So, I said I would post during my next gap between exams, and I'm right in the middle of it.

With regards to the exams I had from Monday, school bio (ironically) was actually something of a disaster. Due to my lack of time management capabilities (perhaps due to my arrogance) in Bio papers, I found myself left with 10 minutes on the clock, with 1/3 of the paper undone in a 1 hour 30 minute paper. Which is generally a position you don't want to be in. Despite this, I managed to finish the paper (somehow) although my handwriting actually degraded to a point where I'm afriad the examiners might just not bother. Hopefully the first part of the exam will convince them I'm not completely hopeless.

Specialist Paper 1 went pretty well, I suppose it had better damn well have, after being my most studied subject this year (and may I say, by FAR). There were a few trick questions at the end, looked sort of odd, but not difficult to me, but apparently people found it hard. Well, paper 2 still remains, that will decide the true fate of Spec.

Uni Bio exam on CUP DAY. Yes, Cup Day. Public Holiday type Cup Day. Apparently it wasn't a Uni holiday, so yeah. Exams on it yay. I actually expected the exam to completely massacre me, but this wasn't the case, strangely enough. The sample exams did a good enough job of completely dashing my hopes for anything near a distinction, but it seemed like an illusion as I looked through the paper. The calculations were do-able, and I (perhaps through luck) managed to decipher an essay problem which people didn't seem to. The other essay questions were thankfully bullshittable or rather broad, allowing for some random inserts of sentences/phrases/words to make the examiner think you know what's actually going on. The multiple choice wasn't too bad either, the guess rate was much lowered from the Mid-Years, at only about 30% maybe -.-" Multiple-choice is seriously cheap stuff, the things they put in there... Sometimes I wonder if we're actually meant to know that. Probably some random side thing the lecturer mentioned (who we, as UMEP students, don't get to listen to unless you downloaded the lectures yourself, but who does that...).

On a side note, I realised that the park next to the Royal Exhibition Centre and Melbourne Museum actually seemed really serene and beautiful, with a mini-lake, trees, unpronounced paths and lush green carpet, combined with a touch of Old English architecture. Really stood out to me as I made my way through it. And LOL! As I was walking with Ai Lin and Su-Ann to the main road through the park, we saw this procession of undead/halloween monstrosities (people who actually took the time to get props/proper dress/make-up for the occasion), and who really seemed to care enough to maintain their groaning, sprawling gait, and illusion of being possessed or undead as they made their way through the park path. It was really quite impressive. I mean, once you see people who bothered with synthetic flesh hanging from their face, blood splattered all over them, torn clothes etc, it really makes you stare.

What I didn't understand was, a) it was 12.30pm in the afternoon. The sun was one of the brightest we had seen the entire week. Undeads walking around wasn't too scary/convincing, and b) it was a week past halloween. So.

Methods paper 1 is the next paper, on Friday at some point. Methods has been the subject I've been slacking off the most, and I have tomorrow to buck up on it (the last few days have been spent wasting time/relearning the chemistry syllabus, to varying degrees of success for each area of study). Probability especially, it's a completely new style of maths compared to Spec, which I've actually studied quite thoroughly for now. Hopefully tomorrow will be fine.

Alright, it's 2am now, and after waking up at 1pm this afternoon (no joke, I was that tired after the triple exam combination in two days), something tells me I should get to bed. Now.

Until the next break, good night.