Tomorrow is my final exam for JAPN 212, the 3 week long summer version.  As you can see I am totally procrastinating right now.

Anyway, I wanted to write a post about this course because I was scared out of my mind to take it. 5 hours a day, 4 days a week, for 3 weeks. Japanese is hard as it is during the normal school year so I had no idea how I would survive this.  But I am here to tell you it is not as bad as it sounds.

Sure I had to take cut down shifts at work, load up on coffee when the end of the week comes around but I am still managing to have a social life once in a while and getting decent marks (hopefully that final exam will be ok…)  By the way Super 8 is a fantastic movie.  So is X-Men: First Class.

The schedule: homework almost every day but it doesn’t take up much time.  Doing well is a matter of getting a good night’s rest so that you have enough energy to go to class in the day and still be motivated enough to study in the night. (Easier said than done for sure… I was not able to do this.)

The best part: I thought I wouldn’t really learn and just be cramming to survive, but I feel like it is sticking. For now anyway.

The worst part: sometimes you just have to suck it up and take the grind.  Get out of bed, stay awake, keep writing and remind yourself it will be over before you know it.

I think sometimes it is just a mind over matter thing.  Relative to the winter semester it seems chaotic but if you take 4 courses in the winter, time spent in school is about the same.  It is harder when you believe that summer is for summer vacation and you ask yourself what the heck are you doing in school in July.  This moody Vancouver weather we’ve been having these last 3 weeks is making it much easier to take though.  I don’t feel like I am missing much by being in here with the cold and clouds out there haha.

Side note: OMGz. Universities across Canada are gathering at UBC tomorrow for ROBOT RACING.  I have no idea what it entails other than robots and racing but it sounds cool.  Or maybe I’ve been at school and sleep deprived for too long.