4 posts tagged “exams”

RIP Venus Flytrap.

However! I am done exams. Done first year, done..... donedonedone. Hah! I'm happy.

But sad. Everyone's moving out. It's like... camp is over :-(. And some people will come back to camp next summer, but some people won't. And we'll all miss each other in between.

I start work tomorrrrrowwww. Bah. Too soon! Too soon!

My Venus Flytrap is dying. I don't know exactly what happened, but in one day, all of its mature traps died. It started putting up a new one, but then it just stopped growing and began to brown. I checked the bulb - I may be imagining it, but I think it's darkening too. Siiiigh. And I just thought it was starting to do well...

I guess it lasted a good 4 months, and they're notoriously hard to grow. For such a tiny damn plant... I'm not yet giving up on this one, but I may start looking for a new one. My third one. Do you know what happened to the first? I LOST IT. I lost a plant. It happened when I moved out of res for winter break. Somewhere in all the packing up it vanished - when I got home and noticed it missing I assumed I left it, but then I went back to my dorm to check and it wasn't there either. I have no clue what happened to it. Maybe it ran away?

The point is, going into Botany is looking increasingly questionable. I've had 4 plants this year - lost one, froze another, and seem to be killing a third.

On a positive note, my jade plant looks dandy! For now.

Also positive note: 4/5 exams complete. 4 days to freedom. And by freedom I mean starting work the next day.

To study for calculus tests, it's usually a good idea to buy past years' tests and take them for practise. But... oh god they are so long. And the fact that it's so tiring and so disappointing to turn the page and see more and more and more questions all while in the comfort of a nice library does not bode well for how I'll feel in some badly ventilated gymnasium tomorrow, writing my hand off along with 500 other kids for 3 hours.

Whaaatever. After that we're having a barbecue. I am going to pass out on the lawn.

Yesterday I wished it would rain, thereby forcing me into the library. But this morning it did rain... and I still wanted to be outside. I just loved walking through Queen's Park... I missed rain smell, and the sound. And, I don't know, it made me feel "connected". This is 100% hokey, but I was like "This has been monsoon rain, this has been Alps snowmelt, this has been Amazon river flow". All that crap, haha. But then I had to sit in philosophy for two hours, as if I didn't despise that class enough.

Oh wow it is totally over. Except for the exam. I am too tempted to just float on my mark through the exam..... It is only 35%... But I can't! But if I want to do otherwise, I'd better get to work... I did barely anything today. I did have a lot of class today. Oh god. Today's Soc was our second lecture on "Research Methods", and everyone was falling asleep. Sometimes I'm sure he's stretching it to spite us. He'll repeat all the simplest parts in excruciating detail. The only thing that saved us all was that an hour and twenty minutes in... we heard this howl throughout the hall (it's the school's biggest auditorium), and these 4 guys came running in, faces covered, underwear only. They screamed, jumped around.... yeah I think that woke everyone up.

But that lecture gave me a headache. It's gone right now, but it's been off and on all afternoon. Perhaps I've run into some nutrient deficiency that I haven't foreseen...