Tuesday, April 26, 2005
zookeeping.
i want to be a zookeeper or an animal trainer or something to that effect.animal psychology is really quite fascinating if you ask me, and trust me, animals aren't that stupid and manipulative as you think they are. :)
that was just a side-track, something to take my mind off the biostats paper i sat for this morning. felt absolutely cheated during the exam. 2 hours to complete 9 questions sounds okay, but seriously, it's not. it's not okay when each question has more than one part, and each part is worth 8 marks which has to be painstakingly and tediously earned by carrying out statistical tests that simply amount to merely one conclusion at the end of the test : significant evidence for rejecting/accepting the null hypothesis. geesh.
well, another reason why i felt cheated was not because the exam was difficult and if i might add, too challenging for non-stats major, but it was that the questions were totally unexpected and nothing like those that i'd been staring at for the past half a year during lectures and tutorials and tests alike. in short, i felt as though i was being thrown off a cliff, caught horrendously off-guarded by the lecturer, and i used to like him quite abit, not merely because he speaks better and clearer english than previous stats lecturer, but also because of his (sometimes cold) sense of humour. humps.
and now, my mind's filled with so many what ifs. what if i should get a dreadful C for this module and my whole CAP's gonna be pulled down because of this ONE paper. SO unfair.
UNFAIR UNFAIR UNFAIR! ! !
yeah, the woes of a typical undergraduate student.
anyhow, three papers down.. ONE left! hahaahahah. guess that shall be my sole consolation for now.
sarah at 1:45 pm