the P.Pole

I’ve finally gotten around to setting up a page for my music posts, all in one place here.

Soon I will be done with this world (of final exams!). Saturday evening, I will be tackling the final of finals, for Organizational Behaviour. I am not too worried about this exam, but that may be due to me not being particularly concerned about my final grade. I have done well so far from reviewing definitions alone, so guess what I’ll be doing tomorrow morning and evening.

5 results of my five exams so far:

• Statistics went very well for me. I finished with ample time left, checked over every answer carefully, both for my thought process and for my computation accuracy. I am so confident that I believe I potentially scored 100%, minus up to maybe 5% for small mistakes.
• Calculus went less smoothly. I am sure I got most everything on the exam, excepting two questions. One, I approached properly the first time, but reversed (the bounds on my integral in) my answer at the last moment because it seemed to make sense. The other mistake was due to misreading the question and approaching it too readily with a prescribed method when at a loss. I should have read more carefully. I’m thinking anywhere from 85-90%.
• Actuarial Science was quite good for me. I did not get the most rest the night before (one of those nights) so I was not at my best in the morning. However, I only lost focus for parts of two of the eight questions in total. I had not bothered with memorizing in detail the more obscure formulae, and our professor surprised us this year by asking for two of the most obscure formulae. I was stuck evaluating an integral that I formed (incorrectly) that cannot actually be integrated, and searching my mind for a random conversion property that I am actually not sure I ever noted in the first place.
• Accounting was by far the worst so far, but not unexpectedly so. I did not prepare much for this final since I figured it’d be a breeze, and parts of it were. Other parts, requiring more subjective reasoning and explanation, I am sure I did not do quite so hot on. It was an underhanded exam asking obscure and very similar questions that required too much reading into things for my liking. I did all I could and left without straining myself all that much. Five minutes of not getting something is as productive as thirty.
• Linear Algebra: 100%.

All that is left is the most subjective of my courses this term, Organizational Behaviour. I am doing well in the course going in, and the final is not worth nearly as much (45% of the final grade). I will review terms, remember names of theories and their researchers/proposers, and that will be that. I refuse to lose sleep over this, especially with the new Team Fortress 2 update coming out tonight.