week one: done

first and foremost: i’m freaking out about the exam tomorrow. i just don’t feel prepared. i went over the exam reviews but after doing that i read some sample exam questions from the first exam review and i was confused on two of them (there were only 5). i NEED a 70 at the very least. that means i need to get AT LEAST 28 of the 40 questions on the exam correct. the average for the past three exams has only been 2-4% above a 70 (exam 1 average: 73.4, exam 2 average: 74.3, exam 3 average: 72.4). that scares me. i have little room for error here. he said that 10 questions would come from previous exam questions that were missed by a large percent of the class. luckily he gave us those but he did warn us he would reformulate the questions. so out of those 10 say i miss 2 (theoretically since i have all the answers you would think i’d get all 10 but i’m using lower numbers to be on the safe side in planning this scenario). after missing those two out of 10 that still leaves me with 10 questions that i can get wrong and still get a satisfactory grade. so outside of those previous exam questions i need to get 2/3 of the remaining 30 questions correct. that’s 67% of those. that’s my average on my previous exams and i never did study for any of those exams. so i’m studying a great deal this time so my chances are decent, aren’t they? yeah, this is how my mind thinks. it’s just a garble of running numbers through my head.

okay … in other news …

i LOVE my new job. it’s been a rough week and i haven’t really gotten into the full swing of things but i’m getting there. i imagine things won’t start to feel normal until a week or two after i get to our chicago office. it’s been a bit slow trying to pick everything up but i can tell i’m going to love it. my team is awesome which makes it that much better.

i have more to say but i really need to get back to studying.

until later.

.ryan