Today’s Tests
I had two tests today, in Circuits(Networks) and C. The C test was easy– although the professors tried to make it tricky, it had the level of difficulty that any quiz would have in another class. Face it, profs: C (and any other programming language) is just a bunch of rules! As it is, C has particularly simple rules.
The other test however, was not a cakewalk. I’ve been studying for it for three days (which I *never* did before for any test in a technical subject), and even skipped my Algebra class to go to a review session. I am glad I did, though, as it really paid off. There were only four questions, but it took me near on the full 90 minutes to complete them, and I didn’t have time to do more than cursorily check them. But I am certain that I got at least three of the four, and a lot of partial credit on the fourth. But, I was scared for the first 50 minutes of the test, just flipping from question to question basically writing down any equation that popped into my head. In the last 40 minutes, I started to converge down to suitable strategies, and solve the circuits. If I hadn’t went to that review session or did some of the problems from the previous exams in my studying, I doubt I would have done as well: the eminent aspect of the problems was recalling the basics, and using the appropriate strategies. Sounds simple, but keeping it in mind when facing all those unknown quantities can be difficult.
Anywho… I’m now free for the rest of the day. And guess what I’ll be doing for a good chunk of that time, if not all of it? Yes, that’s right: reading 
Possibly relevant posts:
- Too much… (3/25/2003)
- kvetching about probability (3/28/2007)
- I suck @ chess (1/23/2002)