I swore I would get a full night's sleep before my board exam, after late nights and interruptions all week, so I would be in top form. As I continued to study (and not move as quickly through the material as I'd planned) that got revised to getting in bed by midnight. Then 2 am. Then...
The exam was at 8 am yesterday; I had to be there by 7:30. I slept one hour ("power nap") on my couch in the wee hours of the morning before being awoken by the alarm on my cell phone and returning to the books.
I just don't handle all-nighters like I used to.
I fortified myself (instant "cappuccino" and my little yellow buddy the caffeine pill) and then sat through a grueling 4 hours solid of physics calculations. I only got one bathroom break, and that was "unscheduled" so it counted against my test time. That was rough. I'd been hoping for some kind of intermission.
Overall it went...well, it went. I don't know how I feel about it. I don't feel like I bombed it, but I'm not full of confidence that I passed it, either. OTOH, it's a board exam, and historically all the people I know who've taken them feel like crap afterward, even if they ultimately pass. We'll see in 4 weeks or so.
Until then, my brain needs a few days of R&R. I was so exhausted I fell asleep on the couch last night and woke up about 30 minutes ago. We're heading out to DH's hometown later today. Little Boy spent the weekend with Grandpa, and then my MIL is having a family get-together for my BIL's birthday. I'm off tomorrow, to make up for working last Saturday, and I plan to sleep in and not do much of anything.
I do need to get caught up on the revisions workshop.
For now, I'm going to haul the laptop downstairs and play with my new iPod Touch. I love it. It was the coolest gadget in the house for all of 24 hours, before DH got his new iPhone last night. *sigh*
The exam was at 8 am yesterday; I had to be there by 7:30. I slept one hour ("power nap") on my couch in the wee hours of the morning before being awoken by the alarm on my cell phone and returning to the books.
I just don't handle all-nighters like I used to.
I fortified myself (instant "cappuccino" and my little yellow buddy the caffeine pill) and then sat through a grueling 4 hours solid of physics calculations. I only got one bathroom break, and that was "unscheduled" so it counted against my test time. That was rough. I'd been hoping for some kind of intermission.
Overall it went...well, it went. I don't know how I feel about it. I don't feel like I bombed it, but I'm not full of confidence that I passed it, either. OTOH, it's a board exam, and historically all the people I know who've taken them feel like crap afterward, even if they ultimately pass. We'll see in 4 weeks or so.
Until then, my brain needs a few days of R&R. I was so exhausted I fell asleep on the couch last night and woke up about 30 minutes ago. We're heading out to DH's hometown later today. Little Boy spent the weekend with Grandpa, and then my MIL is having a family get-together for my BIL's birthday. I'm off tomorrow, to make up for working last Saturday, and I plan to sleep in and not do much of anything.
I do need to get caught up on the revisions workshop.
For now, I'm going to haul the laptop downstairs and play with my new iPod Touch. I love it. It was the coolest gadget in the house for all of 24 hours, before DH got his new iPhone last night. *sigh*
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Ick, exams... if it makes you feel better, usually when you think you've done badly, it's never as bad as you thought... Four hours?! The longest I ever had was three hours; I had no idea I could wield a pen that fast - come to think of it, those might be just the sort of conditions we should set up for writing marathons!
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