Monday, December 9, 2013
Final Exams coming up!
Fran has two more weeks of school and things are heating up for her! Last night she burned a CD with 74 pages of homework for her class in Discrete Mathematics!!! This morning she is sitting for the final exam she has been worried about for a few weeks now, and has been running on about 4 hours of sleep per night for more than a week. Last week she had 2 exams in Programming and got a 10 in one (the highest grade possible) and an 8.4 in the other. She needs to get 7 or higher to pass.
As I mentioned in earlier blogs, this first year is like a hazing -- she has to pass ALL of her tests and classes or she's out. That's not going to happen to Fran, but the school will make it's first cuts next week, and Fran thinks there will be 5 to 8 students in her class who will not be coming back after the end of this semester. I have a feeling it will be more than that. The last cut of first-year students will be made at the end of the upcoming second semester, and usually only about half survive. They set it up that way, so they are only left with the best candidates for graduation. After this year, she will be allowed to flunk one class per semester and still be able to take it over again....but I can't see that happening with Fran!
Christmas is approaching. I am going to the States for 3 weeks and will unfortunately miss her final week of exams. But Steven and Leeann will be here and I will be notified about how she did. Steven set her up with Skype, made an adjustment to make her computer run faster, and hooked her up somehow so that he will be able to "see" her computer from his computer.
Fran will visit her family for about 5 days over Christmas and will be back here on the 30th when I arrive back from the States.
For the whole month of January (which she has off) she will be attending English classes 5 days a week at the Lending Library and no doubt studying in advance for the next semester.
So I will be signing off from the blog until about January 2. We hope you have a wonderful holiday and hope to see you back here soon.
Peace to all!
As I mentioned in earlier blogs, this first year is like a hazing -- she has to pass ALL of her tests and classes or she's out. That's not going to happen to Fran, but the school will make it's first cuts next week, and Fran thinks there will be 5 to 8 students in her class who will not be coming back after the end of this semester. I have a feeling it will be more than that. The last cut of first-year students will be made at the end of the upcoming second semester, and usually only about half survive. They set it up that way, so they are only left with the best candidates for graduation. After this year, she will be allowed to flunk one class per semester and still be able to take it over again....but I can't see that happening with Fran!
Christmas is approaching. I am going to the States for 3 weeks and will unfortunately miss her final week of exams. But Steven and Leeann will be here and I will be notified about how she did. Steven set her up with Skype, made an adjustment to make her computer run faster, and hooked her up somehow so that he will be able to "see" her computer from his computer.
Fran will visit her family for about 5 days over Christmas and will be back here on the 30th when I arrive back from the States.
For the whole month of January (which she has off) she will be attending English classes 5 days a week at the Lending Library and no doubt studying in advance for the next semester.
So I will be signing off from the blog until about January 2. We hope you have a wonderful holiday and hope to see you back here soon.
Peace to all!
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