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Jan. 14th, 2006 05:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hathycolExam craziness has mostly passed. I'm now on the other side, the euphoric relief of having finished all the exams I'm worried about. To put it another way, I've finished my history exams. Have we ever mentioned that secretly, deep inside, I like history exams? I do, you know. I despise a lot of the aspects of it. I hate, for example, having to revise until your brain melts, or the constant feeling that you don't know enough because there is always more to learn, but I actually like writing them. I like writing essays, too. I get an intense amoubnt of satisfaction from the written word, and when I'm under pressure I have the most beautiful writing style. I love history. I adore it wonderfully, the complexities and these people and events that took place so long ago but feel so real to me, and I like to think it comes out in how I write. I'm terribly verbose, when I'm not shrieking in capitals are people regarding the TARDIS, especially about things I like.
I can never replicate it - it never worked in English or media and only in the synoptic paper for politics - but I do enjoy reading back over my TOTALLY CRACKED OUT INTRODUCTION. I do not plan this sort of essay. Oh no. Instead, I have half a page of waffley introduction whilst I write my thoughts down and proceed to write an essay based on what I wrote in my introduction.
It's good fun.
Anyway, modern history. Section A was nice and do-able (something about the English Reformations and the conclusion thereof in the sixteenth century was what I went for) although section B was a fucker. Everyone is agreed on that, so hopefully we all screwed up together. The exam, more importantly, is done.
Okay, I have to pass Spanish now, and that's a whole new world of pain. However, I really do just need a five. Secretly, I like to hope that I've done quite well in history, although I'm just looking for a pass at this stage. I am actively striving for that five in Spanish, though, because it's bloody hard.
However, that exam? Is on Friday at 2.00pm. I am taking tonight off - it involves watching Bram Stoker's Dracula, John Barrowman on Celebrity Make Prats Of Yourself On Ice or whatever it's called and some wine. Good fun.
As such, I will be less crazed until about Wednesday, so no more posts abut Joan talking to me or that icon. I'm sorry, I still like my interpretation, though. That's sanity talking, I swear.
I have nothing else to talk about. Sorry. Does being out of bed since ten and being inordinately proud count? God. I am such a stereotypical student I sicken even myself.
~Hathy_Col~
I can never replicate it - it never worked in English or media and only in the synoptic paper for politics - but I do enjoy reading back over my TOTALLY CRACKED OUT INTRODUCTION. I do not plan this sort of essay. Oh no. Instead, I have half a page of waffley introduction whilst I write my thoughts down and proceed to write an essay based on what I wrote in my introduction.
It's good fun.
Anyway, modern history. Section A was nice and do-able (something about the English Reformations and the conclusion thereof in the sixteenth century was what I went for) although section B was a fucker. Everyone is agreed on that, so hopefully we all screwed up together. The exam, more importantly, is done.
Okay, I have to pass Spanish now, and that's a whole new world of pain. However, I really do just need a five. Secretly, I like to hope that I've done quite well in history, although I'm just looking for a pass at this stage. I am actively striving for that five in Spanish, though, because it's bloody hard.
However, that exam? Is on Friday at 2.00pm. I am taking tonight off - it involves watching Bram Stoker's Dracula, John Barrowman on Celebrity Make Prats Of Yourself On Ice or whatever it's called and some wine. Good fun.
As such, I will be less crazed until about Wednesday, so no more posts abut Joan talking to me or that icon. I'm sorry, I still like my interpretation, though. That's sanity talking, I swear.
I have nothing else to talk about. Sorry. Does being out of bed since ten and being inordinately proud count? God. I am such a stereotypical student I sicken even myself.
~Hathy_Col~
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Date: 2006-01-14 08:12 pm (UTC)did you enjoy watching John? (he'd been on teh beeb singing songs from the musicals just before so I've had a good fill of Who-related goodness this evening. and i'm getting my boxset with loan money!)
Enjoy your days off, it really sounds like you've earned them
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Date: 2006-01-14 09:55 pm (UTC)Alas!
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