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Unread postby Chai26 » 11 Aug 2007, 03:44

memorization is still ok i am still in secondary and it is still fine
I don't know about the memorization stuff in college or uni tho
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Unread postby asandir » 11 Aug 2007, 07:41

Corribus wrote:
Veldrynus wrote:Blah, that's no big deal. I spend less than 2 days (around 10 hours) on the average exam, and I rarely fail it. It's no miracle, other people use this method too.
2 days? Man, that's amateur hour. I spent less than two HOURS on the average exam, and that includes the time to take the silly things. :D
that covered me too, cramming FTW!
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Unread postby Chai26 » 11 Aug 2007, 09:31

brave men of the west! LOOOL
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Unread postby Elvin » 11 Aug 2007, 09:33

All my preparation for the subjects of a semester really starts 2 weeks prior to the exams. I rarely attend more than half of them and I don't really pay attention, last year and they are about theoretical stuff that require memorizing - gimme a break.
At least there was one where out professor graded us according to our presence in the previous years and one that required intuition so I may have passed with with zero studying. Oh and one where the supervisors allowed cheating :tongue:
With all the mess around here it's a bad idea to study all subjects and much less memorize the whole books. Reading the 'sos' parts requires less effort and has good chances that you will pass but there isn't really a choice when we get books so late and have hundreds of pages to learn in short notice :disagree:
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Unread postby Chai26 » 11 Aug 2007, 09:36

wow, uni is tough , thx guys for the advance warning! might not make it pass alive! (juz joking! :D )
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Unread postby Elvin » 11 Aug 2007, 09:42

We grasp at survival :D
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Unread postby Chai26 » 11 Aug 2007, 09:46

Elvin wrote:We grasp at survival :D
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Unread postby winterfate » 11 Aug 2007, 20:42

@Elvin: Indeed!

@stefan: Cramming FTW! :applause:

I'm going to have to pay so much for my textbooks this semester...:cry:

That should learn me...
Shame on me for trying to become a microbiologist (just kidding, I love microbiology. :D)
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Unread postby Chai26 » 12 Aug 2007, 04:36

your studying microbiology winterfate?
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Unread postby Veldrynus » 12 Aug 2007, 09:16

Hm... how does one end up studying microbiology? It does not sound completely uninteresting.
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Unread postby Chai26 » 12 Aug 2007, 09:23

veldrynus, different people have different interests.
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Unread postby Veldrynus » 12 Aug 2007, 09:59

Sure, but I am curious why did he choose this one.
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Unread postby Chai26 » 12 Aug 2007, 10:04

donno, maybe a biology freak? ;|
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Unread postby ThunderTitan » 12 Aug 2007, 18:01

Veldrynus wrote:@C

That does not beat my record of 0 hours. :tongue:
Pfft... done that a few times... once i even didn't use anything except common sense (of course half the class failed that one because the teacher had atrocious grammar skills, took me 5 minutes to understand one question... which where pretty easy otherwise).

And winterflake is obviously planning to create a supervirus when he's done... so the name of flake will forever live in infamy.
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Unread postby winterfate » 12 Aug 2007, 19:30

@TT: No, not really. At least I think not...:devious:

@Chai26: Biology freak...no. ;)
I'm more of a science freak in general. :D

@Vel: Well, to answer your question....it's a pretty interesting story, to be honest:

During high school, you have to take the Puerto Rican equivalent of the American SAT exams. When you apply for the tests, you have to choose what universities to send your results to.

Since I've always been fascinated with science, the university of choice was a no-brainer.

WHAT to study was the hard part.

I started eliminating choices:

I like the theory of Chemistry, but not the practice (I don't like mixing chemicals and stuff...)
Physics is pretty cool, but...
I prefer Biology, because that's where all the organismal studies are, and I've always been fascinated with diseases, and those things that cause them (yeah, I'm weird like that :tongue:).

So, I chose Microbiology as my concentration. :)
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Unread postby asandir » 13 Aug 2007, 01:52

winter wrote:Shame on me for trying to become a microbiologist (just kidding, I love microbiology. )
Chai wrote:your studying microbiology winterfate?
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Unread postby winterfate » 13 Aug 2007, 01:59

[This post has been edited due to a misunderstanding.]

Thank you for your attention. Have a nice day. :)

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Unread postby asandir » 13 Aug 2007, 02:01

Oh dear, it gets worse! where's TT when you need him!

I was actually commenting on the seeming inanity of said remark .... barring some confusion of course
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Unread postby winterfate » 13 Aug 2007, 02:05

:rofl:

Ok, got it! :D

And yes, you did confuse me a tad there. :)
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Unread postby asandir » 13 Aug 2007, 02:26

seems I did, cause I was actually putting that confusion remark in there to cover my arse in case Chai was confused and that's why he posted that .... question :)
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