The blocus has arrived
There are a couple of periods in a student’s life when he or she gets to do something completely different for a while. There are the holidays… and there are the exams.
Belgium happens to have one of the most cruel systems I’ve encountered, though it seems that this system is becoming pan-European: exams in January, and studying time at Christmas and during the New Year.
So, tomorrow, I start my “blocus”, as we say in French. Three weeks of “non-stop studying” (well, theoretically – historically, I’ve been able to write a lot during these periods, because I just can’t study all day).
Good luck to all in the same situation. To others, I have but three words: I envy you.
15 December 2008 at 00:50
Dude… Dude… Aw man…
That is harsh.
Really harsh.
Then again…
Heh.
At least you can write some stuff during it
16 December 2008 at 19:03
Hey!
first time I won’t have to study for Xmas.
My onliest exam is in december!!!
I will have 2 weeks out of my books! almost out! I have my “mémoire” do to!
But I promise I’ll by with you! in souvenirs of the greatest blocus we made together!
kisses!
22 December 2008 at 23:24
Heh, I had finals last week. For highschool. They weren’t so bad, they were more worrisome than terrible, as I had to do well enough on them all in order to preserve my straight A’s and had to make one B in Algebra into an A with a final. I pretty much had to get A’s on all them, which I did with flying colors. Now I’ve gotten straight A’s for three semesters in a row.
Was that easy? No. Am I the only one who’s ever done that at my school? To my knowledge, yes. Do the chicks dig? Unfortunately not. Would I like to skip high school and go straight to college? Heck yes.
While I don’t wish to go into law school, I’d just like to say that I envy you, Peter A. Craddock. You’ve heard that from the other side of the Atlantic ocean now.
23 December 2008 at 08:49
Congratulations on getting those grades, Sir Boyce. Ah, I yearn for those days at school when I had the top grades of the whole year. These days, I’m glad if I’m in the top 50%
23 December 2008 at 17:34
Heh, let’s just say that the average American highschool student cares far less about their grades than the average European college student. Thus getting into the top 10% of a class is easy and hard at the same time, if you catch my drift.