Holidays are too long. (1 Viewer)

[Skittled]

I'm not feeling it yet, but I'm sure we all will eventually. The uni holidays are just too long. Why not reduce the summer holiday length a bit and extend the middle one?

Feeling particularly unproductive, I was "stumbling" (using a wonderful little firefox/IE plugin called "stumbleupon" which helps waste your time just that little bit more efficiently), and a few links later came across this little essay. Read on, fellow.. well... readers...

On the Implausibility of the Death Star's Trash Compactor.

Suddenly the time wasted during the holidays with cleaning, socialisaing and stumbling is actually quite productive in comparison to the time taken to write this...

 

[bscienceboi]

I can't believe I read that.

 

[SweetSeasons]

I'm gonna try and save every penny this year and go on a month long backpacking holiday or something. so yeah uni holidays will be good for that

 

[GoodToGo]

Indeed, the end of year break is too long, for those not going away for any significant amount of time, such as moi.

 

[iwannarock]

skitled ur kidding rihstght?

how could u wanna have shorter holidays and go back to stinkin uni

i left uni saying seeeeeeeeeeee ya laaaaaaaaaaaater stinktown!

with uni on i could only be free to do nothing 90% of the time.

but now with uni out of the picture.......im free t o do nothing 100% of the time.

i'm at my full nothing-ness capability here!

maximum capacity.

my goals for this summer, learn the banjo..........buy a rocking chair...............find those long grass things that grow in my lawn and chew it.............then sit outside on my front patio in nothing but my underpants singing songs of the south!

i need all of the holidaaays to fulfil this dream!!WSa

 

[xeuyrawp]

I agree with steve.

I think uni should start early to mid feb, with a week or two being put in breaks -- maybe even stick a week between the end of term and the beginning of exams?

I for one think a week between term and exams would benefit not only the students, who will write better papers, but for the conveners who have to read those papers.

 

[glitterfairy]

skitled ur kidding rihstght?

how could u wanna have shorter holidays and go back to stinkin uni

i left uni saying seeeeeeeeeeee ya laaaaaaaaaaaater stinktown!

with uni on i could only be free to do nothing 90% of the time.

but now with uni out of the picture.......im free t o do nothing 100% of the time.

i'm at my full nothing-ness capability here!

maximum capacity.

my goals for this summer, learn the banjo..........buy a rocking chair...............find those long grass things that grow in my lawn and chew it.............then sit outside on my front patio in nothing but my underpants singing songs of the south!

i need all of the holidaaays to fulfil this dream!!WSa

ROFL!

I'm pathetically laughing out loud in my chair... I'm sure my family thinks I'm nuts! Oh wait... they already do! No harm done!

But some sort of Stuvac/ a bigger in-between-semesters holiday might be nice.

 

[iambored]

I agree with steve.

I think uni should start early to mid feb, with a week or two being put in breaks -- maybe even stick a week between the end of term and the beginning of exams?

I for one think a week between term and exams would benefit not only the students, who will write better papers, but for the conveners who have to read those papers.

I don't
Bring on the holidays

iwannarock's post was great

 

[pb]

yeh i agree! they should give us longer and more study breaks and shorter holidays
its pretty good that i can sleep a lot more though... but then i feel lazy and i hate that

 

[SuGa BunI =D]

i had one week of sleeping in then worked 12 days straight, no break

 

[*hopeful*]

at least u got that 1 week sugabunni, i been workin fulltime since 2 days after my last exam hence no sleep n no fun ie no proper holidayz, i wish it wuz 4 months

 

[fornstar]

i would like an extra week each semester to study before exams start, is that too much to ask???

 

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i would like to have a gpa of 4.5

 

[AsyLum]

i would like to have a gpa of 4.5

..and a big penis please santa

 

[glitterfairy]

Dear Santa,

Please give me temporary repping powers so I can publicly appreciate posts such as the above!

 

[glitterfairy]

I'm not feeling it yet, but I'm sure we all will eventually. The uni holidays are just too long. Why not reduce the summer holiday length a bit and extend the middle one?

Now that summer has well and truly hit I know the answer to this one:

BECAUSE IT'S TOO FRICKIN' HOT IN SUMMER TO LEARN ANYTHING!

'nuff said.

 

[iwannarock]

Now that summer has well and truly hit I know the answer to this one:

BECAUSE IT'S TOO FRICKIN' HOT IN SUMMER TO LEARN ANYTHING!

'nuff said.

its not too fricken hot to learn banjo.

cuz u learn it in ur underwear in the front yard.

jeez i love coming to these boards drunk. my creativey is at a maximum maximinity.

 

[AsyLum]

haha, banjo!

awesome, lets have a ho-down! ill get me spoons

 

[glitterfairy]

Yee-haaa!

*clogs*

 

[redruM]

this summer is way too hot to be working in a warehouse!

i know its is greatly off topic, but i just follow trendsetters