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"I should probably do some work"

It's 9pm and I'm back at school tomorrow. So far, out of my holiday homework (which included re-doing pretty much the entire analysis and design stages for long course ICT) I have only managed to read a short story for English. I'm in deep poop.

The problem with having so much work involving computers is that I go on the computer ready to work and then I think, "I'll just have a quick look on SR" or, "I'll just have quick couple of rounds of poker." Then I never actually do the work. It's happening right now.

Oh well, I'm sure I'll get away with it, I always do.

That's the sort of sentence that I know I'll regret saying.

Emitime wrote:
> Then I switched the modem on. And now i'm here :(

The flashing lights present such temptation :[ Not that I've got anything better to do :]

JFH wrote:
> MJ wrote:
> I'd rather be taught by a genius than a retard to be honest
>
> No, you wouldn't. His lessons are so fast paced that you can't keep
> up and he has this evil system of marking people at the end of each
> lesson based on how much they contributed during class discussions.

JFH, I had a teacher very similair to yours, and I completely agree with MJ, she made us work really fast and we had to write down tonnes, but I did amazingly well when it came to the exam. I've got a few retarded teachers at my new school and I know I'm going to do bad in those subjects, unless someone else, like my Dad, helps me.

I was lazy up until about the age of 9. When I suddenly became interested and shot up into all the best classes.

Then I became lazy after a few years of being at the top.

But today I woke up at half 5 and managed to do 3 pages of business c/w.

Yeys....

Then I switched the modem on. And now i'm here :(

tnc wrote:
> My motivation has really ebbed away since the start of year 7 and
> although I should be thinking 'GCSEs; work harder' I'm really not
> motivated unless we're doing coursework.

Hahah. You sound just like me :-)

Screw working harder. You've still got 2 and a half terms yet.

Still not done any :(

tnc wrote:
> My motivation has really ebbed away since the start of year 7

Although I've never been overly motivated I personally found learning easier and more worthwhile up until about the age of 16, aka just before my GCSE's. From there it's been a bit of a struggle for me to get myself to work. Hopefully taking something I'm interested in at university will change this though.

to Tomm

I went back last week :(

To Chr1s,

True.

Yet that only ever happens in lessons where I'm ahead with the workload (such as English, Tech and occassionally History) whereas when I don't do the work I can guarantee the deadline will be shortened or simply stay the same.

My motivation has really ebbed away since the start of year 7 and although I should be thinking 'GCSEs; work harder' I'm really not motivated unless we're doing coursework.

The lessons themselves are actually quite pointless except in a few select subjects where we might actually learn something.

You guys get schoolwork over the Summer hols, man your teachers are mean. I've never had anything like that, even at A-Level...

Deadlines for GCSE coursework were always a joke anyway. My original deadline for my business studies coursework last year was mid October but nobody was even close by that point.

I didn't get it finished until the following June and I got an A* for it.

Teachers tell you that deadlines are important to worry you into working harder. The deadline nearly always gets extended for GCSE's.