Archive for April, 2010
Exams are fun.
Who would’ve thought? No, it’s not the stress getting to me or anything. It’s just that this approach to the exams has actually been working, insofar as finding the exams fun can be considered as a sign of it working. I’m not quite sure how the results will pan out, but there’s only one way to find out.
So, five down, and it’s Friday, and things look fairly good. I’ve enjoyed my examinations so far, and there’s one more to come on Monday. The final frontier, in a sense. I’ve got three days to prepare. That’s probably more than I would’ve liked, partly because I’d naturally want to finish as soon as possible, and also because you tend not to know what to do with so much time on your hands. I’m essentially trying to space out my revision properly now, so that I don’t finish too soon.
That sounds absolutely ridiculous, but it’s true.
Yesterday’s paper was all right. I don’t think it did me any grievous harm, though sometimes it’s difficult to tell until you see your eventual result. I’m sure that I didn’t do as well as I could have, but the same could be said about most, no, all of the other papers because exam conditions tend to make me feel a little out of sorts.
What am I supposed to do after the exams? Well, that will take some sorting out. I better get to planning soon. To my mind, there are several little things, all of them minor, that require action. There is also work, and all of the associated things, as usual. I’m not convinced, however, that I have as many minor things to do as I actually think I have. Let’s see, I have to buy books; I have to meet a few friends; I have to start my book club; I have to wrap books; I have to do a bit of shopping (and I don’t even remember what I have to buy); I have to pack something in the house, I’m sure; I have to email a number of people; I have to say goodbye to a couple of guys too; I have to…
Hmm, yeah, better write a proper list soon.
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The worst is over.
Or at least I would hope so. Papers to come tomorrow and Monday, but I think I’ve weathered the storm. Things have been okay, I suppose, especially given the potential for disaster. So no, no disaster, and now that we’re on the home stretch, I’m just looking forward to getting it all over and done with.
Apart from random exclamations, the exams have also brought terribad haiku out of me. Witness the magnitude of utterly horrigible haiku:
Electric Ener-
Gee, I hope I do okay
Help sheet, please help me
Chain Contingency
Triggered by certain danger
Like 3401
Isn’t it just awful? I suppose it’s so awful that I can be proud of it.
Tomorrow’s sociology. I haven’t exactly prepared because I was in grave danger not so long ago, and I guess this means I should start preparing now. It’s social inequality, and how to deal with it, et cetera. Two essays. I hope they have interesting questions; I hope I know how to do two questions.
And Monday is BioMEMs, which is essentially a cute way of saying very small bioelectronic things. That’s kind of far from my mind right now because I still have sufficient time to make the final preparations.
So, off to my revision then.
Inequality
(Gah! that used up one whole line)
Have at you, Karl Marx!
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Half-Time Whistle
3/6!
Ten More Hours
Of the examinations! Five more papers! Excessive exclamation marks!
The first paper was okay! I’m not sure what to think about it! I just wrote and wrote! More excessive exclamation marks!
Five more papers! Next one is on Saturday! Saturday! It is literature! It is scary! Or it should be!
Gatsby! Lear! Hero! Godot! Random poetry!!
And Monday looms! Monday! And Tuesday! Frightening!
One problem at a time!
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