First Exam... lol

Ok... I had my first exam... well can you really call it an exam?

Firstly it was a Multiple Choice exam... That didn't really calm me down, I mean, the MC-exams can be awfully difficult. Ok, it helps if you know that there is only 1 correct answer and NO negative marking... Already a lot more humane than ETH. So I prepared, read the book, read the slides and so on... Was quite a lot of material.

Then I sit at the exam, 45 questions and it's a joke... Like really unbelievable. Not saying I did well... I probably didn't do too good.

If you have questions like what do the letters in DMAIC stand for... YEAH, right... I can tell you that DMAIC is a method of continuous improvement and it is used as a cycle... so once you are through all the stages, you start again... First you figure out what you want to do, then you measure if this is needed, you evaluate if the desired result will be produced, you make the design even better and then you check it again...
BUT I don't know it the C stands fo Check or Control... it's like the same thing and COMPLETELY doesn't matter! So yeah... I find that a bit stupid really.

And you know... it continues like that. Definition after definition and you are supposed to pick the right thing... It's not about logic or understanding, simply about learning stupid definitions by heart.. and I didn't do that :(.

Well, at least there were some math questions in the exam and I got to use some of my brain cells and some of the stuff I actually understood... And I even managed to solve the stuff without the calculator we could have apparently brought with us, but it didn't say so anywhere...

BUT, I know that not all exams at TCD are like this... I assume this exam is the exception. I have seen exams by the other Business prof, the German Mr. Fellenz. He does MC questions as well, but they are REALLY difficult and you need to actually use your brain and have understood the concepts... Also I saw old exams of the Computer Science people and they are much much harder still.

Otherwise this week has been like the weather... sometimes crappy, sometimes awful, at times a little lighter, but usually just gloomy. Not a lot of fun having the flu and yeah, I'll leave the rest for now...

I'm in serious need of my portion of tv-series... I'll start with Grey's Anatomy, continue with Private Practice and finish with Vampires Diary... Maybe that'll make everything a bit brighter :-).

But don't worry, the flu is going away... so is my voice ;-) and the other issues, yeah, they'll get better over time. I still like it here, not the weather, but everything else and it's only like 4 more weeks until I get visitors, so yay :-).