Ranting to /dev/null

Well that's over

I'm finished with finals. As it turns out, waiting for grades to come out is significantly more stressful for me than the actual process of studying for and taking exams.

Let me go on the record saying that I hate exams with word limits. For the two exams I took that had them, I spent about the first hour or so writing the answer, and then the next hour cutting stuff out so it'd be below the alloted limit. I was reduced to looking for adjectives I could cut out, and finding a prepositional phrase that wasn't strictly necessary was golden. This is not fun. I'd get to a certain point, check my word count, and be 400 words over, and not finished giving my answer, so it's like "Huh. I guess I'm done now." So yeah, I'm not particularly satisfied with either of those exams. Cue nailbiting while I wait for the profs to finish plowing through the 320,000 words they have to read so they can hand in the grades. That's about 1400 pages.

I'll be headed back to Pennsylvania in a few hours, once I get the place cleaned up and the fridge emptied out. If I make it in by midnight I'll be pleased.