The end is nigh...

[Brenda]

Of the semester, that is - my finals are next week! I'm sure it's about that time for most students, so here's a thread to rant and worry about the end of semester coming too fast! :eek2:

I have to write a spanish essay on a spanish essay for tomorrow (500 words is so much harder in spanish...) and I still have to read the essay.

I have to write a paper comparing Black Elk's version of the battle at Greasy Grass (Little Bighorn) to the white version and the current official version by Friday - and I've only read the first half.

I have to write a paper for my Recreation class about volunteering at the SEMOPullooza last Friday (big party on campus - big inflateables, door prizes, free pizza, pickle-eating contest, etc.) That won't be too bad but I need to email it in soon!

Then next week I have a 10:00 am final on Monday - Recreation, which I need to review A LOT.

Two 8:00 am finals - biology and spanish.

Let the :banghead: and :eek2: commence.

:faint: :computer:

[Milo]

I had my Spanish final today... I think I got a B in the class. :erm: :blush:

Four finals next week: Brit Lit, Humanities, Political Ideologies, and Comparative Politics... then I is FREEE. :D

[C_ris]

My exams are over by 2nd June! :D

[Lady Arwyn]

Today was my last lecture, tomorrow and Friday are reviews for our final exams. Exams for me are Saturday, Monday and Tuesday. Then on May 15 I start a Maymester class. A whole semester in three weeks! :eek: Only one class though, I'm not completely insane. THen I take summer classes for sessions A and B, which pretty much means I'll be in school all summer. Otherwise I'll go insane with boredom.

Oddly enough, my last lecture today was about Custer and the Battle of the Bighorn/Greasy Grass. It was in archaeology class, so he was using it as an example of how popular "facts" can be so very wrong, and that archaeology can often sort out the mess. In this case the archaeology destroyed the whole "Custer died fighting and his troops put up a good fight" story and pretty much confirmed Chief Gall's version (he was a Lakota leader).

To their credit, the US troops who arrived 2 days later and first saw the bodies didn't lie, they "read" the locations of the bodies in a perfectly legitimate way, it really did look like they had put up a disciplined, organized defense, but they didn't have modern forensic abilities. We went over the evidence such as terrain, layout of the bodies, they were actually able to match bullets to shells and track individual weapons, therefore movements of individuals. We know exactly what weapons the US had (Springfield single shot carbines and Colt revolvers) and what weapons the Lakota had (200 repeating Winchesters!) and were able to map the whole battle. After an initial fight the US troops panicked and ran, they were basically cut down while trying to flee.

One Springfield was recovered almost a hundred years later from the decendant of a Lakota warrior who "relieved" a soldier of the weapon and the even matched some of the bullets to that particular weapon!

[Brenda]

Now that's amazing.

[Lady Arwyn]

I have completely completed three of my 6 classes! They don't require final exams. Three down, three to go.

[Brenda]

Well, I had six classes this semester. I have three finals finished (two were today!) and one to go! (I already had my orchestra concert and my self-defense practical exam!) The only one left is Hispanic literature. And it's comprehensive. Fortunately it's short-answer - I just have to know who wrote what, what it was about, and who was in it!

[Milo]

Onemoredayonemoredayonemoreday!!!

Two tests! :erm:

[sglandon]

Twelve more days of school. I am ready. (Is there an exhausted and irritated smilie?) Good luck to all!

[John]

I remember one of my last finals in college. I had to build a circuit board that, when the button was pushed 4 times it activated a motion sensor. When that was activated, an LED was supposed to come on and flash, and a little speak belted out a beep for each flash. It then had to wait 30 seconds before activating a small beizer that went off continually and would in turn activate another LED. In other words we had to build an alarm system that when set off it would give the 30 second sight and sound warning to deactivate it, by hitting the button 4 times, or the alarm would go off, and the other LED would be the current for the next system to call in to the company.(which we were spared to build) The paper part of the final was to explain which capaciter, resistor, and chip it took as we built the thing, and the equations it took, and why it worked that way. Oh and we had an hour and a half to build it and do the test.
Yes this was electronic tech school. Very hands on stuff, but stuff we had to give a reason for why things worked. So it was some engineering as well.

All the other classes, English, Algebra, Phychology, Physics, were a breeze compared to that one. :D

[Mausey]

The high school kids here don't start writting exams until mid June and the bunch of you are already pretty much finished. :laugh:

[Milo]

Well, most of the kids around here are still in school.

I aint though. :woohoo:

[sglandon]

You stink... :razz:

11 days. The natives are getting restless. I need drugs. :deadtired

[Lady Arwyn]

For you or for them?

[sglandon]

Don't even tempt me - I'd be drugging the snacks, no problem. LOL! My year might have been better if a few of them were on the medication they needed, bless their hearts. You know it is bad when you have four parents in for field day, and each of them, at different times, asks, "Are they always this hyper/energetic/etc.?" and the para who comes is says, "I don't know how you've done it this year." I have 17 boys in my class, and only 6 girls. We've had a wild and wooly ride this year.