I have successfully put behind me my first two-part final: molecular physics. And luckily it was a success story :D. The most interesting little thing that happened was that the three things the bugged me the most before the test, I ended up getting. In hindsight it was totally worth staying up ‘til 6 am, to have one of the other examinees explain all the laboratory questions to me. And it was also totally worth it getting up at 10am to write up the answers to the Joule-Thompson question and the thermodynamic potential question. Thus armed with the answers to a good 75% of the total 64 possible questions strapped to my leg I went out. Once there I met my lab lady from the first semester, and she let me pick a second questions sheet after I picked one that I absolutely did not know (I knew neither of the two questions, which is pretty much a fail right there.) the second sheet was a lucky one :) the only thing I couldn’t do was solve this one little problem about how many molecules in a gas with concentration n would collide before they travelled the mean free path. But my seminar teacher (who is pretty much one of the oldest and most important people in the physics department) yelled to the guy questioning me, when in doubt, judge in favor of the accused. Thus I got a 4 thanks to the
cheat sheet strapped to my right leg :)
Now I have to prepare for my next final :Written math analysis, which will suck. You see for written physics, you may use whatever material you might deem useful aside from live brains other than your own (although that rule gets regularly broken as well), for the written math exam you may use nothing but your own brain(and that also gets regularly broken. I swear there are at most 10 people across all departments who will not be using cheat sheets on the exams.) so yeah. 2 down 4 to go :) Wish me luck!
Exam schedule:
- May 28 – molecular physics written
- Jun 02 – molecular physics oral
- Jun 07 – mathematical analysis written
- Jun 14 – mathematical analysis oral
- Jun 18 – analytic geometry and linear algebra
- Jun 23 – organic chemistry
