College/Uni!

[Pam-the-Lamb]

 Our first assignment is 1200 words on Cognition and perception and we have to include 3 examples.

That's 400 words per example.

[SirBlaziken]

Just got the guidelines for my term paper for my poli sci class. Looked hard at first but I read through it and it doesn't seem as bad.

[Milsap]

Our first assignment is 1200 words on Cognition and perception and we have to include 3 examples.

That's 400 words per example.

Fewer- with opening and concluding statements and if your uni counts quoted text in the word count or not.

[Kpyna]

Anyone else have an absolutely wild amount of work they've been needing to do for the past week or so?

I just got up to date on my accounting work (so now instead of spending like 6 hours a week on it I spend like 3), did a 7 page professional sales paper, have to start drafting a 15 page english paper, i have a whole bunch of microeconomics review work to do, and i have both an accounting and microeconomics test tomorrow... ack

people told me sophomore year would be harder than freshman year but i wasn't expecting it like this haha

[SirBlaziken]

Got the draft for my paper on the Mapp vs. Ohio case done. I hope my professor likes it when it's finished.

[Pam-the-Lamb]

 I've got a presentation coming up but I haven't had any information on it and I've got two 1,200 word essays on cognition and abnormal psych. There's also mention of a 800 word annotated bibliography.

Some scrub sat next to me in lecture today but he had a laptop and the twit kept putting his elbows on me. The pleb received a slight scalding from a lecturer because he wouldn't stop talking on Monday so he comes down and sits next to me on a Tuesday.

That's the thing with uni tbh. Everyone thinks they're the dog's balls because they got in so everyone thinks they're better than everyone else despite the fact that we're all swimming in the same pool of debt. It's why I haven't offered to lend out my textbooks to people... I can't imagine they'll come back to me.

Like... I expected uni to be filled with intellectuals but it's filled with scrubs. It's like joining a clan on CoD, expecting everyone to be organised, and it's just a bunch of qwikskoperz who shout out random memes.

Lectures are top-notch though.

[not chloe]

I have to write at least 500 words on a story that's both sad and funny for Friday. I'm good at sad but... funny????? I can't do funny writing yet what am I even suppose to write?

I've got an idea to write about two childhood friends who go on a camping trip but realise they're completely different people but I've no idea how to make it sad and funny at the same time like, this is what you guys are supposed to be teaching me, how can I do it with literally 0 guidance other than "hurr durr sad but funny" I am paying you £9000 pls teach me

9:15 Ecolinguistics lecture with my absolute favourite lecturer tomorrow though :-)

[Milsap]

Black comedy might be the way to go, but might be a little controversial with your lecturers due to some of the subject matter that comes up.


Shaun of the Dead is a good place to start (language warning). Four Lions is good too, but language warning and so is Super. Again- language warning.

[Shaymin]

if there is ever a problem do not be like me and sit on it for weeks or you will end up with no money because student finance think you haven't enrolled smh

[not chloe]

Black comedy might be the way to go, but might be a little controversial with your lecturers due to some of the subject matter that comes up.


Shaun of the Dead is a good place to start (language warning). Four Lions is good too, but language warning and so is Super. Again- language warning.

Language warnings aren't a problem, my lecturers are the sweariest swearers to ever swear. Just today we were given the advice "never write a sentence to which you could not comfortably add the s-word" which is sound, really lmao


I get the impression that by sad but funny they probably mean in a sort of Forrest Gump sort of spirit. Not sure. Obviously I'm not gonna go flat out Forrest Gump in 500 words but I need to pick a tiny & quite sad moment and then highlight how sad it actually is by adding humour... I've got until Friday oh dear

[Milsap]

Given the target audience of the site I thought it best to add it in. My lecturers were quite cool with language- I quoted Ricky Gervais in one assignment.

[Kpyna]

That's definitely a hard subject, Chloe. I feel like I personally have no experience with writing things that are funny because you just never learn that stuff. I think Black Comedy is a good idea, or you could write a story that seems sad and serious, but vague, and then at the end you could say something that clarifies what you were talking about that totally changes the mood and makes it funny. I don't know how to describe that well except for it being the format that a lot of greentext stories operate on (the "gf is prego" one comes to mind)

I just took my accounting exam 2 today. I was sooo nervous but I think I did alright. I probably got a few of the multiple choice and true and false wrong, but I think as far as the actual accounting parts I did fine.

[lets all go out for some frosty chocolate milkshakes]

this is what you guys are supposed to be teaching me, how can I do it with literally 0 guidance other than "hurr durr sad but funny" I am paying you £9000 pls teach me

welcome to uni!!!

[The Shrub Dragon]

chloe have you ever read when god was a rabbit?? that's a book that mixes sad with funny really really well - it's the book that had me full out sobbing for 3 and a half hours but still has loads of moments which i'd point to and laugh at.


idk my advice is to focus on the sad in an almost slightly dismissive way if that makes sense? like yes it's sad but don't fixate on the thing that's sad too much because in my experience that comes off as pretty cringe.  if you're lucky the humour will just come off as flair in your descriptions and dialogue - it doesn't have to be 'ahah ahah ahah mr smith is being eaten by a dog.... but look at this zany character making great running commentary whilst another zany character freaks out unhelpfully in the background!!!!' 


tl;dr: don't try to emphasize the funny or the sad.  have the objective in mind but try to write like an actual person.  if ur going to emphasize a bit of sad try to juxtapose that with something funny.  if ur describing a heavily weeping woman try to do it w some more unsympathetic language.


although that said i am but a wee year 12 who is not university i am unqualified and i apologise


also reread a series of unfortunate events

[Kpyna]

I have to present my paper on online black markets in an hour and I'm just scared I'll start choking towards the end of the paper or lose where i'm reading or whatever

I hate reading essays give me a powerpoint pls