the corner office

In past years my exam distraction of choice used to be computer games, this year it's bloggery. I'm not sure that's an improvement. I haven't had much personal to report because the only things I'm doing right now are studying, tinkering with Gentoo (Windows? Wassat?), and getting sucked into the black hole.

But either way, my exams start on Monday and I'm not looking forward to them. As always, I haven't been too diligent, but more diligent than if I wasn't as diligent as I've been. Monday is Advanced Programming, which boils down to "how well do you understand the CORBA API?" It's an open-book exam, which is a first for me, and something of a relief. Tuesday it's Advanced Systems Analysis and Development, which is basically "how well do you understand UML?" Not inherently difficult, except that it's about as much fun as plucking nostril hairs, and Ali Bahrami's tome has some seriously dense theory, and memorising swathes of the stuff is plain soul destroying.

After that the next two are Operating Systems and Computer Graphics the next Monday and Tuesday. Those are going to be horrible, but then it's an exam a week until mid-November, and it should be fairly plain sailing through all of them.

And unless I fsck up royally, I'll then have my BSc. I'm not holding out for great marks; I haven't done enough work for that, but I'm not even going to feel guilty about it. As long as I get through everything without too much stress, I'll be happy.