of your other exams/essays. Set aside solid time for doing specific things, such as preparing for this exam and stick to it. When you get to the end of that time slot, switch off and move on.
When it comes to information absorption it's actually been proven (somewhere by someone) that you will retain more information and perform better by attentively reading something through once and having an early night rather than overloading your brain with multiple chunks of information and staying up late trying to compensate. Your brain will process the information alot better this way.
Relax and goodluck, I'm sure it will be fine :)
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spend hours in the library and don't go out drinking if you want good grades, that's what I didn't do and ended up quitting the degree.
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try to spot possible questions that'll come up. you don't necessarily have to learn it all.
obviously it's better practise to learn it all properly (do as i say, not as i do :oops: ) if you hadn't been caught out, but you have, so you need to make the best of a bad situation.
and yeah don't panic. easier said than done, but that'll make it worse, as lew said.
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I'm kinda still unsure if I'll have enough time to learn everything, so I'm focusing on the most important stuff. :lol:
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Most obviously
Why are you on an internet forum?
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Turn off facebook and youtube while you're at it ;)
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Most obviously
Why are you on an internet forum?
lol
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Well, just had the exam and it went better than expected. To answer your question MDV: I tend to take 5 to 10 minute breaks every 2 hours to rest my brain, including reading through the forum. And I don't have a Facebook account ;)
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Well, just had the exam and it went better than expected. To answer your question MDV: I tend to take 5 to 10 minute breaks every 2 hours to rest my brain, including reading through the forum. And I don't have a Facebook account ;)
good for you for not having facebook, I left in 2011 and it's one of the greatest things I've ever done. Hope your exam went well, keep us posted on what grades you get.
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good news :)
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Ever since I left Facebook I have more time, less useless information and a stronger connection to my friends. I don't see a point in handing over my personal data in exchange for deprivation of time that could be spent better on other things... like learning for university or doing chromatic exercises on the guitar :P
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I never joined it in the first place. I'm all for pointless timewasting, but I can do that already without handing over all my details :lol:
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Good for you! I got it when I was younger and it was "cool" to be on Facebook. Sometimes I wish I could travel back in time and slap myself in the face :lol:
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Now I am a little late for the party, but I got one tip that can still help with future exams and will hopefully help me when I start uni in september.
Make cheat sheets. Go ahead do it. Donīt use them though, just write them up. It is a great way to solidify your knowledge by writing it down and previouly distilling it down. You revise everything in you mind, filter out the important stuff and write it down, which all help memorizing things.
That and making a song of it. I think I once remembered some formula with a progressive guitar rythm part...
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Good for you! I got it when I was younger and it was "cool" to be on Facebook. Sometimes I wish I could travel back in time and slap myself in the face :lol:
to be fair, when i was younger facebook didn't exist, so i dunno how much credit i can take for it :lol:
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Hahaha still good for you! I don't know how old you are but I wish I was born in the sixties so I could have lived in the golden times of the NWOBHM and Thrash. People were seeing Metallica in their most glorious era and even pop music was great, they met at concerts and socialised before something like Facebook was even possible. I'm kinda a nostalgic guy, need that god damn time machine already! :P
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I'm not that old :lol: I technically lived through the golden times of those (well, thrash anyway) but I was about 2 so I still missed it :lol:
I'd rather be young, to be honest. Things have to be pretty bad before you'd prefer to be old (IMO).
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With nowadays pop music I am considering things to be bad :lol:
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:lol: actually pop music a few years ago wasn't too bad. it's got a bit worse again now, but still. i remember the late 90s, that really *was* bad. :lol:
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Nothing beats a Rihanna, Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga when it comes to annoying and poorly composed pop music. But that's just my opinion ^^
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Hahaha still good for you! I don't know how old you are but I wish I was born in the sixties so I could have lived in the golden times of the NWOBHM and Thrash. People were seeing Metallica in their most glorious era and even pop music was great, they met at concerts and socialised before something like Facebook was even possible. I'm kinda a nostalgic guy, need that god damn time machine already! :P
I'm not that old :lol: I technically lived through the golden times of those (well, thrash anyway) but I was about 2 so I still missed it :lol:
I'd rather be young, to be honest. Things have to be pretty bad before you'd prefer to be old (IMO).
Ah, you young 'uns. :lol:
I'm not saying I prefer being old, but I am glad I grew up in the pre-digital age. It may sound odd, but I much preferred it when you had to actually make some effort to find information, see a film or get hold of new music, and if something good was on TV everyone would've seen it at the same time!
Although I love the internet in many ways, and digital communication makes many things so much easier and more convenient, it seems to lock us all into our own little bubbles rather than being part of the real world out there.
Sorry, totally off-topic.
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Don't like bieber, but i actually quite like lady gaga :lol: her stuff is actually really 80s (considering you said you wanted to be alive during the 80s). some of rihanna's (older) stuff isn't too bad, either. as i said, it's far better than the tat around when i was 17 or 18. Admittedly, we had no x factor or similar then, so... :?
I'm old enough to remember life before the internet and it's way better now. IMO, obviously. The "real" world's overrated :D
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Life before the internet would have involved going to the library and having to do actual research in order to write essays for university, where's the fun in that?
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Gaga to me is catchy yet... cr@p. Seriously, rama ulala raga ulala, alejandro alejandro, fernando, pa pa pa pokafejsss? I kinda sometimes have the feeling there's something stuck in her brain interfering with her Broca-Areal :lol:
Music nowadays is reduced to one slab of shemes that seem to work
(ever heard the 4 chord song by axis of awesome?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I)
and all the art and appreciation for real musicians that actually put feeling and meaning behind the music they make is ignored. That's at least how I feel :P
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Life before the internet would have involved going to the library and having to do actual research in order to write essays for university, where's the fun in that?
I actually liked doing that. Really.
I imagine people now must just copy huge chunks of material from the net and hope they've found a source obscure enough that no-one else will recognise it. :?
Lady Gaga? I think she has some talent, somewhere under all the nonsense.
Rihanna? Nothing but a cretinous skank.
Bieber? I look forward to his descent into egomania, delusion and addiction. Looks like it's started already....
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Copying huge chunks of text is fine if you quote it as a citation, then write your own take on it, just needs to be relevant, probably not optimal for good marks since it'll fill up the word count pretty fast
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you can still do that, though, philly. the difference now is you have the option.
Nowadays, for example, if i see an actor in a film and wonder what else he/she was in, I can look up wikipedia and within 5 seconds get the answer. As opposed to pre-internet where it would have just annoyed me for ages :lol: Obviously that's a trivial example, but it extrapolates out to more serious stuff, too.
bieber creeps me out :lol:
and yeah when you get past the gimmicks gaga is actually pretty good. i can't remember a popstar before where i've liked nearly every song he/she has released.
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Couple of things.
First of I donīt like Biebers music (exept for this glorios mashup http://vimeo.com/39884322 (http://vimeo.com/39884322)). Still I have respect for the kid as he gets much more hate than he deserves and (so far) handles it quite well. Seems like he can take a joke too, judgin from an apearance on Conan, which is always a plus.
Secondly, yes we do have a lot of shite in this day and age, but I wonder if it is not actually more shite getting made but the shite just having it easier to get out and be made famous (its watched because it is watched).
At any rate there is still a big lot of great music out there if you find it. Just to cite a few I really enjoy: Sufjan Stevens, Steven Wilson, Bon Iver, The XX, Van Canto, Fleet Foxes, Protest the Hero, The National, Saul Williams, Sigur Rós, Arcade Fire, Fall out boy, Ghost, Heaven Shall Burn, LCD Soundsystem, Regina Spektor, The Tallest man on Earth, etc.
Now when it comes to liking these your milage may vary and its a colorful bunch too, but they are all fairly new (to varying degrees, I think they are all about this decade) and for people who like the styles I believe they can really be concidered pretty good.
Thirdly: One thing that was good about the olden days of yore was that there were less distractions. That means more practiving the guitar. These days it is so easier to get lost doing other things I recon.
If I was born 20 years ealier I would be a much better player at this age I think.
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What i miss about the pre internet/digital age is getting out of the house.
All of my friends are lazy arses who would rather talk over the internet than meet up and have a good time.
I have a few quality friends who i see as often as i can. But a lot of people just come up with cr@ppy excuses then later on you find they have been posting some pointless cr@p on facebook or playing candy crush or the like.
I feel like the internet has diluted people to an extent. They want everything the easy way, they don't want to have to physically do anything that they can do online and most of all people in general have become anti-social and reclusive.
I am like Philly. I would rather head down the library or bookstore/blockbusters and find something of interest spending time to browse than sit on my ass and click a few links to get it.
Another thing i do like that the digital age is slowly eroding is physical ownership of movies,books & games. I don't want to pay for something (more than often the same price) and get a digital version that could very easily be lost if the company goes bust.
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You're absolutely right Tony. Those "social" networks are everything but social. That's also the reason I deleted my facebook, I have "less" friends but those I have are really there for me. If someone needs something from me, I have a phone, give me a call and we can talk in person, grab a beer or drink a coffee together.
I also rather own something physically than only on my PC. If the computer brakes, you lose everything.