Four Down, One to Go...

So I've completed 4 of my 5 finals for the semester. Three of the courses I'm taking right now are for upper-division accounting. Horrid, horrid stuff folks. Though perhaps this is what school is all about.

Up until this point in my college career, I've felt relatively comfortable with studying for maybe an hour just before a final for most any class. Thankfully, I've managed to do pretty well with that strategy thus far, even in the 400-level classes. Granted, most of the classes I've taken seem to be about computers in some way, and computers really interest me. That makes the material a lot easier for me to remember and use on the final.

These accounting classes though... man... I'm not doing so hot in them. I'll be happy if I have a B in a few of them when all is said and done. That will damage my GPA, but I think it's a worthy sacrifice. I don't want to have to put myself through those classes ever again!

On a slightly more positive note, my Advanced Excel (an accounting class) final only took 10 minutes. I hear the average for the "good" students is about 45 minutes. I got a 96% on it. w00t. I got some pretty nasty looks when I got up and left after only being there for 10 minutes, but that's what happens when you take a final that's mostly about programming in a language that you started using 12 years ago (and most other people in the class never programmed a day in their life before the class started).

So now I just have one final left. Tomorrow morning at 7:45 I will take my networking final. I think I'll probably have to study a little longer than an hour for that one, but I also think I'd have to do pretty poorly to get anything below an A-. All of the labs were extremely straight-forward if you actually read the material, and being on time to class everyday seems to help too :)

Hooray!