Last Day O' Term
Dec. 11th, 2003 07:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
newnumber6With an exam. Bleh. Anyway, more of a narrative. Day started out okay, went to school early to do studying (find it hard to study at home). At lunch, I went wandering.. noticed that my school now apparently has both a Jimmy the Greek and a Taco Bell on premises...b ut I had a Gyro yesterday and am expecting Tacos tomorrow, so I figured I'd go for chicken. Was going to go to KFCs, but I noticed for the first time Popeye's Chicken. Never tried any of that before.
So, I went in, and it looked good, cajun, spicy, all good words. I ordered a spicy chicken sandwich and cajun onion rings. I'm sad to report that I was not overwhelmed with spiciness. I wasn't even whelmed, for that matter. It wasn't even the slightest bit hot.
Combined with the 'Cajun Chicken' I had at that all you can eat place Friday, I'm beginning to suspect the Cajun's reputation for hot food is all hot air. Although, it could easily just be the bastardized stuff they ship up here. Still, disappointing. Shoulda just gone with KFC, at least their burgers are tastier.
Anyway, onto the exam. Annoying as hell. Some parts were straightforward, but others were drenched in minutae of specific programming languages. Like an 8 mark question... which was 8 small questions, each worth a point. Each question requires not only counting from a huge list and determining what category various things fall into (one of them had 50+) and whether it 'counts or not'... and you have to be right within that language, _and_ they throw you curve balls too wit hthings that _might_ be right depending on whether something's, say, case sensitive or not. And if you get one little thing wrong, you lose that mark.
Not to mention other questions where if you m ade a wrong assumption you likely lost a cascading series of marks in subparts to the question, rather than just granting you your assumption and marking you whether you were correct given that.
So, don't think I did great. Probably passed, but bleh. Ah well, it's over with anyway.
Since this is the last day of term, it caused me to think back and do my social contact measurement for the term.
At school this term I believe I talked to less than 10 people (not counting simple 'sorries' for bumping into someone, thanks for holding doors, or simple 'do you have the time' type question/answers). 1 was a teacher, 2 were people I knew from work who also went to that school, 3 were asking directions of some sort, and the other handful were random people in class talking about the course for a minute or two before class started.
I'd estimate I spoke aloud less than 500 words at school this whole term. That could well be less than this post. ;)
So, I went in, and it looked good, cajun, spicy, all good words. I ordered a spicy chicken sandwich and cajun onion rings. I'm sad to report that I was not overwhelmed with spiciness. I wasn't even whelmed, for that matter. It wasn't even the slightest bit hot.
Combined with the 'Cajun Chicken' I had at that all you can eat place Friday, I'm beginning to suspect the Cajun's reputation for hot food is all hot air. Although, it could easily just be the bastardized stuff they ship up here. Still, disappointing. Shoulda just gone with KFC, at least their burgers are tastier.
Anyway, onto the exam. Annoying as hell. Some parts were straightforward, but others were drenched in minutae of specific programming languages. Like an 8 mark question... which was 8 small questions, each worth a point. Each question requires not only counting from a huge list and determining what category various things fall into (one of them had 50+) and whether it 'counts or not'... and you have to be right within that language, _and_ they throw you curve balls too wit hthings that _might_ be right depending on whether something's, say, case sensitive or not. And if you get one little thing wrong, you lose that mark.
Not to mention other questions where if you m ade a wrong assumption you likely lost a cascading series of marks in subparts to the question, rather than just granting you your assumption and marking you whether you were correct given that.
So, don't think I did great. Probably passed, but bleh. Ah well, it's over with anyway.
Since this is the last day of term, it caused me to think back and do my social contact measurement for the term.
At school this term I believe I talked to less than 10 people (not counting simple 'sorries' for bumping into someone, thanks for holding doors, or simple 'do you have the time' type question/answers). 1 was a teacher, 2 were people I knew from work who also went to that school, 3 were asking directions of some sort, and the other handful were random people in class talking about the course for a minute or two before class started.
I'd estimate I spoke aloud less than 500 words at school this whole term. That could well be less than this post. ;)
