Fall Semester 2011

In two weeks, the semester of Fall 2011 would be coming to an end, furthermore, the last day of class is on the Friday, the 16 of December and exam week is on the week of December 19, 2011. At this rate, I am feeling both anxious, excited, nervous, and scared all at the same time. I am feeling anxious to know my grades in my classes, excited that the semester is coming to an end, nervous about how I could make the exams, and scared that I may fail a class. On the other hand, if I had review this semester, it may seem to be a somewhat-easy-slacking semester. There is a class specifically that I slacked off in, and it was Computer Science.

Computer Science, I love making codes on programs, but am not too certain how to do it. I don't get too much of a good grade on my quizzes too often and ended up with a C as my mid-term. Meanwhile my other three classes, I have all Bs. As said in my previous post about my Mid-Term grades, Computer Science seem to be the only difficult class, however, Calculus had taken over its role. I had just recently printed out the exact slide shows he uses for the class lecture.

Now that we are learning about geometry, which I was never good at it in high school, and doubt I will be good at it now. To me, it is only thing that is pulling me down in Calculus, so before the final exam of Calculus, I planned to first make my cheat sheet, which only involves formulas from the chapters we learn, he allowed us to have on exam day. And then study more on the geometry rather than the algebraic calculation. I am also confident with derivatives, so I doubted I would have to study on this aspect. When I count down from the hardest to the easiest, History comes to mind.

History, I have to study all of the key terms again, which I doubt I had forgotten. History, since first grade from the most vague description, I have still remember it till today. I am okay with the history that involves the the founding of America to the Civil War. And since the professor had already given all the students the essay exams we were expected to see, it makes me even more confident. Then I could beforehand write an essay involving the situation, which could result in me already answering the question to the essay. And I don't mean to say all these class are hardest from what I rate, but the English's exam will seem to be the easiest.

To me, our synthesis paper is the exam itself. And since it seems like a take home exam, I can write freely when I wish, rather than the two hour time the UW system has given us. Though it may seem like a 8+ pages essay, I find it rather simple. I elaborate a lot in my papers and when there is a maximum and minimum pages of paper, I have to cut down what I wish to write. All my essay, if I don't need to cut down on what I write, my pages of paper usually reach more than 8+ pages. Especially when the font is Times 12 and double spaced.

In all, I think the exam itself will be a piece of cake. Rather than just having 50 long minutes to do 5 Calculus problems, I have two hours to finish it in time. Also with my history exams, in all it would take me a total of 2 hour to actually make an actual good essay and key term identifier. CPS, the exam is usually hard, so I could possible finish it in one hour of time. He makes it simple with many mix and match question, short answer, and a single program function to accomplish. English, as said above, I only have to write my essay and then when exam comes for the class, write about what I like about the class. It makes it much more simpler than I thought. And the two hours makes it more self-helping for me, myself.