Jayeless

I just got a text message 15 minutes ago to tell me my grades in all my subjects, and they are:

LOL @ my major subject being my worst. However, I am actually astounded that I somehow scraped a High Distinction in this subject (seriously how???) seeing as all of the following is true:

• I didn’t remember when an essay was due so I handed it in a day late — bye-bye 1.5% of my total mark.
• I was too sick to go to class on a day we had a quiz — bye-bye 2%.
• I was too sick to actually study for my exam, so…
  • …my explanatory paragraphs about the five key events I had to choose were woefully vague. Especially the one about the 1973 oil crisis. SHOULD HAVE DONE THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE WHY DID I NOT
  • …my “1,200-word essay” was 600 words long. That is an optimistic count.

If I had not failed at life in all the ways I did in that subject (and did not do in a single other one… sort of¹), it would have been my best, man! Maybe I’m not doing an inappropriate major, after all.

Things I have learned from this semester: Organisation pays. Procrastination does not pay, except on essays worth 40% of your history mark, in which case it pays like the US government pays big banks. Also, if you’re always thinking, “Why do today what you can do tomorrow?” there will inevitably come times when you actually come down with a sudden, violent illness tomorrow and can’t do it after all. Take my word for it.

Semester 2 starts on Monday, and Monash in its infinite wisdom allocated me to an 8am Spanish lecture which, basically, is not happening. I even told Allocate+ that Tuesday 2pm was my first preference, but nooooooo, it thinks that I can’t attend two lectures at the same time for some reason. ;_; stfu, Allocate+! You suck!

I have also not been allocated to any international studies lecture at all, because Monash in its infinite wisdom decided to have only one lecture this semester, and the lecture theatre doesn’t have as many seats as there are students. The computer system automatically ensures that no lecture is over-allocated… and I missed out.

The lecturer did insist on arranging a second lecture, for Monday 3pm, but that’s no good when my tutorial is at 2pm! And I can’t allocate into the noon lecture because Allocate+ thinks it’s “full”… so I’m just going to go anyway. Just like I’m just going to go anyway to the 2pm Spanish lecture.

Aside from that utter stupidity my timetable’s pretty good, though. I have one tutorial each day, unlike last semester where I had three on Thursday and it was EXHAUSTING, I’ll be able to sleep in to some extent on Wednesdays, I won’t have to skip Spanish culture each week like I did last semester because it’s at 2pm, not 5pm²… should be good.

1. OK no, I have to admit: I lost 2% in history for not doing some “web exercise” and being too sick to go to the class in which it had to be handed in anyway. I also may have lost some marks for being too sick to do a tarea for Spanish, and ultimately ending up handing it in epically late via email. I also lost 1% in Spanish for forgetting that I had to do a quiz online before the quiz closed. Oh, and I didn’t really study for any of my exams… maybe a little for Spanish, but nothing else.
2. Although given how well I did on the culture exam without attending the class once — 76%! — I don’t think it’s exactly critical that I do attend.