Most intense exam schedule ever. I had to do my first ever true all-nighter. I think I've always had some sleep the night before an exam, even if only for a few hours. Compounding the problem was that they were all cumulative exams covering content from September. The "plus" side was that I ended rather early, allowing me the luxury of having more time to mourn the senseless deterioration of my brain.
Exam Schedule
PCL365 - 12/04 - 9:30am-12:30pm - GB304 - Toxicology Lab
PSL302 - 12/09 - 9am-12pm - BN2N - Physiology
PCL302 - 12/10 - 9am-12pm - EM119 - Pharmacodynamics
CLA204 - 12/10 - 7-9pm - East Hall, UC - Classical Myth
LMP363 - 12/11 - 9am-12pm - RW229 - Pathobiology
BCH370 - 01/13 - ? - ? - Biochemistry Lab
The three day chunk officially doesn't count as a conflict. As well, all of the tests (except for physiology) were short answer format, not MC. Unfortunately, unlike the spring term exams, there is no studying week beforehand. However starting next year a modified schedule is being implemented which allows for a few days of studying before the fall exams, but taking some away from the week before the spring exams to compensate. There's also this strange November break added in which I guess would help for the midterm crunch. A lot of these new breaks also count the weekend, so 5-day breaks are really more of 3-day breaks. I guess the weekend breaks apply more for university staff than students.
I would say although this was the most stressful semester by far, with six courses and some type of evaluation every week since the end of September, the content of the courses learned seemed more satisfactory. It's probably because we're starting to learn more about new content that we haven't been taught in detail about before. The courses are beginning to overlap somewhat too.
I took classical myth as an elective, and I would say that the learning experience is much less enjoyable and impressionable as it was in high school. The whole course was to essentially memorize everything in this textbook and then spill out names, terms and essays in a short amount of time. Perhaps I'm just not as used to this style of learning. I was surprised because this course is apparently in high demand, and for this past semester the waitlist in September after classes started had about 100 people. A lot of the myths that I was more intimate with from high school were glossed by in a very bare-bones manner. Of course the text was very informative and contained all the necessary details about the myths, but didn't seem to give much importance or emotion to the stories. But I guess you can't really demand much more in a university setting.
Anyway all of that is done now. There is another week or so to do non-school stuff before preparing for January midterm and labs.
"Non-school stuff" includes:
iSketch
osu!
Sporcle
FAILBlog
Also to remind you about all the shovelling you had to do:
Exam Schedule
PCL365 - 12/04 - 9:30am-12:30pm - GB304 - Toxicology Lab
PSL302 - 12/09 - 9am-12pm - BN2N - Physiology
PCL302 - 12/10 - 9am-12pm - EM119 - Pharmacodynamics
CLA204 - 12/10 - 7-9pm - East Hall, UC - Classical Myth
LMP363 - 12/11 - 9am-12pm - RW229 - Pathobiology
BCH370 - 01/13 - ? - ? - Biochemistry Lab
The three day chunk officially doesn't count as a conflict. As well, all of the tests (except for physiology) were short answer format, not MC. Unfortunately, unlike the spring term exams, there is no studying week beforehand. However starting next year a modified schedule is being implemented which allows for a few days of studying before the fall exams, but taking some away from the week before the spring exams to compensate. There's also this strange November break added in which I guess would help for the midterm crunch. A lot of these new breaks also count the weekend, so 5-day breaks are really more of 3-day breaks. I guess the weekend breaks apply more for university staff than students.
I would say although this was the most stressful semester by far, with six courses and some type of evaluation every week since the end of September, the content of the courses learned seemed more satisfactory. It's probably because we're starting to learn more about new content that we haven't been taught in detail about before. The courses are beginning to overlap somewhat too.
I took classical myth as an elective, and I would say that the learning experience is much less enjoyable and impressionable as it was in high school. The whole course was to essentially memorize everything in this textbook and then spill out names, terms and essays in a short amount of time. Perhaps I'm just not as used to this style of learning. I was surprised because this course is apparently in high demand, and for this past semester the waitlist in September after classes started had about 100 people. A lot of the myths that I was more intimate with from high school were glossed by in a very bare-bones manner. Of course the text was very informative and contained all the necessary details about the myths, but didn't seem to give much importance or emotion to the stories. But I guess you can't really demand much more in a university setting.
Anyway all of that is done now. There is another week or so to do non-school stuff before preparing for January midterm and labs.
"Non-school stuff" includes:
iSketch
osu!
Sporcle
FAILBlog
Also to remind you about all the shovelling you had to do:
Approximately the amount of snow that fell so far this weekend, according to my backyard table.
