Holy hell, I think my heart just shut down. I finally got back my first semester exam results!
Good news: I passed.
Bad news: I didn’t do so well.
Well, that’s not quite the whole truth - I did very well in two subjects, passable in one and god-awful in the last. I’ve heard of lots of horror stories about students failing the first semester due to the radically different learning environment change. I can attest to that first hand - the jump from High School to University has been one of the hardest things in my life. At university learning feels to abstracted; the lecturer plows ahead regardless of how much or little a student understands.
High School learning was easy - teacher stands up, interacts with the class and teaches subject matter at a rate that the majority can cope with. At university lectures are fast paced, with only minimal pauses
I’m going to have to really knuckle down next semester, and force myself to understand the subject matter. I’ve been coping fine with the electronics and Java subjects - it’s the maths (just plain bad understanding on my part) and physics (awful, useless lectures) that I have been having trouble with.
Without further ado, my results for better of for worse:
| Name: | DEAN PATRICK CAMERA |
| Period | Unit Code | Unit Name | Status | Mark | Grade | Achieved CP |
| 2007/1 | CSE1OOJ | INTRODUCTION TO OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING USING JAVA | COMPLETED | 91 | A | 15.000 |
| 2007/1 | ELE1IEL | INTRODUCTORY ELECTRONICS | COMPLETED | 81 | A | 15.000 |
| 2007/1 | MAT1EN | MATHEMATICS FOR ENGINEERING | COMPLETED | 53 | D | 15.000 |
| 2007/1 | PHY1SCA | PRINCIPLES OF PHYSICS A | COMPLETED | 69 | C | 15.000 |
July 13th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Haha, oh poor Dean, well I agree that learning is a lot harder than High School, I did find the link between the content and exams much better than VCE, I mean really the physics exam was just a whole bunch of questions from the textbook, as opposed to VCE which was like 10x harder than anything I’d ever been taught.