Correlation Between Homework and CFC

[Desmond Hawkins]

Now, for most of the symester the bulk of my schoolwork has been of the study-a-book-write-a-test form. And in that time, I posted almost nothing on CFC.

However, the last couple weeks, and for the rest of the symester, I have lots of essays and written assignments to do. Since that time, my post count has shot up by a couple of hundred.

Does anyone else notice this correlation in themselves?

Right when you are in the most important part of your work, an incredible Thanatos takes over and you end up just spending your whole time on CFC as a way to avoid your work.

 

[Sidhe]

I have had two big assesments to do in the the last month or so, observe my post count, God knows how I got them done at all. I really really empathise with the OP

 

[Sparta]

Agreed; I should be at work right now. Speaking of which ...

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

Sometimes it gets the old fingers a little bit warmed up for writing an essay, but then you just never end up writing the essay at all.

 

[BCLG100]

i generally do work inbetween cfc, 1 hour cfc too 10 mins work!

 

[TrailblazingScot]

Now, for most of the symester the bulk of my schoolwork has been of the study-a-book-write-a-test form. And in that time, I posted almost nothing on CFC.

However, the last couple weeks, and for the rest of the symester, I have lots of essays and written assignments to do. Since that time, my post count has shot up by a couple of hundred.

Does anyone else notice this correlation in themselves?

Right when you are in the most important part of your work, an incredible Thanatos takes over and you end up just spending your whole time on CFC as a way to avoid your work.

I've got all these blasted kids homeworks to mark and here I am on Civfanatics

 

[BCLG100]

I've got all these blasted kids homeworks to mark and here I am on Civfanatics

use a RNG to decide what mark they get.

 

[Fluteman]

use a RNG to decide what mark they get.

THAT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING!!! My grade is no longer a mystery (now if I could only get my parents to understand this concept).

(Iwonder if RNG would work well for a multile choice test?)

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

use a RNG to decide what mark they get.

It does explain stuff. There have been times where I felt teachers have been a little too easy on some of the complete crap I did at the last minute.

 

[Tank_Guy#3]

Now, for most of the symester the bulk of my schoolwork has been of the study-a-book-write-a-test form. And in that time, I posted almost nothing on CFC.

However, the last couple weeks, and for the rest of the symester, I have lots of essays and written assignments to do. Since that time, my post count has shot up by a couple of hundred.

Does anyone else notice this correlation in themselves?

Right when you are in the most important part of your work, an incredible Thanatos takes over and you end up just spending your whole time on CFC as a way to avoid your work.

You know, since I was assigned that nanotechnology presentation, I've been posting almost nonstop on CFC. I have also noticed what you're talking about. Quite strange.

 

[nonconformist]

I think that I can safely theorise that the proportionality between time on CFC and work done is ainversely squared.

 

[BCLG100]

THAT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING!!! My grade is no longer a mystery (now if I could only get my parents to understand this concept).

(Iwonder if RNG would work well for a multile choice test?)

its the only thing that works well for a multiple choice test

 

[shortguy]

I have a paper due in an 1hr 45mins and another one due in 25hrs 45 minutes. And I just finished an exam 30mins ago.

 

[Louis XXIV]

I've got all these blasted kids homeworks to mark and here I am on Civfanatics

Just give them all A's

(Actually, I gave that suggestion to a teacher once. She offered to give us all F's, which would also save time on grading ).

I think having projects due would probably increase post count. There's two reasons for this.

First, people will be by a computer anyway, since they are typing. And, second, they don't want to be doing their project, so they look for some distraction.

 

[Sidhe]

Nice try but with maths you have to write it out, Word dosn't have symbols for maths, take a look at the symbols for Summation and integration and the rest of the mathematical symobology. They prefer a hand written form for the maths it shows greater understanding. I need to use the computer for a maths program but I could quite easily forgo it when I'm dong the Math, I don't that speaks volumes

 

[newfangle]

Most of my coursework consists of mindnumbingly hard assignments which drive me to this wicked place many hours a day.

 

[kingjoshi]

Nice try but with maths you have to write it out, Word dosn't have symbols for maths, take a look at the symbols for Summation and integration and the rest of the mathematical symobology. They prefer a hand written form for the maths it shows greater understanding. I need to use the computer for a maths program but I could quite easily forgo it when I'm dong the Math, I don't that speaks volumes

I thought MS Word did equations? I used Latex to write papers, especially if they had formulas.

I know that some message forums even allow Latex and turns the equation into an image.

 

[Louis XXIV]

Nice try but with maths you have to write it out, Word dosn't have symbols for maths, take a look at the symbols for Summation and integration and the rest of the mathematical symobology. They prefer a hand written form for the maths it shows greater understanding. I need to use the computer for a maths program but I could quite easily forgo it when I'm dong the Math, I don't that speaks volumes

That would be part of the second reason. They are looking for a distraction. I'm here right now when I should be outlining by history text book and answering multiple choice questions. There's no reason for me to be one a computer, but I decided to do my work right next to it, so I'm "taking a break".

 

[Bluemofia]

Nice try but with maths you have to write it out, Word dosn't have symbols for maths, take a look at the symbols for Summation and integration and the rest of the mathematical symobology. They prefer a hand written form for the maths it shows greater understanding. I need to use the computer for a maths program but I could quite easily forgo it when I'm dong the Math, I don't that speaks volumes

I've managed to type in symbols in word using the stuff they gave me, such as going to the symbols and hunting for the ones needed, or going and making really complicated ways to type it up and make it look like what it's supposed to be.

But, so far, we haven't needed to type out anything for math class. Only needed to do that in 8th grade, where we needed to write/type out the glossary and the theorems and postulates or something like that in Math class.

 

[sysyphus]

Oh do I ever miss school... my post count usually goes high after a long hard day at work and I'm too sluggish to do anything other than sit here and argue with a bunch of teenagers.