Be Excellent To Each Other

I can only dream, Grim..., I can only dream

Good answer.

I see your "working on the roads" and raise you a "living on Teesside and attending the University of Teesside".

I think I win.

I think I missed the same exam, you knew where it was, I knew when it was, if only we could have known both!

Ba-ba-boom... tish!


(Sorry)

Up the Boro!

How'd it go, Jonarobajonno?

As there seems to be a fair few past masters in the art leaving everything to the last minute on here, does this workload seem doable in 4/5 weeks?

15 second hand drawn cell animation.
25 second xsi computer animation.
1 minute script+concept art+storyboard+animatic
2 x A3 figure drawing
700 word film review

So yeah, doable?Or am i being hopelssly optimistic and destined to be shown the door by the lovely people at Teesside Uni?

I'd be stuffed if I had to do just one of those things in 4/5 weeks.

You're fucked. Come and fix my floorboards instead.

I have no idea about any other than the review, which you should hopefully be able to knock out in an hour.

With a week to go before my undergrad dissertation was due in, and almost no progress made to date, I decided to spend the afternoon reflashing my BIOS to a beta grade one that promised greater performance in Half-Life. It didn't, and when I flashed back to the production one, it killed the motherboard stone dead. I had to swap the mobo out of my only other running system, a tiny little Shuttle one, into my enormous full tower case and work on that. Somewhere I have pics of the motherboard totally lost in the upper corner of the case.

Then, with hours to go and scrambling to get it printed and bound, I accidentally deleted the entire thing when I slipped with the command prompt, and then watched in horror as the print job in progress then crashed. Thinking a bit quick I snagged the PDF files from out of the printer queue before the system cleaned the print job up, reprinted, and calmly strolled into college nearly half an hour late, only to join the fifty people long queue for submission. I was quite pleased with myself for that.

Imagine if everybody had a similar hectic tale of misfortune at the same time! You could edit clips of them together and have a really cool short film.

This sounds remarkably like my undergrad projects. Except power cuts were to blame for my issues. (Say goodbye to 3 hours of work 1 hour before deadline? Why, thank you. I do work well before deadlines after that.

Hey I didn't say that! I think you fluffed the quote up, Davey boy!

Also, my essay turned out shite. Obviously I won't know for certain for a while, but it's definitely shite.

It's just a direct quote, I didn't alter it at all. Someone else must have fluffed it up earlier.

Musta been me. Sorry.

As for MrD's idea of a compilation of video short fuckuppery incidents, surely it should be set to the Benny Hill music?

I started Uni in October 1993, (M Sci in Physcis at Imperial College - yes look impressed the 2nd "hardest" degreee in the UK!) and took my 2nd year exams in May/June 1995. On July the 9th I Flew to America for an 8 week Holiday with some friends. I think I phoned my parents on the 11th of July and then again on the 1st of September. I found out that I had to do a retake on Monday the 4th of Septemeber at 09:00. My Flight was due to land at Heathrow Airport at about 09:30 on Monday the 4th September!

Needless to say I dropped out and got a job instead!

Malc

No way, you'd do it a bit more serious than Benny Hill. You'd do it like a sequel to Ferris Bueller. You're all rushing about finding bits of paper and stuff, one of you is trying to staple it together by pushing it under the leg of a table and jumping on it, somebody else is fighting with their dog to get some pages back... soon you're all running, skateboarding, driving or hopping with one shoe on toward the school.

You all meet up at the school gates when suddenly.



I'VE GOT YOU NOW, MISTER GAYWOOD.

Post-breakdown-FTFY

edit: do you 'do' physics, Malc?

Nah, I've done lots of things since then (including: cyberhost, IT Manager, Customer Service grunt, "Star" of S.E. Asian TV and 90's UK Satelite TV, Interent Gaming Host) but nothing really to do with Physics.

Malc

Can't speak for Malc, but I 'do' psychics.

They always see me coming.

I DEMAND VIDEO PROOF!

I don't have it, sorry.

NOW TV went bust before they could send me the tape (That's the S.E. Asia bit) and I never got the tape of my slot on "Chips with everything" on ".tv" (that's the 90's UK satelite tv bit)

Malc

I can identify with this. I have got myself a 2 week extention on my dissertation (due to illness). I need to have a copy of it to my supervisor by Tuesday morning, but I really can't seem to get into it.

I got tired of the MA thing, but did quit, after the first semester. Luckily my dad helped out with the fees for that part. It was a difficult decision to make at the time, but now I know it was for the best.

And I always did essays/assignments at the last minute. On the ones where I didn't, I tended to get lower grades. My sis is still doing the same thing with her paid-for OU degree, and gets decent grades each time.

I think I went to the harshest university in the UK - even getting hospitalised (like, just going into childbirth with major complication, as one example I knew of) didn't get students extensions, or dispensation for not taking exams. I didn't really enjoy the whole experience really, as it felt like being on a tightrope with no safety net. Had to concentrate so much on not fucking up, on not making a single misstep that'd ruin everything, that I couldn't relax and have fun during term time...

Someone I know takes his laundry to his mum's house to get her to do it. He is 21 (possibly slightly older, in fact, I don't know him that well).

I really don't get it, both on her part (my mum would, quite rightly, laugh in my face, and possibly take a swig of gin just for the effect if I tried this), and on his. Doing the washing is easy. It's even easier and less boring than most housework. It's certainly preferable to throwing your dignity in the hole because you can't work a box of powder and a dial.