After Maths

A short note here...we've finished our maths papers! Well, not too bad. Challenging stuff though...didn't have the luxury of being bored for those papers. Paper 2's statistics section was particularly fiendish I thought. Hmm but hopefully I didn't make too many careless mistakes.

So that's it for mathematics. If everything goes as planned that'd be the last maths exam I'll ever take in my life. Heh, I wonder how much of the maths skills will persist in memory after this year. On the one hand it's a bit of a pity, after putting in so much work, to have everything undone by forgetting. On the other hand it just goes to prove that in daily life we'll never come across circumstances that require like differentiation or imaginary numbers.

But with the end of maths comes the beginning of the heavy essay subjects. Especially E Hist, which happens tomorrow. Right after this I'll be going off to study more Dictators and WW1. I'll be much happier after E Hist, I think, with the release of the obligation to remember all those facts and quotes. At least until S Hist anyway.

Heh a few of us were discussing plans for next Friday, which is the effective end to the A's since after that there's only Lit 3 and the S papers. I personally want to go watch Harry Potter! Eager to see what the movie makers made of the fourth book. I'd also like to see what Voldemort looks like =P Hopefully they didn't have to cut out too much, though given the size of the book maybe they should have broken up the story into two movies or something. I remember that number four was the most entertaining of all the HP reads...I think because of the excitement of the competitions and the puzzles, and the exquisite vexation of Rita Skeeter. Heh, Rowling does pull off stereotype characters very powerfully...

pondered by phoenican @ 10.11.05