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Three hours in the life of srah
The beast that is Social Systems & Collections has been defeated! Since I couldn't blog during the exam but I kept getting hung up on things, I took some wee notes on my thoughts.
12:50 - I'm hungry. Ten minutes to go, so I'll just log into CourseTools and go get some soup-- HEY! The questions have been posted! Start exam? Eat? Start exam? Eat, I think. Located some cup-a-soup and tortilla chips to nibble on.
12:55 - Now on to the exam! ... but I'm cold. Put on a sweatshirt. Still cold. Put on slippers. Still cold. It occurs to me that most of your body heat escapes through your head. Pull up sweatshirt hood. Still cold. Went searching out a handkerchief and have fashioned some kind of do-rag thing on top of my head. Slightly warmer. Some exam conditions, these.
1:08 - Why do I feel the desire to talk about the Urstodian's personal experiences with information concepts in all of my answers?
1:12 - Three hours for three questions and we're already twelve minutes into the exam! Stop thinking! Start typing!
1:33 - 72 words out of 250 on the first question. Fingers are rather sticky. Stop eating chips and get writing!
1:48 - Stupid dog. As predicted by Mr B------, the Devil Dog disturbs my concentration by wanting to go out.
2:04 - Stupid maximum word counts. I am a concise writer, so when I start getting wordy, you should just be pleased with it instead of making me pare down.
2:08 - 286 words?! No!
2:13 - 247! That's less than 250. Good on me. Moving on to other questions...
2:17 - Distracted by music with lyrics and inspired by Katie, in goes the Jurassic Park soundtrack.
2:50 - Panic! I have bits of the second and third questions answered, but we're almost down to the one-hour mark and neither is finished. Focus! Panic! Focus!
3:43 - Done and done and DONE! 581 words on a maximum of 750 is fine, right? If I'd had days to do it, I could have gone on and on for each of them, but we must cut somewhere. Were my answers too simplistic? Probably. I have no predictions on how well I'll do.
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srah - Friday, 12 December 2003 - 4:03 PM
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