Day 09: Chugging Along

Keeping with the theme of locomotives, papers one and two of physics are now complete. Both of them were fairly enjoyable, to say the least. The most enjoyable thing was the presence of global warming and albedo questions. As my teacher had said, it was added to the course for the 2009 exams to appeal to current issues in the world. Funnily enough, in the mock exam paper, the equivalent was the waste and disposal of nuclear fuel and substances, which could apparently be used for nuclear warheads, threatening world peace. I prefer global warming myself.

Orange Chase

Next up is paper 3. This paper is focused on the optional chapters of the physics syllabus. The students, or teachers, must decide on two options out of a variety, ranging from the history and development of physics to relativity. We are doing astrophysics and electromagnetic waves. I hate the latter, because it’s a pain in the backside to think about. I would have much rather done the history of physics, or at least relativity or communcations. However, I really do enjoy astrophysics, so I’m keen to get this paper over and done with.

Tomorrow is going to be a good day. Both maths and physics will have been finished, and two exams which I am fairly confident about are far on the horizon; spanish and psychology.

Day 04: Integration

It’s annoying when, even if it’s the smallest thing, one thing goes wrong in an exam, a ton of motivation is lost for preparing for future exams. So, in context, the standard level maths paper was moderately okay. It was generally hard, but easy in some places. Problem is, the second section of the paper is worth the majority of marks of the overall paper, and the questions are longer and harder. Much harder than they should have been. Fortunately, I am not alone in thinking this. With a lot of people, the overall feeling that was the test was quite hard. Hopefully the grade boundaries will get lowered.

On a more positive note, it’s my birthday tomorrow! Not much of a birthday; having to wake up at 8 a.m. is not the nicest thing in the world, especially on one’s 18th birthday. I do plan to celebrate it properly on the 22nd of May, which should be fun. I’m not a big fan of clubbing, so I want to keep it to a minimum.

I’ll also sneak this in here: after discussing with my good friend, we have decided to call our company “Mintstorm”. More on that later.