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[anthon1]

I'm not entirely sure how I haven't managed to get round to a proper post for so long; it certainly isn't as if I've been doing very much recently. My exams ended two Thursdays ago: I had six hours of exams and three fifths of a bottle of an unholy blue isotonic sports drink during the break after the first three hours. In my maths I had enough

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[anthon1]

Um. That much sugar? Probably more effective than cocaine at close quarters. (Also, it comes without the risk of arrest, addiction and social stigma, and is also considerably cheaper, I would imagine. :D)

I had five exams - two one-and-a-half hour Maths exams with an in-exam room break whilst they fiddled with the papers and let people go to the toilet, and then lunch and then three one hour RS exams, similar. Which probably means that it ended up as closer to seven hours in total with breaks and prep time and whatnot, but legally it still counts as six...

They're not so bad really - especially if one has a calculator that can work them out for you in bases other than 10. :D Especially when said calculator is actually cheaper than the ones that can't...

(That was why I had to teach myself how to do them; I had to prove a hideously complicated inequality that involved them and therefore needed the method, not the answer. I proved that it got there, though, so I must have done it right... :D)

MUSE. SO AWESOME. AND BALLOONS, AND ACROBATS, AND GREEN TROUSERS AND THINGS. ALSO, MUSE. :DDD

[wanderlight]

Quite true. Doesn't sugar make you so jittery that your writing spiders out of control, though? It does to me. Granted, stimulants would probably do that, too, along with all of the illegal thingers.

... Six hours of exams should be illegal. That is all.

(My calculator can only do logs in base ten and it cost something like $90, damn you! Then again, it has so many functions that our teachers have the tendency to not teach us certain ones until after the course, so that we have to work it out by hand, which is apparently "good for us". Or something.)

... ARE THE BALLOONS AND ACROBATS AND TROUSERS RELATED TO MUSE?! :D

[anthon1]

It didn't, probably because I used up all of the jitters with my dancing midget Jesus comedy routine. :D It certainly made me write faster than usual, though...

Six hours of exams isn't illegal -- but anything over six is. If you have more than six hours scheduled for one day you have to stay somewhere in quarantine overnight and then do the remainder the next morning. Which, really, is probably worse...

(Well, it does mean that you actually know what the answer should look like, and can cope with awkward situations that the calculator can't really deal with. :P The people doing double-maths all have gigantic calculators that not only cost an arm and a leg, have every letter of the alphabet available for display and can display graphs, but also, far more importantly, have a USB port.

One of my friends found a website from which you can download games for them.)

YES. :D AND CONFETTI AND SPARKS AND EXCITING LIGHTS AND REALLY GOOD MUSIC. :DDDD

(Also, icon love as ever. And I should probably mention that I met somebody the other day -- or rather two somebodies -- who could recite pi up to the hundredth-and-a-bit digit. In concert. :D)

[wanderlight]

I think that your school system is probably definitely insane. Imagine being locked up overnight in the middle of an exam; I bet they would have secure boxes or whatever for you to sleep in, too. Okay, nightmare now.

(I HAVE A USB PORT! BUT I LOST THE CORD SO I CANNOT ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, DO ANYTHING WITH IT. Woe.)

(They should put on an act at the circus. I would pay good money to see that! I once knew someone who could recite all of the countries of Africa in under forty seconds. *nods*)

[anthon1]

Apparently people get put up at the Head's house, which is pretty much on site, and would be awkward but probably okayish. But it would be weird.

(Woe. It would be an awesome place to store sensitive documents, wouldn't it?)

(You've heard the Elements Song, I presume?)

[wanderlight]

AWKWARD. For both parties. I could not imagine opening my house to schoolchildren, especially considering the things I have heard about your peers. :p

(AND SECRET CODES.)

Er, no? :)

[anthon1]

Yes. And we're not all bad, you know. Especially when we're on our own... :P

(:DDD)

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