Evolve! Evolve! Evolve!
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lenora_roseFinished 1 and 2/3 exams*; The history one tomorrow won't be a cakewalk as such, but I don't think I'm going to faceplant, either, though this does depend on me getting through a heck of a lot of definitions and notes today, and to read one more chapter (again) in the textbook that may be useful for one of the essay questions.
I think it's a bit of a dumb format he gave us for studying; he handed us a list of 12 potential long answer questions, and said five will be on the exam, though we only have to answer two. Translation; you have to know 9 out of the 12 topics well enough to write a short paper on them on the spot. I can kind of understand the desire to make sure that for the long answers we study to answer more than two questions, but nine is ridiculous, and there's a whole short answer segment designed to make us look at the whole of the thousand years.
Meantime, two more expisodes down of Doctor Who third season: of which one (a return to New New York, and the final appearance of the Face of Boe) was rather lame and used very heavy-handed foreshadowing. This week's was the first half of a two-parter. The Doctor and those around him are still getting the good lines (though Colin didn't know what "Oh, he's into Musical theatre" meant), but the villains are hitting hard on the cliches (And I don't mean the requisite returning villains -- believe it or not, they're NOT doing their cliche thing quite so much) but the human slimeballs spouting hackneyed dialogue and the BEMs who make suspicious noises that lure hapless people into dark corners.**
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* I wrote the first essay on the take-home exam, and went long, so i mean to make the second one shorter. I also decided to leave the rest of the reading for that until after the history one, Because the sheer amount of material to know for the History one is huge even without the long answers. I have until Friday, but I mean to have it done Wednesday.
** I'm a little forgiving of people wandering into dark places alone when they're in a building with a lot of people and a lot of clutter, have every reason to think the noise is a fellow human, and don't yet know they're in a tv show where BEMS exist. After all, I walk around the house in the dark all the time. It's marginally better than the same thing happening in murder mysteries or horror movies after the threat is revealed. Still, it is tired.
I think it's a bit of a dumb format he gave us for studying; he handed us a list of 12 potential long answer questions, and said five will be on the exam, though we only have to answer two. Translation; you have to know 9 out of the 12 topics well enough to write a short paper on them on the spot. I can kind of understand the desire to make sure that for the long answers we study to answer more than two questions, but nine is ridiculous, and there's a whole short answer segment designed to make us look at the whole of the thousand years.
Meantime, two more expisodes down of Doctor Who third season: of which one (a return to New New York, and the final appearance of the Face of Boe) was rather lame and used very heavy-handed foreshadowing. This week's was the first half of a two-parter. The Doctor and those around him are still getting the good lines (though Colin didn't know what "Oh, he's into Musical theatre" meant), but the villains are hitting hard on the cliches (And I don't mean the requisite returning villains -- believe it or not, they're NOT doing their cliche thing quite so much) but the human slimeballs spouting hackneyed dialogue and the BEMs who make suspicious noises that lure hapless people into dark corners.**
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* I wrote the first essay on the take-home exam, and went long, so i mean to make the second one shorter. I also decided to leave the rest of the reading for that until after the history one, Because the sheer amount of material to know for the History one is huge even without the long answers. I have until Friday, but I mean to have it done Wednesday.
** I'm a little forgiving of people wandering into dark places alone when they're in a building with a lot of people and a lot of clutter, have every reason to think the noise is a fellow human, and don't yet know they're in a tv show where BEMS exist. After all, I walk around the house in the dark all the time. It's marginally better than the same thing happening in murder mysteries or horror movies after the threat is revealed. Still, it is tired.
