Stressed but still sane(ish)…
Posted by Fyse on Tuesday, 31 May 2005
I feel I ought to reassure my loyal readers that I am still alive, and have not been driven entirely insane by exam stress. I’ve popped back to my room briefly for soothing music and a cup of tea in a vain attempt to quell the rising panic. To say I am ill-prepared for these exams would be a massive understatement, and there’s a chance my results could be very, very bad. I had been thinking that at least I wont do any worse than last year, but looking over past papers makes me think it’s a possibility. Always around this time of year I wonder what on earth I did for the previous eight months, and resolve to actually do some work in future. Why was I so astronomically lazy?!
For good or ill it will all be over by Saturday lunchtime, and there’s plenty to look forward to in the following weeks. There will be barbeques, punting trips, Garden Parties and May Balls. (I’ll explain about those last two some other time.) For now, however, it’s back to the library. Fortified with tea and a brief period of reflective meditation, perhaps the mysteries of quantum electrodynamics will seem less impenetrable…
Whoa, I read that as “I pooped back to my room.” Hehe.
“quantum electrodynamics”? Yikes. I guess I shouldn’t complain so much about the work I have to do for school.
WhimsyChick - Nerves can have a loosening effect on the bowels, but things haven’t got quite that bad…
Oz - One of the (few) advantages of being a Physicist is the being able to wow people with entirely impenetrable jargon. How about ‘birefringence permittivity tensor’ or ‘grand canonical ensemble’?
Like I said before, sitting in a library ALWAYS makes me have to loosen my bowels. So it would make perfect sense to me.
Good luck on the exams!
Thanks. The more luck the better. Things are not going well…