Wednesday, 30 April 2008

WOOHOOOOOO

My 5th May paper is MCQ!!!!!!!!!

i was expecting to write like 4 essays or some nonsense like that..

Sunday, 27 April 2008

And let the papers begin...

28th April

2nd May

5th May

7th May

You know the feeling when you've just strapped yourself into a roller coaster and you know you have no choice other than to go ahead with it?

:D

Here we goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Monday, 21 April 2008

Classical Mechanics Test 2

All thanks be to God..

To be honest i was quite unsure of how things would have gone.. My friends seemed to prepare much faster than I did.. I was scribbling my help sheet up to 2-3 am in the morning.. (thats the pretty help sheets you saw in the previous post..)

I don't think I deserved to do well.. But God gave me peace...

I hope to push this mindset all the way into the final.. And gun for an A..

Can't really say how surprised I am.. But really really thankful...

Onward.

Monday, 14 April 2008

All the way!!!

Dear friends...

Its now a full scale assault on the finals!

Just finished my final term test...This is the armament that I brought in today.. Its the same A4 sheet... jut double sided..































That, my friends, is the product of MASSIVE kiasuism, a bad memory and the professor teaching more than the previous year's professor...

I'm now going for tze char dinner.

MUAHAHAHA. MAD SCIENTISTS NEED FOOD.

Sunday, 13 April 2008

Ongoing training

No injuries!


Yay!

I really don't know what else to put here.. so...









Time to mugmugmugmugmug......

Friday, 11 April 2008

Fun in the lab

I used to think the stuff IN the lab (experiments) is okay, the stuff AFTER lab (aka reports) is horror.. But then there's viva..

Well for my labs i have to do viva, which is a question and answer session with someone (nobody knows what it stands for or how its supposed to be spelt so don't ask me).. In year 1, an Honours year student will come over and ask you stuff during your lab session.. For year 2, its a prof, and you go up to the prof to ask for viva... So since the prof is intellectually and technically superior to some undergrad, it gets a little more tricky, and hazardous...










Enter the engineering student.

Now, with no disrepect (yes Glenn, that was for you), physics students don't really like engine students.. for my batch, at least.. they get the better math lecturers when we take the same foundational math courses, the foundational math courses are more tuned to them than to us, they get more employment opportunities, and generally we absolutely hate the depth and rigour we have to deal with every time we see a derivation.. so we take it out on people who don't have to deal with the stuff we have to.. haha..

But as I was saying, enter the engine student.. and this guy actually took my experimental physics module! Engineers must take some basic physics courses, so it doesn't take very many modules to complete a physics minor. BUT HE TOOK LAB! Come on... there are other disgusting modules in physics to choose from.. My friends all hate lab module, by the way... it really eats tons of time.. you don't have to mug for it though.. there's no exam, just viva and a presentation at the end..

So this guy, goes up to this prof with THREE reports and wants to do viva for all of them. It is generally accepted that you NEVER go up to a prof with more than one report to viva at once. Unless you're running out of time, and deadlines are approaching, people sometimes do two. But as a guide, reports and your explanations to profs are usually riddled with little errors. And profs can get quite irritated by things like this. Imagine making mistakes, pulling out another report.. and then a 3rd? And when you make a mistake, you just accept it and say 'ohhhhh i see' unless you think the prof is trying to trick you and test if you know your stuff.. then stand your ground.

I walked into the lab that afternoon at about 3pm ready to do viva, but the lab was totally silent, except for ONE voice. Some prof was talking.. Viva! Some engineer was there.. I went to my friends who were reading at the old sofa near the white board... and they said :

"He's been there since 2. He's gotten eleven 'you are wrongs"

It was 310pm. In the space of 70 minutes the prof had yelled at him ELEVEN times
'YOU ARE WRONG!!!"

I think it takes quite a bit to get a 'YOU ARE WRONG' I did three vivas with that guy but i've only gotten so far as a 'no no no... thats not the way to do it..'

To be fair, not all the engineering students doing lab ended up like that guy.. He was just one example.. My friends in physics had quite a few 'YOU ARE WRONGs" too.

But.

90 minutes. 13 occurences.

That HAS to be a record.

Tuesday, 8 April 2008

Deleted Post

Ahhh... How we love decisions..

I deleted the last post because the information conveyed was sensitive.. But if you saw it, you saw it. If you didn't see it, you'll find out soon anyway ha..

If you're part of the group of people who the last post was for, then do me a favour and not mention it? Its not due for release yet..

Remember, brace yourselves for impact!

Hell week

Sleep deprivation... sucks...

Sunday, 6 April 2008

COS FAMILY DAY 2008

WHY WHY WHY must it be in the middle of my examsssssss....

Thursday, 3 April 2008

It is finished.

Returned her the stuff I need to return.

Its now time to store away the things I need to store away..

I wish memories would just fade faster..