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Endorphin High
Apr. 24th, 2007 12:20 pmWell, I slept less than 3 hours last night and spent the 3 hours this morning regurgitating Everything I Ever Never Wanted To Know About Divorce (AKA FamLaw) for 100% of my mark in the class, and I'm totally buzzed.
Because here's one of the things Ilike love the most about myself: I love exams.
No, really. They're fun. Also nerve-wrecking and a royal pain to study for, but there's something very satisfying about reading a question and realizing you know the answer. Or reading a question, panicking because you don't know the answer, leaving it till later, coming back to it and realizing that yeah, you just needed to let it burble in your subconscious for a bit. Or plunging in with no idea what you're doing, grasping at straws, and realizing that you know what? Your straws are pretty solid after all, and have a chance of actually being the right answer.
Exams are like a game. Like Trivial Pursuit, Jeopardy, crosswords puzzles and online quizzes. Except that you study for them, pay exorbitant amounts of money to take them, and they can affect your ability to get a job.
This class and exam in particular gave me a chance to do what I do best. I'm a very linear thinker, and I'm pretty good at math & logic. Did my undergrad in Computing Science. So when most of my colleagues got helplessly bewildered by Equalization Payments and Child Support quantums, I zipped right on through. It's just math & logic; once you figure out the pattern, it all comes together like Sudoku.
Mind you, none of this guarantees that I got a good mark on the class. I feel like I aced it, but one of the downfalls of 100% exams is that you really have no idea how well you grasp the concepts, or what kinds of answers your prof is expecting, until it's really too late. So for all I know I just bombed the thing.
It was still fun, though :)
Because here's one of the things I
No, really. They're fun. Also nerve-wrecking and a royal pain to study for, but there's something very satisfying about reading a question and realizing you know the answer. Or reading a question, panicking because you don't know the answer, leaving it till later, coming back to it and realizing that yeah, you just needed to let it burble in your subconscious for a bit. Or plunging in with no idea what you're doing, grasping at straws, and realizing that you know what? Your straws are pretty solid after all, and have a chance of actually being the right answer.
Exams are like a game. Like Trivial Pursuit, Jeopardy, crosswords puzzles and online quizzes. Except that you study for them, pay exorbitant amounts of money to take them, and they can affect your ability to get a job.
This class and exam in particular gave me a chance to do what I do best. I'm a very linear thinker, and I'm pretty good at math & logic. Did my undergrad in Computing Science. So when most of my colleagues got helplessly bewildered by Equalization Payments and Child Support quantums, I zipped right on through. It's just math & logic; once you figure out the pattern, it all comes together like Sudoku.
Mind you, none of this guarantees that I got a good mark on the class. I feel like I aced it, but one of the downfalls of 100% exams is that you really have no idea how well you grasp the concepts, or what kinds of answers your prof is expecting, until it's really too late. So for all I know I just bombed the thing.
It was still fun, though :)
