2nd over

[mayoraasei]

Biochem is now over and done with and god I never want to hear about it again.

Have pharmacology and Japanese left (snickers at Japanese).

Pharmacology. Sigh.

Have had 6 quizzes, of which 5 counts, of which I got the following grades: F, P, D, CR, HD.

Guess which one I studied the least for? *Grin*

If you said the "F" or the "HD" you get a complementary bop on the head.

It was the "D" one =P I studied the wrong lectures, went in, fully crapped about aflatoxins based on the 20 minutes I heard about it in 2nd year microbiology.....

And came back with a D. What the hell is up with that.

I don't even know how I got HD for the last one. All I did was crapped about how Japan consisted of multiple prefectures (I bet that word was impressive! LWR™), which had multiple dietary customs.

...The heck.

Maybe I should not study.

*Is bashed over head by brain*

...A weird image that is.

*Saunters off to read more of babb-chronicles*



Ooooh...the lack of sleep is finally starting to kick in. Had about 3 hours of sleep last night. Could not sleep. Love adrenaline. Managed to last me through the exam (I didn't even have caffeine to help! Isn't my adrenal gland absolutely the best?! LOLLWR™!)

Comments

[siu.livejournal.com]

You study japanese too? o.o;

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

Yep, I'm taking first year Japanese as an elective.

It's reeeeeaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllyyyyy easy!!!!!!! LOL.

We spent like 5 weeks just on hiragana and katakana.

Although we did move pretty fast after that.

Will need a few hours to revise some of the verb forms before the exam ^^;

[quothraven.livejournal.com]

God.. the days where you could survive on 3 hours of sleep! (I would start sleep walking at work and type in Excel with my eyes closed)

Hahah... the ones I study the least for are usually the ones I'm sure I'll do well in. So it's usually not so big a surprise that I do better than average in those ones (hahaha HSC English!)

Unfortunately most of my courses now need more than bs. :( sad days.

Congrats though on the D. If I manage to see the inside of HD these days I'll die of shock.

Goodluck in Japanese *wink wink*

[beliael.livejournal.com]

Wow a whole spectrum of marks!

Unlike you, when I don't study for something I almost always do uber crap in it. xD

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

Oh please, pcol is the only subject where if I study hard I get a "F" in and if I don't bother I get a "D" in. It's abnormal. Abnormal, I tell you. Has nothing to do with me XD

[jezjezjezza.livejournal.com]

ooh ooh! I want a bop on the head! pick me! pick me! LWR^tm XD

is adrenalin the stuff that makes your heart beat really fast (and your breathing really fast) before exams? when I got to uni yesterday I had to sit down for about 15 minutes while I waited for my legs to stop wobbling :D

..."*Is bashed over head by brain*"

o__o *brain melts*

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

is adrenalin the stuff that makes your heart beat really fast

Yep, it's the stuff that made Akira drop the lid to the Go-stones when he was going up against Hikaru/Sai ^^v

[jezjezjezza.livejournal.com]

:D! yay! I'm so smat! :D *blatently ignores spelling mistakes..*

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

LWR™!! Your "smat" should be registered too XDD

[jezjezjezza.livejournal.com]

^o^ aaw, unfortunately it probably is (I think homer said something in the simpsons.. "I am so smart.. I am so smart.. S M R T!") *pout*

..aah, I need to stop visiting neopets.. =__= it's too distracting

[meissa.livejournal.com]

...I love you for making something so sciencey relate to a manga.

[nunuunuuu.livejournal.com]

LOOOOOOL
I thought I was the only one who experienced this crazy trend where higher marks correlate with less study.

Gaaaaaaaaaanbaruzooouuu!!! Faito-Oh!

[meissa.livejournal.com]

FAIIIITO-OOOOOO!!! *pompoms*

[meissa.livejournal.com]

I saw AFLATOXINS and wanted to cry. I'm procrastinating on doing actual work and trying to pretend I'm not in the lab and I see that. *tear*

What does HD stand for? and CR, while we're at it. Your grading system seems...different?

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

HD = High Distinction and CR = Credit.

Hmm...grades here go: fail, pass, credit, distinction and high distinction.

How do your grades work?

[meissa.livejournal.com]

1.0 Outstanding
then 1.25, 1.5, 1.75
2.0 Satisfactory
then 2.25, 2.5, 2.75
3.0 Pass
4.0 Conditional*
5.0 YOU FAIL, DAMMIT!

*Take one more "removal" exam and if you pass, you get a 3. If you fail, you get a 5.0. Even if you get a PERFECT score on the removal exam, you still only get a 3.

The maintaining average for graduate school is 2.0. Then you get booted off the college. And if you're really (un)lucky, you can get kicked clear out of the university.

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

Ah, some departments/faculties also have a Conditional Pass, but science doesn't ;__;

Wow!! You can get kicked out of uni? And maintaining average is 2.0?! O__o;

Erm, what's the difference between graduate school, college and uni? >_>;

[meissa.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, my University can be divided into colleges - it's similar to the Brit/US style (Oxford, etc.) but of course it's not so grand. You can transfer from college to college if you can't make up your mind what to major in or if your current college keeps putting you on probation for failing so many classes, but still technically be in the university.

Graduate school is for the Master's Degree and Ph.D. Only geeks who prefer school to real life go to Grad School. *is a geek*

Did that make sense? I think the words "college" and "university" mean different things around the world, haha. I was talking to a French guy and THEIR school system confused the HELL out of me.

Basically, here, one can be enrolled in the "Graduate Program" for a "Master's Degree in Chemistry" in the "College of Science" in the University. Other smaller tertiary education schools aren't divided into colleges, I think.

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

Oh I see!! That made sense ^^

Yeah, because I talk to Americans and they give me this look (this one: "~__~") and say, "What, universities and college are the same thing, just that uni sounds more posh." ...Or snobby, since posh is so Brit XP

Here we have "faculties" (like - Arts, Science, Law, Medicine, Economics faculties), and within the faculties are "schools" (science would be - biology, chemistry, biochemistry, physics etc) but the division doesn't seem as well-defined as yours. You could be doing a science degree but doing subjects out of another faculty either as an elective, or because it's part of your degree (biological science often overlaps with stuff in the medical faculty).

But if you're doing a degree, then you pretty much have to follow that degree's set outline, and if you want to change into another faculty then you have to go through a long, drawn-out, formal procedure.

Ah, graduate school. We call them postgraduate degrees here ^^;;

[meissa.livejournal.com]

Ah so college = faculties. For us, your "schools" would be "institutes." XD

Oh, it sounds about the same, what you said about wanting to take subjects outside of your degree, but whether or not it will be credited somehow (as a minor or diplomate or whatever) depends on the grueling paperwork.

Do you guys in Australia pick your degree right from the start? I think Americans go to university and can take many different classes BEFORE settling on a major? (Can an American confirm this?) Here, you not only have to apply to the university, you also have to apply for the particular program, since each program has its own set of requirements, right from the beginning, BEFORE entering the University. So you can get into the university but if you fall short of your desired degree's requirements or run out of slots, you have to find SOME program that will accept you, or float as a non-major and cry.

(Yay, learning about other school systems is fun.)

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

Yep, it's the same as you guys. It's "degrees" for us. You can do a double degree (i.e. subjects from 2 faculties in a shorter time than it would take for you to do two single degrees) or a single degree. Either way the entire degree program is preset, so you have to know your direction (even if vaguely) before you select your university + degree. You have some choice in selecting where you eventually want to end up (for example if you were simply doing B. Science, you can major in anything from physics to biochemistry to anatomy to geology), but ultimately there's a preset path with a bunch of prerequisite you have to fulfill along the way before you can take the next level.

Oh wow, you guys need paperwork for the credit? ...I guess it depends on the degree, but for most degrees, you're allowed to take 1 or 2 subjects from another faculty as an elective, and it would be credited.

...Is it just me or is the German school system scary? I might have been horridly confused, but it's like at 13 they're already deciding whether they're going to go onto uni or going straight into apprenticeship or something? O__o;;; I can't plan my life out that far ahead!!

[meissa.livejournal.com]

Well, each degree has an allowed 1 or 2 RELATED electives. But if you're a Chem major who wants to study French, it doesn't do anything for your degree, so it doesn't count.

Yeah! The German system is a lot like the French one! I was, like, but in "High School, kids are just goofing around! How are thirteen-year-olds supposed to know what field they want to go into???" They take specific classes for a certain field at around 15, I think. That's HS sophomores for the American system, and they're already doing university stuff. (Although I was in Uni when I was 15, but I'm not a normal case.) And then at around 18 they do the ultra-specialized subjects that sound SUSPICIOUSLY like graduate/post-graduate courses, although it's supposed to be equivalent to OUR uni courses.

Or maybe the French guy was just pulling my leg. From what he was saying they chop school up into six parts, and by the third part you're already going into a specific field. It's creepy!

I kind of expected the German school system to be scary. The Germans and the Japanese seem to take school SOOOOO seriously.

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

Wow!!! You were at uni by 15?!?!?!

(Though that, too, in itself is creepy XP)

Ah, it doesn't have to be relevant. I'm counting on it ^^; (Is doing Japanese)

Argh, I can't deal with investing my life in something so early!

Oh, according to our Japanese lecturer, "Once you get into uni, that's it. Uni is about socialising! People don't turn up to class and they all go out drinking! ...Okay, I know what you're all thinking... 'let's go to Japan!' but seriously? Classes would be mysteriously cancelled half the time...wait, that's not to say there aren't any hard-working people there, they're just...not as...common......*voice trails off*"

[meissa.livejournal.com]

People don't turn up to class and they all go out drinking!

And THAT explains why my acquaintances who supposedly went there for postgrad degrees kept coming back with stories about BARS and teaching drunken Japanese how to speak English. It seems like they study and study and study and study upto high school. Then they taste the sweet freedom of Uni and go INSANE. That's rather sad.

(But how come they still churn out so many smart science people???)

You're lucky you can do Japanese. I wish I had the time to take it now ;_;

[meissa.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I forgot to ask. I think Belinda mentioned something before. How do colleges and universities differ for you?

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

Erm...we don't have any major colleges in Australia ^^;;

Something about the Australian government not allowing private or overseas-based universities to set up here?

Tertiary education is pretty much university or TAFE (diploma programs) or apprenticeship/cadetship at some company.

...There might be stuff like academies/colleges for acting or design (COFA, NIDA, Conservatorium of Music), but they're usually a branch off the major university. People kind of think of it as "a faculty with a fancy name" LOL They probably used to be independent but now can't really finance themselves?? Not sure.

And there are a number of secondary schools that call themselves colleges, just to make life all the more confusing.

[meissa.livejournal.com]

My secondary school and grade school was called a college. XD.

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

PS: Since you're a Bleach + Urahara fan....*squeeeeeeee* I wonder if we'll find out what his bankai is next chapter (232)? Or are we simply going to see more coolness from him? *_______* Am excited!

[meissa.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I keep wondering about what he said, that his bankai is "not for practicing." Which seems to hint that it can cause massive instant destruction. PLEASE URAHARA, KICK SOMEBODY'S ASS, PLEAAAAASE!