At this time tomorrow I'll be free...
So two days of finals are over. At this time tomorrow, after my Chemistry final, I'll be done for the semester. I wish I could say I was really excited, but honestly, at this point I'm more worried than excited. Before this week, I thought I had a pretty good grasp on everything, and I figured the tests would increase in difficulty as the week progressed. In a sense, that is what's happening, but the rate at which the difficulty is increasing is more of an exponential function than the linear function I had expected (hoped) for. Though maybe part of the problem was my own expectations. I had physics yesterday, and I thought that would be relatively easy, since I took 2 years of it in high school. In a sense I was right, but in thinking that I forgot all about the more advanced topics we learned this term that weren't even mentioned in high school. Like elliptical orbits, central forces in two-body systems where both bodies move, and gyroscopes. Seeing those on the exam gave it +10 difficulty.
Today I had my multi-variable midterm, since I'll be finishing it up in January. The thing that annoyed me about that test was that the professor lied when he told us what was going to be on it. At the review session he said it would be about 1/4 of material we learned early in the class (stuff that was on the first exam) so we shouldn't worry too much about it, and the other 3/4 would be the stuff we've learned since the exam. So I went to the test pretty confident in my knowledge of the recent stuff we learned only to find out that the test was more like 2/3 old stuff and 1/3 new stuff. Apparently "Don't worry too much about the old stuff" really meant "Study your ass off on this stuff, because the percentage is really a lot higher than that."
This leaves me freaking out about tomorrow's exam, since I thought it would be the hardest one I'd have. If the "easier" ones were as hard as they were, I have a feeling I'm going to get raped by chemistry tomorrow. Whoopty-doo. But after that, I'll be done for 2 and a half weeks, and before I know it I'll be on a train coming home. Which reminds me, I have to do laundry and start packing today. Maybe I should go do that now...
Today I had my multi-variable midterm, since I'll be finishing it up in January. The thing that annoyed me about that test was that the professor lied when he told us what was going to be on it. At the review session he said it would be about 1/4 of material we learned early in the class (stuff that was on the first exam) so we shouldn't worry too much about it, and the other 3/4 would be the stuff we've learned since the exam. So I went to the test pretty confident in my knowledge of the recent stuff we learned only to find out that the test was more like 2/3 old stuff and 1/3 new stuff. Apparently "Don't worry too much about the old stuff" really meant "Study your ass off on this stuff, because the percentage is really a lot higher than that."
This leaves me freaking out about tomorrow's exam, since I thought it would be the hardest one I'd have. If the "easier" ones were as hard as they were, I have a feeling I'm going to get raped by chemistry tomorrow. Whoopty-doo. But after that, I'll be done for 2 and a half weeks, and before I know it I'll be on a train coming home. Which reminds me, I have to do laundry and start packing today. Maybe I should go do that now...