At the beginning of a cram session and you’re feeling confident in your abilities as a student:
Part way through when you’re tired and just wanna pass the exam:
Then it’s 2AM and you decide to just screw it and just drop out of UBC when you fail:
Wish me luck on my Sociology 260 midterm tomorrow.
Me, walking around campus during midterm season:
What’s wonderful is that the week after my last midterm, a second round of midterms began! And then after those finish, I have about ten days until my final exams begin! Yaaaay… not.
If I should ever find the dumb-asses that decided to go around Totem Park this morning and pull all the fire alarms simultaneously at 4 in the morning and again at 6 so that we all had to evacuate in our PJs and slippers in the cold:
It also doesn’t help that I’m one of those people that take forever to fall asleep and ended up sleeping at seven. In the morning.
For those of you planning to live on campus next year: rez is still awesome, but keep in mind that there will be times where it is equally un-awesome.
**Please don’t think I’m a psychopath because of these gifs. Sleep deprivation does not bode well with me.
Oh my god. The PHYS 153 midterm yesterday. I don’t even.
It’s like someone took my brain, extracted it through my nose and then pan-fried it. Gruesome, I know, but so was the midterm. Coming out of the exam, it seemed like everyone else was in the same position of me, given all the swearing and trembling hands as we turned in our papers. I spent way too much time going over heat transfer problems from the previous midterms and while taking the exam, this wild blackbody radiation problem comes up, giving you the radius of Mars, the ratio between its distance from the Sun and Earth’s distance from the sun, and then it asked you to find the temperature of Mars. What. The. Shitake mushrooms. Let’s just say there’s a 100% chance that I failed this midterm. I just pray to God that they decide to scale the midterm… until then, I’ll eat away my sorrows by buying buckets of chocolate ice cream.
Just wanted to take a really quick minute to let you know that no, I’m not dead… yet. The PHYS 153 midterm tomorrow just might kill me, though. You should all know that studying for half an hour and then rewarding yourself by going on YouTube and Tumblr for an hour is not a very efficient way to study.
Hopefully I’ll be able to walk into the midterm tomorrow and not be swallowed up into the fiery depths of thermodynamics where the only way I’ll be able to get out is to calculate the work done by the toxic gas at constant volume that will lead to an increase in temperature high enough to incinerate my body and ohmygodI’vespentwaytoomuchtimereadingthetextbook. If I don’t make it out alive tomorrow, I want you all to know that you’re all amazing and I love you.
But for future first-year engineers: PHYS 153 actually isn’t that bad– just stay on top of your work.
Midterms have begun and as a first year, that’s scary as hell. Especially in engineering where the drop-out rate is over fifty percent, walking into any sort of exam is like walking into the dragon’s lair. Luckily, my only “exam” today was the APSC 150** quiz that I spoke of in my earlier post. It was surprisingly easy; the entire first page of questions was taken exactly from the sample quiz that was posted on Vista. They even asked about why you shouldn’t talk in the middle of presentations, hahah!
I’ve only had one test so far, but I can offer you a few tips for tests:
Now, one test down, three to go. Let’s do this.
(You didn’t think I was gonna leave this post GIF-less, did you? 😉 )
**Edit: APSC is an applied science course that’s required for all first-years. APSC 150 covers a bunch of case-studies, for example, civil engineering cases, mining engineering, etc as a way to teach you how to behave and work as a professional engineer. The other required first-year APSC course is APSC 160, which is about programming. You take one or the other each semester. Shout out to Courtney for reminding me to explain what the course is!
I logged on to Vista this morning and suddenly remembered I had an APSC 150 quiz later today.
I’ll write a real post soon. Really really soon(hopefully later today).
Trying to compose myself before midterms begin…
I promise I’ll blog once I crawl out of my hole and join civilization again when I’m done with midterms. Eventually. Really, I will.
When a professor over in Hennings today showed me and my friends the 3D printer for the first time and we were just like,
When I first came into engineering, I thought for sure I was either going into mechanical or computer engineering but after seeing all the awesome toys that engineering physics gets to play with… Man, I don’t know.
There’s a really popular stereotype about engineers being socially awkward and really nerdy. I’m not gonna lie, it’s true a lot of the time(at least for me…) but hey– we have the coolest, most awesome toys. Aside from the 3D printer, there’s a laser cutter and a water jet cutter, all three of which we’re allowed to use for our own personal projects(as long as we pay for the materials, which is only 10 cents a gram). Looking around and seeing the machines in the lab today, I felt like a fat kid who had been let loose in a Hostess factory and then told he was allowed to make his own twinkies.
Looks like I can finally build that light saber shaft.
Ok, not really, but this happened a while ago and I CAN’T BELIEVE I FORGOT TO POST IT.
About a week and a half ago, I was sitting in Physics 153 learning about thermodynamics and linear expansion, blah blah blah when all of a sudden, “WHAT?! NO SEATS?! I HATE WHEN THERE ARE NO SEATS. RAWWRRRRR!”. And I turn around to see the Hulk rampaging through the aisle, leaving a trail of physics homework and textbooks in his wake. Three days later, I see this video in my YouTube subscription feed from the Chengman:
Look closely at 1:27. That tiny burred face in the middle column? Yeah, that’s me.
