Monday, May 19, 2008

Last week revision

I write here with a frequency of 1-week. Sorry =) I know I should write more.
Last week I made some progress. Of course, weekend was not so effective. So I had to get up at 6 in the morning on Monday to make a literature project. I had some material and I had to organize it - in an hour I had 10 of 20 required pages. And that was a good result. Well, I never worked on the project since that time.
Then there were English studies on Tuesday and I really made some progress there because I did the whole test in 1 and a half an hour. I made 30 mistakes, though. When others made 15-20. But it still is good and I am satisfied. Now my main goal is to revise all my mistakes that I made in tests in a year (yes, I have been writing them down) and refresh my memory on these points.
Well on Wednesday I had already been tired and I was a sad and I almost cried =) Wednesday is a sad day, after all. Ah and I did well on the test. Better than ever.
Tuesday had its Russian evening studies and it was tough because we wrote an essay. I screwed everything up and we had to read it in class and then give our works to Professor so that she will point out grammar mistakes. Oh my... Ah, and I borrowed from a friend a book to read - Murakami short stories collected in a book called "To Burn a Shed". I read two first stories - Firefly and To Burn a Shed. They were strage because they have a plot but it is thrilling the other way. It has some mystery. In his stories Murakami just tells stories about people. That is why I like his works. I hope, I'll have some time to read his novels in August. I've read the trilogy about the ship a year or so ago.
On Friday English again and as I did my test super-fast, I had to do other tests and translate about 20 sentences. I made a lot of mistakes there. Huh... I think I should work harder.
Saturday freaked me out because I realized that I had missed two history classes which were on 3d and 10th of May when nobody ever worked. And as we have the very last day at school next Saturday we asked history Professor to postpone the next classes and he said that he would never do this. I hate him now. He is a snob.
And now I do not want to go to this University again. But I know I should try. And I should try really hard to get there and to laugh at those snobs. Ha-ha-haaaa!
On Sunday I did lots of Russian tests. About 100 pages on the whole (with those tests I did on Friday and on Saturday).
So this week is the last week in school and then it is all over. Nah, we still have school exams after this, but it does not matter now.
By the way, today I skipped school. Well, I should have done that. You know, there are two ways every time. You can experience going to school the last Monday and you can experience skipping the last Monday. That is funny but... Heh, I really think there are two ways.
I went to see Narnia. It was a beautiful film with good special-effects work. And it was very sad as there was a dying civilization (which is always sad for me) and then they had to come back to the world where they came from and that is very very sad, too. I can imagine what they thought when they were going away from Narnia. But I didn't like that Aslan popped out so late and the film was full of pathos with those speeches and sword duels. Man, Peter became a conflict person. The whole film reminded me of J.R.R.T. in some ways.
So that is how I spent last week and today. I think it is necessary to analyze the work you have done in some period of time.
Good luck!

How to Prepare for Exams

Here are a few links that I find useful on the subject.

Here is very good advice. Much of it, really. It is like overall plan with a few details.
This page is about the experience of high-scorers of some tests. The article has a few good ideas.
On the site of state university in New York there is info on stress, anxiety and emotions and how to change/overcome them.
On How-to-Do site kinda personal thoughts about college tests.

Sunday, May 11, 2008

My Guraipu Mentos

I am watching Scrubs and eating grape mentos (or "Gu-ra-i-pu" mentos because it is from Japan, I don't know why, though).
And you know what was on my mind all this time? Here:
What is the worst thing ever? It is thinking: "I know I could..."

So, there was the 4th May a week before. I had been studying for three days then and I wrote this Law work in the University. Well, I know that I wrote wrong answers for some questions and I didn't have enough time for a few last tasks. But that was a good experience for me to take the first serious thing and to prepare for it. I thought I would be preparing for this for 2 months (March-April) but to be honest I really worked for only 3-4 hours a day for 4 days. That is definitely not good, but it somehow worked. And then the problem popped up. I have been working hard to get prepared for this Law competition and after all this was over I did not know what to do next. I mean I knew that I had a lot of things to be done but I could not begin. Somebody told me to wait and rest for a few days. And looking back I realize I did not do anything since this time.
Ah, well, I saw an Iron Man film. It was good. I liked it the most of all Marvell movies so far because Iron Man is a man and not circumstances but he himself made everything with his hands and brains. And this is kind of inspiring.
And now I think of finding a man in real life who was kind of no-one and became a successful person. Do you know any? By the way, I feel sad because there are no comments on my posts. Tell me I am not alone =)