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Setting deadlines when they are not needed

I've been set about 4 deadlines for Monday even though the teachers have the rest of the year to let us complete it, and now im going to loose a GCSE grade or not get any at all and the 12 years of school will be pointless
04-19-2009 12:16 AM
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I have a deadline for my final english draft to be done by Monday, and i haven't done it yet.
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I have a 14 page maths booklet to complete for next monday. Heh fuck that , I'm not doing it at all Biggrin
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I really haven't done anything in school the past few months. Probably going to get held back.
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random_name Wrote:I have a deadline for my final english draft to be done by Monday, and i haven't done it yet.

Me too ontop of all my coursework and revision I've not done. Shoot me now


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04-19-2009 06:52 PM
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matty555 Wrote:I have a 14 page maths booklet to complete for next monday. Heh fuck that , I'm not doing it at all Biggrin

We got given a 30 page one for revision.

|55555| Wrote:I really haven't done anything in school the past few months. Probably going to get held back.


/hope not
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"when I was a kid I used to pray for a bicycle. then I realized that god doesn't work that way. so I stole one and prayed for forgiveness."
"I would rather die for something I believe in than live for anything else."
"What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored." – F W Nietzsche
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04-20-2009 02:48 AM
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i barely past 2 of my 4 classes last quarter( i fialed the other 2). they only reason my math teacher passed me cause i redid a couple of test the last week. and i have no clue how i passed ecology. tho i sitll planed on passing them.

this quarter i got gym, ecology, and math(algerbra2). im failing 2 out of the 3 right now. and ecology gots this massive trifecta project i should be working on
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I like maths, so i dont tend to fail there. Only sometimes.
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"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

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"when I was a kid I used to pray for a bicycle. then I realized that god doesn't work that way. so I stole one and prayed for forgiveness."
"I would rather die for something I believe in than live for anything else."
"What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored." – F W Nietzsche
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i cant stand math. it just doesnt seem to keep me atentive.
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You might like it but to be honest maths bores the fucking shit out of me. Everything I'm doing now is 100% useless.
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yea when they started teaching us imaginary numbers i nearly killed the teacher. wtf is that imaginary numbers give me a fucking break
life is just blah blah blah. we hope for blah, and sometimes we find it. but mostly its blah. and waiting for blah. and hoping you were right about the blahs you made. and when you think you just got the whole blah damn thing figured out, and your surrounded by the ones you blah. death shows up and blah blah blah.
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classclown Wrote:yea when they started teaching us imaginary numbers i nearly killed the teacher. wtf is that imaginary numbers give me a fucking break

hahaha dude I can't agree more
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