Boom De Yada

...I love this commercial so much.



(Thank you, xkcd.)

FREEDOM!

Last exam ended today! Finally, after three weeks, I can do what I want to!

Freeeee...

The exams? They were relatively easier than what I'm used to. Of course I had to invest in a lot of mugs to make them easy, but...

Anyway, they're over. Gone. Half a year cleared, and then I'm going home.

In the meantime, I've got some serious slacking off to do. Laters.

Burnt Out

So my internet's acting up in a weird way. I'm not even going to pretend I understand what it's doing, but it had better get its act together soon.

I've had two exams so far, with one of them two days from the other. My brain is exhausted from all the muggery, and has decided to rebel. I need a whole day's worth of sleep, and copious amounts of vitamin C.

Needless to say I'm not likely to be getting either.

I need to get back to my notes.

Update XVII: One Exam, Hold the Mug

So! Happy new month.

It's going to be winter soon. The days are getting shorter, although the days have actually been getting warmer lately. Of course that's liable to reverse in a while.

I'm just getting a feeling of...change. As if people are moving away, things are ending, some just dying down. I don't know why. It's just an impression.

Exams are this Friday. I'm not sure if I should be worried. I'm nervous of course, and I know there's a lot riding on them. But what I'm not sure about is if I've done enough on the studying front. To be sure, I've taken up the most difficult topics and tried to understand them inside-out. I may have even succeeded. I won't know until I see the exam paper.

You know, there's this thing about being an expert. The minute you've kicked the ball wrong, or react a second too slow, or held the pen crooked - you know. There is no need to see the outcome. You know it's epic fail before you see it.

In a way, we're all experts at exams - and at judging how badly we'll do by just looking at the questions.

It would help if we were experts at studying as well. I mean, I know the true way to learn is to understand. I know that memorising chunks gets nowhere. The question is how to understand. So far, re-writing lectures into essays, followed by running through all of it in my head, seems to have worked so far.

I hope it's enough. Not just for the exams. That's the immediate concern, but not the most important.

I hope it's enough for real life.