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May. 15th, 2008 06:30 pm...NeoOffice hates me. >_> Not the time. Not the freaking time. I'm trying to stick images in a report for tomorrow (guh) and the computer is laughing at my feeble usage of the copy and paste keys... and I keep hitting Photoshop shortcuts and knackering the whole thing. I should just get a 'proper' copy of Word or iWork or whatever the hell on here, not some cheap clone that I always end up fighting with...
Buuut yeah.
Exams this week?
First was Maths. (Sorry, 'Application Toolkit'. I have no idea where these course names come from. And neither does the teacher.) Not too bad, not too bad. Managed to dodge the scary partial differential equations question - the standard on papers here is 'we set five big-ass questions, pick three'. ∂x/∂y and me are not friends. At least, I thought we were, but something went wrong since last term and now ∂x/∂y is hanging around with a scary crowd that I just don't trust. That e has something up its sleeve, and the less said about omega the better...
One of the questions I got through and there's no way the answer's right but I just have no idea where the heck I messed up... rest of the paper, though, was fine. Basically juggling complex numbers around until something stuck.
Yesterday was Structures. One of the two subjects that have had me going AAARGH. Basically, it's all stuff about - well, structures, forces in beams and constructions and all that kind of thing.
And surprisingly? It wasn't the epic level of failure I'd expected it to be. Still wasn't the best ever, but I think I've got more than the snowball's chance in hell that I thought I might have had. First question flew by, second kind of sucked - it was all 'this should be easy, why is it not easy, daaaaamn yoooou professor' but I hope I might get some points for trying, and the third has the same issue as above with the maths.
Two more next week, Control Engineering (god knows, it involves feedback systems and scary algebra and very weird diagrams and a teacher who has caused more rants among our class than anyone) and Dynamics (physics 'n crap, also home to the most competent teacher out of the lot).
And big ass Design-A-Plane report for 'uh, before June'. Right.
Buuut yeah.
Exams this week?
First was Maths. (Sorry, 'Application Toolkit'. I have no idea where these course names come from. And neither does the teacher.) Not too bad, not too bad. Managed to dodge the scary partial differential equations question - the standard on papers here is 'we set five big-ass questions, pick three'. ∂x/∂y and me are not friends. At least, I thought we were, but something went wrong since last term and now ∂x/∂y is hanging around with a scary crowd that I just don't trust. That e has something up its sleeve, and the less said about omega the better...
One of the questions I got through and there's no way the answer's right but I just have no idea where the heck I messed up... rest of the paper, though, was fine. Basically juggling complex numbers around until something stuck.
Yesterday was Structures. One of the two subjects that have had me going AAARGH. Basically, it's all stuff about - well, structures, forces in beams and constructions and all that kind of thing.
And surprisingly? It wasn't the epic level of failure I'd expected it to be. Still wasn't the best ever, but I think I've got more than the snowball's chance in hell that I thought I might have had. First question flew by, second kind of sucked - it was all 'this should be easy, why is it not easy, daaaaamn yoooou professor' but I hope I might get some points for trying, and the third has the same issue as above with the maths.
Two more next week, Control Engineering (god knows, it involves feedback systems and scary algebra and very weird diagrams and a teacher who has caused more rants among our class than anyone) and Dynamics (physics 'n crap, also home to the most competent teacher out of the lot).
And big ass Design-A-Plane report for 'uh, before June'. Right.
