If you can't stand me whining, I'd advise you to stop RIGHT HERE.As I've said before, we have exams and tests this week. The 'week' started yesterday, and goes on till Friday. Six days of excrutiating exams. It's at times like these that I hate having gone to the BSN and just being smart.
Let me start with the BSN story. At the BSN, you are not put into classes with people of the same intelligence. So if you're unlucky, you're stuck with idiots. Although mostly it's quite evenly spread out. Anyway, the teachers over there - in my memory - were brilliant. If you payed just a little attention to what was said in class, you didn't have to study for the tests.
You were split up for a few subjects though, such as Math and the languages (native speakers/beginners). Naturally (=P), I was in the highest group for math. I understood everything, and had 94% for my end of year grade. When I went to the RLW, the first year of math was all repetition, so I hardly had to work for the grades. I blame this non-working for the difficulty I was in last year. My grades for math dropped from 8 and 9's to 6's. I wasn't used to working during math lessons, and that took it's toll. For other subjects, such as Science and the languages, I didn't have to study either. I had one simple equation: pay attention in class + do the homework = 80% and higher.
The moment I came to the RLW, I had to start studying. For Latin, for Greek, for French, for German, even for History and Geography, which I never thought would even be possible. Fortunately, in the year I arrived most of our teachers were pretty crap, and gave us easy tests so nobody really had to study. The second year here was a little different.
All of a sudden our work load had increased by 200% and everybody was studying. This is basically where my trouble started -I'd never really studied in my life, how in the world do you study? It sounds stupid, I know, you'd think that everybody knows how to study for a test. Well, I didn't.
You were split up for a few subjects though, such as Math and the languages (native speakers/beginners). Naturally (=P), I was in the highest group for math. I understood everything, and had 94% for my end of year grade. When I went to the RLW, the first year of math was all repetition, so I hardly had to work for the grades. I blame this non-working for the difficulty I was in last year. My grades for math dropped from 8 and 9's to 6's. I wasn't used to working during math lessons, and that took it's toll. For other subjects, such as Science and the languages, I didn't have to study either. I had one simple equation: pay attention in class + do the homework = 80% and higher.
The moment I came to the RLW, I had to start studying. For Latin, for Greek, for French, for German, even for History and Geography, which I never thought would even be possible. Fortunately, in the year I arrived most of our teachers were pretty crap, and gave us easy tests so nobody really had to study. The second year here was a little different.
All of a sudden our work load had increased by 200% and everybody was studying. This is basically where my trouble started -I'd never really studied in my life, how in the world do you study? It sounds stupid, I know, you'd think that everybody knows how to study for a test. Well, I didn't.
So here we are, my third year at the RLW, having trouble studying. I've pretty much discovered which method of studying works out best for me, finally.
Problems I'm encountering now are that I still think that the BSN-equation applies at the RLW too. That's so wrong. Over here, it's 'pay attention if possible + do homework + spend couple hours studying = hopefully something above the 5.5'. Yeah, I'm never confident anymore when I enter the room for the test. I'm always doubting whether I studied enough, or if I didn't miss vital information during a lesson.
Basically, the conclusion is that I'm too used to doing nothing and that sucks. And being smart sucks because it ends up in you choosing too many subjects for your own good.
I can't believe I just spent all that time writing this, because
a) I know nobody cares about this, "Quit bitching"
b) this isn't getting me anywhere
c) I'm supposed to be studying now.
That's right. I'm supposed to be studying. On a Saturday afternoon. But I'm not --I'm writing about how I suck at studying.
I guess this really goes to show that I still try to live by the BSN-equation. "Do nothing, and everything will be fine." I'm sure this will result in at least one failed test.
Thinks about what she just wrote.* Damn, that was one hell of a boring post. I'm sure there will be more interesting posts after THIMUN. Check out our to-do list for the conference here.
I seriously do hope ECOSOC will be a fun committee. I've been talking to a few people online, and so far, so good. Thing is, I've heard that THIMUN is like an uber-nerd convention, so that's something I'm not really looking forward to. Oh well.
Last message before I study or get distracted and start watching Ushi & van Dijk:
Update
Haha, second post and I already forget the post-post list. Here it is anyway:
What sucked today: not getting very far with my THIMUN work
What rocked today: NSP's video
What I needed today: lots of water, I had the biggest headache this morning
What I wanted today: to finish the reso and study ANW --failed at both :(
3 comments:
Eh... what?
I´d just like to state I had nothing to do with that, I´m as puzzled as you are o_O
Btw, did it fail to cling to your mind how I made your day....=P
-NSP
First off, good job on quitting boycotting, and taking up cycling.
Didn't think you had anything to do with it. You sound (and probably are) so much more intelligent than the person that wrote the message.
You made my day, and of course I'll never forget that ;-) =P
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