Break

Midterms are over.
Actually, midterms were over on Thursday, or even Wednesday, if you want to get really technical. (The last test that I took on Wednesday was my final midterm, I had a test on Thursday, but it was not actually a midterm in the sense we have tests in Chinese every few weeks, but the Micro midterm counts for 35% of the course grade) Friday, I’d planned to take the entire day and just unplug, and this entry was meant to go up on Saturday, but it didn’t due to the fact that my room didn’t have power all day. Yes that’s right, just my room. The power main coming into my building went down, but it affected the building strangely. Some floors had power, some didn’t. Some, like mine, had partial power. My room was the only one without it. Which meant that I couldn’t access anything on my computer.
Extremely aggravating.
But today, all is well. My tests are over, and my two big ones in Stats and Micro I felt went very well, I might even have aced the Stats test, depending on how a few things break. And many of the students in my class didn’t finish the Micro exam within the time allotted, so even though I know for sure one question was wrong, I still may end up near the top of the curve, we’ll see. I’ve realized that spring semester here is immeasurably better than winter, because we have the week of spring break just about exactly in the middle of the semester to break things up. Which make a big difference, there aren’t many holidays during the term, and the intensity of the work wears you down. Having this week to refresh is … outstanding, and that’s an understatement.
The weather on Friday & Saturday was unbelievably beautiful, first time I’ve gone outside without my jacket since September. (The kids that were still here and not in Florida or the Bahamas had the same idea, as you can see. You can always tell when the weather is nice when people hang out on the steps in front of Lowe Library.)
Thursday had an interesting experience to kick off my week of break, but I’ll save that for the next post. There will be more new content coming this week, so stay tuned …