Adam Hinz: The Blog
Finals ---- As posted in my LJ
On 2004-12-18 at 12/18/2004 03:00:00 AM...
Well I'm sure some of you are wondering how my yesterday turned out (or it's my egomania acting up again). In case you didn't know, I had four (4) finals yesterday, all pretty much right after the other.I really wasn't worried about them too much. I thought I gave enough time to studying, and I took all the necessary pre-test precauctions: ate at Penn Station the day before, selected my underwear at least a week before, listened to the right music while studying and in-between tests (this time Guster was the right music for the "between" parts). Superstitious? Maybe, but it was enough to keep my confidence up. I felt I did enough studying for most classes. On Saturday I did the practice test for my CS class, and on Sunday I went to a study session for CS, went over 2 practice tests I had done earlier in the week for Calc2, went over all 10 or so quizzes (which I knew would be the final word-for-word) for my linguistics class, and tried studying the butt out of spanish. Then i went to bed around 2. Need lots of sleep.
My first final was at 12:30, and I set my alarm for 9 so I could get a good breakfast and study just a little bit more that morning. Unfortunately, I set the alarm for PM instead of AM, and woke up around 11. Thank God for that! Still had enough time for a good breakfast, but didn't study anymore (I didn't feel like studying while eating).
Took my Calc2 final. I think I did really well on that, which I kind of expected. Later that night I realized I fucked up on one of the questions, so that is bugging me now, but otherwise I think I did pretty well. Also, I got done about 20 minutes early, so that gave me 35 minutes more to study for my Spanish test.
My Spanish test was surprising easy, though I felt I could have studied a little more. I feel like I really fucked up the preterite tense, though I haven't looked at my book to know for sure. Learning more spanish can wait till next semester. Other than that, the test was very similar to the practice test, which I expected. So I think I did at the very least a B, which shoudl be good enough for an A in there. I finished that about a half hour early, so I headed over to my linguistics final, which could be taken anywhere from 4-7pm.
That linguistics course is a joke. Fuckin' easiest class I've ever had. (And for you IU kids....it's an E103 course called "How thought depends on language." It's caught by Prof. Keller, and if you need an easy topics course, take it. And he might be retiring after this semester.) The final was word-for-word from the quizzes, which are all online and can be printed out. It's multiple choice, and even the choices are in the same order. I misssed 2 out of 96 on it.
So by now it was like 4:30, and I already had 3 finals done. My last was wasn't until 7:15, so I ate at McD's and came back to the dorm to relax a bit. I basically told myself "don't sleep" because I knew if I did I wouldn't wake up. I felt like a pitcher in a perfect game, as described on Scrubs when Dr. Cox is going for a perfect game (where he works for 24 hours and no one dies). No one was aloud to mention anything about a perfect game or else he would be jinxed. Anyway, at the end, a patient dies with only 5 minutes left, and Elliot is like "It's just us here, we can wait just a few minutes. Our hospital needs this!" And Dr. Cox is like "Barbie, having only one patient die is a hell of a good day. Declare it." Anyway, I felt like Dr. Cox and I didn't want anything to jinx me. I don't know if I did anythign different, but I was always thinking about it.
The CS final wasn't too bad. I thought it was easier than the midterm, though I might just be getting better at it. I finished about 15 minutes early, and walked home. Hot damn it was freezing outside. Fuckin 20 degrees or something. So it was all over. Later that night I went to Applebees with some friends on the floor and it ended up being a really good day. Would I do it all again? Four finals in one day? Maybe...depends on how hard the classes are.
And finally, I would like to thank the Academy, my publicist, who is a beautiful, beautiful person, and all the people who wished me luck on these finals. Thanks to you all, and good luck to the rest of you!
So long!