Thursday, April 24, 2014

What's up with these finals?

Recently I found out that I happen to have three finals all on the same day and no other finals through out the week. I'd like to get them all done in one day but that would be a lot of studying for all different courses. I might consider changing one to another day but right now I can't make up my mind. I just wish if we had an A in the class and were happy with our grade that we wouldn't even have to take finals.
Last semester I had an A in Calculus (screw calculus) then when I went to take the final, my professor pulled random questions out of his nowhere and I got a C on the final, bringing my whole grade down to a B in the class. Talk about messed up. If I understood the material at some point through out the semester when it was taught then that proves I understood it. Don't try testing my memory. We have computers these days to do all of that. I got the basics of calculus down that's all that matters.
Anyway, I think the finals should be spread out a lot more over a course of like two weeks. Especially the comprehensive ones. A lot of my teachers this semester aren't forcing the class to take a comprehensive because of all the snow days we had earlier in the year, instead we are just taking chapter tests and what not. Which is kind of easier compared to the amount of information we have to cram in before the test. Thank goodness we don't have a English "final."
At this time, being so close to summer, I really don't like school. All I want to do is go out and hang out with my friends instead of studying for a test or doing homework. Which sucks because then I get behind in all of my school work and I start stressing out because I have so many things do all at the end of the semester. It's a stressful week right before summer because of all of the school work that is due. Then when I am finally done with all of my classes, I walk out of the building feeling like I don't have to stress anymore, but then also I feel like I have to be doing something when I really don't. Know what I mean? Lets just get rid of finals all together, make everyone happy. The students so they don't have to stress, the professors so they don't have to grade, or even come to class, and the restaurants because all the students get so stressed they just go and eat their misery away.
I mean to me it sounds like a great idea, I know it will never happen but it's always something to think about.
I wonder if I should change one of my finals to a different day, or just tough it out for that one day of miserable finals..?

3 comments:

  1. I definitely have a problem with the finals schedule too, but I would way rather have yours. I have a final every day of the week and I just wanna get them done and over with in one or two days. And totally agree.. Screw Calculus.

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  2. I totally agree! My mind is like just shut down completely. I'm so over school and everything that goes with it. I have a couple professors that want a chapter test then the final the next class. Like what?! So ridiculous...

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  3. I'm also in shut down mode. I hate the fact that as students we have to do that sprint to the finish line, when all I want to do is slowly walk and then collapse at the end.

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