took Last Exam, which went pretty well. Went to Suburbia House, because Littlest is home and was like, I want to try a cool recipe, will you come? and I did come today, after canceling on her last Thursday, when I was feeling sick panic about getting everything done before exams were over. but now I have a single extension, so.
I have consulted the gradebook oracle and I probably am going to fail First class (or, at least, not get the required 70%), because that exam went pretty poorly. I have to hope that the rest of the class did as badly as I did for any chance of its curve being great enough to make a difference... or enter into negotiations again to try to get some points back somewhere else.
what I've been thinking for a month now is: lol, this is a bad hand to go out on. the metaphor is: when you're playing a card game, say gin rummy, you want to build your hand so that the probability of your next draw helping you go out is as high as you can make it -- like, don't be just waiting for the ace of spades in order to go out, be waiting for the ace of spades OR the jack of spades. be able to switch your melds/two-of-a-kinds around if a better meld option comes up, or the third of a kind. this is not what I set myself up for, this semester; I just have a bad hand, and to think I'm going to get all three books I'm trying to make on the next turn is just ???
it's probably not happening.
but I guess I can keep playing through the next round.
I have consulted the gradebook oracle and I probably am going to fail First class (or, at least, not get the required 70%), because that exam went pretty poorly. I have to hope that the rest of the class did as badly as I did for any chance of its curve being great enough to make a difference... or enter into negotiations again to try to get some points back somewhere else.
what I've been thinking for a month now is: lol, this is a bad hand to go out on. the metaphor is: when you're playing a card game, say gin rummy, you want to build your hand so that the probability of your next draw helping you go out is as high as you can make it -- like, don't be just waiting for the ace of spades in order to go out, be waiting for the ace of spades OR the jack of spades. be able to switch your melds/two-of-a-kinds around if a better meld option comes up, or the third of a kind. this is not what I set myself up for, this semester; I just have a bad hand, and to think I'm going to get all three books I'm trying to make on the next turn is just ???
it's probably not happening.
but I guess I can keep playing through the next round.
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