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Friday, May 4, 2007 (4 comments)

I got home ~3 AM last night. I'm pretty sick of interstate driving at this point, especially since I was doing that for 12 hours last weekend...

Anyways, I'm done with finals now, but I don't really get to rest. I'm leaving for China on Tuesday morning, and I only have a one-day break when I return on June 15 before I fly out to Seattle. From there, I come back in August and have half a day to rest before departing for Durham.

I know you're dying to hear about my finals... they weren't ridiculously difficult or anything. In fact, my econometrics exam was surprisingly easy.

But on Tuesday night, I went through an experience that could only be described as a grueling ordeal. My macroeconomics final was 7-10 that night. I'm not entirely sure how to describe this, but let's compare to a common denominator.

If you thought the SAT (back when we took it) was bad, this was ten times worse. The most exhausting (note: exhausting != difficult) part of the SAT was trying to take a five or ten minute nap at the end of each section while making sure to wake up for the next part. The most exhausting part of AP exams was trying to stay asleep/find something to relieve boredom for the two hours that you have after you've done with the exam and you've looked over all of your answers 4 times already.

This beast was 2 pages of multiple-choice and 14 (15?) sheets of free response. No, not fill-in-the-blank free response, not one-sentence free response, and not AP-style free response where they guide you through the problem. It was basically a short essay plus a diagram or two for each of the 12 questions.

I was in that room for 2 hours and 50 minutes. My pencil was writing nonstop for the first 2:15, resulting in a very sore index finger. Combined with the hot, humid atmosphere created by the other 300 students taking the exam... ahhhhhhhhhh

Anyways, who wants to play ping pong Sunday?

3:36PM

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