I’m a bad bad blogger I know, but in the last couple of weeks I actually had a social life… do you people believe that?! I, Pazuzu, have a social life. I know you people are probably pissed off with my long absence but let me give you a quick view of the last few weeks and how I spent them. I am not sure if that will amuse you or make you hate me even more.
So on the 4th of July I had my biotechnology exam, the last of my exams and I did reasonably well. The same day I went out with some friends to Macdonald’s (yeah a bunch of adults enjoying our Macflurry) we stayed there from 7 till 10 or something.
The next day a friend of mine (A) invited me to go out with him and his boyfriend (C), being euphoric and super duper happy about my results I accepted and went out with them, it was very sweet and I had great fun, we had dinner at roadster and then ice cream and a couple of beers in a gay-friendly place. That was a Thursday, right?
Friday, I was supposed to go out with some friends but it didn’t work out, again (A) invited me to go out with him and his boyfriend, being thrilled about going out with this couple I accepted, but later on I was informed by (A) himself that he intended to break-up with (C)… All of a sudden I was no longer thrilled about it :-/… I really loved that couple they’re both awesome! Why did they have to break up, so I stayed at home that night (did I mention that I had left for my uncles’ place on Friday.
Saturday, I went out for a pseudo-pyjama night (we didn’t sleep there but we stayed up late and some of us slept there) with some girlfriends’. Again I had great fun.
Sunday, went out with (C) and (M) (she had organized the Saturday night out) and some other friends. We had lunch and laughed very hard.
Monday, I was too busy preparing for the defense of my thesis. I was scared and stressed and scared and worried and stressed and freaking out, but it went on great and I even scored 85/100! Do you believe that?! I, Pazuzu the #1 college failure, I scored 85 on my memoire! I was impressed! The highest grade I believe is 90, in the case of a memoire of course!
On the same day I met Jos at 2:30 am and we kept talking for 2 or 3 hours, then I left home, at 7 am (A) calls me inviting me to watch a movie and grab something to eat from crepaway in Ashrafieh (yes the very same place where an explosion took place a while back killing an elderly woman). I accepted and again it was very very nice, we watched shrek the third, it was very very funny. That night I slept in Beirut to avoid coming home at 12:30 am.
Wednesday, I came home, arrived home just in time to take G from his gym class and then I took him to macdonald’s for lunch, then when I came home I was TIIIIIIIRED. I’ve been suffering a headache and feeling so sleepy…. I wonder why?
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Thursday, July 12, 2007
Friday, June 22, 2007
Reporting on the exam day I just had yesterday:
This semester I had exams before this one, actually one exam, our biotechnology Lab exam though it was strictly written exam there fore it was more like a course exam rather than a lab exam. Anyway that exam went well, actually it went so well that when I reached the 3rd question (out of 4) I was so happy that I had done so well, and noticing that I wasn’t so sure of my answer for the 4th question, especially that I was late and only had 5 min… I didn’t do it. Hey! The 50/100 is certain so what the hell anyway?
Now about yesterday… On Tuesday night I wasn’t hoping so much, I was late, I had 5 chapters to study all and all, on Tuesday I had only finished 2 chapters: Respiratory and Cardiac system (but had many blackholes in my memory since it needed revising) and had studied lightly 50% of the Digestive system and studied well some 30% of the Excretory system and hadn’t even opened the Microcirculation chapter… this was around midnight. I know it may sound fucked up how I partially studied so many bits of chapters but it was far better than I had studied for my exams last semester! So I had to make the choice: to study further or to sleep. I decided to take a bath and then review what I had already studied. And so I did, sleeping at around 2 am. I woke up very scared and nervous about the exam. But I thought to myself, I better study the respiratory system and the cardiac system since I know that will have much more notes than the other system (because this is a written exam for the lab work we had done, the lab work was mainly about the heart, respiration and adaptation of circulation).
My dad took me to college as he does everyday on his way to work, in college I learned the following shocking details:
Ok not problem I survive, I focused on the respiratory and the cardiac system! Yalla courage! And I was pleasantly surprised to realize that my partial and limited knowledge exceeded my friends’ information, which meant that my studies had paid off and that I was doing a good job at it as I was able to explain it to them.
At 10am we read the questions…. The shock!!! All the questions were about the frog dissection we had done in lab! I forgot to study the lab shit! I was too busy studying the course that I forgot to check the 3 pages of lab instructions, that certainly cost me valuable notes but I didn’t give up I did as good as I could and tried to be as reflective and as analytic as possible, that’s what the Dr wants anyway.
As a conclusion I think I did pretty well… nshalla. But none of my classmates agreed, you see in the Lebanese University these people are used to plain and simple question, if you study hard you get 100% no thinking required. This teacher is different, not only she requires analysis and overall understanding but she also adjusts her exams in a way where even the best student would reach his/her limits, it’s almost impossible to have 100/100 with her, there’s always a detail you’ve skipped a small note you forgot there’s always a higher level to which you can take your answer… As far as I am concerned this is one of the best teachers I have ever met in the Lebanese University, in addition to the paleontology professor we had last year, I can’t imagine greater perfection in both lecturing and exams.
But the long day isn’t over yet, after this mind blowing exam, we had a lab session, this session was supposed to take place last week but back then it was postponed because of PM Walid Eido’s assassination. This was more or less fun and more or less instructive, but the heat, the lack of concentration and the headache the whole class suffered from made it intolerable. That was over at 2 15pm.
Then I had to work on fixing my memoire with my partner in the memoire from 2 30 till 6 pm. And still it wasn’t over, we needed some details about how to fix the bibliography in the end so we called the teacher in charge of our memoire she wasn’t home and her husband’s cell phone was with her son! FUCK! So we gave up, I took the memoire with me home and called her a while later.
So you can see my day was both productive and exhausting, and that’s why I was so absent lately. And about the braderie…. Ouuuu I hope I can go today! I have to wait till my mom comes home and see if I can leave G with her, she might have to take him to work with her… nshalla nshalla
Now about yesterday… On Tuesday night I wasn’t hoping so much, I was late, I had 5 chapters to study all and all, on Tuesday I had only finished 2 chapters: Respiratory and Cardiac system (but had many blackholes in my memory since it needed revising) and had studied lightly 50% of the Digestive system and studied well some 30% of the Excretory system and hadn’t even opened the Microcirculation chapter… this was around midnight. I know it may sound fucked up how I partially studied so many bits of chapters but it was far better than I had studied for my exams last semester! So I had to make the choice: to study further or to sleep. I decided to take a bath and then review what I had already studied. And so I did, sleeping at around 2 am. I woke up very scared and nervous about the exam. But I thought to myself, I better study the respiratory system and the cardiac system since I know that will have much more notes than the other system (because this is a written exam for the lab work we had done, the lab work was mainly about the heart, respiration and adaptation of circulation).
My dad took me to college as he does everyday on his way to work, in college I learned the following shocking details:
- My exam was at 10am and not 8 am….. but that’s not bad I got 2 additional studying hours
- The digestive system was not for this exam (it was for the final course exam in a week!) which sucks because I had wasted so much time studying it and I had skipped studying the Excretory system to study the digestive system!
Ok not problem I survive, I focused on the respiratory and the cardiac system! Yalla courage! And I was pleasantly surprised to realize that my partial and limited knowledge exceeded my friends’ information, which meant that my studies had paid off and that I was doing a good job at it as I was able to explain it to them.
At 10am we read the questions…. The shock!!! All the questions were about the frog dissection we had done in lab! I forgot to study the lab shit! I was too busy studying the course that I forgot to check the 3 pages of lab instructions, that certainly cost me valuable notes but I didn’t give up I did as good as I could and tried to be as reflective and as analytic as possible, that’s what the Dr wants anyway.
As a conclusion I think I did pretty well… nshalla. But none of my classmates agreed, you see in the Lebanese University these people are used to plain and simple question, if you study hard you get 100% no thinking required. This teacher is different, not only she requires analysis and overall understanding but she also adjusts her exams in a way where even the best student would reach his/her limits, it’s almost impossible to have 100/100 with her, there’s always a detail you’ve skipped a small note you forgot there’s always a higher level to which you can take your answer… As far as I am concerned this is one of the best teachers I have ever met in the Lebanese University, in addition to the paleontology professor we had last year, I can’t imagine greater perfection in both lecturing and exams.
But the long day isn’t over yet, after this mind blowing exam, we had a lab session, this session was supposed to take place last week but back then it was postponed because of PM Walid Eido’s assassination. This was more or less fun and more or less instructive, but the heat, the lack of concentration and the headache the whole class suffered from made it intolerable. That was over at 2 15pm.
Then I had to work on fixing my memoire with my partner in the memoire from 2 30 till 6 pm. And still it wasn’t over, we needed some details about how to fix the bibliography in the end so we called the teacher in charge of our memoire she wasn’t home and her husband’s cell phone was with her son! FUCK! So we gave up, I took the memoire with me home and called her a while later.
So you can see my day was both productive and exhausting, and that’s why I was so absent lately. And about the braderie…. Ouuuu I hope I can go today! I have to wait till my mom comes home and see if I can leave G with her, she might have to take him to work with her… nshalla nshalla
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