{"id":236,"date":"2016-05-31T18:20:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T18:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/dora15\/?p=236"},"modified":"2016-05-31T18:20:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T18:20:41","slug":"less-than-one-week-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/2016\/05\/31\/less-than-one-week-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Less than one week left&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s doable, right?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see a quick update on exams:<\/p>\n<p>1. Mastery. They said they will email us if we failed by the end of today. And they will not email us if we passed. It&#8217;s currently 19:03 and I haven&#8217;t got any email yet. Yet. Yet. Yet.<\/p>\n<p>2. Properties of Matter. I actually studied quite a lot for this one, I did all the past papers and stuff. And I always had the exact same mistake in them. And of course there was a question on this topic in the exam. And of course I keep thinking about if I wrote the correct answer or not. (I crossed it out 3 times). Ahhh&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>3. Fluid Mechanics + Heat &amp; Mass Transfer. This is a combined 50-50 exam. Thank God. Fluid saved the day, I think I did ok on that one. HMT? Probably close to zero&#8230; (I don&#8217;t think the lecturer will appreciate that whenever I couldn&#8217;t solve an equation I just wrote a small essay about how would I continue the problem &#8220;but since I couldn&#8217;t derive this equation, I can&#8217;t give the actual numerical answers&#8221;. But at least my paper wasn&#8217;t empty. That&#8217;s something&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>4. Maths. It was actually easier than I expected, so I probably passed. But that feeling, when you are super nervous, and exam, and 3 hours, and 20% of the year, and then there is an equation like this: 5y = 6 + 10 (x-8) and you are like &#8220;What is x? What is x????? WHAT IS X????&#8221; And then &#8220;ohh whatever, let&#8217;s do it step by step&#8230;&#8221; Ahh well, good old exam conditions, when you use the calculator even for 1+1&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>5. Chemistry. Let&#8217;s just say, I failed this one. I don&#8217;t want to go into details, I failed it. Resits in September, plenty of time in the summer to memorise that stupid differential method&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>6. Separation Processes. This worths the least out of all the exams, this is only 1.5hrs, sounds easy, right? Well, I did 3 past papers. And they were &#8220;doable&#8221;. Then I opened the exam paper today, and looked at the question, and my first thought was &#8220;WHERE ARE THE NUMBERS???&#8221; Separations is usually about using process specifications to calculate other variables based on given equations. And drawing some fancy McCabe-Thiele diagrams. But not this time, noooo&#8230; This year, it was &#8220;Derive this&#8221; and &#8220;Derive that&#8221; and &#8220;Show that if you derive this out of that derivation, then you can also derive this, and combining all, the final derivation will only d(e)rive you a little bit crazy&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, only Thermo (in 2 days) and Process (in 6 days) are left now.<\/p>\n<p>You can do it, Dora.<\/p>\n<p>You can do it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Ahh yes, you could ask how I have time to blog&#8230; Well, it&#8217;s called &#8220;procrastination&#8221; \ud83d\ude00 )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s doable, right? Let&#8217;s see a quick update on exams: 1. Mastery. They said they will email us if we failed by the end of today. And they will not email us if we passed. It&#8217;s currently 19:03 and I haven&#8217;t got any email yet. Yet. Yet. Yet. 2. Properties of Matter. 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