Done exams forever!
I wrote my last exam yesterday. I don't think it went particularly well, but I only needed about a 40% to pass the class, and that would be fine by me. I have spent most of the last two weeks in the library studying and hanging out, but I am still dissapointed with my performance on these exams.
The first exam was policy. I think it went ok, especially because he gave us the questions before hand. My strategy was to research and write out the enire papers so that when I got into the exam room, I would be able to write everything out clearly without having to spend too much time thinking about it.
My second exam was Macro. I had not been keeping up with the work for most of the semester so I had a lot of catching up to do. To this end, I spent about three days going through the 69 page exam review problem set given to us and a further two days on six years of past exams. Of course I was very surprised when I got into the exam room to find that nearly everything I had studied was not being tested and instead he was looking for other problems for which I had not prepared. Ultimately, the mistake was mine, but it gave me a very bad feeling.
Afterwards, I was unable to bring myself to put in the kind of effort required to get a good mark in Financial Derivatives, knowing that my overall grades this semester would not be good regardless. When the exam did come, it was more of a relief that I knew I could get more than 50% and pass the course than a dissapointment that I could not get more than 80% and get an A.
Unfortunately, I am still not done with this semester. I still have a term paper that I must do for my panel data class. So far, I have started on it, but I still must write at least another seven pages and make several tables. At least I have pretty much all of the results I need from the regressions I ran yesterday and at the beginning of the month for my presentation.
As the end of the progam nears, most of my classmates are finding jobs or PhD programs. It seems that the Toronto crew will be slightly bigger than the Ottawa one, and probably contain more of my friends aswell. Thankfully, there are some good people going to Ottawa with me and I have secured at least one roommate for next year. In this way, going to Ottawa will be much easier than coming to Queen's was because I will already have a network of friends established, and of course Ashley will be there to help me do my networking in the government.
I am going to Vancouver on Saturday, by which time I will hopefully be done my term paper. I only have ten days there and so many people to see... It will also be my first time "visiting" Vancouver since I moved there almost eight years ago. From now on, Vancouver is no longer my home, and perhaps not even my home town. I have not decided yet how I will define myself when I move to Ottawa. Will I be from Ottawa, even though I have no networks or local knowledge there? Or will I be from Vancouver, even though I really only lived there for six years? My guess is that if I stay there longer, my definition will gradually change... Let's hope it does not.
I wrote my last exam yesterday. I don't think it went particularly well, but I only needed about a 40% to pass the class, and that would be fine by me. I have spent most of the last two weeks in the library studying and hanging out, but I am still dissapointed with my performance on these exams.
The first exam was policy. I think it went ok, especially because he gave us the questions before hand. My strategy was to research and write out the enire papers so that when I got into the exam room, I would be able to write everything out clearly without having to spend too much time thinking about it.
My second exam was Macro. I had not been keeping up with the work for most of the semester so I had a lot of catching up to do. To this end, I spent about three days going through the 69 page exam review problem set given to us and a further two days on six years of past exams. Of course I was very surprised when I got into the exam room to find that nearly everything I had studied was not being tested and instead he was looking for other problems for which I had not prepared. Ultimately, the mistake was mine, but it gave me a very bad feeling.
Afterwards, I was unable to bring myself to put in the kind of effort required to get a good mark in Financial Derivatives, knowing that my overall grades this semester would not be good regardless. When the exam did come, it was more of a relief that I knew I could get more than 50% and pass the course than a dissapointment that I could not get more than 80% and get an A.
Unfortunately, I am still not done with this semester. I still have a term paper that I must do for my panel data class. So far, I have started on it, but I still must write at least another seven pages and make several tables. At least I have pretty much all of the results I need from the regressions I ran yesterday and at the beginning of the month for my presentation.
As the end of the progam nears, most of my classmates are finding jobs or PhD programs. It seems that the Toronto crew will be slightly bigger than the Ottawa one, and probably contain more of my friends aswell. Thankfully, there are some good people going to Ottawa with me and I have secured at least one roommate for next year. In this way, going to Ottawa will be much easier than coming to Queen's was because I will already have a network of friends established, and of course Ashley will be there to help me do my networking in the government.
I am going to Vancouver on Saturday, by which time I will hopefully be done my term paper. I only have ten days there and so many people to see... It will also be my first time "visiting" Vancouver since I moved there almost eight years ago. From now on, Vancouver is no longer my home, and perhaps not even my home town. I have not decided yet how I will define myself when I move to Ottawa. Will I be from Ottawa, even though I have no networks or local knowledge there? Or will I be from Vancouver, even though I really only lived there for six years? My guess is that if I stay there longer, my definition will gradually change... Let's hope it does not.
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