Foo - Exams!!!

Bah, I've got my Oceanography exam in 90 minutes! Why am I on bikeforums? Since my bike is in piece (b/c i'm moving) this is the closest thing I can get to a mind-clearing ride. Tomorrow I've got Arabic, and Astronomy the day after...any other college students out there that can empathize?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! Im going to laugh at you because everyone else used to laugh at me when i had exams! I wrote my last university exam on April 25th 2005, and oh god it felt great!!

But in fairness, good luck on those exams.

dude, I don't even go to school and I hate finals... bc my gf won't put out :(

but hey, you're almost done! hang in there!

edit: and get tf off bikeforums and get riding!!

we can all see you're still logged in by the red user name. better get crackin.

At this stage in the game, just go with what you know. good luck!

Ahhh yes, the finals and exams. My last one was in May of 2003 before a panel of 2 department heads and the Academic Dean. It was a 2 hour oral exam going over everything that I did during my master's degree. Man, don't want to repeat that again. Everything was fair game. Luckily, with 45 minutes left I brought up an issue of controversy between two of the professors, and my portion of the exam was over at that point :D It looks like my alma mater is now asking the same thing for BA graduates as well, except only an hour long and before 2 professors and their academic advisor (instead of 2 department heads and the academic dean). All this to say, I've been there, but it could be worse. Now get to those books.

I hate exam time. I should say, I hate the week before exam time when all of your projects are due ON THE SAME FREAKIN DAY!! And, since beer and girls got in the way, you put it off. Then, you have to wait around, doing nothing for a week but take huge exams and try to study. Luckily, since I did my student teaching this semester, I only have two finals. One is from the one class I took, and it is a normal exam. The other: my acedemic advisor and student teaching supervisor is taking us all out for beers and pizza, compliments of him!! Now THATS an exam!

i just hope to god i got at least a 51 on my cal 2 final... if i did i have a D in the class and can continue my education doing something i might actually enjoy... and that doesn't make me feel like running head on into a wall as fast as i can so that my skull explodes freeing my brains all over the place from having to do any more memorizing formulas... the brain bits would say "we're free! we're free!! weeee!!"


yup.... sho nuff.

well, oceanography went well enough. It's one of those subjects that you can reason yourself out of--not like math or languages where if you don't know it then you're screwed. Anybody have an idea on what are the primary producers at midocean ridge vents? now, to begin studying for arabic....

woot! got a c in chem lab! :D

nice one, where do you go to school?

sfasu...

i think it's pretty good since i hate that class, made a 5(outta 5), a 1(outta 5) and a 0 on every other test we were givin...


i really hate science and math. i just took them becuase i thought some of the stuff was interesting but this semester i got in way over my head.

looking at my chem or cal book actually makes my chest hurt... seriously. it's that bad.


is arabic actually easy?

I was forced due to family emergency to give my CIS final late (i.e. Emailed after class was over).... still don't know if teacher will accept it. If not... big waste of time and money to take the class.

I have Accounting tomorrow which I'm only 1/2 prepared for.
I have Statistics on Monday which I'm about 3/4 prepared for.

nah, arabic's pretty tough. i grew up in qatar (but was born in the states to american parents), and the arabic that i know it totally different from the arabic we're learning in class--it's such a pain. and it's just a difficult language--it's not like spanish or italian where you can make educated guesses based on the root of the word. aside from a few words like "algebra", there's not a whole lot of english/arabic overlap. i hope that when i go home this summer i won't get too many laughs from my accent. :o

I just got done with finals today. It feels really good!!! But in the back of my head I'm already thinking about next semester and I know it is going to be alot tougher than this one.

What are you guys majoring in? I'm working on Mechanical/Aerospace engineering

I had my Chem I final yesterday. It didn't go too well....I was sitting on a low A in the class, but I guess I'll just have to take a B and get on with my life....

Tomorrow I have a Survey of Natural Resources final at 8am and a Geomophology final at 1pm.

I'm an undergrad geology major.

i'm gonna major in sculpture (if i made at least a d on the final... otherwise i'll just be some bum on the street :D

and maybe some painting too... looking at those classes.... this is the first time i'm actually excited about taking a course.

i just need to get get a 100 out of 220 to get a c in chem... a 200 would give me a b... but that ain't happenin.

i can't even stand to look at the g*4 damn book anymore... it causes extreme levels of anxiety to fill me...


man... some good relaxing music can be had on ocremix.org... look under e for ecco the dolphin.. all that music can be nice... specially the tides of time.

is italian hard?

i didn't think italian was that tough--it's a beautiful language, much prettier than spanish in my opinion. it just seemed much more...complete. i've gone to italy twice, and it's one of my favorite places on earth... *sigh*

and yeah, i'm majoring in Earth and Ocean Sciences here at duke. anybody keeping up with college bball?

nah, arabic's pretty tough. i grew up in qatar (but was born in the states to american parents), and the arabic that i know it totally different from the arabic we're learning in class--it's such a pain. and it's just a difficult language--it's not like spanish or italian where you can make educated guesses based on the root of the word. aside from a few words like "algebra", there's not a whole lot of english/arabic overlap. i hope that when i go home this summer i won't get too many laughs from my accent. :o

Ahh, you're studying (as opposed to learning) classroom Arabic instead of the people's Arabic. I teach people how to learn other languages without a classroom, via relationship and cultural immersion, classroom language drives me crazy. Anyway, I studied an ancient Semitic language during my master's degree that has a whole lot of cognates and similiar grammatical strucutre to Arabic--it was quite a doozy.

Ahh, you're studying (as opposed to learning) classroom Arabic instead of the people's Arabic. I teach people how to learn other languages without a classroom, via relationship and cultural immersion, classroom language drives me crazy. Anyway, I studied an ancient Semitic language during my master's degree that has a whole lot of cognates and similiar grammatical strucutre to Arabic--it was quite a doozy.

I have to agree that studying classroom Arabic does not help you communicate at all. We had a DVD that had a dialogue for each chapter. There were two versions of the dialogue, formal and informal, and the informal version sounded nothing like what we were learning. Also, I noticed that our one native speaker had obvious difficulty with some of the words and how they were used.