Finals update #5
May. 30th, 2006 07:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annabtgI rocked the Advanced Biology exam!! :)) I think I'm well on my way to 100%.
Well, it was only fair. I did a *lot* of studying during the past three days. I enjoy Biology in general, and this year Adv. Biology was my favourite subject. (Can't say the same about the teacher I had at school, though...) Anyways, I'd started this year knowing that I would have absolutely no problem with Adv. Biology, and thinking of it as my strongest card... which gave me a sense of over-self-confidence. Thus my anxiousness about it on Saturday - I was afraid my over-self-confidence led me to not studying enough during the year, and blah, blah, blah... But I studied it a lot during these days (and it was a real pleasure). Also did every exercise possible with my father, who is a Biology teacher. (Which wasn't that much of a pleasure. The exercises, I mean, Dad is a nice study companion.)
Yes, there's a reason for my babbling. I'm trying to avoid studying Advanced Physics for Thursday's exam. This was the subject I liked the least during the year. Yeah, I'm not saying 'hated', because I didn't exactly hate it. It was interesting learning all that stuff, and some exercises were nice, even. What I can't stand is a particular set of exercises (from the dreaded Fourth Chapter... brr. I'd tell you what it's about, but the dictionary isn't very helpful.). Also, some awfully long formulas.
y=2Acos2π[(r1-r2)/2λ]sin2π[(t/T)-(r1+r2)/2λ]
*throws darts*
(I tried to type it by heart, but I forgot the 2π's and the λ's. Gah.)
Do you understand now why I don't want to study Adv. Physics? *whines* Can't I read some fic instead? *whines some more*
On a side note - hi, Sophie (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
t_w_a_drummer)! I hope I didn't scare you away already...
Off to browse through some entertaining sites, in hopes that they will lift my mood a little... and get me to studying mood. (Hah! As if.)
See ya,
Anna.
Well, it was only fair. I did a *lot* of studying during the past three days. I enjoy Biology in general, and this year Adv. Biology was my favourite subject. (Can't say the same about the teacher I had at school, though...) Anyways, I'd started this year knowing that I would have absolutely no problem with Adv. Biology, and thinking of it as my strongest card... which gave me a sense of over-self-confidence. Thus my anxiousness about it on Saturday - I was afraid my over-self-confidence led me to not studying enough during the year, and blah, blah, blah... But I studied it a lot during these days (and it was a real pleasure). Also did every exercise possible with my father, who is a Biology teacher. (Which wasn't that much of a pleasure. The exercises, I mean, Dad is a nice study companion.)
Yes, there's a reason for my babbling. I'm trying to avoid studying Advanced Physics for Thursday's exam. This was the subject I liked the least during the year. Yeah, I'm not saying 'hated', because I didn't exactly hate it. It was interesting learning all that stuff, and some exercises were nice, even. What I can't stand is a particular set of exercises (from the dreaded Fourth Chapter... brr. I'd tell you what it's about, but the dictionary isn't very helpful.). Also, some awfully long formulas.
y=2Acos2π[(r1-r2)/2λ]sin2π[(t/T)-(r1+r2)/2λ]
*throws darts*
(I tried to type it by heart, but I forgot the 2π's and the λ's. Gah.)
Do you understand now why I don't want to study Adv. Physics? *whines* Can't I read some fic instead? *whines some more*
On a side note - hi, Sophie (
t_w_a_drummer)! I hope I didn't scare you away already...Off to browse through some entertaining sites, in hopes that they will lift my mood a little... and get me to studying mood. (Hah! As if.)
See ya,
Anna.
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Date: 2006-05-30 05:52 pm (UTC)Physics... There are two things to do with formulas like that:
1, Have a handy reference so you can look them up. (Some places let you take a sheet of notes and/or equations in with you for a test.)
2. Learn the principles well enough that you understand where the equation comes from so you can re-derive it at need and therefore won't leave out necessary terms. Because you'll know why each of them needs to be there.
Option 2 is better, if you can manage it, but I understand that E-M waves just aren't that fun.
Do your best with it. Good luck. :)
Paul
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Date: 2006-05-30 06:13 pm (UTC)See ya,
Anna.
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Date: 2006-05-30 07:48 pm (UTC)And YES! for acing the exam! ♥ to Anna for doing so well... (I'm such a procrastinator XD)
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Date: 2006-05-30 09:46 pm (UTC)This is the longest and most irritating formula in the book - though, as Paul said, once you know why everything is there, it's easier to memorise.
I think I've mastered it now.
*stops self from typing it down a few more times*
Sorry, I'm coming from a three-hour non-stop Adv. Physics revising session, so a little dose of mental instability is to be expected.
Happy procrastinating!
See ya,
Anna.