Yesterday was the BS803 exam, and my second last paper of my university education. Exams started on Tuesday with Japanese (which was fun), followed by Modern Art on Wednesday (which was even more fun), and yesterday’s horror (not that much fun).
For one, I’m not entirely sure how the marking is supposed to go when each MCQ has more than one answer. How do you mark something like that? Not to mention, as YY had calculated with a disturbing number of figures, the odds of getting a question completely right would fizzle down to 0.008%.
I found the paper pretty tough, though not as horrific a mind-**** as GAMSAT or MCAT (which is guaranteed to totally screw you over). But I attributed it mostly to poor preparation (preparation having been simmered down to a mere 6 hours before the paper since the day before went to the creation of lovely poster material (which, btw, we were only given notice for a few days before)). I found myself spending 50% of my one hour in the exam hall pondering this paradox:
Which of the following statements is/are FALSE?
a. sth sth sth
b. sth sth else
c. sth else else
d. none of the above
Can hardly believe I’m pondering this, but if I were to select any of options A-C, wouldn’t that make D false as well? So do I shade D along with A? If I don’t shade D, would I be graded as having gotten the question wrong? And if I pick D, would it mean that ALL of the above are false (because it is false that none of the above are false)?
I’m so confused. And over just the wording of the bloody paper.
Some questions required some awesome shading skills and required shading of all the blanks.
=.=
Didn’t like the paper much.
I liked the view I got for Jap and Modern Art though. For the first time in 4 years, I got to take papers in the exhibition hall of Nanyang Auditorium, which was on the third floor. And being from ADM and 4th year, we got seats next to the window. Here’s a shot of the view before I turned off my phone.
Not bad, considering I had spent the last 3 years in the SRC’s near windowless gymnasiums…
Speaking of Modern Art, we were finally given our essays back after the exam on Wednesday. I did… Slightly better than I had hoped (I felt like I had sidetracked to Zimbabwe somewhere along the line while talking about Surrealist Manifestos) and have semi-optimistic hopes I might get a B+ for Modern Art. Hopefully. Though I’m not sure if a B+ will be enough to get me one foot into med school.
So now with the exams nearly over (and one more horror paper on Monday), I can concentrate on my FYP. I finished the last of the renders on Wedneday and spliced them together on AfterEffects last night to find…
- One scene had rendered the wrong camera and could only see a fraction of the character wiggling in the corner of the frame
- Some shots are way too dark
- The animation is way too fast. But slowing it down would mean I have to inform Mark my animation will be longer, or just make my credits zip past like WHOOSH
=\ Not many choices there… Now re-rendering scene 1 shot 3 would leave editing out of the question, at least till tonight. Where can I get sound? I’ll need to go down to school to get it done. But I barely have enough time to revise for my exam on Monday. And the 10second trailer is due on monday.
GAH.
Here’s a picture of the poster I magicked up in half an hour!
Hahahahahaha I love the credits.
Feeling a tad tired of my FYP. I just want to get it over and done with, then go relax somewhere without wondering if my render is done, or if the vertices are going nuts, or if the curves have been worked out, or if the image has been anti-aliased (which I am ashamed to say, I have no idea what that means). I just want to graduate decently enough to get into med school.
I have plenty of other thoughts whizzing about my head. The recent discourse about bond-breaking (the scholarship kind, not the molecular kind), my 2 cents worth about that 3rd year NUS SoM student who wrote in about the unfairness of subsiding overseas med students (which I have plenty to say about, but many online have already voiced my views), the seemingly hostile takeover of AWARE (one of the proponents of homosexual rights in Singapore) by a group of people with unknown agenda (though one of them is renown for being anti-homosexual), not to mention the entire fiasco about FYP deadlines jumping like mexican jumping beans, BS803 (the way the questions were written was a load of bs, thinking about it)…
LOTS AND LOTS OF OPINIONS.
Shall complain to my mom.
11 more days…
HOLIDAYS. GET YOUR ASS HERE NOW.
