Three exams, two days
Trust me it sounds a little crazy, and after all three exams were over I was done. I wanted to collapse, take a nap, and give my head a break. After my first exam my head felt like it was going to explode, you could only imagine how I felt after all three of them.
It's not like they were all somewhat related in subject matter that might have made them a little easier. No, this was like taking an exam in math, then in foreign language, and then in geography, they all have little to nothing to do with each other so my head was on over load.
I was stressing and my head was going into over drive. I had Physical Chemistry which was a bunch of math: derivations, calculations, and concepts based on equations of states, then there was essay format for CJ 4850 and it's not that I hate essays, but when they are timed and in a four part question your head needs to move fast to get all of the information out, and answer everything. My last one was somewhat of a relief, the two I just mentioned may have given me a huge head ache, and even with an hour and fifteen minutes for each I couldn't finish them. Criminalistics seemed like a breeze, I was whipping through the exam, jumping from question to question and had time to go back and answer the ones I missed. It's the class I enjoy the most, so maybe the material stuck in my head a little easier. Since it was the last one, it was a nice change of pace so that I didn't collapse after walking out of the exam.
As I was walking to my first exam I ran into my RA, sadly I can't remember exactly what she said but it went something to the likes of "Don't panic, you'll do fine, there isn't anything you don't know, that you'll be able to learn before the test." It was great advice, let me take a breath and understand that it was going to be okay. For a brief moment I wasn't stressing out, I was just having a normal conversation with my RA.
It's not like they were all somewhat related in subject matter that might have made them a little easier. No, this was like taking an exam in math, then in foreign language, and then in geography, they all have little to nothing to do with each other so my head was on over load.
I was stressing and my head was going into over drive. I had Physical Chemistry which was a bunch of math: derivations, calculations, and concepts based on equations of states, then there was essay format for CJ 4850 and it's not that I hate essays, but when they are timed and in a four part question your head needs to move fast to get all of the information out, and answer everything. My last one was somewhat of a relief, the two I just mentioned may have given me a huge head ache, and even with an hour and fifteen minutes for each I couldn't finish them. Criminalistics seemed like a breeze, I was whipping through the exam, jumping from question to question and had time to go back and answer the ones I missed. It's the class I enjoy the most, so maybe the material stuck in my head a little easier. Since it was the last one, it was a nice change of pace so that I didn't collapse after walking out of the exam.
As I was walking to my first exam I ran into my RA, sadly I can't remember exactly what she said but it went something to the likes of "Don't panic, you'll do fine, there isn't anything you don't know, that you'll be able to learn before the test." It was great advice, let me take a breath and understand that it was going to be okay. For a brief moment I wasn't stressing out, I was just having a normal conversation with my RA.
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