- tests and reports -

lol inspired by najee.

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i'm an engineering student. i proudly present my class timetable. notice how non-engineering my subjects are..

second semester of year 1 (oct 2007 ~ feb 2008):
monday:
creative writing, psychology, drawing of descriptive geometry.
tuesday:
physics B (electromagnetism), environment and risk management, theory of art language.
wednesday:
chinese language.
thursday:
english (speaking and listening), health science, physics practice.
friday:
descriptive geometry and geometric design, introduction to world literature, 6-rui freshman seminar, sports (soft tennis).
saturday:
drama workshop.

subjects with final exams (4):
physics B, environment and risk management, chinese, descriptive geometry and geometric design.

subjects with presentations (3):
english, 6-rui freshman seminar, drama workshop.

subjects with year-end reports (6):
creative writing, psychology, theory of art language, health science, introduction to world literature, ... sports.

subjects which are graded with assignments every lesson (5):
creative writing, drawing of descriptive geometry, health science, physics practice, descriptive geometry and geometric design, ...... sports.

subjects which attendance is NOT needed (1):
psychology.

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tests.. half-way through.

i've sat for environment and risk management, and chinese. physics B is a biatch cuz i was absent for the first small test and got only 10/100 for mid-term, EVEN THOUGH it's an open-book test. the final one is gonna be an open-book test too, and i see an apocalyptic future dawning upon me. as for descriptive geometry and geometric design, well.. if i don't score over 60 i'm doomed. it's a compulsory must-take must-pass subject required for students applying for the architecture department.

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reports. 4 down, 2 to go.

creative writing - wrote a short story about a foreign student and his life in a gaidai before entering a university in japan. comments received: "this can't be real. i doubt that it happens in real life." (hmm, actually i think so too..) "it's too mystery-fiction.. i don't like plots to be revealed only at the end.." (i'm sorry i might've been influenced by my mystery-fiction translator mom..) all in all my story was evaluated "good", so i have nothing more to say about it.

health science - "by using the keywords 個人 (personal), 国家 (country), 健康 (health) and 運動 (exercise), write a report about how are you going to make your lifestyle a healthier one, by referring to notes that you have taken during the lessons".... mind you, there were no printouts given. and we had to jot down almost every single slide from the teacher's power point presentation. each week. at the end of every lesson we had to answer 2 questions regarding the things he thought on that day, which could be anything from any slide.. i think i was most attentive in this class, among all the subjects which i was taking. as for the report, i believe 80% of my "proposal" was hypocrisy, 15% lies, and only the remaining 5%, truths.

introduction to world literature - one-page book report. cannot make it anymore obvious. i wrote about Lolita by Nabokov the last semester and got only 80 (this lecturer gave up to 120 marks in the past, because it exceeded the 100-mark limit, 20 marks were brought forward to the next term... *WHAT*). this time i wrote about The Metamorphosis by Kafka, wonder how will the result be.

sports - yes. we had to write a report about soft tennis. not just any reflection essay. "please evaluate your sports lessons based on the NINE questions below.." and there were things like, how did you find your progress, how did your team plan on training and how did it go, what was your goal and did you achieve it, how did you contribute to the team, what were the keywords of your team and did you put them to practice, how did your team-mates aid you in the matches, what you should and shouldn't have done during the lessons, how would you rate yourself, suggestions to make soft-tennis a more interesting class... in the end it was more than just 9 points to write about. that was the first sports class ever which required good command of writing in my life.

now the problem is, how to complete my psychology and theory of art language reports..

psychology, as i've mentioned before.. 2 reports and 1 assignment-paper. i've only chosen one topic for the reports, "analyze your autobiographical memory", and i don't know which one to write about for the second one. there're topics like phantom flashbulb memory, effects of EQ, analyzing emotions and expressions, psychological effects of literary expressions, competitiveness and cooperativeness of japanese, 2-person non-zero sum games, relationship between economics and psychology, analyzing the infectious disease issue, analyzing representative heuristics... some of them which i don't even know what are they, or how are they related to psychology.

then the assignment-paper - defining terms. sounds simple, but it actually takes a long time. the requirement/condition is to refer all the terms to examples brought up during the lessons. and most of the time in class, i hear no psychology and see no psychology - i've always been doing descriptive geometry.

theory of art language. umm... it's something to do with japanese poems. (what?)

"write a 3000~4000-word report about japanese modern poetry by 20~30 year-old poets, which are commented by Yoshimoto Takaaki as "nothingness" "lack of myths and natures". use one of the poems discussed during class as an example in your report."

why do i always torture myself by taking subjects like this when i know that i know nuts about modern poetry... ドM?

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