I have a final tonight.
This post is me just taking a moment away from studying. My brain hurts a little, I think math is going to start pouring out my ears soon. But to be honest, I think I'm starting to enjoy math a little. Mostly because I can relate it to physics, but that's another story.
The dorms have been blissfully quiet, thanks to 24 hour quiet hours being in place. Thank you, everyone, for following the rules. Although, the dining hall has been eerily quiet because no one really talks anymore, too busy studying even while they eat. These kids get intense during finals.
But yeah, this is basically me procrastinating until I go back to studying. I just thought you'd all like to hear from me. Oh, that reminds me, Ramesh is done with finals after tomorrow, so she's heading out on Saturday. Valerie and Aly are also leaving this weekend, which means I'm going to be all alone for a few days. Goodness, what shall I do? Studying can get tedious and repetitive after a while, can't do that ALL weekend.
Other than that, not much to report. I think I rocked my Chinese Oral final, but we'll see how I do tomorrow on the written portion, and wish me luck for tonight on the calculus one. Hopefully it won't hurt my soul too much. T-minus 4 hours, 38 minutes, until everything comes to a climax.
I can do this!
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Goodness. First breather since Thanksgiving. Apologies for not writing sooner, but everything sort of just collaborated and planned on being due at the exact same time.
First off, I FINISHED NANO WRIMO. So, to all you naysayers, neener neener neener. I did it! Yeah, it was a little hard, what with me accidentally breaking my computer (let's not tell this story) just as I got back to the dorms right after Thanksgiving. But thank goodness for Dell and their amazing technical support. So, I typed what I could during the week when I wasn't catching my two days of missed homework up, but Friday was when it really began. Skyelar and I looked at our wordcount that morning. It was dismally behind by about 22,000 words. And we had until midnight to play catch up.
I wrote 18,000 words that day.
That's right, I totally wrote almost half the entire book in just one day. I can't even begin to describe how amazing it is that my Fridays are almost devoid of any classes, and what classes I do have are delightfully brief. Skyelar and I were fueled by so much coffee, I'm surprised I didn't overdose on caffeine. But we did it! Granted, we lost so much sleep waiting for the validation page to load, we may as well have pulled an all nighter, but we finally managed to crash before the sky grew light again with the comfort that our novel was submitted and we had done a job well done.
And then school started to lose its mind. It was like someone suddenly the on switch in all the teachers. Papers were everywhere, panic in the streets, nobody slept a decent amount at all, my suite mate actually went one night without a single hour of sleep. Poor girl was tottering on her feet by lunch the next day. Study guides and exams an preparations for finals. Projects and essays and research all colliding into the past two days. In the past two days, I have had more homework and quizzes and presentations than I had averaged in November.
Absolutely ridiculous. But all in all, the next two weeks are shaping up to be quite the challenge. A few finals, thankfully not one for every single class, but all of them important. So, like I said, this was the first moment of freedom in a while. Don't be too upset if I don't write again until vacation begins, but I will try to relax my brain with more posts this month.
That's all for now.
First off, I FINISHED NANO WRIMO. So, to all you naysayers, neener neener neener. I did it! Yeah, it was a little hard, what with me accidentally breaking my computer (let's not tell this story) just as I got back to the dorms right after Thanksgiving. But thank goodness for Dell and their amazing technical support. So, I typed what I could during the week when I wasn't catching my two days of missed homework up, but Friday was when it really began. Skyelar and I looked at our wordcount that morning. It was dismally behind by about 22,000 words. And we had until midnight to play catch up.
I wrote 18,000 words that day.
That's right, I totally wrote almost half the entire book in just one day. I can't even begin to describe how amazing it is that my Fridays are almost devoid of any classes, and what classes I do have are delightfully brief. Skyelar and I were fueled by so much coffee, I'm surprised I didn't overdose on caffeine. But we did it! Granted, we lost so much sleep waiting for the validation page to load, we may as well have pulled an all nighter, but we finally managed to crash before the sky grew light again with the comfort that our novel was submitted and we had done a job well done.
And then school started to lose its mind. It was like someone suddenly the on switch in all the teachers. Papers were everywhere, panic in the streets, nobody slept a decent amount at all, my suite mate actually went one night without a single hour of sleep. Poor girl was tottering on her feet by lunch the next day. Study guides and exams an preparations for finals. Projects and essays and research all colliding into the past two days. In the past two days, I have had more homework and quizzes and presentations than I had averaged in November.
Absolutely ridiculous. But all in all, the next two weeks are shaping up to be quite the challenge. A few finals, thankfully not one for every single class, but all of them important. So, like I said, this was the first moment of freedom in a while. Don't be too upset if I don't write again until vacation begins, but I will try to relax my brain with more posts this month.
That's all for now.
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