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I've had six hours of sleep and I now have to watch a film, write a 500 word commentary on it, and get into Uni to hand it in. This is far more work than I'm used to at the moment. Still, the film is only Hamlet - how hard can it be?

Cant you just download it? Copy it form the internet?
And 6 hours isnt that little right?

500 words? You'll be able to do that in 30 minutes ;)

I've pulled longer reports out of my ass and gotten decent marks.  You'll do just fine (provided you're good at improvising deep-sounding answers -- the fine art I like to call "winging it").

MOBN: There is a slight difference between the quality required for school and university. But you already knew that.

I didn't though :P.

Too much applesap for Devlyn.

OSIWM - there's a little thing called "plagiarism" in our country which says that, when you're in your final year of a degree, you're not allowed to pretend other people's work is your own. Crazy, eh? ;)

I pride myself on being an expert improviser under pressure, but these three essays were probably piss-poor. Oh well, serves me right for not doing them on time and stuff.

And, for the record, I had it done in about two hours or so, because unlike you lame-ass students, I don't put out the first 500 words I write - I actually edit and re-write and stuff. And I had a mad hour. Ty can tell you about that.

Ty Please indulge on this "Mad Hour" :)

may improve my writing skills

Hey, I once wrote a 2-page report in 2 hours and got a 10/10 for it :P.

I only flunk exams really, I've never flunked on a report ;)

That happens to everybody once in a while. Just recently for my compilers class i had to write a recursive QuickSort on the Intel 8086's assembly language which i had zero knowledge of. I had to go through a tutorial for the 8086, write the recursive algorithm, debug it, and write a report for it. It was due in the morning of the next day and i started after i got home from work at 10PM. I got around three hours of sleep, but got full credit. Of course i also had a quiz in my Probability class in the same day, but i just did terribly and ended up dropping it.
Win some, lose some. :)

I want to be a university dropout when I'm older.

My ninja skills saw me through.

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Yes.  The class I speak of, however, is AP English, which happens to be a uni class.  Advanced students are allowed to take it their senior year of high school, and then don't have to take it their freshman year of uni.
So, yes, uni quality can be achieved in fast times, but only if you actually paid attention in class...

Where does the "AP" in AP English stand for though...

:lol:

The secret band of newton ninjas seems to be back!!

spot on rendition mate :)

AP stands for Advanced Placement.
In the states, there is an organization called The College Board, who administer the SAT, and the various AP programs (There's ones for Physics, Chemistry, Biology, etc).
Each AP course is a college-level course.  At the end of the course, an AP test is administered, and If you earn satisfactory marks, you can get a credit in that subject at whatever school you go to (although some are snobby and don't recognize the AP tests).  Very nice program, actually, especially at my school, which lacks the advanced classes that wealthier schools would have.

It's really all about the teacher. I've had college teachers that were less demanding than highschool ones.

dude, that''s pokemon you got there on your wall !

And a Donkey Conga too??  :shock:

Yes, I have Donkey Konga bongos. In fact, I just got back from my friend's house where we were playing two-player DK. It was good fun, but my hands hurt now.

And yes, that's a Pok?mon poster. I have another behind my door. Every good ninja needs one.

Damn you.  The PAL version of Donkey Konga has a far superior soundtrack to the US version.  I'm stuck with crap like Campfire Medley and All The Small Things, while you get 99 luft balloons, and other less childish poppy crap.

Aah Heck, if you write University with just 3 letters, i'm bound to read over it :(
I only had to write reports on movies in high-school context :P

MOBN - We have All The Small Things too, and yes we get 99 Red Balloons, but for me it's all about Queen and the Jackson Five.

Further proof, if any were needed, that England is better than the US.

We have queen, but not the Jackson Five.  We got some other motown group, and then Earth Wind and Fire.  What bothers me more about the american version is the volume of stupid kiddy songs, whose slots could have been given to better music, with more defined beats.  After all, there's only so many rhythms you can slap on to B-I-N-G-O.

If BINGO is in your version then I heartily flick my nose in your general direction.

Nowt wrong with a bit of Earth Wind and Fire though.