Thanks, I think I'll need it. I've just had a skim down the first few pages that explain the data layout and stuff. Oh. My. God. I think I'll need to take a few hours just trying to understand these pages.
I've just written out on eof my answers for tomorrows exam. I'm just praying now that the topics I've revised come up on the exam. If not I'm completely screwed. I've only had time to revise two topics - there are 8 topics, 6 questions, I have to answer 2. I haven't even revised the two topics very well. I had 46 hours between Monday's exam finishing and tomorrow's exam starting. And in that time we're expected to revise, sleep, eat, shower, get to the exam early and be calm when we arrive. Er . . . not actually going to happen I don't think. I'm seriously thinking that if the topics I've revised aren't on the paper I might just tear it up and walk out. I don't know enough to blag my way through any other topics. Yesterday I could get away with it because I understand the topics quite well. Tomorrow's exam I am completely clueless, except for on problem solving and language production.
I just want it to be over now. I'm ready to go into the exam now. I just want it to be over. Sigh. This time tomorrow I'll be free from exams and nearly free of uni work.
Back to work I guess.
7th July 2007
Hope is the feeling you have, that the feeling you have isn't permanent. (Jean Kerr)
simi - man made stuff is there to break :)
thumbelina - i take scottish oatcakes, not bread, but i do that too :)
shadow - hope you have a good night tonight! it'll be a good break at least :)
Claire - yay for finishing exams! And your report'll be fine...
amy - summer's coming!!
alison - good luck!! you;ll be grand!!
has anyone ever messed up printing off lecture notes? im feeling really thick right now - they're all one one page and i cant read them...
they say they have no claim to know what's right...
- Dar Williams, mercy of the fallen -
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OH SURE! blame the bat... what the heck - we're easy targets!
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'is 'alright' special timelord speak for 'really not alright at all'?'
Yeah, I've actually managed to have a look over the report and using Google I understand it a bit more. It's just so long and so hard to pick out the bits I need.
And the reason I've been waiting so long for a response from this is that it got sent to a Freedom of Information request for some reason. I e-mailed someone else in a different department and asked for the same thing and he sent me it without any problems.
Glad you got that sorted Claire. Try to break the article down into smaller chunks and don't spend ages trying to read. Is there someone in your class you could sit down and talk about it with? Talking about things (or even trying to explain it to a housemate or something) can really help clarify it all in your mind - trying to explain in your own words, linking bits of information together, having to find the information in your head to answer questions etc.
Am going to bed. If I stay up any longer I'll work myself into a mad state about tomorrow. I know there is nothing I can do about it now really - if I don't know something, I'm not going to learn it now. If the topics I've learnt aren't on the paper, I can't do anything about it. This time tomorrow I will be working on my report which will (hopefully) be nearly finished. I think there's only about 400 words to do (including a 250 word abstract) so it shouldn't take me long. Yay. Roll on tomorrow . . .
7th July 2007
Hope is the feeling you have, that the feeling you have isn't permanent. (Jean Kerr)
going to a friends last night was not smart :(
was fun... and jack (boyfriend) and I avoided alcohol... but we didn't get home till 2am... and then got up at 8 to go into library for revisionness... so very very tireds :(
aw, *hugs* for shadow light and everyone else who is tired/stressed.
Have an exam in 2 and a half hours. My last one!!!! Am bricking it because I've only revised 2 topics so if they don't come up I am completely screwed. I don't even know how I did in the essay for this unit so I don't know what mark I can get away with in the exam. Might be better though, might mean I put more effort into trying to blag my way through.
Feel pretty sick though. Just want to be curled up in bed. :(
7th July 2007
Hope is the feeling you have, that the feeling you have isn't permanent. (Jean Kerr)
I think it might just stress me out more to be honest. I've pretty much just decided that I don't really care what happens in the exam. I just want it to be over. I might be able to blag a bilingualism question. Am now praying my topics come up. God must be getting annoyed - I only seem to pray when I have exams! Lol!
Thank you for all your good luck wishes. I'll let you know how it goes. In 4 hours all my exams will be over. So excited! And nervous, strange combination.
7th July 2007
Hope is the feeling you have, that the feeling you have isn't permanent. (Jean Kerr)
