Midterm

Week 6! Midterms week! Yay! .....Not....

Spring of 2009 at Stanford University, this is the first quarter I'm actually taking 5 classes, each of 3 units or more. This usually means a very rough quarter with lots of work, almost no sleep, lack of a social or footy life and lots of soy milk and Pepsi.

However, I have managed to get an average of 5 hours of sleep every night, talked to my friends and loved ones back home as well as play intra-mural footy (and actually score 3 goals).

Friday - May 8, 2009.

Almost the end of midterms...sigh...relief...but disaster was to follow.
Being done with 3 midterms and after getting reasonably good grades in 2 of them, I was just hoping EE 102 A (Signals and Systems) would be a fair test and make for a good output for a few sleepless nights.

This is what followed:

A 50-minute open notes test, that counted for 30 % of the overall grade. This translates to 0.6 % of the grade every minute. Nerve-wracking.

Maximum score possible = 100. Every 10 points lost is 3 % of the grade washed away.

A class of around 20 students, so no generous curves.

4 "problems" so to say. But hey, who said no sub-problems? Lets put in 3 in each!

Results and reactions:

Highest score : 93 (of course, someone had to)
Lowest score : 23 (bad luck mate, i know you deserve better)
Mean : 59

"This test was all about partial credit" - Matt

"I dont want to have anything to do with signals ... or systems" - Kyle

'This class sucks" - Ziyad

Boom!!!
After 3 fair tests, and a satisfying paper, the quarter just exploded in my face...