first term down
Dec. 8th, 2023 04:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishThis week was crappy on a couple of fronts but at least classwork wasn't one of them. I took my Mapping final on Thursday, and it ... it felt more like an exam than any of the others. Might be because those have all been tests where either I knew the answers, or I knew pretty well where to find the answers in the lecture notes. This... some of it was reasoning through things, and some of it was complicated math problems, and very little of it felt easy.
It lasted two hours and I ran out of time with about a question and a half unanswered. Pointswise that was around ten percent of the final. So, another five percent of my final grade in Mapping has flown off to join the 15% from the missed midterm. Having said that, I'm still relatively confident, I've just adjusted my expectations way downward. I need about 40% on the exam to pass the class. I am pretty sure I'll end up with at least 70% and possibly as much as 85%.
Other class grades are mostly in: 95% in ArcGIS, 89% in Python and in Intro, and 77% in Computing, which for a class that I stopped being able to make myself care about three-quarters through seems reasonable. I'll take it. (The only one of those that's official is Intro; the others are based on coursework grades as recorded in the online course, so might be off by a percent or two.)
Could be worse. I have no idea how an average of ~80-85% translates into being able to get scholarship-type money. Guess I'll find out in a month or two.
And... that's it, all over for a month and then I do it again twice running. Next term Tony my Arc instructor is teaching Cartography & GeoVisualization (the InterCaps are in the course title), someone I don't know is teaching Technical Issues In GIS, and I have no idea who's teaching ArcGIS 2 and GIS Remote Sensing but it is almost certainly not %&$ Rob. Small favours.
I am honestly somewhat nervous. I was running out of steam by the end of November here. Hoping that between fewer courses, a lack of the most difficult-for-me instructor, and whatever assist I can get from the ADHDoc in two weeks, it'll go more smoothly.
In the meantime there are packages to ship and Murderbot to read and a somewhat bitey cat to pet. Winter is wintering.
It lasted two hours and I ran out of time with about a question and a half unanswered. Pointswise that was around ten percent of the final. So, another five percent of my final grade in Mapping has flown off to join the 15% from the missed midterm. Having said that, I'm still relatively confident, I've just adjusted my expectations way downward. I need about 40% on the exam to pass the class. I am pretty sure I'll end up with at least 70% and possibly as much as 85%.
Other class grades are mostly in: 95% in ArcGIS, 89% in Python and in Intro, and 77% in Computing, which for a class that I stopped being able to make myself care about three-quarters through seems reasonable. I'll take it. (The only one of those that's official is Intro; the others are based on coursework grades as recorded in the online course, so might be off by a percent or two.)
Could be worse. I have no idea how an average of ~80-85% translates into being able to get scholarship-type money. Guess I'll find out in a month or two.
And... that's it, all over for a month and then I do it again twice running. Next term Tony my Arc instructor is teaching Cartography & GeoVisualization (the InterCaps are in the course title), someone I don't know is teaching Technical Issues In GIS, and I have no idea who's teaching ArcGIS 2 and GIS Remote Sensing but it is almost certainly not %&$ Rob. Small favours.
I am honestly somewhat nervous. I was running out of steam by the end of November here. Hoping that between fewer courses, a lack of the most difficult-for-me instructor, and whatever assist I can get from the ADHDoc in two weeks, it'll go more smoothly.
In the meantime there are packages to ship and Murderbot to read and a somewhat bitey cat to pet. Winter is wintering.