Finals? Already?? :-o
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Wow, didn't the semester just begin? No kidding, it's been just 38 working days into the session (yes, I counted) and my finals are less than a week away! Almost everyone I've spoken to in class has been taken aback by the pace of things here.
The thing is, our first semester is divided into two sessions. The A session, which ends on October 15th contains specialist subjects like Financial Accounting, Quantitative Methods (statistics) and Micro Economics. As you can imagine, these are quant heavy courses and that's been difficult for me to manage. I've never been great with numbers, and with pure marketing background, even my little number skills weren't exercised much. Of course, it's not like I wasn't aware of the format of the semester, but the pace at which it comes at you definitely takes you by surprise.
It's been particularly interesting for me because the teaching culture here is way different from back home in India. In India, we're more used to keeping the majority of the semester for projects, assignments and fun, while leaving the bulk of the exam study for the last two weeks of the semester. Here, for example, I had midterms just two weeks into the session. Assignments/homeworks every single day don't contribute to the situation.
Don't get me wrong, it's been a fabulous experience and I've loved every minute of it. I just hope I feel the same way at the end of the week :) I'm waiting for the B session to start so that I can flex some of my Marketing muscles.
It's been so crazy this past month I haven't been able to update this blog more often. There so much I want to talk about, you can be sure that I'm going to be more regular with this. See you on the other side!
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1 comment
Oct 07, 2009
arjunp said...
Bro its the same for undergrad. Picture 6/7 courses a semester and 2-3 midterms in every course + Labs + Assignments + Term projects = Engineering @ UBC. And yeah we dont get a month off to study for finals like in India. lol No comparison!
