Tag: Student life

  • Successes!

    Hello blog. Oh, and hello blog readers. Happy news! I passed a whole bunch of exams! This term has been the best with respect to results so far for me, but also the most intense and difficult one. I guess that insane amount of studying actually paid off. Just a…

  • Not dead, just busy

    Kind of default state now, this working every waking hour and still have a to do-list two meters long. Oh, how I miss my sanity. But I’m living and learning. A lot. Hopefully I will even remember some of the things when my brain has solidified again after having been…

  • Wish I was somewhere else

    In good news: I passed the oral exam on atomic physics! In awesome news: I passed the oral exam on atomic physics with honors! I am not quite sure how this happened. Mostly luck, as in being asked the right questions, I suspect. Nevertheless, it’s a hell of a self-confidence boost! In…

  • Accelerating towards unfinished sentences

    Feelings oscillating between despair, a slight sense of hope, a feeling that everything will probably be okay, mind-boggling terror, and back to despair again. All in a day. Still no apathy though, which I believe is a positive sign. I have never worked so hard for a course as in this one,…

  • I miss my sanity

    Second of six reports handed in, with one whole minute left before deadline. Go me! Argh, and the madness doesn’t end until after the exams. I hate oral exams, they make me so nervous I forget everything I might’ve remembered if I had gotten to write an essay about it…

  • This is madness

    Writing lab reports, feeling my brain slowly leaking out through my ears. Sleep deprivation and ununderstandable nuclear physical concepts. My spare time is less than zero. Why did I want to study physics, again? And yet this is my favourite part. I’m learning a hell of a lot. Hopefully even…