429: i am like so stressed

[bonnipink]

You know those utterly insufferable, nefarious words that GP papers throw at you and expect you to paraphrase at least twenty times? And those perfidious texts which always insist on doing mean things such as describing something with TWO adjectives, then expect you to fish out a third one to replace them in your answers? "CONFLICT and AGGRESSION

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[nyw]

AHAHAHA THIS IS HILARIOUS. xD

Art - aesthetics?
Culture - Uhh. -dies- Things which grow in Petri dishes? xDDDD
Language - dialect, lingua franca (though this is v. specific), that which we speak to communicate
Environment - space around us, trees and suchlike, green things
Society - community of people with culture and government

Okay, don't take this too seriously. xD

[bonnipink]

ROFL at petri dishes :D:D AGAR JELLY COLONIES!
lol thanks gwenny! i'd forgotten the lingua franca one. which gives me an idea. maybe i can start searching in italian and latin!

[nyw]

xDDD No problem. And judging by the rest of the replies to this post, I think we should do a GP paper parody a la the crazy Physics and Maths ones that have been floating around the Internet.

You know, the kind where students write answers like 'the aliens got them'.

[oliviachee]

Haha not gonna spam me with sordid tales of Britney Spears this time? =)
I'm sure you'll do fine, you and your amazing vocabulary which i do not possess

[bonnipink]

lol Britney Spears hasn't done anything too bad yet :P
GOOD LUCK FOR TEH GP AND TEH ECONS

[oliviachee]

HEH YOU TOOOO
Has anyone mentioned anything likely to come out tomorrow. Like someone told me that monopoly tested very little

[bonnipink]

lol no neh hear anything.. only know what the teachers said lol which is no kinked dd curve / price leadership and good cos i decided not to study monopoly and oligopoly that much. i think at most they'll just link the whole jacked-up-prices to inflation?

um.. at least i tried? ^^

[adskl]

art: the aesthetics / craftsmanship

culture: heritage / manners

language: ...

environment: surroundings

society: community

this is damn depressing. ):

do they really ask you to para language?! o.O

Re: um.. at least i tried? ^^

[bonnipink]

hehe thanks for trying and YES THEY DO, like I can't even write "English" because language isn't only that :0 "art" is tricky because it's an umbrella term and "aesthetics" seems to be the only word that is fitting >.< i've got "expressive disciplines", too, but you know SUMMARY gah gah gah. more often than not the text will probably write 'community' and 'aesthetics', which is veh veh sad and i shall not care anymore )))):

Re: um.. at least i tried? ^^

[adskl]

but that's really mean! i thought when it comes to summary mrs ting (lol my only frame of reference ;_;) we are allowed not to paraphrase insane noun things that are difficult to para. like art! ._.

Re: um.. at least i tried? ^^

[bonnipink]

all this paraphrasing only teaches people how to rip off other people's works to write their thesis paper in uni or coughPW (:

[xue_lee]

Last time I checked, they don't really expect you to paraphrase things like environment or society. I mean, you can't do that without changing the meaning, really. I mean, try paraphrasing "freedom". You could say "liberty" but after that it doesn't really work.

Anyway.

Art = A way to starve yourself while looking ridiculous which, in fact, does not exist
Language = A way of communication that makes the world more complicated than it is
Environment = Something that Al Gore invented
Society = What you get when a bunch of monkeys in a tree decide to attack the monkeys on the other tree

[bonnipink]

my gp tutor does, in a way, not mandatory but a pressurizing you-should-be-trying, and then when she flashes her answers on the screen everyone groans and are like why is one word being replaced with like five? it's rather ridiculous and trite.. and yes it doesn't work yet she'll pull something like "but CULTURE is the key word you have to replace it!!!" and stuff.

hehe these definitions are getting snarkier and funnier, i like reading all these stuff you guys are posting x)

[xue_lee]

You know, one day if I ever come across words I don't know how to define during GP tests I will write "spaghetti sauce".

[bonnipink]

FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER! divine intervention

[bismuthbear]

Unlike you I haven't prepared for GP >< Something tells me I should be Econs and SEA is more important ><

Environment. Uhm depends on context? Like it could be climate or surroundings.

And the rest is just lost on me >< I know we don't have to rephrase globalisation!

[bonnipink]

Hehe good luck for Econs and history (: (:
globalisation always brings to my mind the image of Japanese killer octopi reaching out for the world with its slimy appendages of Doom!! lol WWII propaganda (;

[bismuthbear]

?!?! Kller octopi? Where did you see this cool image!

Tmr's econs j1 topics, in case you need them:

Cost theory - survival of small firms
Theory of DD and SS (why isn't there a GG in econs?)
Price determination
Elasticity of DD
Market structure: Oli and Mono WITHOUT kinked and price leadership

AND ALL THE J2 TOPICS. I don't know why everyone says I'll cope better with macro if I'm no good at micro - -" I can't think like an economist, an ability which the econs dept seems very proud to possess.

[oliviachee]

I can't do either one. But at least now I'm not failing that badly which is like good in a way -nods head-