Crushing Krisis

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In a totally prescient moment, i went to the bathroom to retrieve my shirt (drying from shopping in the rain) and put it on just as the buzzer rang for me to pick up my dinner down at the front door. Yes, that means i had been blogging shirtless all along. One more reason to buy a webcam for me, darling. Meanwhile, the guy at the grill at Mad Greek’s was the opposite of prescient because he didn’t put extra-cheese on my chicken cheesesteak even after i explicitly asked for it. Grawr! Solution? : Put lots of cheese-fries on my cheesesteak! Yay for my massive intelligence!

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Final completed: 4 of 4

Preparedness: 8/10

Difficulty: 7/10

My C++ examination should have been an easy A, but i had a huge claustrophobia attack towards the end due to tight accommodations and an unnecessarily lengthy test. As a result i sorta botched up the last question or two. However, my massive massive A in the class will save me from any negative consequences resulting from my anxious moments at the end of the exam. And then i was done for the year! Whoo-hoo!

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Final completed: 3 of 4

Preparedness: 4/10

Difficulty: 2/10

Thank God for small favours. And also for big ones. My recording final was easier than remembering my own phone number, and i did remarkably well on the hands-on segment in the studio. Though my professor was aghast by the remarkably backwards way in which i shorten the signal chain while recording, i proved that i can work the console very well through my explanation of the backwards procedure to him. Happy to get this one over with; hopefully i get a big fat B since this is a 4-credit course (an A, though nice, probably isn’t a possibility).

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Final completed: 2 of 4

Preparedness: 5/10

Difficulty: 7/10

Philosophy. I was dreading this final like nothing else because i feel as though i just don’t know the material. Sure, i’d listened to the lectures and went to almost all of the classes; in fact, i even read almost all of the many reading materials assigned to us. However, i was left with this aching lack of knowledge that would surely come back to bite me in the ass during the final.


Surprisingly, my ass is fine. The final was a comprehensive series of three essays, but in all but one case i was entirely well prepared to choose a position and defend it. I was a tad bit alarmed to find myself the last student to still be writing at the end of the final period, but my essay writing skills are entirely based on my experience with Advanced Placement tests, which means i come ready to write for the full amount of time allowed and more if i can manage it! When i brought up my test booklet my professor handed me my last paper, simply stating “Very good.” I figured this equated at least to a B, so i just left the empty lecture hall reading his commentary on my dissection of Sartre’s “The Wall.” Halfway back to the apartment i made it to the last page to see a bold “A” in black pen with the word “Excellent” written underneath.

I might get a B. My election results could actually turn out good.

https://crushingkrisis.com/2000/12/1663832/

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Final completed: 1 of 4

Preparedness: 7/10

Difficulty: 6/10

I wasn’t expecting my music theory final to be especially hard, and it wasn’t. I know the material well enough to have scored a B, though it could have been an A if i went to class more than half the time in the latter third of the semester. Not too exciting; really just an hour break from the nauseous feeling that precedes my philosophy final.

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