The tyranny of multiple choice.

Being a Physics major, the last time I took multiple choice exams were in high school. OK, the first year courses had some multiple choices, but they generally counted a small portion of the grades. Now, in my MedPhys courses, all exams have a large multiple choice component, usually north of 50 percent. Before you call this program easy, let me just assure you that multiple choice questions are probably the hardest exam you can take as a Physics major, besides an oral exam. Simply put, if you don't know, there's no way for you to pretend you know something, or how much other stuff you know. Plus, there's no way for your grader to have sympathy for you and assume that you "understand the concept". In fact, the hardest questions are generally the multiple choice questions.

Apparently, professional exams tend to have large multiple choice components as well. So I better get used to this.

Finally, a picture of me.

Another update on yours truly. As you can see, I'm about the same, as always. All I have is a Canon A400 digital camera at this point, so the photo quality is not that good. This one is taken with 1/3 second exposure time on a tiny tripod. Hopefully I get a better picture of myself some time later this year.

Update between midterms

Two down, three to go. Sounds not bad, right? Well, the two core courses are at the end. The two I have taken so far doesn't seem too bad. The coming electronics midterm won't be too much of a disaster, I think. The remaining two midterms, Radiation Physics and Diagnostic Imaging, however, will likely stress me out big time. It's safe to say that these two combined is a lot more work than the first three midterms combined.

First of all, these two core courses have midterms that last almost a day. They are scheduled on a Saturday, instead of the regular class hours like the first three midterms. Second of all, the amount of material covered, and level of understanding required from these two courses are much higher than other courses. So the fun have yet to start.

Anyways, here's a picture of a cheap table I got from Zellers. After squatting on the living room desk and disturbing my roommates' TV watching, I finally found a table light enough for me to drag home by myself. After my UPS experience, I don't feel like getting stuff delivered during days when I'm not home all day. Since all my roommates go to school, I will for sure miss the delivery. Unlike parcel deliveries, missing furniture delivery can be very expensive. So now I have a temporary table, until I can clear up some time to arrange for IKEA furniture delivery and assembly.

Back from hell

I and my roommates just went through the hell of Bell. No seriously, no kidding. We went 2 weeks without internet, waiting for bell, and spent literally HOURS on the phone with them. But now it's resolved. I'm still too traumatized to recall the details of getting internet. All I can tell you is that it was a difficult battle that required collective effort of my roommates and me. But in the end, we have internet.

By the way, the coursework is fine. Pretty interesting class. Haven't fallen sleep yet.