Whew, we just had a final exam for our Human Resources class this morning and I'm surprisingly refreshed as I look back on it. I found myself taking a different approach to this exam than I did for my other ones. For all of my other midterm/final exams, I would be all stressed out and would stay up until the early hours of the morning cramming the night before. This time around, i wasn't stressed at all and only studied my notes for about an hour and a half. I don't know if I thought the exam would be easy or if I'm just burnt out, I just didn't push myself too hard on this joint. Plus, I knew that we still had a few more class sessions and a final project left to do, so the gravity that usually comes with final exams didn't seem to be there for this one.
I guess my focus on studying wasn't helped by the fact that I didn't really feel a need to cram for this class. I'm not sure why, but this class hasn't been especially interesting to me and I can't really say that I learned any more than I already knew about HR. I was expecting to get a bunch of "A-HA!" moments as I went through it, but everything we've covered just seems like common sense stuff to me. Maybe I didn't apply myself enough in the class to get the most out of it, but I can't see what more I could have done. When i come out of school, I will probably find the lessons I got out of the class to be very useful, but, for right now, I'm just glad to be close to finishing it up.
As you probably already know, this past Sunday was Mother's Day and it was a tough one because it is the first one in all of my 27 years that I didn't spend with my mother. She and I are really close and it seemed so strange to have to talk to her over the phone instead of being able to take her out to dinner. This school year has had a couple of "first times" like this, including my first Thanksgiving away from my family. Being a grad student living on loans is no joke when your family is 3000 miles away. I'm looking forward to getting back to the east coast and spending some quality time with my fam.
Time to get back to the grind and get ready for my afternoon Ed School class...Wednesdays are supposed to be our days off, but I went off and messed myself up on that one with this daggone joint degree and the Wednesday classes that come along with it.