Friday, August 6, 2010

midterms week :|

Yup midterms week. One of the times wherein students gamble their lucks to different forms of prayers and efforts. But before I elaborate more on the subjective rants and expectations about midterms more of which will come from my past experiences, I have to look back at my previous post which emphasized on the study hard, grasping the essence of knowledge about math etc. notion I think it would be appropriate for me to observe the results.

Unfortunately, I cannot decipher if I would be satisfied with my performance and the results that have been the end product of that test effort. Though I have to be honest that my grades are not really that high as expected at the time of the previous post but I have to be grateful enough that my grades have not turned out to be at the worst possible outcomes. During these previous weeks I have seen very many brilliant blockmates of mine having worse quiz results than mine. This happens only at the rarest moments though, but I have to hope that the frequency of these moments will not have an increase in probability (having intelligent classmates fail in most major subjects means bad news for people like me who are at the average level of thinking... LOL). Kidding aside, I really have to get serious though. My blood draining study activities have made my college days more miserable than ever. I cannot even get a peaceful minute, a minute which does not concern remembering problems from circuits, thermodynamics, dynamics, advance math and all the subjects that are endangering our lives as regular mechanical engineering students. The bottom line is that my 15000x10²% effort in studying only gave a 10-15% increase in performance which i think is negligible (this makes me think that I should stop studying if the increase in my performance is almost insignificant LOL)... I guess the hard difficulty that is embedded on these subjects really distorts my innocent mind. I have to pray to lady luck and to heaven for abundance of mercy coming from our instructors who are really seeping the life out of our brains T_T.

Going back to the main event for this month - Midterm examinations, I have to say that I haven't really prepared enough yet. I still have to solve 300 more so problems multiplied by 5 subjects in order for me to be familiarize the problems which are far from the examples that my professors have been writing on those miserable black boards. I should have said to these professors that the word "exam" came from the word "exam"+ ples so they should start from there >:(.

Basing on the tone of the students, I hear silent roars of desperation. It is very apparent especially nowadays that there is an increase in the population of students who visit the chapel. I also hear and read rants from here and there especially in facebook that they have been going in the same torture that I am undergoing. Rants from motorela conversations also have been a popular genre in music while I ride my way home.

Focusing on tomorrow, I and my blockmates together with the JPSME, and PSME will be having our tree planting activity tomorrow. I have many expectations with this event because I know that many will be participating and the name of the venue where was alien to me as it was the first time in my entire life that a place like that existed in Opol or somewhere there, the place was so new that I even forgot the name.

That is all for tonight. I hope I can still maintain my sanity after midterms :)).