Finals Log, 2006

Monday
1:00-3:00
Information Systems (non-cumulative, magnitude=5) - Sad to say, this is probably my shakiest subject, simply because the class is pure fluff. I learned nothing all semester, save for a smattering of HTML and a certainty that this is NOT what I want to do with my life. The vocabulary sucks, because it's all business jargon that looks mostly the same: legacy system, decision support system, management information system, enterprise resource planning, blah, blah, blah. The test is only on the last three chapters, so I'll just read them over, and I should be good to go.

Tuesday
1:00-3:00
Philosophy of Human Nature (non-cumulative, magnitude=3) - I'll miss Father Ryan's vague, quirky verbal abuse of his students, but not the rambling lectures. Test is on the Subject, which I didn't read, but I've aced all his other tests sans reading the material, so I'm just going to go over the study questions and vocab.

Wednesday
8:00-10:00
Studies in Drama (cumulative, magnitude=7) - You can't study for an English exam. I'm only going to read over some of the plays that my memory is sketchier around. Which reminds me of that age-old question: why do they offer a BA in English, and not a BS?

10:30-12:30
Business Statistics (not cumulative!, magnitude=5) - Yeah. Gonna haveta study. Although I rock at hypothesis testing liek whoa. All of those z-scores and t-scores and normalizing the mean... Sadly, stats is finally the math sub-subject that I don't intuitively understand. So obviously it's dumb, right? No doctorate in economics for me.

Thursday
1:00-3:00
Accounting (not cumulative, magnitude=6) Not only will I study, but I'll do practice problems as well. Having struggled all semester with the question of whether it is more shameful to ace or to fail Principles of Accounting I, I have chosen the course of action which is kinder to my GPA.

Friday
2:00 AM
Board the train, sleep, arrive at home. The idea is surreal to me.