possible? Good grades & watch dramas?

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:31 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

You know what? This is getting insane! Though I limit myself on ancient Chinese drama, there are still more movies that I can watch Crazy

. I keep downloading, but I couldn't keep up watching all of them!

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 10:11 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Meh, my grades are ok I guess. Dramas aren't really affecting me so much as I watch them when everyones asleep.. So i'm doing alright..yeah, I agree on one thing though, it is time consuming Laugh

abcd99 - Yeah, it get's pretty difficult keeping up with everything since theres so many new ones that come out that you want to watch Laugh

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 10:15 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0

Sure you can..... as long as you keep yourself in check Smile

As for me, for most of the time I have 3 different dramas I'm wathcing.

But the wait for subtitles, the wait for the download is more than enough time to study.

When you get down to it, the bottom line is time management and self-control.

Talk is easy hehe.. I myself have trouble restraining myself. Goggle eyes

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 12:09 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

downloading... though not dramas have affected my life in a big way.... I blame it on the fact I have an AMD Athlon .... ( concentration ability is zero when it is turned on as it is loud and noisy - thats why I always advise if you don't game.. buy an pentium... much quieter and less heat) and I got obsessed perfecting the art of craming a 700mb video into one cd with hard burned subs... the raw don't have subs encoded into them.... and basically downloading movies...

YOu could say I had no self control... BUt I did try to silence the computer as much as possible by changing fans and anything else... but when I took it to the pc shop to get it even more quiet they said that is the quietest. Its soo loud that at night when I have the blanket over my ears I can still hear it huymming... and I sleep in a bunk bed and the computer desk is right under....

THe result that happened is now I have to change Universities as I have changed the course I am doing... finishing up on dramas I have started and not starting new ones... changing the internet connection so now I share with my brother... and because the schedule of the course I am doing clashed with my work life... change jobs.... only problem is because the schedule is sooo all over the place I have to find a part time job, and although I have been working for the past 3 years.. it still ain't easy. So next week off I go to centrelink to get some kind of welfare payment and continue applying for jobs. Hopefully I'll get one soon...

Ohhh.... the most sad thing about this is.... I can't tell my parents otherwise they would be having heart attacks AND THIS IS A FAMILY DISGRACE .... and I still gotta graduate within 2 years as they think as I am doing p/t study - 6 yrs p/t and I already wasted so much time... when I finally finish my course and transfer into mainstream uni I'll have to do the uni course f/t plus summer school...

and its going to be a stressful 2 years... keeping this a secret from eveyone at home.. only my friends know whats happening and they promise not to tell my parents....

I kinda regret working.. the extra money meant i was able to get my internet connection and download with no restriction..

GUYS I LEARNT IT THE HARD WAY - NO AMOUNT OF DOWNLOADING SERIES/MOVIES/SONGS IS WORTH RISKING YOUR ACADEMIC FUTURE... - LOOK AT ME!!!! I HAVE SUCH A MASSIVE LIFE STYLE CHANGE AND IT AIN'T NICE TO BE LYING TO YOUR FAMILY FOR 2 YEARS..

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 12:27 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

@uniquo
I kinda know what you are going through. My A's and B's from my freshman year became mostly C's an F my Sophomore year, and a dropped class my sophomore year. I blame some of it on anime and dramas, which I was introduced to halfway in my freshman year. I became obsessed and didnt care about my work. Right now I am trying hard to do good, though I wont be able to graduate in 4 years either like I wanted, cuz my scholarship only pays 4 years tuition Crying

There are weeks where I stay up every other night doing homework. I told my parents that the school work was hard, and that I was gonna need more than 4 years (which is true, Computer Engineering classes are hard). I Hope you (and I) control ourselves better and focus on our studies, though I wouldnt want you to completely leave dramas. I know I am not abandoning them Mr. Green

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 12:38 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

@android_04 - HAHA not being mean here... what is your hotmail? maybe we can chat about this issue further? I feel very depressed because before I was downloading I was at least passing my subjects...but once the downloading started everything went down the toilet... and all my friends are graduating and doing so well professionally.I will still download... just to finish off my trades and when ever Ruroshin does a batch seed like " My GIrl " I'll dl and my other assingments, but otherwise the computer is off as it is very noisy and distracting. it will look strange if it is always off anyway.

I'll make this clearer... I do 6 years p/t but I only have 2 years of the 6 years left to clean up my act before I get busted.. and the only way to do this is go full time after completing the bridging course I am doing... get as many exemptions from the subjects and do summer school.

SO my situation is worse than yours... my parents also don't know I dropped out of one uni to attend another... my friends are amazed at how far I've kept it from them.... I guess I'm desperate. BUt I'm not trying to sound like a SAINT.. I'm really unhappy at my situation and don't want others to follow my path.

Its also embarrassing when people ask you so how many subjects have you got left... because you know you have to repeat so many - especially my age when you are hitting your mid-twenties and everyone in the course you are doing is like 20 and the course you are doing is mainly aimed at o/seas students and ppl fresh out of uni.. Luckily I have done a bit of tafe and and knwo what subjects are to be studied in the course so I can waffle on a bit... otherwise I would've been busted along time ago.

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:49 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

hmm...I don't study...don't do any homework....watch a ton of dramas....but I still make A's >.<" strange huh? lol I thought so too! Laugh

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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 10:42 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

It's not the dramas distracting me, it's the internet, lol. I only watch drama now and then.

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 10:49 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0

pokute: omgoshies!! all the names sound big and scary as it is but thermodynamics is kinda fun..hahaha well some of it lmao

OvertheRainbow: Possibly hahaha, but all the courses that I'm taking are "suppose" to be the hardest. >.<" maybe it's because the teachers lack the skill ...

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