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    Child education course?

    i deferred my primary education course for this year, i'm just wondering if anyone's currently doing it? how's it going? write me a private message please and tell me how's it going
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    hi guys i'm back - David Copperfield

    i haven't been to boredofstudies.org for ages! anyways, my first stop is always the reading room After reading Great Expectations a while back, I was in the library and decided to pick up David Copperfield, which can be contrasted to the former. Pip is a pauper, whilst Davy comes from a...
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    what's the longest book you've read?

    mine i think is anna karenina, i'm up to pg 700 and still reading. how quick has it taken u to read a book?
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    BIP (book in progress) - Anna Karenina

    hi guys! anybody read this book by Leo Tolstoy? I've started it (got it for $9.90 at local bookstore) and it's quite interesting, about the affairs ie romances of Russian society in the latter half of the 17th cent. I'm up to the part when Vronsky has gone to Petersburg after he has fallen in...
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    who's going away?

    i am!!!! going up to the mountains for 2 weeks and am real excited ( nevertheless, i will get bored - no computer i don't think, mebe i get my dad 2 bring laptop ) ciao ppls
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    anybody applying for COFA - 2004?

    i applied for B Arts/Design, Desigh, B Arts, etc, etc. I'll get in UAI based, but i have no idea about COFA policies.... confused
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    how come ppl who do chem/phys/maths 2 get bad UAI's?

    it doesn't seem fair! Although i don't do the Sciences - just because the mark is low for these particular subjects, doesn't mean u should get a low UAI - bc these are difficult subjects!!!!!! can anybody explain?????
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    HSC Marks from the reading room....

    Readers are SUPPOSEDLY geniuses, so post up whatever marks you got so we can be proud !!!!!!!!:D :D :D :D :D PS: i'm just a little curious what Gregor Samsa got, you ARE in Yr 12, hey?
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    sorry for the repetition huy, rage runner, etc, UAI prediciton plz?

    hello !!!!! over the moon w/ my marks, just wondering what my UAI will be: Eng Advanced - 87% Mod. History - 93% Hist Ext - 44/50 Classical Hebrew - 88% Cl. Heb Ext - 43/50 Visual Arts - 94% Thank god all that strain is over!!!!! I am a free woman.......
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    Jane Eyre

    Easy romantic novel, has some great english - emotions personified and described, characters detailed and intricate, great contrasts and descriptions. nevertheless, the first person is tiresome, and the neverending paragraphs makes one skip pages for the next zenith, which often is chapters...
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    contemporary books

    classics are a hard read so i like to intersperse them with easier crime novels and contemporary thrillers. some of the authors i appreciate are bryce courtney, fay kellerman, david lindsay, dean koontz. i can't think of anymore, but can anyone give me a few good authors of books you can...
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    ULYSSES by James Joyce

    can anyone explain to me why this is a penguin classic? it could be that i'm only at the beginning, but what are the characters meant to represent, and in each context what position do they fulfill? there is no explanation, and i really don't understamd Joyce's English! Some books are way up the...
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    GREAT EXPECTATIONS - Charles Dickens

    I just picked up this literary classic, and my presumption of it was totally wrong. Never explicitly told exactly what the book is about, i thought it was this intellectually challenging, psycho analytical novel, so imagine my surprise when i started reading. The narrator's name is PIP and is...
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    1984 - What's YOUR opinion? Rate here!!!

    Thanks for the advice to read 1984 guys. Although it was a bit tedious and boring as it dragged on, the short nature of the novel enabled me to read the whole thing without skipping parts. ( i got the big type for easy reading - haha!) The idea behind the book is fascinating - As something...
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    Best Song 2003 ( so far!)

    definitely one of my favourites is Justin Timberlakes one about war and truth ( trust me to forget the name!) usually i don't love JT so much but this song's got lots of meaning which i love! Guy Sebastian's single is amazing! i recommend it to everyone GREAT voice!!!i'm so happy he won...
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    Art fanatics

    hi i hear caravaggio is to be on at NSW art gallery. I just love the Baroque style and so am DEFINITELY going. Who else is ? Also my best painting ever - Gentileschi's Judith and Holofernes is there . anybody else love gentileschi? does anybody know of a good drawing class and/or a...
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    what do you think i'll get ???????

    AY YO! Please, if you could help with an estimation of my UAI just came bac from vacatiion - it was SLAMMMIN' These are my approxiimate assessment marks: english advanced 86% , 3/9 visual arts 94% 1/4 history modern 85% 2/9 history extension 94% 2/4 classical hebrew 89% 3/12 class...
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    who's excited for their last exam ever for yr 12 2003???????????????????????????????

    i can't wait!!!!! where's everyone sitting their exams ???? what's everyone doing?????????? i wanna do an all niighter but shit i am sooooo tired booze will keep me up i guess
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    hi guys is everyone writing set essays or is it 'we'll see what we get?'

    for my section 1, my essay is basically set, i'm writing about historians herodutus, thucy, bede, gibbon maybe, ranke, richard evans, and basically discussing that each historian has their own history , therefore they all are subjective, but humans CAN strive for objectivity peter gayle and...
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    Q 1a - what 3 social aspects did u guys write?

    i did multiculturalism, social hierachy of power, loss of individuality didn't write nothing about korea but ouch!!!
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