Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Exams exams exams!
The past two weeks, have without a doubt been the most mind numbingly dull weeks of my life.
End statement.
Seriously, after over twelve weeks of working your ass off without a break on coursework, that is to some extent spoon fed (i.e. deadline by deadline basis), to be able to motivate yourself to revise for two weeks straight on the immensely dry literature of computer data models, codd's normals forms and the internal politics of various standards organisations (nevermind the standards themselves!), is...frankly... almost impossible.
I failed miserably, but have so far made (I feel) a reasonable go of the exams. My hardest two are tomorow and Friday, so I suppose I'll see how optimistic I am them. It's very frustrating because having to go back to revision feels like a step backwards, when we have been so 'actively' learning over the past few weeks. On top of that, having finally formulated ideas for a dissertation I want to make a move on that while I'm still enthusiastic, not burned out after ridiculously boring, dull and ultimately pointless exams.
Nevermind the tens of other little projects I've promised myself to do and sort since I came back from Australia (it feels like so long ago).
Anyway..by Saturday it's all over... and then I'll give you more blog post offerings!
for now... I've thought up another Christmas Present - A good kitchen knife set!
Happy Birthday to Sister (for tomorow)
Jan.
End statement.
Seriously, after over twelve weeks of working your ass off without a break on coursework, that is to some extent spoon fed (i.e. deadline by deadline basis), to be able to motivate yourself to revise for two weeks straight on the immensely dry literature of computer data models, codd's normals forms and the internal politics of various standards organisations (nevermind the standards themselves!), is...frankly... almost impossible.
I failed miserably, but have so far made (I feel) a reasonable go of the exams. My hardest two are tomorow and Friday, so I suppose I'll see how optimistic I am them. It's very frustrating because having to go back to revision feels like a step backwards, when we have been so 'actively' learning over the past few weeks. On top of that, having finally formulated ideas for a dissertation I want to make a move on that while I'm still enthusiastic, not burned out after ridiculously boring, dull and ultimately pointless exams.
Nevermind the tens of other little projects I've promised myself to do and sort since I came back from Australia (it feels like so long ago).
Anyway..by Saturday it's all over... and then I'll give you more blog post offerings!
for now... I've thought up another Christmas Present - A good kitchen knife set!
Happy Birthday to Sister (for tomorow)
Jan.
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