[QUOTE=Slug]And, to top it all off, my friend had a band a few months ago, but it fell apart when the singer moved. Now he is coming back to Maryland and they are going to reunite but with me as the second guitarist!

Sweet :)[/QUOTE]

That is pretty sweet indeed. Nice.

Ever since I told that self-proclaimed "screamo/hardcore/hard rock kid" that wanted to start a band at uni here that I didn't have my bass at school and just my guitar, I haven't heard from him since. Poor kid. I hope he has fun covering Atreyu songs or something.

Well. I failed my resits, luckily I can take most of the classes from the second year combined with the few I failed from first year. My parents aren't too happy about it though, because I was very lazy. Which is true.

[QUOTE=Superpeer]Well. I failed my resits, luckily I can take most of the classes from the second year combined with the few I failed from first year. My parents aren't too happy about it though, because I was very lazy. Which is true.[/QUOTE]

How come you're aware of your laziness and not do anything to change it?

[QUOTE=Spat Out Plath]Because he's too lazy? :confused:[/QUOTE]

:lol: So true.


I don't know Stoic, I have a SERIOUS lack of self discipline. Part of me always wants to work and go for it, but the other part is just like, fu[COLOR=White]c[/COLOR]k that.

I don't even know whether I'm able to study or not, I've never ever decently studied for something, I think. Yet I passed most classes, I think that's an achievement. I wish I had some self discipline though.

[QUOTE=Superpeer]

I don't know Stoic, I have a SERIOUS lack of self discipline. Part of me always wants to work and go for it, but the other part is just like, fu[COLOR=White]c[/COLOR]k that.

I don't even know whether I'm able to study or not, I've never ever decently studied for something, I think. Yet I passed most classes, I think that's an achievement. I wish I had some self discipline though.[/QUOTE]
You and me both, it must be a Dutch thing :\

I'm Belgian, motherfuc[I]k[/I]er. :p

Maybe the way you study and do your coursework is what leads to you not having any self-discipline. Where do you do it at? How long do you work? How do you divide up your workload?

How people learn is entirely dependant on their preference, yes, but if one method isn't working for you, maybe trying something new would help bolster having self-discipline?

For example, if you do your coursework by your computer and you don't need to use the computer to do your coursework, maybe your mind will drift from your work and to the Internet. Maybe if you started doing your work at a separate desk, or at the kitchen table, or wherever can help you? I listen to music when I do my work (I think it's safe to say all of us here do, anyway), so that shouldn't be a problem, heh.

Also, how do you divide your workload? Do you do the most time-consuming stuff first, or do you do the easiest stuff first, or do you do the stuff that doesn't take a lot of time first? Maybe if you start with the hardest or more time-consuming material, yoru workload will seem less intimidating.

How often do you take breaks? For example, say you work a SOLID forty-five minutes. You should give yourself fifteen minutes for break; Internet, using "the gay rolling machine" to do that stuff you love doing (MSN inside joke++), videogames, etc. As soon as your fifteen minutes are up, then get back to work. Divide up how you see fit, so long as you get your work done. This means don't give yourself five minutes of solid work and then fifty-five minutes of freetime, heh.

When do you do your coursework, primarily? Morning, afternoon, or night? You should pick a time that's best for you and your mind is sharpest, and start working. Take your breaks and such, though, as well, of course.

But as soon as you start working on a regimen, your self-discipline will get stronger, since you'll say, "Wpah !, it's 16:00, I should work on some studying or coursework before I loves me some waffles!" Then, it will become second nature.

:)

I could ramble on more, but I'm just going to get a "tl;dr" response.

Perhaps people can share their advice?

[QUOTE=metal guitar]You and me both, it must be a Dutch thing :\[/QUOTE]
Well it clearly isn't seeing that I am exactly the same and am fully British.

[QUOTE=Jom]Maybe the way you study and do your coursework is what leads to you not having any self-discipline. Where do you do it at? How long do you work? How do you divide up your workload?

How people learn is entirely dependant on their preference, yes, but if one method isn't working for you, maybe trying something new would help bolster having self-discipline?

For example, if you do your coursework by your computer and you don't need to use the computer to do your coursework, maybe your mind will drift from your work and to the Internet. Maybe if you started doing your work at a separate desk, or at the kitchen table, or wherever can help you? I listen to music when I do my work (I think it's safe to say all of us here do, anyway), so that shouldn't be a problem, heh.

Also, how do you divide your workload? Do you do the most time-consuming stuff first, or do you do the easiest stuff first, or do you do the stuff that doesn't take a lot of time first? Maybe if you start with the hardest or more time-consuming material, yoru workload will seem less intimidating.

How often do you take breaks? For example, say you work a SOLID forty-five minutes. You should give yourself fifteen minutes for break; Internet, using "the gay rolling machine" to do that stuff you love doing (MSN inside joke++), videogames, etc. As soon as your fifteen minutes are up, then get back to work. Divide up how you see fit, so long as you get your work done. This means don't give yourself five minutes of solid work and then fifty-five minutes of freetime, heh.

When do you do your coursework, primarily? Morning, afternoon, or night? You should pick a time that's best for you and your mind is sharpest, and start working. Take your breaks and such, though, as well, of course.

But as soon as you start working on a regimen, your self-discipline will get stronger, since you'll say, "Wpah !, it's 16:00, I should work on some studying or coursework before I loves me some waffles!" Then, it will become second nature.

:)

I could ramble on more, but I'm just going to get a "tl;dr" response.

Perhaps people can share their advice?[/QUOTE]

I usually do my coursework at school, quickly, if I do it at all. :\

I try to study in my room, I pick up my book, sometimes, I'll work for a bit, but mostly, I just stare at the same page for 20 minutes, then just put it away and do something else. If I take a break, they usually end up longer than the working period. I sometimes try to study by the computer, but that fails, I can't do it. I can't put music on when I study either, although I often try to. I don't divide my work, I don't have schedules, never have. I just do something whenever I feel like it, which often turns out to be never. :\

[QUOTE=Superpeer]I'm Belgian, motherfuc[I]k[/I]er. :p[/QUOTE]
I have a Dutch passport, but my grandparents on my mum's side come from Belgium. I'm not actually sure how my mum got a Dutch passport :confused:
So I usually say I'm half Dutch, but maybe I should say Belgian or Flemish.

[QUOTE=metal guitar]I have a Dutch passport, but my grandparents on my mum's side come from Belgium. I'm not actually sure how my mum got a Dutch passport :confused:
So I usually say I'm half Dutch, but maybe I should say Belgian or Flemish.[/QUOTE]

Calling Belgian people Dutch is like calling Scottish people English. :p

[QUOTE=Superpeer]Calling Belgian people Dutch is like calling Scottish people English. :p[/QUOTE]
Yeah I know. I guess officially I'm half Dutch but I feel much more Belgian then Dutch. I've only been to Holland a few times, but I've been to visit my grandparents and other family in Antwerp loads.

[QUOTE=Superpeer]I usually do my coursework at school, quickly, if I do it at all. :\

I try to study in my room, I pick up my book, sometimes, I'll work for a bit, but mostly, I just stare at the same page for 20 minutes, then just put it away and do something else. If I take a break, they usually end up longer than the working period. I sometimes try to study by the computer, but that fails, I can't do it. I can't put music on when I study either, although I often try to. I don't divide my work, I don't have schedules, never have. I just do something whenever I feel like it, which often turns out to be never. :\[/QUOTE]

Well, when you read, do you read at a desk, or resting on your back in bed?

The incredibly lazy way to read passages quickly is to outline. Read the first sentence of every paragraph, the last sentence of every paragraph, and skim the rest over, looking for bolded words or stuff that's supposed to grab your attention. Just do that for every paragraph, and it will go quicker, maybe.

Also, you should play your music. But it can't be obnoxiously loud :\

Play music you are familiar with, too. Like Therapy? :)

[QUOTE=metal guitar]Yeah I know. I guess officially I'm half Dutch but I feel much more Belgian then Dutch. I've only been to Holland a few times, but I've been to visit my grandparents and other family in Antwerp loads.[/QUOTE]

I live in Antwerp. :)

[QUOTE]Well, when you read, do you read at a desk, or resting on your back in bed?

The incredibly lazy way to read passages quickly is to outline. Read the first sentence of every paragraph, the last sentence of every paragraph, and skim the rest over, looking for bolded words or stuff that's supposed to grab your attention. Just do that for every paragraph, and it will go quicker, maybe.

Also, you should play your music. But it can't be obnoxiously loud :\

Play music you are familiar with, too. Like Therapy? [/QUOTE]

I don't have a desk anymore.

Yeah, maybe I should do that, because I'm a very slow reader, something that is very annoying when you start as late as I do.


I don't think that works, I think I'd sing the songs instead of studying. Music works when you're doing homework, but it's distracting when you study. But I'll try.

This is kind of hard to explain, but I syncopate my reading/notetaking/readings with the music.

I'm going to try to explain.

EDIT: Okay, there's no way anyone is going to understand all that. I'll try again later :(

Don't waste too much time on me, Jom. :p

[QUOTE=Jom]This is kind of hard to explain, [B]but I syncopate my reading/notetaking/readings with the music.[/B]

I'm going to try to explain.

EDIT: Okay, there's no way anyone is going to understand all that. I'll try again later :([/QUOTE]

I'd like to hear this. My way of studying needs to change now that I'm in Uni and obviously cant learn everything by heart as I did in high school.

Jelle, you seem to have severe problem as far as focusing is concerned and short attention span. Are you at all interested in the subject you're studying?

I can't study to music, I have to be very active and focused in my work to get a grip of it/ remember it. Sorry to hear about the fails Jelle, good luck with the repeat thing.

Superpeer: So you're still progressing to the second year? If so, then that's good :)

I managed to pass all of my modules (all the ones I needed to pass, anyway) despite a similar lack of study/discipline.

NP Alice in Chains - Chewbacca! What a Wookie!

[QUOTE=Superpeer]Well. I failed my resits, luckily I can take most of the classes from the second year combined with the few I failed from first year. My parents aren't too happy about it though, because I was very lazy. Which is true.[/QUOTE]
Congratulations for not having to re-sit the year :)

Are you missing out on any important classes though?

On the subject of studying: What little studying I do is horrendously un-organised. This will surely catch me out at some point, I don' know when.

[quote]NP Alice in Chains - Chewbacca! What a Wookie![/quote]
If that's the song I'm thinking of then I always thought it was by Green Jelly.

Sorry to be so off topic, but I just read that SYL are supporting Meshuggah on the UK tour dates. Could anyone confirm this for me?

I just got over the fact that I probably cant make it to see Meshuggah (:() but if SYL are playing too...

:lol:

That Metalcore kids are so angry at me that one of them made a gimmick account just to take the piss out of Avenged Sevenfold.

Pathetic.

[QUOTE=munky_magik]
If that's the song I'm thinking of then I always thought it was by Green Jelly.[/QUOTE]

Maybe it is..I just downloaded it, and it had them as the artist. What's the song you're thinking of (how does it go or something, to see if we're thinking of the same one)?

I am pretty sure that song is by Green Jelly.

[QUOTE=Bartender]Maybe it is..I just downloaded it, and it had them as the artist. What's the song you're thinking of (how does it go or something, to see if we're thinking of the same one)?[/QUOTE]
It starts off with a Jabba the Hutt part part then goes onto like a kind of eastern inspired simple guitar melody. Throughout the song you have the shouts of "Chewie!!/Chewbacca!!...What a Wookie!!" and people doing dodgy Chewie impressions in between. It ends with Jabba as well and my version is around 1:24 long.

[QUOTE=Arucard]:lol:

That Metalcore kids are so angry at me that one of them made a gimmick account just to take the piss out of Avenged Sevenfold.

Pathetic.[/QUOTE]

Ha.

That's pretty sad.

/doesn't like A7X's new stuff :(
/doesn't try to change Joe's opinion about them

NP: Vehemence- Kill For God

ATTN: Someone

I want to hear this Chewie song :(

In other news, I finally might be getting a band, I'm so excited. The guy's coming down tomorrow to hash out details and if I'm in we have a gig in a month. Battle of the bands where we'd get studio time and a cash prize. I'm super excited.

[QUOTE=munky_magik]It starts off with a Jabba the Hutt part part then goes onto like a kind of eastern inspired simple guitar melody. Throughout the song you have the shouts of "Chewie!!/Chewbacca!!...What a Wookie!!" and people doing dodgy Chewie impressions in between. It ends with Jabba as well and my version is around 1:24 long.[/QUOTE]

Is it the song from Clerks?

There was a song in the movie Clerks that sounds a lot like that.

Wait, isn't this the song that was widely circulated (mislabeled) as it being by Limp Bizkit, and it was called something like "Fuc[font=]k Slipknot?"[/font]

It was really short, though, like less than two minutes. There were horrible Chewbacca impressions all throughout.

[url=http://www.sandcrawler.com/SWB/Images/StarWars/Magazines/mag-dynamite-v1n7-197801.jpg]This most certainly isn't a link to the song in question which will certainly get edited once people click it[/url]

Clicked.

Listening now, the musicianship seems pretty high for a joke song heh. The impressions are horrible though. I liek it though.

Yeah, that's the song I'm talking about. Sweet. :cool:

If anyone (else) would like to hear the song hit me up on MSN since I'm currently on.

The file I have is from Clerks, yeah, so it starts off with Randal and Dante talking about which they liked better, Empire.. or ..Jedi, and why, and then the chants that I think you were talking about.

Anyway. Last night I saw a repeat of that McIntyre's Underworld show on the Glasgow underworld/crime scene. I always thought it was great that they felt the need to put subtitle in whenever Mark Clinton (? totally unsure of the name) was talking.

Haha, that's the file I have, too. Something like:

"What did you like better, The Empire Strikes Back or Return of the Jedi?"

"Empire."

"Well, that's for me (?). Empire (I think that's what he said) had the better ending, Luke gets his hand cut off, something something something..."

[Chewbacca garble]... Chewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwbaaaaaaaccccccccca!

[music]

sounds bizzarre.

[QUOTE=Stoic]I'd like to hear this. My way of studying needs to change now that I'm in Uni and obviously cant learn everything by heart as I did in high school.

Jelle, you seem to have severe problem as far as focusing is concerned and short attention span. Are you at all interested in the subject you're studying?[/QUOTE]


Fairly interested. Can't think of anything that would interest me more though, except maybe music, but I'd like to make a living later and not be a poor musician.

[QUOTE]I can't study to music, I have to be very active and focused in my work to get a grip of it/ remember it. Sorry to hear about the fails Jelle, good luck with the repeat thing.[/QUOTE]

Thanks.

[QUOTE]Superpeer: So you're still progressing to the second year? If so, then that's good

I managed to pass all of my modules (all the ones I needed to pass, anyway) despite a similar lack of study/discipline.

NP Alice in Chains - Chewbacca! What a Wookie![/QUOTE]

I guess I am, just partly though.

Show off.


[QUOTE]Congratulations for not having to re-sit the year

Are you missing out on any important classes though?

On the subject of studying: What little studying I do is horrendously un-organised. This will surely catch me out at some point, I don' know when.[/QUOTE]

Don't congratulate me, I'm a fu[COLOR=White]c[/COLOR]k up. :p

Just the classes that are a continuation of the classes I failed.


[QUOTE]I have similar problems, Jelle. I can discipline myself to do work, but as soon as the pressure is off I tend to slip back to old habits. I'd probably function a lot better in continuous assessment, but I've never had any classes like that. Unfortunately, college gives me the freedom to be a lazy schmuk. Though my professors this year seem to very serious about deadlines, so I think I'll do OK. None of my tutors last year cared if I brought up my essays late, so I wound up doing 7 (of 20 total) in the final week and a half of term.[/QUOTE]

I have a very loose idea of pressure, so... I only start working when it's pretty much too late.

i'm in the middle of doing my Uni applications at the moment, it's quite frustrating. only a few places do the course i want to do, and some won't let me do it because i don't have maths at a high enough level. i'm hoping to get in to a pretty good Uni (Durham) to do Earth Sciences, then hopefully go into the oil industry. on my form i'm also putting Cardiff, Manchester, and Imperial College London. if I get an offer from Durham, it'll definitely be my first choice but if not hopefully Manchester - Ali, you're going there aren't you?

i'm going to have to get my act together though and get some serious work done this year if i want to get the grades i need, i have a load of coursework to do at the moment, and i just generally need to do more schoolwork.

[QUOTE=Superpeer]I have a very loose idea of pressure, so... I only start working when it's pretty much too late.[/QUOTE]
i'm pretty much the same, i did all my geography coursework the night before it was due in and only just passed it.

NP: Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills, live at Rock in Rio.

/ends random post about Uni.

[QUOTE=sack-man]i'm in the middle of doing my Uni applications at the moment, it's quite frustrating. only a few places do the course i want to do, and some won't let me do it because i don't have maths at a high enough level. i'm hoping to get in to a pretty good Uni (Durham) to do Earth Sciences, then hopefully go into the oil industry. on my form i'm also putting Cardiff, Manchester, and Imperial College London. if I get an offer from Durham, it'll definitely be my first choice but if not hopefully Manchester - Ali, you're going there aren't you?

i'm going to have to get my act together though and get some serious work done this year if i want to get the grades i need, i have a load of coursework to do at the moment, and i just generally need to do more schoolwork.

NP: Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills, live at Rock in Rio.

/ends random post about Uni.[/QUOTE]
Yes, I'm going to Manchester. On Saturday it happens, and probably with a massive hangover :-/

I handed in my Uni application on the deadline.

Wait, that sounds like something Jelle would do :upset:

[QUOTE=munky_magik]Yes, I'm going to Manchester. On Saturday it happens, and probably with a massive hangover :-/

I handed in my Uni application on the deadline.

Wait, that sounds like something Jelle would do :upset:[/QUOTE]
my school want all the applications in by the end of October, pretty much all i have left to do is finalise my choices and write my personal statement :) it's just a pain sorting it all out though, i really can't be arsed at the moment.