After a week of a couple of highs and many, many lows, I'm happy to say that winterr quarter finals are finally over. I just got back from taking my last exam for my Finance class and I feel like I'm ready to pass out. I was terrified going into this last exam because I didn't feel like I'd developed the intuition that I'd need to answer the questions on the exam. I'd struggled on the midterm and, since the final counts for 50% of our final grade, I thought that I was in serious danger of failing. Fortunately, I had one of the best study sessions with a couple of classmates (shout out to Kumi and James) and went through all of the sample finals as a way to figure out how to use the formulas we'd done in class. When I looked at the test, instead of feeling scared, I was actually totally relaxed. By the time the test finished, I couldn't say that the test was easy (it was actually pretty daggone hard), but I feel like I did well enough to get a passing grade. I won't know for sure until a week or so from now when i get my final grade, but I think it's safe to say that I will be here next quarter and won't be on any sort of academic probation :-)
The other two exams I had since I wrote were Marketing and Operations. The Marketing exam came first on Tuesday morning and I didnt think that one was too bad. I found it relatively straight forward and I felt like I knew the material, but the test was SO LONG!!! I was able to finish the entire thing, but I am pretty sure that my answers decreased in quality as the test progressed because I was rushing through it to make sure I finished. The Operations exam came yesterday and that joint was a BEAST!!! That exam had to be the hardest one that I've had since I got here and I left it seriously wondering if I'd passed it or not. The only solace that I had was that it only accounts for 25% of our final grade so a bad final exam score won't totally do me in.
Most of my classmates are hanging outside of Schwab celebrating, but I'm too tired to go out there with them right now. Plus, I've got to start packing for Spring Break too...thank goodness I survived these finals.
Posted by marquis930 at March 17, 2005 08:47 PM