Monday, December 13, 2004
Finals Week
Well, I just successfully completed my first final: French. It was a four-part final including a quiz, an oral presentation, and oral exam, and a written test. Naturally, I did very well on the quiz and the test, but the oral exam I think I did pretty badly on and the oral presentation I think I did high above average, but not great and such. Tomorrow I don't have any finals; however, I do have work from eight-thirty to twelve, and trust me, that sucks. Wendsday is one of my most feared finals (number two, actually) and that one's history. I think I'm all ready except I don't know a few of the dates for the identifications, where we have to explain in short detail (4-5 sentances) a specific person or thing. That's worth thirty points the rest of the test is two essays, a thirty-point non-accumilating and a fourth-point accumalative. I've luckily got the fourty-point one down, which leaves me with only sixty points to earn. Well, actually, I've got good ideas for the thirty-point essay and I have half of the "ID"'s down, so I'm on my way for History, so I guess I shouldn't be worrying as much as I am. Math, quite easily my most feared final (and Anthony, before you comment on this, prove to me that 2^n+2 equals 0 mod 2 please), I don't even know if I'll study for. I never say the necessity for the class as a CS major except for a thin amount of logic here and there when we didn't use some crazy mathematical thing to prove something (i.e. we used logic), but that was rarely. I'm going to tell her I didn't see the necessity for the class as a CS major next semester... it's really a useless class to me. Also due on Thursday is my English final revision and that's going to be good stuff, I plan to conference with her Wendsday and finalize everything that night. Finally, Friday is my Computer Science exam... wow... it's accumalitive, which means bad, and it will include definitions, but it'll also be a lot of code writing, so I'm sure I'll get above a "B" on that, and that's without studying, if I actually get around to studying, I'll do even better. This is all considering that I don't commit suicide after the Math exam. Wow, calc sounds easy, people are still talking about the first derivative test... and this is the end of the semester... I almost laughed, but I managed to hole back... by now if you don't know when to use the first derivative test, you're fucked as far as calc one goes. Well, I've got a meeting with Nathan (my history TA) at ten, so I'm going to get going now... I just wasted a good quarter of an hour writing this, so you people better have read it. Ciao for now!
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I gotta finish reading this but I do I see something that does not look right?
xanga:
Interests: GNU/Linux in the end user and near-end user environments, GNU/Linux kernel-based drivers, programming in C#, C, and JAVA, and introduction of beginning end user into the GNU/Linux environment, graph theory mathematics in true application to the design of network topology and micro data structures, random number generation efficiency in numbers 0-7
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* GNU/Linux in the end user and near-end user environments
* GNU/Linux kernel-based drivers
* programming in C#; C and JAVA
* random number generation efficiency in numbers 0-5
so, what is it? 0-5 or 0-7? I gotta finish reading your post, might post again.
okay, all done reading and all I have to say is don't just blow any of it off, I know it is obvious, but it sounds like your going to do that for some stuff. Don't.
my personal take:
- if you're struggling within yourself, you're lost. Learn to recognise this mental state (of internal struggle) and drop it immediately.
- instead, look with detachment at the 'lazy' half of the struggle. The more clearly you see it, the less power it will have.
- once the laziness is clearly seen, visualise yourself beginning the task, in detail. You can do this lying in bed or anywhere, but the important thing is to get over the initial hump, and sort out a clear picture of the first steps you need to take.
It's this startup-barrier that's the real problem, but reducing it to a manageable size is just a question of thinking it out clearly (not sweating, exercising, or promising rewards or threats).
Where the fuck do you come up with this shit? Also, what in the hell is it partaining to? And it's 0-5 by the way, rolling die...
"Where the fuck do you come up with this shit?"
Zen and the art of motorcycle mechanics or something like that.
"Also, what in the hell is it partaining to?" (pertaining, but no big deal, easy mistake, I make many of them.)
You slacking off, taking the easy way saying "I don't even know if I'll study for." and "I'm sure I'll get above a "B" on that, and that's without studying" and " if I actually get around to studying, I'll do even better."
stop saying "If i get around to studying", just do it, you probably will never thank me, but you should. (I sure am sounding arrogant today, sorry) I am also hypocritical because I am putting off doing stuff, I guess we all do it though. I have to get working, ciao!
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