The ramblings and thoughts of Balazs.
TNT likes to take their time delivering my shiny white MacBook. Dammit they could hurry up! It’s in Holland currently, maybe it might be here for tomorrow. One can always hope. If not, Wednesday.
In other news I’ve only got 3 exams left! Woooop! Then it’s all over. Can’t wait. This summer is going to be amazing. Prom, Hungary, Reading, Amsterdam, then Uni. Just these few exams left, I’ll be revising intensly for them.
So today was my first exam since Maths, and well it wasn’t easy to say the least. It was quite different from the past exam papers I’ve done, and though most of the content was the same, it was just a question that annoyed me. One part was only one mark, so that’s not going to make much of a difference, but the other one I was close to getting after discussing it with my friends.
I though that the bottom was r-squared, so I lost a mark there, but luckily I got the part before! There was also a bit to do with the energy released when two atoms of Palladium were next to each other and a neutron caused fission. This was more complicated, and again it was only 2 marks so I don’t think I lost that many overall.
Reactions from other people were quite mixed, some said it was hard, others said it was okay. I think that most of it was good, it was just some of the formulas that took me a while to remember. The exam is only worth 61% of the module as well, and I aced my research report so that’s worth the other 49%. We’ll have to wait until August for the results anyway.
Chemistry of Materials tomorrow (the resit), and having done quite a bit of revision today, I’m feeling quite confident about it. I’m going in early tomorrow to revise more. Then it’s just SN4 and SN5 Biology on Friday and the synoptics next week. It will all be over soon, thank god.
In other news, I’ve fully transferrred theminiblog.co.uk over to dreamhost, and the domain is now under my sole control too. Took a while but it’s all done. There are still some picture problems with that, but I’ll sort it out later.
Latin squares taken from Wikipedia
The C4 exam is over, which means that there is no more Maths for me forever! Woooo!
The actual exam went really well. The first paper was good, with nothing I couldn’t do. There was a question with a trig identity, but I remembered that correctly ^_^. The integration and general algebra questions were rather simple. The vectors question was lovely (shocking that I used that word to describe anything to do with vectors!) I actually knew how to do it and I seem to have got the same answers as my friends.
The comprehension paper was also rather nice talking about Sudoku and Latin squares. You didn’t actually have to read much of the paper to understand the question. There was quite a bit of filling in the squares and then some stuff on a formula for the numbers given, etc. Nearly everyone finished early and we were let out early by like 10 minutes. I sat there for a while though before we were allowed to leave.
Now there are 7 exams left, a mix of Physics, Chemistry and Biology. No doubt Biology will be the hardest out of them all.
With my C4 exam the day after tomorrow (wow this time has gone fast!), I’ve been revising a bit going over all the topics, especially the comprehension paper. I really hate vectors! I was looking at the January 2008 C4 paper and that had a section B question on vectors, so I hope this means we won’t get a section B question. I can do simple plane, vector equation and scalar product questions, but I really don’t like doing anything too big to do with planes. I’ll be revising vectors nearly all day tomorrow; I think I’m getting the hang of it now.
I haven’t yet started (proper) revision for any of my other subjects. I’ll start it as soon as maths is over and done with. Sadly the first day back next term I have to go in for Biology revision. I was going to rather enjoy exam leave on the first day. Oh well, I’ll probably get more done there than here at home anyway.
I finally finished the 4th season of the West Wing though. I just started the 5th season, it’s rather interesting with Zoey’s kidnapping, I don’t really remember this well (even though I’ve seen it plenty of times.)
I did also get AWstats working on the blog though. Thank god I have shell access, otherwise there’s no way I could have fixed it. There were so many problems with trying to get the configuration working, and now that it’s done I’ve only got one problem. The times reported by AWstats are US Eastern times, and this is because the server is located in the US, and the log times reported are therefore in US time zone. I can’t figure out for the life of me how to adjust it, so I’ll probably email the dreamhost support staff.
