Sunday, December 11, 2005
I took about an hour and fifteen minutes for the seven-thirty morning philosophy exam. I woke up at three, showered, studied, and should have done fine. The first section consisted of two-point identification questions, such as, "What is scientific determinism?" and "What are the modus pollens and modus tollens arguments?". I wrote two thorough sentences for each and should have gotten all ten points. Then I wrote three essays, worth thirty points each. The first two were strong, but with the last woefully underdeveloped, I might receive a "B". I am not, however, overly concerned, for I have a solid "A" in the class otherwise.
Greek presents an entirely different problem. Missing several lectures during the past two weeks severely detriments the accuracy of my translations. Yesterday morning I memorized the approximate fifty-seven verbs I ought to have learned, and for the next few hours I am going through the last several chapter vocabularies, so that I might recognize the noun subjects and objects of said verbs.
I did memorize the masculine, feminine, and neuter singular and plural present active and present passive participle endings, but ten bucks says the young Mr. Underwood will require a declension paradigm involving perfects or aorists, which are similar to the present but have a few weird exceptions that I haven't reviewed yet.
Ich hasse mein Leben.
[Lauree Frances Keith concluded this diatribe at 12:41 PM]