Refraction

HAPPY MAY 27th!
Yes, it is a very special day :3

Say hi to the newest (and [second] last, making me the youngest [so far]!!) member of the Old Hag Club. XP

Thank you guys for all the presents. Love the CD especially. (Like I haven’t dropped enough hints over the past two or three months xD Sorry if I was annoying.) Yes, it is cheesy (yes, I listened through the entire album), but… *kee hee hee hee hee* I haven’t started reading the book yet–well, I read the introduction. And it sounds interesting. Although I think I’ll inevitably (haha) end up thinking of TOK every time I read it. And thanks for truly making me and Sarah comrades with Woodstock (Point of order la~?)

And check out my shiny new Japanese computer course *_* No substitute for a real class, of course, but hopefully I’ll be able to regain what little comprehension I had two years ago.

Don’t feel like doing work xD

It’s over. Rather anti-climatic, actually.

Papers 1 and 2 for Chem were not bad at all. Paper 3 gave me a little more trouble–if I were smart I would have studied Biochem, since that option had the easiest questions EVER. Consider that fact that I have not had any sort of Biology lesson for two years and I could answer 75% of the questions with reasonable accuracy. But, like a good little girl, I chose to the Options that we had studied–Drugs & Medicines and Environmental Chemistry.

Although it **is** over now, and I’m so, so, so glad 😀

So yesterday we went and strolled around downtown looking at dresses and things, and finally trying some on in the department store. ^_^ That was a cross between slightly annoying (a lot of the dresses were way too big–heck, most of them were way too big) and weirdly hilarious ([“Okay, let’s trade now.”] [“Look! It’s PINK! WAY WAY WAY TOO PINK!” “And it’s also too big.” “Oh yeah.”]) So, in conclusion:

1) There are a lot of garish, tacky dresses with too many beads out there.
2) There are a lot of just plain weird dresses out there.
3) Dress shopping is a hit-or-miss experience.
4) We can walk a lot when we feel like it. xD

The French paper was all right. I could have done better, but I also could have done worse. *shrugs* It’s not a big deal to me anymore. I’m so sick of these exams I don’t even have the energy to complain about them or exclaim over how difficult they are anymore. I mean…. your grade depends on the questions. Really. If you get a question you like, then props to you. If you don’t, then it’s just too bad and you’ll have to make due with the ones you do have.

I hated the essay I ended up choosing, though. “The government recently announced that the budget of scientific research will be lowered. Write a letter to your favourite newspaper expressing your opinion on the matter.” So naturally I ran into all sorts of vocabulary problems. Boo to you, IB French examiners! Boo to you!

Paper 1 was all right. I picked the question about Stalin’s purges. I didn’t get some of the lead-up questions but I owned the essay question. >D That’s right, essay question! I pwnz j00! Mwa ha ha ha.

The best question ever was on Paper 2. Basically, I wrote on Stalin’s rise to power and some other question about the causes of WWI and WWII. Looking back, I think I could have written a stronger paper if I’d **refuted** their assumption… but I didn’t really think about it.

Now tomorrow I have Paper 3 and I am going to die. KEEEEEE.

I really, really, really, really hope that my printer makes it. I didn’t type up all those outlines about Castro, Stalin, Hitler, and goodness knows what else just to have a faulty printer >.>;;

Please survive. Please, please, please survive. I’m even trying to save ink my printing two pages on one sheet of paper! And by setting my printer to draft mode! Sure, the font looks like size 6 and is quite uh… pixelated, but I’ve got glasses for a reason >D

I am so dead for our history paper. Unless we get Stalin’s rise to power. C’mon Stalin’s rise to power!

Less than 24 hours until the H(istory)-bomb is dropped. *sigh*

These things will be the end of me:

1) Checking around IB forums to see what other people thought of exams.
2) Finding out the one question I thought I did right on Physics Paper 2 was horribly, horribly wrong.
3) Because I forgot to convert units.
4) And/or mixed up negative signs.
5) And/or fell into my exam-induced habit of not being able to write “in” or “is” properly.
6) Not studying for History.
7) Not re-reading the novels for English.
8) Not listening to people who tell me to study.

For those that don’t know, I’m writing exams for the next few weeks. ~_~ As you may appreciate, no, this is not fun in the least =_=

So if I don’t update, ever, that’s my excuse.

Current exam status: 15/15 complete.

YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

That’s a lie. Anyway.

I spent yesterday studying relativity and physics in general. The more pratice IB exams I write, the more concerned I become that the multiple choice is based off random trivia. I don’t feel it’s particulary important for me to know the size of an atom as compared to its nucleus. Some you can figure out (thermionic emission, for example) but others are just completely random. It’s not fun. Looked at a practice Paper 1 for English. I didn’t write the commentary, but I did jot down an outline. I compared my main points to the ones on the markscheme: check, check, and check. I think tonight I’ll work on a few history outlines… after studying Latin American independence.

“On your current playlist, hit shuffle and pick the first twenty songs on the list (no matter how cheesy or embarrassing), and write down your favourite line of the song. Try to avoid putting the song title in the line. Then, have your friends comment and see if they know the songs.”

Stolen from {{link http://livejournal.com/users/kajouka Kajouka}}.

Bleh, I will try and keep it to English songs. And songs that I can name lines from off the top of my head, since I’m too lazy to look them up. And songs that actually have words, I guess.
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*sigh*

I’m still wasting my time. Although now I’m having fun! Look what I found! {{link http://tenser.typepad.com/tenser_said_the_tensor/ Tenser, said the Tensor}}, is a linguist’s blog. So I’ve been reading all the entries back to when it was started (I told you I was wasting time.) It’s quite interesting, actually; besides, I have reason to believe the author is interested in anime/manga.

Anyway, the really interesting link that came off that blog was the one to the {{link http://hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/dialect/index.html Harvard Dialect Survey}}. It’s amazing to consider what people actually say. (Sadly, the researchers did not include “forte” or “scone” in their questions. *sigh*) One of the things I’ve always heard is that the use of the word “pop” to describe sweet carbonated drinks is more common in Canada than the States, and that “soda” is more popular in the USA. {{link http://hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/dialect/staticmaps/q_105.html One of the questions}} dealt with just that. Unfortunately, the survey was limited to the continental United States. Still… The map shows some interesting trends in regards to that.

Anyway, Bobby should take a look at question 92, if nothing else.

Studying. Studying. Listening to music while studying. Doing some French grammar exercises. Doing practice exams. Studying.

I’m starting to seriously worry about my exams. At this rate, I won’t have studied history at all, and that’s the subject I need to study the most for! I can forget Chem and French for the next little while since they’re later…. but I really need to focus on Physics, Math, and History (my three “panic” exams.)

And the university library is actually quite a good place to study. Except they don’t let you have food in there, meaning that you can’t stay there for too long. And it’s nice that they designate the floor “NO TALKING” and that they even have a “Very Silent Study” room. xD

And because I haven’t procrastinated enough…. SURVEY!
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