Yeah... I'm trying to type on my phone. I tried to make a post through mobile posting, but controlling images don't work well on the app. Unfortunately. Well, not quite, since my mobile battery ain't that strong so if I spent so much editing this and that, my battery would be drained. Then again, it's not like I use my phone much since I have my laptop and winter vacation just started (the vacation in between the two semesters). But but but... I'll just be typing this now and edit it later (if necessary). Yeah, to add the see more function so the post won't be shown whole-ly on the blog and those kind of stuff, you know. Lol I must be babbling gibberishly. It's Gibberish Babble blog anyway!! :'D
First thing first, school. I just finished my exam and fall 2014 semester is finally over! My last exam was last Tuesday, so it's not exactly just finished because a few days have passed.
Anyway, I've been meaning to babble about it since then, but thought of, "hey, why not do it all together when I get my grades of all courses I took" because for the dawa course I had to meet up with the professor + groupmates to discuss about the group project grading and each member's final grade afterward. The discussion meeting was postponed twice. First on Tuesday after my final exam, Organic Chemistry, and it was delayed because only 2 out of 6 members were able to come (including me, duh). Me and my groupmate thought to delay it to the next day at the time the professor said would be suitable, so perhaps more members of the group will be able to come. Then, it turns out wrong... well, actually 1 more was able to come, but half an hour after the specified time. Me and the groupmate who came with me the day before came on time, but there was another group before us that was late and so, we just waited. When they left, we came to his office, but he said that he has a meeting at 12. Not knowing about that, I told the 1 more groupmate who was able to come to come. By then, she was already in campus when I called her to tell her about it. Man, I have just troubled her. That was my bad. Then, finally, as we decided to come the next day, also at the time the professor specified... finally we discussed the group project and have its grade finalised and then onto our individual grades. Can you- no. Can I believe that I got a C+ on this course? I expected a B. Especially when I already have a D+ for Calculus II. Seriously, I needed a B or above. But when I got the number grade, it came down to me that I can't do anything to make it up to B. It was 3 points away. If only it was 2 points away or less, I could've asked him what to do to get it to B. It would be negotiable and I could've asked right then. But it was 3, THREE, points away. I kept quite and left his office.
Anyway, I've been meaning to babble about it since then, but thought of, "hey, why not do it all together when I get my grades of all courses I took" because for the dawa course I had to meet up with the professor + groupmates to discuss about the group project grading and each member's final grade afterward. The discussion meeting was postponed twice. First on Tuesday after my final exam, Organic Chemistry, and it was delayed because only 2 out of 6 members were able to come (including me, duh). Me and my groupmate thought to delay it to the next day at the time the professor said would be suitable, so perhaps more members of the group will be able to come. Then, it turns out wrong... well, actually 1 more was able to come, but half an hour after the specified time. Me and the groupmate who came with me the day before came on time, but there was another group before us that was late and so, we just waited. When they left, we came to his office, but he said that he has a meeting at 12. Not knowing about that, I told the 1 more groupmate who was able to come to come. By then, she was already in campus when I called her to tell her about it. Man, I have just troubled her. That was my bad. Then, finally, as we decided to come the next day, also at the time the professor specified... finally we discussed the group project and have its grade finalised and then onto our individual grades. Can you- no. Can I believe that I got a C+ on this course? I expected a B. Especially when I already have a D+ for Calculus II. Seriously, I needed a B or above. But when I got the number grade, it came down to me that I can't do anything to make it up to B. It was 3 points away. If only it was 2 points away or less, I could've asked him what to do to get it to B. It would be negotiable and I could've asked right then. But it was 3, THREE, points away. I kept quite and left his office.
Sure the semester wasn't how I hoped it to be, but D+ and 2 C+ is just a little too much. From when it was 3.48 to potentially 3.27. Man, did I slack off too much? That's a rethorical question and surely I did slacked off too much. Spring 2014 wasn't high tone in any way and it ended in a middle tone, more towards the low tone and the what's with the summer vacation that certainly ended in low tone which made Fall 2014 started in a very low tone and ended the same way. I hope that I can wrap up this winter vacation in a good high tone, so I can do well in the next semester. BUT! It's been a few days and all I did was doing nothing, except for watching/downloading some 48Family videos + updating my 48Family Discography Database.
Hold on a minute! I wasn't suppose to write about what I did after the last exam so far. Will do that in another post.
Going back to the exam topic, yeah I'm thinking that the post shall more be about the exams and briefly how I felt at the end of Fall 2014 semester, because I can't recall exactly everything that happened in Fall 2014 and not my planning.
So, my first exam was Dawa, but I already talked about my grade. As for the exam per se, it was okay. Much better than the midterm. Duh. There's really nothing more that I can say about it. Maybe just getting more points in the true or false questions by answering correctly, but that's just about it.
Next exam would be Computer Science. Sure the professor way of teaching is a little boring, but I liked the practical part and the codes and basic C++. That part was fun. Exam-wise, it was okay, but could've done better by knowing that Binary question and not get confused with that one multiple choice question and also to study more of the truth table question. I expected to lose 3 points, but when the professor posted the exam grade, I lost 4 points. Sadly. I was not happy with it, of course, so I went to check the paper. Turns out he didn't count that one point in the total and took away 0.5 point from what i answerred right. It was y=x+y and I have defined y as y=1 at the beginning. I'm not quite sure if the variable I used during the loop was X or something. Oh well... but I know it was supposed to be right. As for the other questions, I understood what was wrong with it, so no problemo. When he adjusted the grades and reposted it, he did not have the 0.5 point taken away corrected, but I thought that since he gave me 0.5 points from the questions that I had it wrong, I'll just let it go. Especially after the hassle I made through email about not having enough time to review the paper. That was when the assistant sent an email that that was it and no changes could be done starting the day after. Apparently, I misunderstood it. I was still able to come and review my paper and appeal when it was not correctly graded. The hassle I caused was hilarious on my part. Why did I do it? Perhaps because I thought that I'll certainly not get good grades in the major courses, so I should at least try to make it up in Computer Science. At the end, I got an A!! Yeayay.
On the same day of Computer Science exam, I had a Calculus II exam an hour after. Surely, I didn't study quite enough nor well for it. The exam paper was so different than the past paper. Of course a good student should be ready for any kind of exam papers, but I wasn't a good student. Bad, no? The one word to explain how Calculus II final went by, herrible! That's a mix of horrible and terrible. Because there's nothing more to talk about the exam per se, the grade I got for it was even less than 50%. So bad, right? I'm thinking of retaking it. The final letter grade was then D+. So bad.
Moving on, moving on. Next, I had Islamic Civilization. Turns out, our group report was not that good, but oh well. The exam was good though. Maybe not really really really really good, but really good otherwise because I wasn't entirely sure of what I was writing. I just wrote everything that comes up to my mind. It was a lot! I did expect myself to write a lot as an answer to the question, so I decided to write it fast. Hahaha I finished writing a lot faster than most of the others. Or at least that's how it seemed to me. The time then felt really long and I lost track of time when I was writing. Losing track of time doesn't necessarily mean that time just fly by, right? Because I didn't feel much time passed by. At the end, all was good for the course. I have another A for the semester.
After it, it was the practical Computer Science final. I didn't revise for it because I was confident about it, but turns out that I needed to revise the table codes. That question came and I didn't know what to do for it for second. Then I thought of doing it manually with space bars. I wrote notes when I submitted the file explaining some stuff so I won't lose points unnecessarily. I got 100 then!! This helped in getting A for the whole Computer Science course. Yeayay.
The last exam then was Organic Chemistry. I borrowed the text book from the professor, but even then, I didn't use it fully or used my time efficiently to study. Man that was bad. There were too much reactions!!! At least it was not as bad as Calculus II, so I didn't drop to D+, but it was a drop nonetheless. I got C+ for it.
So, my first exam was Dawa, but I already talked about my grade. As for the exam per se, it was okay. Much better than the midterm. Duh. There's really nothing more that I can say about it. Maybe just getting more points in the true or false questions by answering correctly, but that's just about it.
Next exam would be Computer Science. Sure the professor way of teaching is a little boring, but I liked the practical part and the codes and basic C++. That part was fun. Exam-wise, it was okay, but could've done better by knowing that Binary question and not get confused with that one multiple choice question and also to study more of the truth table question. I expected to lose 3 points, but when the professor posted the exam grade, I lost 4 points. Sadly. I was not happy with it, of course, so I went to check the paper. Turns out he didn't count that one point in the total and took away 0.5 point from what i answerred right. It was y=x+y and I have defined y as y=1 at the beginning. I'm not quite sure if the variable I used during the loop was X or something. Oh well... but I know it was supposed to be right. As for the other questions, I understood what was wrong with it, so no problemo. When he adjusted the grades and reposted it, he did not have the 0.5 point taken away corrected, but I thought that since he gave me 0.5 points from the questions that I had it wrong, I'll just let it go. Especially after the hassle I made through email about not having enough time to review the paper. That was when the assistant sent an email that that was it and no changes could be done starting the day after. Apparently, I misunderstood it. I was still able to come and review my paper and appeal when it was not correctly graded. The hassle I caused was hilarious on my part. Why did I do it? Perhaps because I thought that I'll certainly not get good grades in the major courses, so I should at least try to make it up in Computer Science. At the end, I got an A!! Yeayay.
On the same day of Computer Science exam, I had a Calculus II exam an hour after. Surely, I didn't study quite enough nor well for it. The exam paper was so different than the past paper. Of course a good student should be ready for any kind of exam papers, but I wasn't a good student. Bad, no? The one word to explain how Calculus II final went by, herrible! That's a mix of horrible and terrible. Because there's nothing more to talk about the exam per se, the grade I got for it was even less than 50%. So bad, right? I'm thinking of retaking it. The final letter grade was then D+. So bad.
Moving on, moving on. Next, I had Islamic Civilization. Turns out, our group report was not that good, but oh well. The exam was good though. Maybe not really really really really good, but really good otherwise because I wasn't entirely sure of what I was writing. I just wrote everything that comes up to my mind. It was a lot! I did expect myself to write a lot as an answer to the question, so I decided to write it fast. Hahaha I finished writing a lot faster than most of the others. Or at least that's how it seemed to me. The time then felt really long and I lost track of time when I was writing. Losing track of time doesn't necessarily mean that time just fly by, right? Because I didn't feel much time passed by. At the end, all was good for the course. I have another A for the semester.
After it, it was the practical Computer Science final. I didn't revise for it because I was confident about it, but turns out that I needed to revise the table codes. That question came and I didn't know what to do for it for second. Then I thought of doing it manually with space bars. I wrote notes when I submitted the file explaining some stuff so I won't lose points unnecessarily. I got 100 then!! This helped in getting A for the whole Computer Science course. Yeayay.
The last exam then was Organic Chemistry. I borrowed the text book from the professor, but even then, I didn't use it fully or used my time efficiently to study. Man that was bad. There were too much reactions!!! At least it was not as bad as Calculus II, so I didn't drop to D+, but it was a drop nonetheless. I got C+ for it.
I guess that's it, no? The Analytical lab final was not during the exam week, but as a course, I got B+. So, that's 2 A's, 1 B+, 2 C+'s and 1 D+. I'm still hoping that I can get a B for dawa. I emailed him about it and I'm still hoping.
Ja... ciao? Nah, maybe I'll get back later.
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