Well, okay then!
Oct. 23rd, 2004 11:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
framlingemI had a midterm this morning (yeah, I know, it's Saturday, it was a correspondence course midterm, so nyah). I ordered the textbook three weeks ago (yeah, still later than I should have) so that I could spend a week studying and stuff.
It arrived yesterday.
I read three hundred pages of tiny cramped text last night. Three. Hundred. Pages. Of. Text.
It read as follows: "Although the city, through the recruitment of various types to perform its diverse tasks and the accentuation of their uniqueness through competition and the premium upon eccentricity, novelty, efficient performance and inventiveness, produces a highly differentiated population, it also exercises a levelling influence". (L. Wirth)
Three hundred pages of that. In a night. (plus two hundred pages of the course manual which I've had since the beginning of the semester and really should have studied beforehand but let's not talk about that, shall we?)
I'm pretty damn impressed with myself just for the sheer plough-ness of my studying.
What's more, I think I actually did pretty well on the exam itself. Two essays, to be chosen from four topics. I wrote about boarding houses in St. John's in the 1980s (they're probably still around, but the study was done in the Eighties... by the professor, no less, so I really hope I got things right, because he's going to pick up on any mistakes), and discussed the economic and social evolution of cities from Ur to Chicago (which was way more interesting, and fairly easy, too, because I took a course on that very subject in CEGEP. Thanks, Dr. Rinke!).
I also got to use the term 'ad infinitum' in an essay. I was geekily pleased by this.
It arrived yesterday.
I read three hundred pages of tiny cramped text last night. Three. Hundred. Pages. Of. Text.
It read as follows: "Although the city, through the recruitment of various types to perform its diverse tasks and the accentuation of their uniqueness through competition and the premium upon eccentricity, novelty, efficient performance and inventiveness, produces a highly differentiated population, it also exercises a levelling influence". (L. Wirth)
Three hundred pages of that. In a night. (plus two hundred pages of the course manual which I've had since the beginning of the semester and really should have studied beforehand but let's not talk about that, shall we?)
I'm pretty damn impressed with myself just for the sheer plough-ness of my studying.
What's more, I think I actually did pretty well on the exam itself. Two essays, to be chosen from four topics. I wrote about boarding houses in St. John's in the 1980s (they're probably still around, but the study was done in the Eighties... by the professor, no less, so I really hope I got things right, because he's going to pick up on any mistakes), and discussed the economic and social evolution of cities from Ur to Chicago (which was way more interesting, and fairly easy, too, because I took a course on that very subject in CEGEP. Thanks, Dr. Rinke!).
I also got to use the term 'ad infinitum' in an essay. I was geekily pleased by this.
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Date: 2004-10-23 10:53 am (UTC)