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Yes.  I have already killed a pen.  May you rest in peace in writing utensil heaven.  *angel choirs*

This week has been stressful, to say the least.  I've finished 4 exam sessions out of 15 or 16 (next week is really going to be hellish - 7 exam sessions).  I...I'm so nervous about next week.  Some of my worst subjects - Physics and WAS, and Math Paper 3, among the 7.  Massive studying (which I don't usually do...I have zero focus) is in order this weekend.

Summary of this week's papers:

Monday: no exams

It was almost weird.  Willy (orch) was like, "WHOA WHAT ARE YOU DOING SITTING IN FRONT OF ME SHOULDN'T YOU BE SLAVING OVER AN ESSAY" and I was like, "nup, tomorrow."

Tuesday morning: English A1 HL, Paper 1

This was only bad because of 2 things: firstly, I spent the first hour of the 2 hour time period nodding off.  Apparently I need more than 7 hours of sleep before exams to do well.  ><  Secondly, I didn't finish, although I will say I wrote a heck of a lot faster than usual (while trying to keep my handwriting neat...o.O) because I realized I was probably going to be short on time.  There was some pretty cool psychoanalysis stuff I managed to do on the prose passage I picked (the poetry was just...whack), and I picked out an interesting interpretation.  Not too shabby for my first IB HL paper ever, in my humble opinion.  Total pages written: 3 front&back plus another half a page.

Wednesday afternoon: Math HL, Paper 1

Oh gosh.  Remember when we used to be good at math?  Well apparently it's just Aaron now (the only person to finish the test!).

Oh yes.  Dear Aaron, I have no words to express how grateful I am to you for donating your time & rehashing vectors with me Tuesday night at Barnes.  Your infinite patience is something I really appreciate and admire.  You're the best.  Sincerely, me.  :)

Yeah, one third of Section B was a vector question.  Even if there weren't any vector questions I would still be endlessly thankful for having acquired the knowledge.  When I say I love my friends, I truly mean it.  You guys are so kind & supportive to me - I can't believe how lucky I am.

Back to math-testing land, I attempted 100 of the 120 marks on the test.  Of those 100, I expect to get a little fewer than 80 (give or take, depending on method marks).  I think that puts me in the low-7-high-6 range?  Total sheets attached: 07 (I think)

Thursday morning: Math HL, Paper 2

This was an inordinately hard test.  Again, Aaron finished & was the only one to do so.  On this test I attempted to start each question (I guess you could say I attempted all 120 marks?), HOWEVER I'm only expecting to get 75-ish marks due to only finishing parts of Section B.  Section B was REALLY bad on this paper.  I did complete every question on Section A except #10 though, although #10 was worth a bit more than average (7 marks).  Total sheets attached: 06 (I think)

Thursday afternoon: Music HL, Paper 1

There's only 1 paper to the Music HL test - the rest of the exam grade is based on a Musical Investigation (2000 word paper), 12-ish minutes of composition work, and 20-ish minutes of performance.  In other words, everything else was sent in before.

This test was SO MUCH HARDER than I had expected!  It was basically, "Ohai, write 7 essays in 3 hours, go!"  20 marks each.  Needless to say, I didn't finish.  I didn't even know how in depth I was supposed to go, and I usually err on the side of verbosity (is that a word?), so I basically wrote way too much.  I finished 5 of the 7 essays and started the other 2 barely.  Estimated marks around 100 of 140 if I'm lucky and I wrote about the right stuff (pray...), and I don't even want to think about if I'm not lucky.  Total sheets attached: 11 (9 front&back, 2 half pages - basically 19 pages of writing total)

Friday: no tests (same as Monday)

I'm so glad.  I got to sleep in a bit longer - so much so that my mom got supermad at me.  o.O  I did have a migraine when I went to bed yesterday so my head was throbbing.  I guess that makes up for it?

tl;dr

Exams are long and not fun.  Too much more of the same next week.  Too much writing.  Expect the death of more pens.

Tonight!  Come watch!

PS: Congrats Aaron!!  :D