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Anyone in college and have finals? or other such important stuff you couldn't get out of? I'm getting my master's and I just turned in my last 2 finals. One on Monday. I didn't even find put what they were until April 22. I just couldn't even. I mean you can't call in "My hero died"  I just didn't even care. How could I get on my computer without looking up Prince stuff?! It's there. I mean it was no longer my computer for coursework it became my "Why did Prince die?!" machine. :( I just turned in whatever. I don't even remember. Google scholar for sources they said what I said according to searching my own quotes. No such thing as original thought anynore. I say something brilliant, a doctor already said it 5 years ago. A.Just wondering if any fans are needing to lose it at school or work but they can't. At least now I can get started on my Prince as a linguist thesis. I'm taking the summer off. I just can't do homework right now. No matter the ©️, Paisley Park "official can never ™️  . He gave that to us verbally on Oprah in 1996. You can't take away from us, corporate. I mean O ( + > | |
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I have finals and I credit P for helping me get an A on my Calc 2 final. Listened to his music while studying. But I know how you feel, at work it's like all I want to do is talk about P and how important he was to me and to music. But these kids could care less. Funny how I call them kids and they're only one or two years younger than me. But I get it, it's been tough "I never wanted to be your weekend lover..." | |
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Going through finals too, as a media production major. It's been standard stuff for two classes I enjoy, produce a 5 minute short film and do a 10 minute presentation in another class. But I've got this one professor for 3 classes (it's an unfortunate story) and this guy has made my life a living hell all semester. He's notorious around campus for sending out 3-4 emails a week, changing assignments and due dates and stuff, making these classes impossible to follow. Especially since I have to slog through 3 times as much confusion because of how often I have him  For his screenwriting class, I have to pen a 20 page script and he's been very unresponsive about feedback and stuff. So he calls me up after his class today and basically tells me I did the script wrong. Not that the formatting is wrong, but that my story is was basically lacking in conflict and character. But after some discussion, the guy starts saying I have a lot of conflict, almost too much, and that my characters aren't realistic enough. But then he wants them to be more unrealistic and wants me to change my misunderstood divorcee into a pedofile. Idk, guys crazy. Anyway, to add to this, I have to slog through 4 films and write a cumulative 10 pages worth of papers for presentations in his two other courses as well as reworking my 20 page script to include all the things he wants (that I don't necessarily think are needed but that's a different rant). To top it off, I can't slack on these because if I don't maintain my GPA/Deans List, I could lose my scholarship which puts me in a tough spot, given this professor's erratic behavior. It has made dealing with Prince's passing kinda hard since, between school and my job, I haven't really had a free moment these past few weeks. I honestly don't even know if Prince's passing has fully set in for me, it's still so surreal. When I was getting into filmmaking back in Highschool, I was also getting into Prince's music so to have him go is like having half of what got me through Highschool just vanish. Especially with the day I had before he passed. I was screened in my town's film festival and interviewed for the paper just the night before. I remember celebrating with friends afterwards and, when they joked about entering shorts we had made in school together into the next fesitval, I joked about sending them in under the name Jaime Starr or Joey Coco. So, to wake up the next day and hear the news, well it was something else for me. A part of me did wanna call off work that day and miss some school, but I couldn't let myself slack off like that. I cannot wait to get out next week, I already have told people I'm going to go on a long hike with my camera and just recollect myself. The stress of finals, coupled with my own health problems and Prince's passing has been a lot to stomach lately. It doesn't help that my parents and some of my coworkers have been less than polite about the news, but I usually just ignore them. Haters gonna hate. PS: sorry if the post is overly long and rantish Purple is the color of my heart,
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My stuff is all due in the next two weeks. I've had a sh!tstorm from March to now and I'm already behind. Not sure I can pull it off and doubt I can buy time by stating I had a death in the family. Not sure how I will pull it together. I keep saying Prince would just focus on the work but... I don't know. This is rough. Surprise, surprise.
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I had a midterm last week and did horrible. I've gotten A's in all my accounting classes up until now. I think I was just too sad to think.
My heart is still broken. I've been a fan since I was 9. I'm 40 now. [Edited 5/4/16 22:46pm] | |
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I graduate in a week but the day the news broke my professor was sick and cancelled class so I was looking forward to my day off. We were suppose to do presentations and have our last quiz. I was relieved because I wasn't going to be able to focus on anything going on that day. That following Tuesday, I had another class and I told my teacher I wasn't coming due to family issues. I really needed more time to recuperate and it didn't help that she is from Minnesota and she talks about it often. I'm doing a lot better now and we finished finals yesterday but I'm just happy I get to relax for a minute(until August). Although I am accomplishing something this year, this is not why it will be remembered. Prince got me through my last year of high school and all the way through college, the time in my life when I was finding out who I am. I appreciate him for that but I just wish he was here a little longer. [Edited 5/4/16 23:11pm] We could have big fun 💜 | |
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I almost put off a job I had that day but I generally don't do that sort of thing and I didn't. It was painful though, no doubt and as the days went by it got worse and worse. I still don't think it was as painful as a couple other deaths I've had of heroes, simply because Prince had a productive life. Michael Jackson had a hellish life post 92 and one of my other heroes, a boxer, fulfilled maybe 20 percent of his potential, those things bothered me a lot with them, not the case with Prince. | |
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I have a job. Does that count? Dead idols and pets are not really considered important enough to grant short notice holiday or compassionate leave. | |
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Best thing to do under most tragic circumstances is to carry on as best as possible. When my ma died I might have missed one or two days of university classes but had to get right back to it. The world don't stop for no one. | |
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Yup, working on my final major project for uni. I'm studying animation and illustration and the fmp was self led. I'd been doing alright but Prince's death hit me and slowed down my progress, not good when it's due in in 2 weeks. It doesn't really help either that my work is concepts for an animated show that has a heavy theme of afterlife and death in it, as the main character is a 14 yr old schoolgirl that sees ghosts and travels to the afterlife in her dreams. | |
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Yep, English assignment due next week, followed by an end of module assigment two weeks later, and an end of year sitting examination (French) in Cambridge on 2nd June. This is all as part of my degree (I'm a mature student with the Open University). Had been doing really well all year until 21st April. Then it all became very foggy in my head, I felt completely unmotivated, totally unable to concentrate (my attention being dedicated to finding reasons to explain it all) and my progress came to a standstill. I am now slowly emerging from all the chaos this has caused in my life, as deadline is approaching fast... I feel the stress building up and my left eyelid has started twitching (not joking)!
Good luck to everyone, we can do this... stay strong! Life Matters | |
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I know I feel it too, having to go to work an hour after hearing our hero left. Thank you Prince for every note you left behind 💜 | |
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I had an application deadline, and the days I set aside to work on it ended up with grief and severe insomnia with little to nothing getting done though it worked out in the end | |
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I had a rehearsal on 4/21, teched the show all last week, and opened on 4/29. I nailed every single rehearsal and performance because that's what Prince would have done. We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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After Prince died I lost my job and now I'm living on the street with my 3 kids. Darn it. |
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