Post 1721405 by Shadejackrabbit@mastodon.club
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 (DIR) Post #1720791 by Shadejackrabbit@mastodon.club
       2018-12-04T19:10:23Z
       
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       thank goodness, dropping Intro Cognitive Science from my courses next semester has left me with entirely afternoon lectures. No more early mornings, no more death marches.
       
 (DIR) Post #1720792 by Shadejackrabbit@mastodon.club
       2018-12-04T19:11:03Z
       
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       Though fuck my two exams this year that start at 9am - earlier than the lectures of the courses they're for.
       
 (DIR) Post #1720793 by ink_slinger@mastodon.club
       2018-12-04T20:22:52Z
       
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       @Shadejackrabbit I always hated that. I deliberately designed my schedule to never have classes before 11 a.m. when I was in university (the first time, anyway) and then, bam, writing final exams at 8 and 9 in the morning.
       
 (DIR) Post #1721012 by Shadejackrabbit@mastodon.club
       2018-12-04T20:24:44Z
       
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       @ink_slinger that's wild, like, in my case it's only an hour earlier (9am instead of 10am) but a whole 3 hours is like... a completely different block of the schedule.
       
 (DIR) Post #1721013 by ink_slinger@mastodon.club
       2018-12-04T20:27:40Z
       
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       @Shadejackrabbit Yeah, and usually we were still writing the exam in our usual classroom, with our usual instructor, so I have no idea why the university scheduled exams that way. I suppose there was probably some major wrangling of schedules going on behind the scenes to make sure you never had two exams scheduled at the same time (though I'm sure it still happened to some people), especially since the exams were often longer than a normal lecture.
       
 (DIR) Post #1721077 by ink_slinger@mastodon.club
       2018-12-04T20:29:46Z
       
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       @Shadejackrabbit But, hey, at least I had the option of setting my own schedule for the most part. When I went back, 10 years later, to do a diploma program (not technically an after-degree program, but it effectively was), it was a set schedule with a set roster of classes. Most days started at 8 a.m.Of course, by then, I'd been working office jobs for a while and was quite used to being up and at work by that time, so it wasn't such a burden.
       
 (DIR) Post #1721339 by Shadejackrabbit@mastodon.club
       2018-12-04T20:31:05Z
       
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       @ink_slinger Yeah, back when I did college the lack of schedule choice was agonizing. I like having options now in University.Though, I do make bad choices sometimes. (Hmmm a 3-hour break doesn't *seem* long until you have to do it twice a week.)
       
 (DIR) Post #1721340 by ink_slinger@mastodon.club
       2018-12-04T20:37:57Z
       
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       @Shadejackrabbit Yeah, I had a block like that once. It seemed like a good opportunity to have a long lunch and get some homework done between classes, but I usually ended up being bored and not particularly productive.
       
 (DIR) Post #1721405 by Shadejackrabbit@mastodon.club
       2018-12-04T20:38:56Z
       
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       @ink_slinger speaking of which, time to head to my next lecture, as my last three hour break of the semester is over 😂
       
 (DIR) Post #1721406 by ink_slinger@mastodon.club
       2018-12-04T20:40:01Z
       
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       @Shadejackrabbit Ha! At least you have Mastodon and such to kill time. Social media and smartphones didn't even exist, as such, back when I was in uni.