Friday, November 17, 2006
This week sucked huge monkey balls. Turns out. I had three tests in the last three days. Thats more than I'm expecting during finals week. Pretty lame, I tell you. The first was in metals on Wednesday. Those tests usually consist of going to class, writing down what the prof writes on the board, then copying it down on the test. This last one had a bunch of fairly tricky questions. Multiple choice answers where two answers are pretty good, but only one answer is technically right. Kind of irritating. We got that one back today. I got an 85%. The high score was 86% which three people got. Out of a class of around 30 people, I'll certainly take it.
My ME 402 professor was gone all week, and had a substitute come in to lecture. He was friendly enough, but right after the last test of the class its hard to pay attention to him. So on Wednesday the substitute told the class that there would be no lecture on Friday as he had nothing to teach and the regular professor would be gone. Later that day everyone in the class got an e-mail from the professor saying that we would have class, and a quiz worth twice as much as usual, and to "have a nice day." (Bastard.) Apparently a bunch of students bitched about it so he offered to give the quiz on the Wednesday after we get back, but still, a pretty dickish thing to do.
Two classes after metals I had a Mechatronics test. It didn't go too badly, but the last problem irritated me. I misunderstood the meaning of a symbol in lecture and may have missed the last problem on a 4 problem test. Hopefully I'll get partial credit, but we'll see how it goes. I really want a good grade on this test because that way I won't have to take the final. (The final is optional and can either help or hurt our grade.) *crosses fingers*
On Friday I had a test in Machine design. It was a thrilling test as only Machine Design can be. Plug and Chug for an hour. Fun times. By that point I had pretty much stopped caring because I was burnt out. I imagine I'll get both the Machine Design and Mechatronics tests back on Monday after break. I'm looking forward to a week of no homework, no tests and very little stress.
My ME 402 professor was gone all week, and had a substitute come in to lecture. He was friendly enough, but right after the last test of the class its hard to pay attention to him. So on Wednesday the substitute told the class that there would be no lecture on Friday as he had nothing to teach and the regular professor would be gone. Later that day everyone in the class got an e-mail from the professor saying that we would have class, and a quiz worth twice as much as usual, and to "have a nice day." (Bastard.) Apparently a bunch of students bitched about it so he offered to give the quiz on the Wednesday after we get back, but still, a pretty dickish thing to do.
Two classes after metals I had a Mechatronics test. It didn't go too badly, but the last problem irritated me. I misunderstood the meaning of a symbol in lecture and may have missed the last problem on a 4 problem test. Hopefully I'll get partial credit, but we'll see how it goes. I really want a good grade on this test because that way I won't have to take the final. (The final is optional and can either help or hurt our grade.) *crosses fingers*
On Friday I had a test in Machine design. It was a thrilling test as only Machine Design can be. Plug and Chug for an hour. Fun times. By that point I had pretty much stopped caring because I was burnt out. I imagine I'll get both the Machine Design and Mechatronics tests back on Monday after break. I'm looking forward to a week of no homework, no tests and very little stress.
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