Exam 1

The big day and I surprised myself by felling strangely awake and happy at 8am - a time I haven't seen in a very long time and after tomorrow, plan not to see for a very long time again. Overall, the exam seemed to go quite well and given my assignment marks, I'm hoping for a decent mark from this module, something I thought highly unlikely when sitting in the lecture theatre last year. Maybe it is because I made the effort to actually turn up to the lectures this year that made the difference because - for this module at least - whilst I didn't understand much of the theory at the time, looking at the past exam paper questions and the notes during revision made it all come together somehow and click into place. There seems to be a great deal of abstraction needed for me to comprehend certain topics and I think my internal representation of the content is very different to what is written on the page. I could quite easily stare at the notes for hours and not learn anything and yet a few practical exercises converting those strange symbols into actions gives it all meaning.

In other news, my last exam is tomorrow and because I have been devoting the majority of my time to revision for today's exam, I now have less than 24 hours to revise for tomorrow's. Let the cramming begin - except that Roy Walker came to the Student Union's bar today so I couldn't miss that really. It was not as good as I'd imagined it to be, more like a live version of the Radio 1 adaptation on the Chris Moyles Show. It even had the bedding music from there! He ended up asking three questions to the selected participants after they scored one point each and then a couple of quick fire catchphrases to the audience members before finishing with a signing session that lasted the rest of the hour and only got through twenty or so people out of more than a hundred I'd say that were in the queue. Oh well, at least I can say I met him!