I finished my last midterm today. Thank goodness that's over.. and they weren't that bad. Biology went well, and calculus went SOO much better than I expected ! I'm definitely getting an A in that!.. Overconfidence?? =[ Hm.. Guilty thoughts now.. I'll rephrase. ''I THInk I managed an A =]''. Betterrrr. Psych.. hm.. I had it and calculus on the same day.. so I kept switching back and forth. But I needed to put a lot more effort into psych. Recitations give us practice each week, unlike psych where we don't have weekly quizzes or anything of the sort.. And I felt like I was learning some of the things for the first time. It wouldn't be so bad if I could actually stay awake in class! I don't know why but I'm so drained in there. In calc. as well but it's not so intense. But I'm fine in spanish. Maybe it's because of the interaction. We get to do work for spanish, and write stuff down for calc. With psych, we just listen to the lecturer as he explains slides which can be found online so we don't really need to pay that much attention. Everything on there and more is in the text book anyway.
So next on the list: Finals ! My only opportunity to make up for psych! If i get a B in this midterm I think I'll cry... So I'll be reading ahead. Not just reading.. but STudyIng! Understanding everything and keeping it all in my noodle. That'll help avoid the late nights and 4 hour sleeps.
I nearly overslept for the Biology midterm today :| . Thank goodness for my roomie. I kept setting the alarm for 5, 10 or 20 minutes longer, but I forgot to reset it after the last time it went off. She woke me before the exam started. Grateful! But I slept through my extra studying time.. Good thing I had already showered that morning, so I was dressed and ready. Just had to grab my stuff and run out of there.
I had 2 nightmares during that nap. In both of them, I woke up at 12:35pm ! And my exam started at 11:30 am . So I'd missed my exam! . I freaked out so badly I woke up screaming :| . Bad dream... terribly bad dream... and even after I woke up I went back to bed because I was so tired.. Maybe those dreams were a forecast of what would've happened. If roomie wasn't there I really WOULD have slept through that midterm! *sigh* Gotta Love her..
Advice? If you have to take the elevator, NEVER leave for an exam less than 15 minutes before it starts! There's the elevator rush just before classes, where everyone's trying to get onto one, so it stops on a million floors before it gets to you, and stops on a million floors on your way down to pick more people up.
Pretty soon I'll be put up a post about all the Do's and Don't's, and the Like's and Dislikes for ~SMU~
It'll be a Long one! ;)