#exam log

I have decided that I am going to be posting everyday of my exam period in order to keep accountability for studying and to have something to look back on. I will be posting study tips, blurts of what I revised that day, reflections on how my exams are going and other related things. Today is going to be an introductory post!

Hi! I'm writing this the day before my exams start - eek!!

I've had a burst of motivation to study today, but only after I had cleaned and rearranged my desk. It was helpful procrastination I swear !! Because now I can have enough room on my desk to write stuff and use a textbook, rather than having to have the textbook on my lap or something.

Physics : I was a bit angry because that subject was bull

Math : Not that bad

French: Probably the best essay I’ve ever written!

And now it’s over my dudes.

Three long weeks of suffering and intellectual exhaustion. Oooooooooh yeah. 

But it’s over! Until the orals maybe, but for now it’s over!

And tomorrow I’ll be going with four friends in a house in the countryside! That’s gonna be fun!

And big up to Guillaume for bringing me back home and singing and dancing to Stupéflip with me  in the car during traffic jam

And big up to Ali for freaking doing finger guns at me while i was walking in the rows during the exams, making me smile like a freaking moron

And big up to Léon, the Parc Floral’s peacock that was yelling like crazy during lunch

(No I didn’t forget again, what are you talking about)

Yeahhhh so! The nice thing with e3a is that it’s amazingly easy compared to Mines-Ponts. Like. Wowwwww I’m actually able to do science now.

SI went as smoothly as it could have, a big subject with a majority of “asservissement” (I don’t know how it’s called in english, just know that it has nothing to do with slavery, contrary to what the name could make you think), and that’s roughly the only I can do x) 

And if I’m lucky, that’d be the last time in my life when I have to do this thing.

And English was fairly easy (acknowledging the fact that I’m writing this in english, I’m sure you can guess why), a MCQ and a text synthesis, so yay.

Alright, now the last two days monday and tuesday! And it’ll be over! 

Wellllll

SI was as usual: avoided the mechanics questions and focus on the others because I suck less at it

French as usual too, except the quote we had to essay about was fucking stupid but I managed to get through it

And chemistry was absolutely catastrophic but hey, I suck at it either way and it was 17h on the last day of Mines Ponts so what else was to be expected x)

Well now it’s over, one last competitive exam and it’s really over! e3a should be a piece of cake compared to Mines

And what did I learn this week? Three exams a day for three days in a warehouse where is 30°C is NOT fun

I’m gonna make this quick, I’m really not in the mood, almost no one’s going to read this anyway. I’m just doing it because I don’t have anything better to do anyway.

Math 2 : Terrible, awful, catastrophic. These 4 hours really messed me up. I got plenty of time to think how fucked I was for Mines-Ponts, and remembering the people, including a certain person, who let me go when I needed help the most. And how alone I really am now. I spent 2 good hours trying to hold back my tears, and once I’m done writing this garbage log, I’ll be doing just that.

Physics 2 : Actually not that bad, it was a subject I appreciate and I did things.

Computer Science: Like it always is, not particularly pleasant nor extremely annoying. It just happened. I did things, far from everything, the thing was way too long for 1hr30min. 

Ohhhh boy here comes the serious stuff. And contrary to Centrale, I actually had some hope to get something from Mines. Had.

No but more seriously, Math 1 was absolutely doable, a bit hard and not very guided questions, but still fun.

Physics 1 oohhhhh craaaaap. Everyone got slapped on the butt on that one. Like everyone. Every. One. That wasn’t pretty. Long story short it was a bit of the CCP thing from Friday but not helped at ALL. Which sucks. Sucked a whole bunch on this one, but so did everyone. And apparently, there could be a possibility that this subject was way too hard for us (pour taper dans les potins, c’est possible que ça vienne de Sup Optique, une école de Centrale, et faire un sujet de Centrale au concours des Mines, c’est tendu, surtout que les deux ne peuvent pas se blairer).

And English was nice, a translation and two opens questions, I like those.

Thought : to the people in Paris who cross the roads without looking, who fear neither god nor death, what the heck is wrong with you, you’re gonna die son

Annnnnnd I’m off now

Wait!

I finished the English early so what good idea can one have? Write a Tolkien poem. Of. Course. What else? Go outside into the blazing heat? Don’t think so.

Woooooah did surprisingly well at this one! I’m actually really happy! I don’t know how, but I started struggling a big bunch but in the end I did a lot of things! That was the fullest paper I turned yet! 

And let’s talk about something about the people that were surrounding me during the CCP papers. Two never showed up even once. Two others’ specialty : arriving like 20min late, leaving 2 hours later. But today had a bonus! They slept. Totally slept. The dude diagonally behind me on the left actually audibly SNORED. I caught a girl’s eyes even further behind who noticed the dude’s snoring too and we both began laughing a bit. Anyway. Even though that was a big annoying (because come on dude, take things a bit seriously maybe? no?), I really appreciated this morning’s physics. So yay!

Next stop? Mines-Ponts. I’m sure it’ll be less fun but oh well, I still have a teeny-tiny hope I will be able to do some things...? And even? Get qualified to get to the orals? Maybe? Who knows?