Finals were disastrous. Honestly, the worse set of finals EVER.
Econ 101 had the be the absolute worst. Whoever invented 8am finals should die in a raging fire (okay, maybe not...but they should experience some sort of pain). I realized that I was already far behind about three weeks ago when I didn't know wtf was going on in lecture and vowed to read a chapter a day until the final. Of course that didn't happen. Instead it took me two days to read Chp 3 (Measuring the Economy. LOLZ. GDP.) and I ended up cramming for the final the night before. Cramming, as we all know, almost NEVER EVER EVER works. I stayed up until 3:30 AM trying to do the practice final and reading the miniscule slides I printed out (also, whoever decided that anyone who doesn't live in the dorms only gets 90 pages to print should also experience some sort of pain). It was terrible. I woke up around 7am, knowing that I was totally screwed. I was a bit late (naturally) and when I walked in, I was really confused. For some reason, almost all the lights were off and my classmates were taking the test in the dark! Our professor wasn't there the TAs were in charge. I guess they were kinda confused about how to turn on all the lights so we took the test in semi-darkness for a good half an hour. Much LOLZ and relief were had when the maintenence guy walked and just flipped the switch. After that, I began to panic when I read the free response questions and realized that I couldn't do ANY OF THEM. I wanted to cry. I did the best I could and filled in some BS, praying for partial credit. After two hours of torture, the test was over and I went back to the apartment and napped.
CMN 101 was okay. I wasn't too worried about this one since I had gone to office hours and asked all of my questions. But I was told that I needed to get a 45/50 on the final in order to get an A. After ECN 101, depression hit me and I didn't really cram as much as I should of. =/ The test was fairly easy....everyone finished withing an hour. Unfortunately I only got a 44. So, I was/am a point from an A-. WHY. WHY. WHY?!?!
Spanish was my first final and again, I wasn't really too worried about this one since I knew that the highest grade I could get was a B. Even with my cooking extra credit (yes I was one out of four people who made a Hispanic dish for extra credit), the most I could get was a 87 or so. The test did take me the full two hours though. I think I have accepted the fact that I am just not good at languages.
Calculus was at 8am on SATURDAY. YES. SATURDAY. SO WHOEVER CAME UP WITH THE IDEA OF SATURDAY FINALS ALSO DESERVES SEVERE PAIN. This one I also knew I was screwed for, which is actually kind of sad because this is my third round of Calculus. Last year, I took MAT 16A and 16B which is Short Calculus and earned solid A's in both classes. This class, however, was the Calculus recommended for Econ majors hoping to go to grad schools and the other students who are Engineering/Chemistry/Math majors (aka smart people). ANOTHER TERRIBLE FINAL. Merry and I are in the same class so we crammed the night before until almost 4am, but to no avail. The test was worth 200 points and the average was 53%. =/
Afterwards, Merry and my other friends (Jenny, Angela, and Janet) who had come up for the weekend all went to Sacramento to see the play "Avenue Q" while I took my CMN 14o final. For some reason, I just could not do well in this class. Too much reading, probably. The class was interesting but I fell asleep everyday! Anyway, the final was just another 25% test (our grade is the average of those tests) so again, I wasn't too worried.
And thus concluded finals week. I am now at home finally getting the sleep I need! I have a ton of stuff to do though. I desparately need a job and/or internship for the summer and now that I'm back home, I have to get it together. Ugh. And I still need to complete my EAP scholarship because that's due next Friday. AHHHHHHHHHH.
I wish I could post something interesting in this entry since it's mostly about school and that's always boring, so I'll give you the link to Edgar Wright's website
HERE. He's filming "Scott Pilgrim" right now and is updating his blog/site like crazy. He always has interesting photo-of-the-days as well. Y SO KEWL EDGAR.
