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man that chem exam today. it was going ok until i realised that i had drawn the structure for the bromohydrin formation, ENTIRELY BACKWARDS!

so that took away 10 mins and hence the rest was a rush

boo

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My notes said:
Lecture 27 (Ruler and Compass Constructions)
Given initial points A and B we use straightedge and compass to construct
more points. At each stage we either draw a line through pair of previously
constructed points or a circle centre a previously constructed point, radius the
distance between previously constructed points. At any stage an intersection
of these with previously constructed lines or circles is called constructible
from A and B. Set up a Cartesian coordinate system with A = (0, 0) and
B = (1, 0).
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But conversely if I take a straightedge and stab Galois 2 years before he was shot I don't have to study any of this.

EDIT: Stupid cunt was an anarchist who died in a fucking duel at the age of 20. Why do I have to respect his mathematical opinion?
 
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50% raw in the exam if I'm exceptionally lucky. Past experience indicates that'll scale up to a distinction but this'll be the hardest earnt D I've ever gotten.
 
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withoutaface said:
The course itself was pretty decent. It was interesting, based around concurrency and some similar stuff to COMP3520. There also SQL optimisations which take a little while to get your head around but that'll be about the hardest thing there.

I fucked up by doing no work all semester, missing 2 of the 4 quizzes, only did half the assignment (did the optimisation, but not the documentation for it, funnily enough got full marks for the part I did and one of the top couple of speeds in the class) but still pulled 90+% in the exam based on 6 hours of cramming (it was open book). The lecturer also has a pretty good idea what he's on about.

Algorithms is also pretty worthwhile if you haven't done any graph theory before. What's your degree anyway?
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Ah k, so it's open book. I'm still torn between ELEC5619 and COMP2007 at the moment. but hey i'll have all holidays to figure it out.

Currently in B.E (electrical)/B.Sci...trying to squeeze in majors in comp sci and in info systems.

neg haven't done graph theory before actually.
 
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spence said:
really? that doesn't sound right
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okay, bemused might be a better adjective. kept trying to get your attention when you were looking straight ahead at the beginning and whenever you looked around. how did you find the best?
 
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kokodamonkey said:
okay, bemused might be a better adjective. kept trying to get your attention when you were looking straight ahead at the beginning and whenever you looked around. how did you find the best?
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It was a lot better than I expected, probably the easiest test we had for the semester. There were a few hard parts though. And it was really short, only took an hour or so. How was Italian?
 
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spence said:
It was a lot better than I expected, probably the easiest test we had for the semester. There were a few hard parts though. And it was really short, only took an hour or so. How was Italian?
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It made me realise i have learnt absolutely nothing this semester.
 
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It tastes like pizza. Which I joined friends for tonight. Good old friends, I was starting to forget what they looked like. Not that I spent my time in hibernation productively or anything but eh.

Also, tandoori pizza tastes better than it sounds. Never seen a pizza with yoghurt on it before.

Lol @ todays exam btw. Needed about 40% to pass the subject, hopefully scraped it. We had to answer 2 questions in the first section and I could only see one that I could construct a decent answer for (my prediction about wanker questions came true). The other essay reads like something year 7 points and laughs at. :eek:
 
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