Grad Diary 10/19/09

So......I just took my exam.

Actually, that wasn't so bad.

The exam time was 6:00pm to 9:00pm. Class this morning and last Friday was solely review sessions given by the TA's, and they were marginally useful. They were useful in that I felt I could explain the topics as well or maybe even better (or at least clearer) than they did, which made me feel I knew what I was talking about.

Anyway, as I said, they gave us three hours, but they designed it so that a "well prepared" student should only take an hour and a half.

I was done on my first run through in an hour.

I went through the exam one more time and spent some time thinking carefully about one or two questions that were a little trickier. Even then, I was sitting at an hour and ten minutes of test-taking time. I sat for maybe another five minutes trying to decide if I should wait any longer or just hand it in...I mean, I was done REALLY early, and I knew people would notice. Fortunately another student walked down and dropper off her exam at that point, so I took this as a cue to do to the same (at least I wasn't first). And yes, I'm sure some of my friends noticed.

I'm not that surprised, to be honest; I normally take tests really fast (I was definitely that guy in college), and I was already pretty familiar with the material. Still, I can't wait to get the results back just to see.

Anyway, all in all, the exam wasn't too bad (although the last question was quite strange), and now it's time to work on my presentation for Wednesday...