Finals Parts 2 and 3

Sometimes finals are too hard to stay up and post in my blog.

Part 2

I honestly don't really remember what happened on Tuesday, but I'll try to remember it as best as I can.

I thought I'd set my alarm the night before for 9:30. I didn't. Turns out I set my alarm for 8:30 instead. If anyone knows me really well, they know I do NOT do mornings. 

Yeah, hate them.

It ended up being a blessing in disguise because I had plenty of time to do everything I needed to before I went to my test at 11. So, I went and had breakfast, swung by the bookstore and bought a "Bluebook" for my test, and signed up for my Humanities test on Thursday. Still had a half an hour to sit in the theater waiting to take my Film Final.

For my Film Final, we had to watch a movie they didn't tell us anything about in advance, then write a paper analyzing everything about it in relation to a theme we needed to find.  The film was called "Christmas in July"  and it was really good! It's only about 66 minutes long but it's pretty funny and very entertaining! If you've never seen it, I'd highly recommend it.  I bet it's even better if you don't have to worry about writing about it the whole time.

I decided a theme to the movie is that "Money changes everything" as the actors' personalities and opinions of the main character, Jimmy, change when he thinks he's won the $25,000 grand prize in a contest, and then change again when they find out he actually hasn't.  I managed to find 8 pages worth of material to write about, and after two hours, I walked out of the Varsity theater with a really confident feeling about my paper, and a really sore, cramped writing hand.  I treated myself to a little lunch and spent most of the rest of the day studying for more tests.  2 tests down, 3 to go.

Part 3

Wednesday heralded in the 3 hard tests remaining on my schedule this week: Astronomy, Humanities, and American Heritage. BYU has a "What if" Calculator on their online grade book. You can calculate your scores on remaining assignments and tests and will tell you what your final grade will be.  I use it to tell me how hard I need to try on the assignments.  I decided to tackle my Astronomy test today and spent most of the day working on that in the library with Mackenzie and Ethan.  We like to find empty study rooms that you're technically supposed to reserve, so we get kicked out all the time. I just act like we just lost track of time, then we go find another room.

I had never done better than 72 on an Astronomy test, and this final really didn't have a detrimental effect on my grade. I figured to keep my C-, I needed a 65% on the test, and that was exactly what I was shooting for.  I took the test and guess what? 65%!

So I finish Astronomy with a C-, which is pretty good considering I was expecting to fail.

While I was taking the test, a girl taking a physics test was sitting next to me. I casually noticed one of her questions had a few vocab words my test had. Then I noticed that a lot of her questions had terms my test had. That's when it hit me...

Physics 127

Physics 127

Physics 127

Physics 127

PHYSICS 127

Physics 127 is Astronomy.

Astronomy is a Physics class.

I've never taken physics in my life.

My epiphany is that my teacher was constantly talking about physics terms as if we all knew what they meant in advance...as if we had all taken PHYSICS.

I bet taking that class would have helped immensely.  But no matter, I passed the class with a C-. And you know what they say...

(By the way, when I searched "C's get degrees" this showed up in the image search. Coincidence? You decide...)

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