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December 07, 2004
Cable Guy
After one of my finals on Sunday, the instructor very nicely told me that she'd accept an late assignment if I could e-mail it to her as soon as I got home. (Long story short: it was late b/c the school's network is agonizingly slow. I tried to upload 2 assignments--1 made it, 1 didn't. The homework site shuts off 1 nanosecond after the due time expires, and won't accept anything. Nice, innit?) Anyway, I was all in a rush to get it emailed to her, since the assignment was prolly going to make a letter grade's difference in my final grade.
So you can imagine my horror when driving up the street to our house, I observed what appeared to be the phone line lying on the ground. I ran in the house in a panic. Mike says "Hi, honey. How was the final?" And I yell "ISTHEFREAKINGDSLWORKING? IHAVETOEMAILSOMETHINGVERYIMPORTANT! RIGHTNOW! ISITWORKING?"
Happy ending: Yes it was, and I got the email off in time. And the cable guys just now got the cable put back up. Yeah. It was the cable line, not the phone line, that was down. So I freaked for no reason.
Yes, I'm a little overly stressed out right now over finals.
How could you tell?
Posted by Rita at December 7, 2004 11:36 AM
Comments
It’ll all be over soon. Just keep repeating that. Soon. Soon. Soon. ;)
Posted by: Daniel Morris at December 7, 2004 04:50 PM
Some days I feel just like the Little Engine That Could. I think I can. I think I can. I think I can.
The bulk of things have been completed as of last night's exam. Now all I have left is a stubborn XML assignment that won't validate and a web programming project that are due by the 15th, and a C++ final next Tuesday. So, a little breathing room, and a faint glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel.
Posted by: rita at December 8, 2004 08:16 AM
I have both of my finals on the same day next week.
One is just a regular class meeting, but the other is a comprehensive final that I'm pretty sure I'm going to have to take. (I don't even want to start about final exams as anti-incentives.)
Posted by: Craig at December 8, 2004 08:17 AM
Yuck. My C++ final is comprehensive too. And his tests are really hard. Here's a question we had on yesterday's exam:
What are the two primary components of a class?
a)attributes & behaviors
b)properties & methods
c)member variables & member functions
d)variables & functions
e)All of the above
The correct answer, according to him, is e)All of the above. I understood his reasoning, they're (sorta) all names for the same two things, but I thought he worded it very poorly. And yes, I missed it because I chose d)variables & functions.
And he says he doesn't understand why his students always say his test questions are tricky. I'm thinking that if different people repeatedly tell you the same thing over and over and over, then perhaps it's not them that have a problem.
Posted by: rita at December 8, 2004 08:40 AM