| Finals and Holidays |
 Finals and Holidays
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Dec. 20th, 2007 @ 11:59 pm 
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Finals Schminals,
I cocked it up. Three finals on one day and it is all my fault.
Math was supposed to be Friday but I didn't get the answers for the test until friday evening (the test was exact questions from our prior exams this year). Finally got the answers on saturday really, all of them anyway. Three tests tuesday and only studied for one up until saturday evening, when I went through the German Vocabulary twice. went to bed. Sunday morning I made breffix for peoples and relaxed until around 11 and started studying again. Math exclusive, got me through most of it. finished memorizing test 1 and 2, and started three. Remembered I have other tests to study for, so I started studying a little Neurological Psychology. quick skim of 4 or 15 chapters, Cumulative final. Read Vocabulary list again (who ever thought to put foreign language on the last day of finals so we had 2 weeks of no chatting in a foreign language to anyone should be shot). Monday morning, I have some food and study, then take Truffles out, then toiletries. Finish math studying around noon, study NeuroPsy until I cannot stand it any longer. around 9:30 I start studying german again... looking over perfect tense and what not. then at 10:30 I go to bed.... cannot sleep... calm myself down by thinking what I always think before a test. I can at least live off of what I know now so nothing I do now will make my life impossible. Sleep pretty well. until the alarm goes off at 4AM so I can study more. stare at the clock while it rings for 10 whole minutes. Truffles barks at me to feed him. I finally get up to feed him and drink some coffee grounds. Make more coffee. Study german until the sun comes up. take Truffles for a walk. stand in the park in the snow for what feels like 20 minutes. get back inside turns out it was actually more like 30 min. drink another cup of coffee. study math. look through notes of NeuroPsy. 7:15 AM, I go outside to an iced car... Scrape it off, drive in...
German
5 min before the test, she hands it out as I am sitting down. I look at the test and really wished I had studied German more. I cannot understand the headings. I drink the Bawls throughout the test. I am the third to last person in the room when I finish. I feel like it went very very poorly. I guessed on half of the reading comprehension, which was the last section, not because I don't know it, but rather because I am too tired to care.
Math
I get into the math room about 20 minutes early. So I seize the opportunity to take out my notes and stare blankly at them, thinking all the while I should really just rewrite these, at least the beginning. around 5 min. of staring, I finally start writing, and only the first problem later one of the girls enters the class. "hey are you ready?" she asks. I hold up my notes and say "heck no" I must look crazed or something because she laughs, perhaps a little nervously. at this point people start pouring in. I am sadly not very good at tuning people out. so I chat with a couple of them and finish copying the first problem of the first test. Anna (the TA) walks in with the tests and hands them out. I ask her to please stop handing them out early so we can still study. She laughs and says "if you need more time to study, you probably won't do well on this anyway" I feel like by not doing well I proved her wrong, but she won't know how I would have done had she let me study the 5 min. During the test I started a problem right and switched over to the memory of the other problem. Blam, glad I brought my eraser with me. Erase a page of wasted time. finish the 6th problem about 45 min into it. realize I did it wrong because I got the wrong answer. Erase it because I cannot find anything wrong with it. Read the question again. realize it was the question 6 from another test that I wrote down previously and it had nothing to do with the question at all. Skip this question because it looks foreign to me. realize that I now have skipped all the questions that look foreign to me and should hope to recover some lost memories at this point. I hand in the test with only 9 of 12 answers. I think I did quite well for how I felt. near the middle of the test I felt like I was cold as ice. and 3/4s of the way through I felt like I was hot as the sun. very bad part of staying awake without enough sleep for me is that I get sick very quickly. sniffling starts here, but again I have another 20 min before my next test.
NeuroPsy
I sit in an almost empty lecture hall and realize how surprised I am to find that I have made it to the right room. fall asleep.
wake up to an almost full room. open notes and look at the Video notes I took (I take video notes in red). turns out it was a good thing as there were 5 questions I would have gotten wrong if I hadn't... lucky me. decent test, My favorite subject all year. The Professor was really cool. I come out of it feeling like I let her down.
Test scores come out tomorrow, but some of them are already in.
all I know right now, is that I passed that final for NeuroPsy with a B+ getting me a B in the class which gets me my Major Status. I am so thrilled right now I think I could fail math and still be alright. but if I fail German. I may break a little. Even though I deserve it.
HAPPY HOLID...
well maybe.
This holiday, we are going to NH to visit Grandparents and to dads and finally back here.
Fun times.
Takin it easy. even though I shouldn't be.
Blargh
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Poor Ryan. Sometimes you take the final, sometimes the final takes you. I wish you had looked me up if you needed help with math, but of course I haven't been online much this last week (hard drive failure) so I'm not sure how much I could help. Sucks about the German, though. I always had a hard time reading the headings on tests in foreign languages, because they never teach you those words! They're too busy teaching you greetings and how to ask directions and crap. Anyhow..
Hope everything is going OK up there. Best wishes and whatnot. Take care and don't take college too seriously.
Ethan
Finals are apparently from Soviet Russia. HEHE.
Don't take college too seriously indeed. Generally I think college is only important for one kind of class, and that is Psych for me, for others it may be whatever their major is... or whatever they decide to do with their lives. and even still, within our favorite subjects... only a few topics are really relevant to what we will be doing anyway. Good to know a friggin lot of stuff though.
Play any good 8-bit games lately? what about 8 Gig games? I am playing hellgate london... "pretty decent" hehe. I like it a lot.
replayability may only work if you play multiple characters alongside each other. If replayability were a word, the aya part of it would make it one of the coolest english words available. hehe.
~chillaxin.
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