last day of classes!
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kodalaiI emerge triumphant!
Had three presentations today. The first was this morning in Japanese, where I was supposed to give an oral test. She would pick a passage out of our reading and have us read it aloud. I stayed up until late last night learning the kanji, but fortunately we each had individual exam times and mine wasn't until 10:40. I still ended up going to the wrong building and would have been late if not for the fact that she was behind schedule. ^^ I think I did very well on the reading part. Unfortunately I'd completely forgotten that the second half of the test was on conversational expressions, which I had not studied for at all. Oops.
Then went to Oldenborg, which was enormously fun, mainly since the teacher wasn't there so we felt no particular reason to speak Japanese. Eliza and Chen exchanged Christmas gifts, which was a treat for everyone.
ELIZA WRAPPED CHEN'S GIFT TO LOOK LIKE ED.
I kid you not. It was a black envelope, with white stripes like his shirt, and red tissue paper on the sides. She even made a little yellow braid out of origami. It was terribly cute. Chen didn't want to open her gift for fear of killing Ed. XD; Chen's gift to Eliza was HP 5, which then sparked of a discussion of Harry Potter and fandoms. I didn't know much about the subject, but I was able to use, with a straight face, the phrase "I prefer Hermione/Crookshanks myself."
Second presentation was in Psychology. For one-third of our grade we were given a case study which we had to analyze and diagnose and present in 5 minutes. We did it in groups and I think our group did very well, better than the groups that went before us. We had good organization, covered all our bases, and didn't all talk at once, or repeat ourselves, or talk nonsense. We also volunteered some information (specifically, GAF and prevelance) that previous groups hadn't remembered about. Only two minor mistakes: when listing the symptoms not present that led us to dismiss various other diagnoses, I forgot to include "reports no oddities of thought" to disqualify schizotypal personality disorder. But the teacher asked after that later and I was able to answer correctly. She also asked us what was our Axis I diagnosis, which flustered us, since the guy had schizoid personality disorder and PDs are listed on Axis II. (The correct answer was "deferred," but none of us thought of that. >_>;)
Last presentation was for our Engineering project. That was a looong class, but it stayed fairly interesting; engineers are good about keeping things moving to schedule it seems. I didn't forget anything or fall on my face, although I did say "uh" a lot and when taking questions, interrupted someone before he'd finished. >_>; Hope that won't count against me.
Now all I have left to do is:
1. Attend Kanji class tonight (in 1 hr)
2. Copy the contents of Megan's notebook into mine
3. Complete peer evaluations
4. Turn in both notebooks and peer evaluations to HMC before 5 on Friday
5. Write 10-page paper
6. Study for and sit Japanese exam Tuesday
7. Make Super Shuttle arrangements
8. Attend party on Saturday at teacher's house
9. Pack and get room ready for checkout
Had three presentations today. The first was this morning in Japanese, where I was supposed to give an oral test. She would pick a passage out of our reading and have us read it aloud. I stayed up until late last night learning the kanji, but fortunately we each had individual exam times and mine wasn't until 10:40. I still ended up going to the wrong building and would have been late if not for the fact that she was behind schedule. ^^ I think I did very well on the reading part. Unfortunately I'd completely forgotten that the second half of the test was on conversational expressions, which I had not studied for at all. Oops.
Then went to Oldenborg, which was enormously fun, mainly since the teacher wasn't there so we felt no particular reason to speak Japanese. Eliza and Chen exchanged Christmas gifts, which was a treat for everyone.
ELIZA WRAPPED CHEN'S GIFT TO LOOK LIKE ED.
I kid you not. It was a black envelope, with white stripes like his shirt, and red tissue paper on the sides. She even made a little yellow braid out of origami. It was terribly cute. Chen didn't want to open her gift for fear of killing Ed. XD; Chen's gift to Eliza was HP 5, which then sparked of a discussion of Harry Potter and fandoms. I didn't know much about the subject, but I was able to use, with a straight face, the phrase "I prefer Hermione/Crookshanks myself."
Second presentation was in Psychology. For one-third of our grade we were given a case study which we had to analyze and diagnose and present in 5 minutes. We did it in groups and I think our group did very well, better than the groups that went before us. We had good organization, covered all our bases, and didn't all talk at once, or repeat ourselves, or talk nonsense. We also volunteered some information (specifically, GAF and prevelance) that previous groups hadn't remembered about. Only two minor mistakes: when listing the symptoms not present that led us to dismiss various other diagnoses, I forgot to include "reports no oddities of thought" to disqualify schizotypal personality disorder. But the teacher asked after that later and I was able to answer correctly. She also asked us what was our Axis I diagnosis, which flustered us, since the guy had schizoid personality disorder and PDs are listed on Axis II. (The correct answer was "deferred," but none of us thought of that. >_>;)
Last presentation was for our Engineering project. That was a looong class, but it stayed fairly interesting; engineers are good about keeping things moving to schedule it seems. I didn't forget anything or fall on my face, although I did say "uh" a lot and when taking questions, interrupted someone before he'd finished. >_>; Hope that won't count against me.
Now all I have left to do is:
1. Attend Kanji class tonight (in 1 hr)
2. Copy the contents of Megan's notebook into mine
3. Complete peer evaluations
4. Turn in both notebooks and peer evaluations to HMC before 5 on Friday
5. Write 10-page paper
6. Study for and sit Japanese exam Tuesday
7. Make Super Shuttle arrangements
8. Attend party on Saturday at teacher's house
9. Pack and get room ready for checkout
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Date: 2004-12-08 07:25 pm (UTC)I hope someone had the sense to make this a Kodak moment?
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Date: 2004-12-08 08:16 pm (UTC)