Izu's World

Well, it’s this time of the year once again. And gosh I hate it so dearly! Whenever I hear ‘June’ or ‘July’ my stomach twists and my heart skips a few painful beats. You wonder why? Well, because over here and especially in my university, final exams last for 4-5-6 weeks even. How does that sound to you? Just ‘lovely’ isn’t it? *sighs* So, it’s already the last week of the semester, during which we won’t really have any lectures, but we’ll pretty much start the final exams session.

Usually we have 2-3 mini exams during the semester that are either some part of the final grade, or if you score above an average of B on both of them, you can free yourself from the practical exam for the class. Each class has two final exams – practical exam, where we write programs, do math problems, and so on, and a theory exam where we write theorems, proofs, definitions, etc. In order to pass the class you have to first to pass the practical exam, then go to the theory and pass it too. If you fail at either, you fail the class.

So… this week I have three exams thanks to which I may have the chance to free myself from the practical exams. So… in a way I don’t have just 6 exams (for 3 classes, I already finished with Databases as I defended the final paper on Friday), but 9 – two practical and one theory per each of the remaining classes.

Needless to say that my stress levels are quite high at this very moment. I hardly sleep, I hardly eat, I can hardly concentrate. My heart is beating so loud that it actually hurts, so does my stomach. Thinking about the upcoming exams is more than enough to make me shake like a leaf. :(

I have exams on the following dates:
The three ‘during-the-semester exams’
8th June – Architectural Modeling and Stimulation of Information Systems (AMSIS)
9th June – Semantics of Programming languages (SPL)
12th June – Differential and Vector Geometry (Geom)
And then the official final exams session starts:
14th June – Geom practical
18th June – Geom theory
28th June – SPL practical
8th July – SPL theory

Ok, so… I’m stressed because of AMSIS and it being the day before the SPL exam, because SPL is the one class I will fail most probably this year – freaking horrible, and the professor is a complete Nazi.

And of course I stress because of Geom as well, because I got a B on the first during-the-semester exam, which was one of the highest grades in the major, so I need another B on the second one in order to free myself from the exam on 14th. And if I don’t free myself on 12th I’ll have only one day to revise for the exam on 14th… so… yeah… I feel like throwing up out of nerves… Heh…

I’ll keep on writing here about the exams and the stress levels around them, mostly because I don’t want to annoy anyone on Elliquiy… I’m still horrified that people would hate me if I let them know I feel like crap for one reason or the other… *sighs*

But at least this year I have my blog and I will keep on pouring it out all here. *hugs my blog and never lets go*

Gh… and now off to the books :x