Wednesday, June 11, 2008
I just ended my first exam!!! One down three more to go. Not much to celebrate about seeing as how the next one is a week away. The paper was kind of what I had in mind. I was actually quite pleased with myself that I had spotted 3 of the 5 questions correctly, and so I was relatively prepared I suppose. Then when the paper was over, I turned behind to my friend to find out that the paper was just like the past exam the lecturer posted on the web and my first response was "There is a past exam!!!" I felt so cheated. I could have been so much better prepared. This is the price you pay for assuming. Now I understand what my lecturer means when there are costs in assumptions.
More on the exam experience. The lady seated next to me was so irritating. Barely into the first 5 minutes of paper, and I had only written like 3 lines, when she flipped her page so loud, like proudly boasting to the rest of the exam hall that she had already written so much, and was faster than the rest. So in the heat of the moment, I flipped my pages loudly too. It was like a race to see who could write more and flip more. Then I finished my third question and was surprised that there was no flipping pages to irritate me anymore, and tilted my head slightly to see her scratching her head. No more words to say, hence no more pages to flip. I felt a minor taste of victory, which was of course dashed with the thought that there was a past exam paper I did not do!!!
On a separate topic. I was at lunch and was saying how there are so many types and combinations of coffee in the west, latte, mocha, cappuccino. You can have it iced, flat, with foam, no foam, extra foam. I the coffee nut, since I don't drink any coffee, argued that you could just name any type of coffee and it'd probably exist.
Dan: There are so many types I can just name one and it'll be there, like latte no foam.
Rach: I don't think there is a latte no foam.
Dan: Fine, latte extra foam then.
Rach: Hmmm...
Dan: Latte, got foam??
Dan
4:47 pm
