Man, I am running on fumes. Despite my exhaustion, I have made some wise choices over the last 48 hours. To wit:
1) I did my math problem set first yesterday afternoon, getting it out of the way.
2) I started my paper two days ago, so I'm not completely fucked tonight.
3) I started my CS124 problem set on Monday. Given that I never actually completed it despite working until 3:15 am this morning (yes, it was that long and ridiculous), I'd say that was one of my smarter moves this semester.
4) I blew off math this morning (again. *sigh*). I wouldn't normally pat myself on the back for that, even though I was brazen about it (as in, walked in, put my homework down on the homework pile, smiled at Eamon the TF, walked back out), but I went straight to Cabot Library to review half a semester's worth of data structures and algorithms. And damn, I'm glad I did, because you can tell that some of those questions were designed to check if we studied/remembered some (in my opinion, anyway) relatively obscure stuff. Like, was anyone actually listening when he was going on about disjoint sets? I sure wasn't. But I looked over the notes anyway. I'm mad at myself, though, because approximately 3.7 minutes after I walked out of that test, I realized that I had made a fairly stupid mistake on at least a third of the multiple choice. I wanted to run back in, being like "MITZENMACHER I GET IT I'M SORRY IT WAS A STUPID MISTAKE..." but he probably would have laughed sardonically at my unhappiness and disappeared in a thick cloud of smoke. Damn Bond villain.
5) I made good choices on my test today. I could have gotten off to a faster start, but I think, given that the test was never ever going to be finished in the amount of time they gave us, I picked the correct ones to answer. Like, I could have slaved over the "use coin flips to generate random numbers" crap (the one thing I looked over while studying and decided I was never ever going to be good at so I should just say "fuck it," and I did), but I didn't bother and spent time on stuff actually worth points. I'm proud of myself. I'm one of those people who usually slaves to answer all the questions in order, which is stupid.
Anyway, I don't think I completely bombed the test, and I think I did moderately well on the set (listening to other people, who didn't even write code for the last problem, made me feel a lot better about it. I mean, at least I wrote code, it just didn't work...and I wrote that at the top of the copy I handed in, too. Like "this doesn't work, but I thought you might like to see it..."). Not saying I did fantastically, but it could have been a lot worse.
It could have been like my math midterm, for instance. *sigh*
Anyway, not done yet. Another midterm in three hours, paper due in just under 24, and I still haven't packed for France yet. Cannot wait for vacation...
Then I'll have something more interesting to talk about than my schoolwork. Maybe.