Tomorrow afternoon, I will be taking a Physics final exam that I’ve been studying for nearly every waking hour these past 7 days. I’ve gone to five 2-3 hour tutoring sessions, and have another one early tomorrow morning before the exam. I’ve got a high C in the class right now due to less-than-fabulous test scores, and need at least a 92% on the final to get a B final grade. I’ve gone over every topic ad nauseum. I have so much nervous energy and I need to sleep! I’m tempted to go jogging for a bit to release the energy and tire myself out.
Who else is taking finals this month? Post your worries/fears/anxiety here.
I’ve got my last two finals tomorrow. Biology, which I’ve been sleeping through this last section. I have an unconventional prof too so I have no idea if my cramming will help. That exam is in 9 hours. Then I have biological psychology right after that one. I’m doing really well in that class but I’m so burnt out on school that I have had a hard time studying for it. I’m hoping stuff I went over tonight sunk in and that my cramming tomorrow will help. I had an essay exam this morning, think I did well but my professor is kind of an asshole so og knows how he’s gonna grade it. Last time I was surprised in a bad way. My other two classes I finished last week with A’s. I’m a senior and still taking easy classes…but I have my capstone and all that next semester, along with a winter intersession class starting January 2 so that will suck. I’m just ready for tomorrow to be over so I can go drink.
I finally finished all my work for my most ridiculous class this semester (powerpoint presentation, poster presentation, and a 10 page paper for one project? Gah).
Now it’s two classes down and one to go. And, of course, writing up the first draft of my thesis (eeeegh).
I don’t know who decided to put finals during December. It’s so dark and gloomy outside, all I want to do is crawl into bed and sleep. I keep telling myself I can lie in bed as long as I read … boy those books sure make great pillows.
I’ve got things relatively easy this quarter. I did my Minoan Art final yesterday and have Ancient Magic tomorrow - my two favorite and best topics this term. My main complaint about the Magic final is it is at 8am, which means I have to leave the house somewhere in the vicinity of 5am to get there on time with traffic. Which means I should have been asleep an hour ago. My husband may take me though, which cuts down the travel time at least (HOV lane).
Friday I have my magic paper due (so far it is an abstract, an outline, and a bibliography), a re-draft of a paper, and the final I’ve been dreading - the class is just wretched. Oh well, it will all be over soon and I can marinate my liver and have a big fat stogie. And quiz my husband for *his *exams.
Good luck everyone - don’t neglect your nutrition or your sleep (do as I say and not as I do…)
I had the same thing, except without the poster. The whole class built up to it (Chemical Literature). I got a big fat C in the class. But no final test, per se.
Envy me for my finals schedule! Yesterday: Government - all high-school kind of stuff, almost word-for-word from previous tests. Today : Philosophy, two essay questions, out of 4 given to us weeks ago. We could bring outlines.
Swimming - I haven’t been for over two months because it exacerbates my stomach problems. I never actually told the teacher about it, but when I showed up today, they said I just had 5 absences, below the “explain yourself” 6 threshold. Our final, which we were told was going to be a 1000m freestyle, was a 50m freestyle, float on back, float on stomach, tread water, 50m backstroke. I got an A in the class.
Photography - Completely word-for-word from the online quizzes, which are word for word from his lectures (dictated powerpoints), which are word for word from the book. 5 minutes. A for the class. Tomorrow: Piano. Have to identify notes on a staff and play 4 songs.
Here’s my load this week:
8 page research paper for Social Movements: due today check
3 short (3 page) video briefs for Collective Behavior: due tomorrow 2 done
1 take-home final for Social Welfare: due Thurs
2 finals, Social Movements and Collective Behavior: Friday
1 group take-home final, Literature of the Americas: a paper due midnight Friday:I haven’t started my part yet, hopefully the others have.
Yes, one of my professors assigned a research paper in addition to the final. We didn’t get the paper prompt until Thanksgiving. This is going her evaluation!!
Ugh, guess I shouldn’t complain compared to you guys. Our Discrete Structures prof made the final optional, and my Calculus II final, which should be easy, is on Friday. Just need to get through tomorrow.
I hate that some people are going home today. I hate that I have to stay here for another two weeks while Campus slowly empties.
I hate that, because I most likely screwed up my econ exam, I probably won’t get into Honours. I hate that they gave me a year’s worth of credit, because I now get to compete against kids older and more experienced that I again.
I hate that I still haven’t sent out the written and ready Christmas cards because I lack the time to go to the post office.
Upper-division macroeconomics. I’m at a mid-high A so far but the final is half the grade and I’m freaking out over the IS-LM curves and all that counterintuitive Keynesian shit. I would like nothing more than to exhume Keynes and beat his corpse with some sort of blunt instrument.
Monday I had my geotechnical engineering final, that’ll be an A. This morning I presented a storm water design system for some subdivision. Thursday morning I’ve got my reinforced concrete final and Saturday is fluid mechanics. The fluid mechanics is going to be worse, I haven’t started studying yet, I’ve still got some time though.
Just finished with two finals, got A’s on both. The one that’s worrying me is my Archaeology final, my only one left. Professor knows his stuff, and I can’t bullshit my way through it like my other classes. I have to know everything from Acheulian toolmaking to Zapotec power centers. Wowsa. The one ray of sunshine is, I can tell you quite a bit about both by now, where a month ago, I couldn’t tell you anything. Perhaps by Thursday, I’ll stride into the classroom, unworried and confident in my understanding of archaeology…
Monday was Honors Government - managed to make an 88 on the final and a 93 in the class.
Tuesday was Honors Humanities - 94 on the final and an A in the class.
Today was Trig - I need an 88 to make an A in the class, and I’m thinking I got an 80-84. Maybe I got lucky and guessed a few questions right. Please God.
Tomorrow is Gen Chem 2. Pray for my soul, won’t you?
Oh, and last week was the chem lab exam. Funny story about that - I studied the wrong lab. Hahaha…ah.
The only thing worse than taking a final exam is being the mother of someone taking a final exam. Talk about your nailbiter–knowing there’s not a damn thing you can do to help, plus being far, far away. Can’t even offer a consoling cup of tea.
The Cat Who Walks Alone is up in Chicago working her way through Third Year pharmacy student finals, and Bonzo is maneuvering his way through junior year B.S. pre-pharmacy finals at the U of I. Lots hinging on both sets of grades.
And I don’t know which is worse to worry about: the bright, hardworking daughter who is completely swamped by her workload and fears she won’t pass, or the bright, less-than-hardworking son who spent an uncomfortable amount of time playing WoW this semester. (“Don’t worry, I can handle it–I’m only playing 20 hours a week…”)
Parenting. Meh. Just because they’re out of diapers, out of high school, and out of the house doesn’t mean it’s over.
I took my only final Monday. I only have one class in nursing school but it requires 6 hours of lecture, 3 hours of lab and a 8 hour clinical day per week. I got an A on the final and an A in the class.
Good luck to everyone who is still taking their finals.
