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[adg1034]

-Take-home exam essay for Scottish Women's Fiction assigned Monday, due the following Monday. 3000 words, double-spaced.
-Traditional, sit-down final for Textual Subjects in a Market Society next Wednesday (the 29th); the class is basically looking at how literary depictions of wealth and the economy were shaped by the Financial Revolution of the early 18th century- moving from a focus on landed aristocracy to a more mercantile, upwardly-mobile society
-Traditional, sit-down final in Scottish History since 1914 in mid-May.

I'm taking these while studying abroad, but all of them count towards my GPA at my home college. So I actually have to put effort into these. Still, that shouldn't be a problem.

 

[Grizzlyjin]

Finals start here on Monday. But I already took my Islam & The West early this past Thursday. I personally don't have another final until Wednesday.

Judicial Systems - 8am Wednesday
Prosecution and the Courts - 8am Thursday
US History 2 - 8am Friday
United States and Asia - 11am Friday

I'm content with that layout. Two finals on the last day, but I'm not worried about either one of them.

 

[vertopci]

Saturday, holy shit that isn't fun. =(

How did you do?

Not fun indeed It's like the third or fourth saturday final I've had since I started college. I just keep getting fucked with the final days :/

I did fine I guess...for someone who skipped more half the lectures for this class due to how boring this shit was :lol

 

[kkaabboomm]

Do you have to calculate damages? For my contracts exam we had to sift through purchase orders and compute how much damages people were entitled to. Four of the most stressful hours of my life. *shudders*

damages were chapter 1 in contracts1 (our contracts course is 2 semesters), so that was on my december final. didnt have purchase orders or anything like that. our fact patterns tend to be quite 'short' yet he makes each essay worth 15 points/100 total, and 50 points are multiple choice. those are the worst. the absolute worst. multiple choice contracts questions.

oh, my conlaw exam? like 60 multiple choice questions. i bought a book with like 400 federalism/sep of powers/commerce clause-esque questions in it. that'll be my life may 5-9th.

multiple choice questions...no partial credit. no writing and writing in hopes you get some points on something if you've completely blanked. and they always have option e - none of the above.

i can't imagine having to sort through purchase orders to figure out a proper damages calculation on a final exam. that must've sucked.

 

[Proc]

Just finished the other day (4th year, finishing my entire bachelors of info tech security degree) and I cruised gaf hard, drank heavily in between with friends, managed my girlfriend, and played a shit tonne of videogames. Basically life didn't change except for me doing well on challenging exams I studied for the night before. I've never been one of those people who studies multipled days in advance. I just can't work like that. I stay up super late (sometimes the entire night) but I always end up feeling prepared. I need to feel that stress and urgency in order for me to sit down seriously with something.

 

[The_Inquisitor]

Geometry / analyitic geometry is my weakest part of math, and obviously you need that here...... But when I say change of variables for multiple integrals, I mean like when you go fro the xy- plane to the uv-plane and the region undergoes a transformation; you have to find the Jacobian and all that Jazz....... if you could tell me how to do that, r some thing.. that might be good Haha

Do they give you an x any y in terms of u and v?

For change in variables you are just taking an awkward area and shifting it to a much easier to integrate area. So what you do is draw out the given shape and fine the slopes of each line. You then plug in for x and y and solve for u or v. You should end up getting two v's and two u's. Those are your bounds for the integrals. You then substitute for x and y in the equation also, and boom, you just integrate.

If you are asked to find the Jacobian, all you have to do is use the formula dx/du *dy/dv - dy/du*dx/dv when given x and y in terms of u and v. Simple no?

The jacobian is the reason you get an extra r factor when using polar coordinates and a rho^2sin(phi) factor in spherical.

 

[Lostconfused]

Oh man, my exam is 35 minutes from now. Sitting here in college killing time until the room frees up. Its intro to comp sci so shouldn't be too hard, but exams are always unnerving no matter what.

 

[Wilsongt]

Augh.

DNA Transaction and Gene Expression on Wednesday.
Cumulative Advance Cell Biology on the 6th.

Fuck.

 

[krispyclean]

Micro-Econ (It should be easy as long as I study plus he throws a huge ass curve at the end)
World Regional Geography ( Not hard been making 90's on all the tests)
Fundamentals of Management ( Need to study for this)
Marketing (and this lol)

 

[Eteric Rice]

Two finals left. One is a bit strange, though.

Basically, I have to configure a access point through command line. Then, once that's done, my teacher will come in and sabotage it in some kind of way, and I have to troubleshoot and fix it.

 

[jvalioli]

My finals are all so easy that I don't even know when they are.

 

[Expendable.]

My finals are all so easy that I don't even know when they are.

You are so awesome.

 

[mre]

Ugh.

Exams in: Personal Income Tax, Damages & Remedies; and Trademarks.

Papers in: Advanced Legal Research, Capital Defense Clinic, Free Speech Symposium, and my Law Review student note.

 

[Masked Man]

Here's my schedule:

May 4th (M) - Modern Japan: 6-8 page essay due (strains and tensions of the High-Growth Era)
May 5th (T) - Intermediate Japanese II: Oral examination (presentation, subject TBA, but probably Mishima<33)
May 5th / 7th (T/Th) - The Art of Japanese Prints: Presentation (One of Kuniyoshi's Nichiren prints)
May 13th (W) - Modern Japan: Final exam @ 9 a.m., Intermediate Japanese II: Final exam @ 2 p.m.
May 14th (Th) - Japanese Thought & Religion: Final exam @ 9 a.m., The Art of Japanese Prints: Final paper due @ 5 p.m. (One of Kuniyoshi's Nichiren prints)

Who's excited? Not me!

 

[Bowser]

Marketing
Financial Statements Analysis
Operations Management
Business Analytical Applications
Financial Markets

Gonna be a good time :/

 

[FFChris]

So much for the doom and gloom. What are you guys going to do after the exams are over? My current plan is,

- Go out with all my finalist friends to the Union of Friday night
- Spend Saturday morning recovering, then the afternoon having a BBQ, in the sun, on the sports field.
- Spend Sunday jamming with a friend in the music rooms.

Yup, looking forward to finishing so much I've planned out my weekend already.

 

[Expendable.]

Driving 8 hours to Philly to see a screening of Revenge of the Fallen!

Spoiler

it will probably just be a trailer though

Then working back home while trying to land an internship in LA or NYC.

 

[Hive]

this is what you guys get for not being a History major! ^o^

 

[Expendable.]

this is what you guys get for not being a History major! ^o^

yeah...jobs.

 

[Hive]

yeah...jobs.

haha, so true...~

but in the meanwhile enjoy final exams from hell

 

[rexor0717]

I have another month before mine even start.

Me too. And I think my compulsive GAF browsing won't hurt my grade...to much.

 

[APF]

dont worry guys gaf can help you here ive learned that if you study on a rainy day you get a bonus also remember to study with one of your party members that way you can increase your slink at the same time ganbatte gaffers

 

[hydragonwarrior]

Did that with Gamefaqs way back during my summer semester in 2002 - all my time spent trolling the daylights out of the XBox board :lol

(it was too addictive - and karma got me back anyway thanks to lousy final marks :/)

 

[Tornado Condor]

I have an english, biology, and calculus 2 finals

FML

 

[Slavik81]

Today was the last day of our exam period.
I had Operating Systems this morning. It was easy. That was nice.
And just finished Wireless Networks. In fact, there's 15 minutes still left in the writing period as we speak. It was also significantly easier than I expected. (Though I expected a slaughter.)

e^-1 was the last number of my electrical engineering degree.


Microeconomics II was last week. And a week before that was Simulation & Modeling as well as Computer Architecture. Oh, and my final project.

Now half my housemates are gone, and three quarters of our furniture is gone. I'm leaving tomorrow. And despite that I'm finally going to see my friends back home again, and I have a beast of a computer on its way, and I have every reason to be happy as can be, I'm scared as fuck.

 

[Zek]

I'm graduating and have a pretty easy schedule. My grades can't hurt my GPA much now, it wouldn't really matter even if they did, and they're pretty easy anyway. Also all but one course is doing the final test/assignment during class this week, after which all I have left is one test on the 13th.

 

[liquidspeed]

Do they give you an x any y in terms of u and v?

For change in variables you are just taking an awkward area and shifting it to a much easier to integrate area. So what you do is draw out the given shape and fine the slopes of each line. You then plug in for x and y and solve for u or v. You should end up getting two v's and two u's. Those are your bounds for the integrals. You then substitute for x and y in the equation also, and boom, you just integrate.

If you are asked to find the Jacobian, all you have to do is use the formula dx/du *dy/dv - dy/du*dx/dv when given x and y in terms of u and v. Simple no?

The jacobian is the reason you get an extra r factor when using polar coordinates and a rho^2sin(phi) factor in spherical.

Yeah Finding the Jacobian is easy- just a 2x2 or 3x3 determinant... and yeah my professor showed us why the extra r appears in polar and cylindrical coordinates r drdtheta or rdzdrdtheta. thanks for your words on the transformations... oh and I hate spherical coordinates LOL.

EDIT: Sometimes they give X and y parameterized by T.. other times they just describe the region like Line segment from ( a,b) to (c,d) linse segment from (m,n) to (x,z), ellipse with equation xy= 3; etc and I have to write my own parameterizations, which soomtimes is easy, other times not so easy<<<< For Line Integrals ; For Change of variable in multiple integrals, sometimes they give x and y in terms of U and V; other times they give the doubble or tripple integeral over the Region over R... one example would be(chapter 16.9 in the book Calculus James Stewart 6th Edition) number 22: doubble integral over R ( SIN(9x^2 +4y^2)DA) where R is the region in the first quadrant bounded by the ellipse 9x^2 +4y^2 =1. Evaluate the integral by making an appropriate change in variables

 

[Buba Big Guns]

Im done all my exams but I will be so fucking happy if I pass physics. I know I failed that exam (just like everyone else) but I just want to pass that and I will have such a giant weight lifted off my back.

 

[AniHawk]

dont worry guys gaf can help you here ive learned that if you study on a rainy day you get a bonus also remember to study with one of your party members that way you can increase your slink at the same time ganbatte gaffers

It never rains in Southern California.

 

[Mighty]

Finally done, and it feels pretty good. Just one more year to go before freedom.

 

[Pai Pai Master]

I've got 2 full paintings, 1 anatomy master drawing and about 12 small anatomy study drawings due next monday. Plus a french paper and an Art History exam next tuesday.

Aagghgh!

 

[biggkidd32]

Mine start 2 weeks from now.

-Midwestern civilizations
-General Psychology
-Linear Algebra
-Operating Systems
-Network security

 

[Mighty]

Mine start 2 weeks from now.

-Midwestern civilizations
-General Psychology
-Linear Algebra
-Operating Systems
-Network security

Ooooh linear algebra, that's a good one.

 

[tsef]

Yeah in 2 weeks for me :
Spectral Analysis
Distributions
Finite Groups theory
Finite element method and finite volume method
Partial differential equations theory
Lie group theory

FML

 

[Salazar]

No exams: just an extended paper on heroic literature and neurological conditions, a seminar on Babar and colonialist politics, and a book proposal. And then graduation, which I'm choosing not to attend. The last time was dull as nuts, and redundantly stuffed with the university's promotional material.

 

[A Penguin]

No finals for me (high school, bitches!), but I suppose you can count AP tests, of which I am taking 3 in mid-May:
US History
Chemistry
English