Brain drain. Exams.

3 more exams to go, exhausted from dance, lacking food, and having a sticky situation with my money. It always seems that food and money are things highly valued and rarely obtained during exam time. I've completely forgotten my pin for my scotiabank card. I can do all sorts of online banking though - so I tend to use my credit card, and buy things with it, then pay online for the bills. The only thing is - I haven't found any place that has cashback here in Poland. There has got to be some place that has that service!

And food. I'm glad that I still have some gross balsam back stuff that my mom always gives me, and chszan. Otherwise, I'd definitely be sick right now based on my diet. One thing has changed though - I've been getting more sleep compared to other years during exam time. It could be the cause of me failing two of my exams.. although, some of these exams take a little bit to get used to.

Some markers tend to not mark past the first mistake (not all). If you make one early in the question, you can say goodbye to marks for that question - and most often to that exam. Good thing they have two exam periods. If you fail once, there's a second attempt a week later. Woohoo! studing the same thing for two nights of your life not just one :D You are sometimes given the questions on a sheet of paper - but not always. And only once have I had enough room on that sheet to answer my question - you have to supply your own paper to write on. - Given the fact that they hardly ever check to see if anything is written on these sheets prior, I'm surpirsed that some people don't cheat. Some of the more crafty profs don't give you a sheet - they dictate the question to you, and you are supposed to answer it that way.

Partial Differential Equations on thursday, fluid mechanics on friday, and thermodynamics on monday, all of which I have already failed once. How do you compare this to Canada? Is it harder or easier? For the first time, I don't think that's the question that you should be asking. In the end, it doesn't matter how hard it is, as long as the students develop good work habbits, and the students retain their knowledge. I still need to come back, but my suspisions are that the knowledge retention rate here is much higher. I have failed to understand why though.

over and out,
Kanadyjczyk