The Looming Finals

Greetings!

Amidst the mad dash and scramble to cram in the semester's worth of material for the finals, I took some time to document and reflect back on the past semester.

I enjoyed this sem's basket quite a fair bit, no really incomprehensible lecturers, not an extensive amount of fluffy subjects (some particular topics are, but it is acceptable), good timetable and pleasant classes. What more can I ask for?

As always, it appears the topic that is outside my core is the one most worthy of talking about. I mentioned it at the start, and I stand by my point, that the biology class was really fun. The breadth of content is really quite a mountain load, but it is generally interesting. Exams are going to be nothing but MCQ, this time in a "bring you own laptop" style, where you take the exam in school, but with your own laptop, logged into a "lockdown" browser which prevents any opening of other files or documents from the laptop. I was kind of scammed by the way this exam format was sold: "You can access your notes, animations, webcasted lectures, lecture slides all from your computer. So it is very good." It is not. If you ever have a choice, Don't do a "bring your own laptop" exam. I initially thought "ok this is good, I don't need to print any notes whatsoever, just access them when I  need" The *huge* problem with this is that you need to first upload all the stuff you want onto ivle, then when you need it, you have to download it while the lockdown browser is open. Oh well. That is the only annoying thing for me.

DSC... well, the second half of the semester was light years better than the first. I walked out of one of the lectures after the lecturer switch and I told my friends: this is the first lecture in the entire sem (probably 8 weeks in) that I *finally* understood everything that was taught in that particular lecture. The scope which was covered in the first half was incredibly a lot. I was talking to my friend who took a stats mod, and the content that we covered in 4 weeks is the equivalent of another complete module. That being said, the requirement for us is definitely not the same as that of a standard stats mod. BUT, the problem is I do not know exactly what we need to know in the exam, nor do I know how the exam is going to test us. This is the most worrying thing for me.

Not much to say about the rest, just study hard for the examinable ones and hope for the best.

Cheers!
Rift Raft Rob