foolfillment: the blog

Way back when I was sitting my Standard Grades I made a compilation tape of some of the stuff I was listening to then to help me through revision (hah, sounds so pathetic now!) and I called it Revision and Blues, a fairly obvious play on words that I spent a lot of time thinking up/wasting time over. The next year I did the same for my Highers and called it, a little less imaginatively, Revision and Blues 2. I was on a roll then and had to make another by the time I was sitting my exams in 6th year. They always helped because I chose the songs carefully to be able to revise to, ones I knew really well so that if I found myself singing along I already knew the words so it didn’t distract me, songs that were soft anc calming. I always had good results with those tapes and this year is the first year that I haven’t made one up. Read into that what you want but I’m holding this story in reserve for if I stuff up miserably in this round of misery.

So far I’ve sat Electronics which wasn’t so bad but is bound to be riddled with mistakes because that’s the way it goes when you’re writing out Karnaugh Maps and row after for of 0’s and 1’s under pressure.
Today I had Introductory Programming (read: C for people who don’t need to know it by people who can’t teach it) I can’t tell how it went because I don’t really know enough and that is entirely the fault of the guy who ran the course. It’s been taught by a different person every year it’s run presumably because the class always fails and the departmant is just trying to find the least bad lecturer. It always frustrates me that the stuff that has to be explained over and over, in (several) clear way is the stuff that is understood by stereotypically the people least suited to teaching and this course was no different.


And so I have Maths and Physics on Friday. I have the biggest topics in physics mostly covered (pretty good on kinematics, alright on electrostatics and good at most of magnetism) and I’ll have a look at thermals and oscillations tomorrow. Maths should hopefully be straightforward but I’m always liable to making mistakes and forgetting how to really easy stuff. We’ll see, I’m just looking forward to the time I can be myself again and read some of those books that have been littering my shelf for the last three terms.

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