The Warring States of NPF - The Finals Thread.

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Originally Posted by PyrosNine (Post 1092551)

Pyros is an english major nearly ending his tour of duty of English and therefore has no further need to take icky things like chemistry, or math, or science.

Okay, I have to take Physics, but it's Conceptual physics which is physics for people who can't fathom math. So my exams this week are all about stuff I've read, with my Social Deviance exam being yesterday, and today and tomorrow being 18-19th century English exams. So as long as I know my Pope, Pepys, Stoker, Dickens, Dryden, and Cavendish, I'm golden! What will really make or break me is my papers for those classes (not as good as I'd hoped, but this year sucked for me!)

But anyway, today I'm mixing up my studies with Assassin's Creed 2, as my exam itself is only in 4 hours and I know most all I need to pass.

Pyros worries only that I'm going to freeze in crossing the street that separates my dorm from my main college building (Pro-Tip: living nearest to your major's center buidling is the smartest thing you can ever do) because it is FUCKING cold out there, we had a late winter and it came back with a VENGEANCE.

And why are you mixing your perspectives?

So far I've written Intro Econometrics and International Trade/Commercial Policy.

Intro Econometrics makes me want to cry like a small child.

ITCP went pretty well, I guess

Next up: International Conflict Before the Cold War. Doesn't that class just sound sexy?

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Originally Posted by THE CRITICS!

And why are you mixing your perspectives?

I didn't say I was a good English major...

But yeah, Pepys got added because my teacher argued that the era we were covering in class began before the actual strict time period, and included Pepys as an example of both slice of life and the "journal" form of literature.

That's ridiculous! Like I have no problem with the principle but fucking Pepys? THe point of Pepys is that he gives us massive insight on the 17th century and all the crazy shit that was going down.
Your teacher is wacky dope!

I got One final paper that is supposed to be 4 long minimum. THE test in math on Saturday. then the paper is due and my history final is on Monday and Poli-sci on Tuesday...with a FULL work scheduled ON TOP of all of that. literally after my math test I would have to drive from the collage to work in 45 minutes (which is near impossible considering all the shit I would have to drive though) and the Night before I have to work till midnight allowing me NO study time!

Most of my finals are projects. Most importantly I have a short animation I need to finish, that uses the character that I modeled and rigged to throw something and knock over something using a dynamics system. I'm really close to being done, I just need to finish up and then render it.

Otherwise I just have some other projects and two tests.

One exam down. Did well enough. Was just a couple relatively easy normalization problems for wave functions followed by finding the probability for them, and a bit of theory. Still so, so much more rage and hate and math to come.

It takes hours to go over terrible answers.

I am done with all of my finals!

since like 2005, spring 2008 if you count grad courses

Grading them... Well, I'm just glad to be an RA and not a TA. That's soooooo time consuming and boring. I would probably be all about whining in this thread if I was grading this year.

e: Oh, wait.
Can I whine about project proposals and NSF grant writing? We're in the thick of that right now.

My Perception class had these little gimmie points in the form of "quizzes" that we would hand in with out tests. There were four of these quizzes and the lowest grade would be dropped. Since you were guaranteed a 100, the real rule was "Do the first three and don't worry about the last one." I did the first three.

Question on the final today: From the topics outlined on Quiz four, explain some aspect of touch perception, making it clear that you read and understood the quiz.

"You got me."

Oh, and also:

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Originally Posted by Eltargrim (Post 1092507)

Transition Metal Chemistry

That's a class? Like, just the transition metals? For four months?

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Originally Posted by phil_ (Post 1092661)

Oh, and also:
That's a class? Like, just the transition metals? For four months?

This class basically only really covers the 3d metals. And that was plenty of material. Crystal field theory, ligand field theory, spectrochemical series, symmetry operations, the Jahn-Teller effect, spin-only magnetism, diamagnetism, paramagnetism, inner and outer sphere mechanisms, Tanabe-Sugano diagrams, etc, etc.

I mean, scaling it up isn't terribly difficult, but yeah, 4 months on 3d metals.