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General => Rants and Stuff => Topic started by: Outkast in Exile on November 18, 2004, 02:52:32 AM
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Well the first of my exams was today... and after it, I'd have to say that I am thouroughly, and totally exhausted. Its not even 6.00pm, and I haven't studied for the exam I have tomorrow at 9.00am, but I'm ready to fall asleep...
I actually quite like the unit (Myth and Ancient Roman Literature) and it went quite well, but after I walked out I was nearly ready to drop. Time for a cold shower, and then into studying Mediaval England at the time of the Plantagenets....
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yeah, tests are stressful, even if you enjoyed the class. Good luck with exams!
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These are high school classes? Or college? Sound too interesting for high school.
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My finals are during the first couple weeks of December. The joy of 3 hour exams is something I am not really excited about; it will push me further into the insanity in which I am already dwelling. HAHAHAHA (psychotic laugh) :P
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Happily, I took my last final way back in May. After 4 years of High School Final, 4 years of College Finals, and 3 years of Optometry School Finals I couldn't take any more.
Instead, now I'm spending the vast majority of my free time in November studying for my Part II Boards in early December. It's worse. An entire month consumed by studying. This is the last hard one though...
So I feel your pain.
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Thanks a heap!
I finished off my second one today.... it actually went very well, it was the best exam I could have hoped for. Thanks to a lot of time spent poring over past exam papers I managed to work out probable questions... and all of the questions I got were ones I'd already written essays on, which was just.. . great.
Stacer, its college; my second year of it.
Now, because I'm not doing a full load, I only have one to go... C++ Programming. Which is the worst subject. I'm so glad I'm not taking any computer subjects next year (Latin, German and probably Creative Writing next year). For C++, they expect you to write perfect code. Perfect being the operative word. Now maybe I'm missing something here... but nobody writes perfect code in the real world. You write ok code, then you test and debug it. But no, in two hours we have to do a whole heap of tasks, including debugging code, writing perfect code, and working out algorithims/questions which you'd normally spend several hours thinking about. Its a joke.
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See, exams are why I'm glad I was an art major. Few art classes had exams. They just have portfolio critiques where the instructor destroyed any sense of self worth you might of had lingering around.
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That's how the music dept at UNCG worked too. I had many dorm-mates in the music department. They were the most harried and unhealthily stressed people I had ever met, and they were constantly worried, not about passing, but about being WORTHY of passing.
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or living... and yeah they were freaked out all the time.
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See, exams are why I'm glad I was an art major. Few art classes had exams. They just have portfolio critiques where the instructor destroyed any sense of self worth you might of had lingering around.
That's why I love science. No subjectivity. If it's not measurable, it won't affect your grade :)
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According to my art teacher **everything** is subjective. Except of course the marks she gave you. Because, according to her, because there was a marking criteria, it wasn't subjective. Gotta love that logic.
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yeah, then you get into relativism. i'm already discounting that point of view.
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Yes, she wasn't the brightest of bunnies, to use a cliched expression. She was the same one who tried to tell me I actually didn't have a food allergy. Among a lot of other statements which were full of ......
Ah well, I don't have to deal with her anymore.
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I have six weeks until my first finals, but I have six of them. One of them is like your C++ programing class, just with HTML and some other website making tools.
The rest are not fun at all. Physics, Trigonometry, AP European History, AP Language and Composition, and Spanish III. I'm sooooo excited. So, I don't feel your pain right now, but I will. Eventually.
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Hey, HTML's easy. At least you can't crash everything just beacuse there is a single semicolon missing from the end of a line, somewhere in the middle of thousands of lines of code. Which the compiler doesn't tell you where. I have learned to hate C++ with a passion.
But good luck with them ;) Won't those be round christmas time though? Don't you guys have a break?
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You need to get a better compiler. In fact, you need to geta proper development suite. Anyone worth it's salt tells you about missing syntax.
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Have you done any C++ dude?
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The rather worrying bit here, Xaio, is that I recognised you completely by tone within a line or two, after dropping into this forum at random.
"Yes, you are so predicatable I can pre-record my half... "
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Welcome to the forum Master_Gopher. Please read the FAQ and introduce yourself in the Intoduce yourself thread.
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to make it simple, here's the introduction thread (http://www.timewastersguide.com/boards/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=news;action=display;num=1051196804) (read the others there to see what we're looking for) and this is the FAQ (http://www.timewastersguide.com/boards/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=news;action=display;num=1080380396)
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SE misses the joke in me posting that...
Master_Gopher is someone known to both me and Xaio. In fact, it was Gopher from whom Xaio stole his characters name for my Paranoia game. The MASTER in Gopher's name is revenge, I'm guessing.
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yeah, see, that being something that I would never be able to divine, and it not being terribly FUNNY as a joke, I can see how I missed it :D
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It's funny when you know the people involved. Master_Gopher knows the peopel involves, being the people involved.
Insert Paragraph here.
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Um... No. I think you'll find that 'Master Gopher' is just the full version of her alias dude... y'know, like 'Xaio' and 'Master Xaio', yah?
And I should point out that it wasn't funny...
Oh, btw, hello GopherGirl. Long time no see :P
Btw, you're fairly recognisable yourself.
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The MASTER in Gopher's name is revenge, I'm guessing.
No, no. The "Master" was always there. Due to the masterfulness, and all. I could give you a linguistic history of the name, but I'm sure it wouldn't interest you.
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Welcome!
I'm curious. How did you end up at the site if JP and Xaio didn't tell you about it?
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My brother dropped a random reference, and my curiosity compelled me to follow it up. Also, it involved forums. Forums eat me. In spite (or perhaps because of) this, I'm continually looking for new forums to haunt.
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We'll totally ignore the fact that we've both mentioned it, and possibly even talked about it to you, *many* times before... ;)
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Yeah, and didn't I invite you into my paranoia game?
Plus, more importantly, how did Bones find out about the site (Leigh bones not Jeffe Bones)
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We'll totally ignore the fact that we've both mentioned it, and possibly even talked about it to you, *many* times before... ;)
You haven't. Really. Otherwise I'd have been here *long* ago.
Also, I never got invited to this paranoia game, only the JParanoia one, which I couldn't make it to. How Bones knows this site, I have not the faintest.