News Update( after a bbq)
The date is: Wed 2nd June 04, The time is: 4.05am....so technically its Thursday 3rd June 04.
Anyways the point is that i completed my 1st exam today. It was my french/german lit in translation exam, the one i was dreading the most out of all my exams and boy am I glad its over. It was a satisfying exam, in the sense i completed it in the best way ii felt i could in the exam. I try not to think about what i should and shouldn't have done once an exam is over because: a)I know i cannot change what i have submitted. b)I get stressed about it and panic. However i can say that i was really pissed off that Kafka's 'Metamorphosis' didn't come up in either section A or C. I have to admit, that text was supposed to be my treasure to show to the examiner because i spent so long learning everything about it amd i was dissapointed the exam did not provide an opportunity to do that. Therefore, i had to re-adjust to a new structure of doing Flaubert in Section A(which i didn't fully finish because i had more to say, but i had to stick to the time boundries and move onto section b), Sartre (who i had only learnt as much as possible this morning before the exam) and suprisingly stayed fairly fresh in my head. I just wish i learnt the quotes too. Finally for section c, i chose to write on Boll's 'Lost Honour of Katharina Blum'...which i didn't go over in enough detail before the exam/or night before which was silly of me because i did spend a long time reading the novel and making notes on it. I guess was overconfidant with how much I thought I knew it and although in the exma i remembered enough tp drift through it, I could've done much better if i refreshed my memory a little better. This was frustrating because i had plenty of ideas i wanted to put down...but i just couldn't fit them in or remember the detail/the significance of certain points I wanted to make, or suuport my argument with quotes. There was one quote which was on the tip of my tongue, but i ended up leaving it out because i could only remember half of it and didn't want to rish loosing marks for inaccuracy. But I blagged my way through anyways and did the best I could.I reckon if i had one more night to revise, i I would've done more work and refreshers and i would fill in the gaps in essays in....improving my grades.
With all this said,I don't think i have ever worked so hard for an exam the night before. Perhaps i have got more lazy since i started university, in fact I HAVE become more lazy. Never have I procratinated so much revision in my life. Thats not to say that during my GCSE's/A-levels that i was the typically organised and well prepared student, i just feared leaving lots of work until the last minute more and avoided it where i could. Here at Warwick,its a different story altogether. I don't resent it though because its my 1st year at uni and the first time im away from home an an independant teenager. Everyone is lazier in their fresher year because they only need 40% to pass and t helps other get on the bus. i will have more expenses next year and i indicated to Gio that the possibility of me moving back with him is still a prospect and ive decided more and more that i want to be close to Brian's house. The other girls there are great friends and i'd like to carry on being mates with them. Nakul prolly feels the same way with the guys.I just wish my housing sitation had been sorting.....sort things for themselves in addition to all out things.
No i have yet to begin film history r film Crticism 2moro as early as possible)Does Gio feel i may have changed. I will start(old romatic side)it as much possible for we go to varsity.-that would be awesome! and a luagh..!
Ok i will finsh/add more to this entry tomox. Im falling asleep nicholas Ray
and The Cannon best keep up alert! (Doubt it tho..)
Mia signs off!
Anyways the point is that i completed my 1st exam today. It was my french/german lit in translation exam, the one i was dreading the most out of all my exams and boy am I glad its over. It was a satisfying exam, in the sense i completed it in the best way ii felt i could in the exam. I try not to think about what i should and shouldn't have done once an exam is over because: a)I know i cannot change what i have submitted. b)I get stressed about it and panic. However i can say that i was really pissed off that Kafka's 'Metamorphosis' didn't come up in either section A or C. I have to admit, that text was supposed to be my treasure to show to the examiner because i spent so long learning everything about it amd i was dissapointed the exam did not provide an opportunity to do that. Therefore, i had to re-adjust to a new structure of doing Flaubert in Section A(which i didn't fully finish because i had more to say, but i had to stick to the time boundries and move onto section b), Sartre (who i had only learnt as much as possible this morning before the exam) and suprisingly stayed fairly fresh in my head. I just wish i learnt the quotes too. Finally for section c, i chose to write on Boll's 'Lost Honour of Katharina Blum'...which i didn't go over in enough detail before the exam/or night before which was silly of me because i did spend a long time reading the novel and making notes on it. I guess was overconfidant with how much I thought I knew it and although in the exma i remembered enough tp drift through it, I could've done much better if i refreshed my memory a little better. This was frustrating because i had plenty of ideas i wanted to put down...but i just couldn't fit them in or remember the detail/the significance of certain points I wanted to make, or suuport my argument with quotes. There was one quote which was on the tip of my tongue, but i ended up leaving it out because i could only remember half of it and didn't want to rish loosing marks for inaccuracy. But I blagged my way through anyways and did the best I could.I reckon if i had one more night to revise, i I would've done more work and refreshers and i would fill in the gaps in essays in....improving my grades.
With all this said,I don't think i have ever worked so hard for an exam the night before. Perhaps i have got more lazy since i started university, in fact I HAVE become more lazy. Never have I procratinated so much revision in my life. Thats not to say that during my GCSE's/A-levels that i was the typically organised and well prepared student, i just feared leaving lots of work until the last minute more and avoided it where i could. Here at Warwick,its a different story altogether. I don't resent it though because its my 1st year at uni and the first time im away from home an an independant teenager. Everyone is lazier in their fresher year because they only need 40% to pass and t helps other get on the bus. i will have more expenses next year and i indicated to Gio that the possibility of me moving back with him is still a prospect and ive decided more and more that i want to be close to Brian's house. The other girls there are great friends and i'd like to carry on being mates with them. Nakul prolly feels the same way with the guys.I just wish my housing sitation had been sorting.....sort things for themselves in addition to all out things.
No i have yet to begin film history r film Crticism 2moro as early as possible)Does Gio feel i may have changed. I will start(old romatic side)it as much possible for we go to varsity.-that would be awesome! and a luagh..!
Ok i will finsh/add more to this entry tomox. Im falling asleep nicholas Ray
and The Cannon best keep up alert! (Doubt it tho..)
Mia signs off!