The exams are over! Well, I still have one more but I have already S/Ued it so I'm gonna forget about it for now.
I can't help but feel that the someone up above is playing a fool with me the past week. On Monday I got the email from the IRO that I was rejected for the Summer Studies thing. I had kind of expected that coming because I had not heard from them since I sent in my application. So, I wasn't that disappointed.
Then they called me up on Tuesday saying that there was a vacancy! I thought Eddie would be ahead of me in the waiting list since he had a higher GPA. I accepted their offer immediately and called him to check with him. Turns out he didn't get to go. What a pity. Must be his recommendation form. Now I get to go Hong Kong. Alone.
Anyway I had to finish up all the online applications that day even though I had a bloody IT paper the following day. What the heck, going overseas is more important man!
So it was settled and I was content. I readied for intensive mugging for Accounting II. Then the IRO sent me some email informing me I had to hand in some other documents as well. For some time there I was really afraid I won't get to go because of that. I guess it's all the exam stress that's causing me paranoia.
The past two days I really mugged like I have never mugged before... It was probably the first time I've managed to keep my concentration for so long. Usually I would start surfing stupid websites or play stupid games after 45 mins of studying. But for the two days, I was truly one with Hansen and Mowen. Well, the fact that I hardly studied it during the entire exam period was also a major contributing factor. Surprisingly, I felt well-prepared at the end.
At about an hour before the paper, I received a message from my groupmate about our Accounting II project that he had just went to retrieve. fuck. C+. My mind just turned blank and I was stunned for a long time. I was hoping he was joking but something also told me he wasn't. I went into the exam hall still feeling stunned. The main paper was too unbalanced by the way. The calculations were too damn easy and the writing portion took up a large portion. Everyone scores on the calculations while I would be stuck in the rut with my less than stellar writing ability and poor handwriting. Add this together with the C+ for the project? Sigh.
Now I know there will be a lot of people who would probably think I am overreacting. I don't know, maybe I am. But it is like 20% down the drain. Moreover, I knew about it just an hour before the exam itself. I couldn't imagine how much more I needed to catch up in the main paper. I can't be blamed for still being shocked.
It is also because I seriously cannot believe that all the bloody effort we put into it was just worth a mere C+, or 2.5 on a scale of 5. That's just passing man. No offense but it's usually a grade for people who don't understand what they are doing. After reading through the comments by the grader, it almost seemed like we deserved it. Now I dislike whoever graded it. By the way, the grader also commented on poor English on our part. WTF. Ok, there were one or two sentences we overlooked during editing but that's a couple of sentences out of the entire report! And how dare the grader deem "and rightly so" as bad English? Just google for it. It shouldn't be that bad if google can find 2,640,000 search results for it. Correct me if I am wrong but I don't think the most pedantic English teacher will call that grammatically incorrect.
Also I don't think we were any worse in our understanding of the materials. Our biggest mistake was that we were handicapped by the lack of certain information about the company we worked on. I still think we deserve a B at the least - and rightly so.
Sorry for the long rant. If you stuck it through, good for you. You will make a good listener. And maybe everyone will start complaining to you because you will listen. Or at least they think so.
I'm trying hard to figure which of the following is worse:
When you didn't try for something or when you tried but didn't get it?
I can't help but feel that the someone up above is playing a fool with me the past week. On Monday I got the email from the IRO that I was rejected for the Summer Studies thing. I had kind of expected that coming because I had not heard from them since I sent in my application. So, I wasn't that disappointed.
Then they called me up on Tuesday saying that there was a vacancy! I thought Eddie would be ahead of me in the waiting list since he had a higher GPA. I accepted their offer immediately and called him to check with him. Turns out he didn't get to go. What a pity. Must be his recommendation form. Now I get to go Hong Kong. Alone.
Anyway I had to finish up all the online applications that day even though I had a bloody IT paper the following day. What the heck, going overseas is more important man!
So it was settled and I was content. I readied for intensive mugging for Accounting II. Then the IRO sent me some email informing me I had to hand in some other documents as well. For some time there I was really afraid I won't get to go because of that. I guess it's all the exam stress that's causing me paranoia.
The past two days I really mugged like I have never mugged before... It was probably the first time I've managed to keep my concentration for so long. Usually I would start surfing stupid websites or play stupid games after 45 mins of studying. But for the two days, I was truly one with Hansen and Mowen. Well, the fact that I hardly studied it during the entire exam period was also a major contributing factor. Surprisingly, I felt well-prepared at the end.
At about an hour before the paper, I received a message from my groupmate about our Accounting II project that he had just went to retrieve. fuck. C+. My mind just turned blank and I was stunned for a long time. I was hoping he was joking but something also told me he wasn't. I went into the exam hall still feeling stunned. The main paper was too unbalanced by the way. The calculations were too damn easy and the writing portion took up a large portion. Everyone scores on the calculations while I would be stuck in the rut with my less than stellar writing ability and poor handwriting. Add this together with the C+ for the project? Sigh.
Now I know there will be a lot of people who would probably think I am overreacting. I don't know, maybe I am. But it is like 20% down the drain. Moreover, I knew about it just an hour before the exam itself. I couldn't imagine how much more I needed to catch up in the main paper. I can't be blamed for still being shocked.
It is also because I seriously cannot believe that all the bloody effort we put into it was just worth a mere C+, or 2.5 on a scale of 5. That's just passing man. No offense but it's usually a grade for people who don't understand what they are doing. After reading through the comments by the grader, it almost seemed like we deserved it. Now I dislike whoever graded it. By the way, the grader also commented on poor English on our part. WTF. Ok, there were one or two sentences we overlooked during editing but that's a couple of sentences out of the entire report! And how dare the grader deem "and rightly so" as bad English? Just google for it. It shouldn't be that bad if google can find 2,640,000 search results for it. Correct me if I am wrong but I don't think the most pedantic English teacher will call that grammatically incorrect.
Also I don't think we were any worse in our understanding of the materials. Our biggest mistake was that we were handicapped by the lack of certain information about the company we worked on. I still think we deserve a B at the least - and rightly so.
Sorry for the long rant. If you stuck it through, good for you. You will make a good listener. And maybe everyone will start complaining to you because you will listen. Or at least they think so.
I'm trying hard to figure which of the following is worse:
When you didn't try for something or when you tried but didn't get it?
1 comment:
didn't try then won't have chance of getting it what..
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