Exams... I hate, no, detest them. I've spent the last couple of days studying for my electrical enginering exam on Tuesday - the last day of the January exams for me... All I can say now is I hate electrical circuits. I've enjoyed the other modules in electrical engineering, but this particular one is driving me insane. Take this quote from my textbook for example:

"We use the term irreducible to indicate that all parallel or series connections or other reducible storage combinations of like storage elements have been reduced to their irreducable form."

Taking out all the crap in the middle out and we get:

"We use the term irreducible to indicate that the circuit is irreducible."

Go figure.

So they used the word irreducible as their means of explaining to us what irreducible means. I'm just glad that these people didn't publish a bloody english dictionary!! Not only do I have to deal with frankly obvious and pointless crap whilst studying but the circuits module is basically 2nd year maths disguised in a different name.

I hate maths.

I took 1st year maths last year (as a requirement of my course). And I failed it. Hopefully having suffered through the exact 1/2 a year of material again I'll have realised that I really don't want to suffer an additional 1/2 a year next year and bothered my arse actually revising for it this time round. And maybe even passing it...

Regardless, 1st year maths isn't going to help me solve second order differential equations and my textbook seems too pre-occupied stating the obvious in the most irrelevant of places to help me either. Tuesday is going to be a LOOOONG day...

A bit like today and tomorrow actually...