3.22-26.10 – Midterms…Enough Said

This week was filled with mind numbing schoolwork. I will spare you all the details, but overall it was a tough week. Monday and Tuesday weren’t too bad, however my attempts at trying to get work done and studying for events later in the week had only limited success. I then had my first midterm on Wednesday morning; it was for my leadership class. It was completely written and involved analyzing a case study. Fortunately, we were able to use our laptop, Internet, class notes, and what our professor considered “resources available to good leaders”. I think I explained myself rather well, although I am a little unsure about how I will do because this is actually the first written assignment I had submitted for that class. After my midterm, my marketing group had a short meeting with our professor about our big report we are working on for the semester. It wasn’t bad at all, except for the fact that he was asking us about questions in our report and we had yet to talk about as a group. Additionally, none of us were in them mindset to think about the report since we had much more pressing assignments going on. Following that I headed home because I had a lot of studying to do for my history midterm – my biggest concern for the week. For my midterm, we were covering three centuries of development in Copenhagen in addition to recognizing different architectural styles. My last minute studying seemed to be pretty successful because I felt like I knew everything on the midterm, which was the following day (Thursday). I was simply disappointed because I ran out of time. Again, I will just have to see how everything goes when the grade comes. I have a feeling though that he might be rather lenient in the grading because there was simply SO much on the test.

The rest of Thursday was spent wasting my time in DIS. Once again I had intentions to work on my Danish paper and study for my Danish oral midterm. However, it was even harder on Thursday because everyone was getting really excited for the travel break and for many people, it was their last day of classes. I also don’t have that much enthusiasm for studying Danish. I actually spent the rest of my day relaxing and trying to clear my head from the events of the week.

Random Note: On Thursday evening, I actually watched the second Twilight movie with my host family (they recently purchased it). It was a movie I promised myself I would not waste my money on to see in theaters although I was intrigued to see it. I had read the books and had heard that the second movie was better than the first. All in all, the acting was a little better, but the movie as a whole still ranked poorly in my book. I am more than biased though because the second book/plot line was my least favorite in the series.

On Friday, I woke up earlier than expected because I was very anxious to get the day over with because that would mean that I would be on break! Since I was up early and still had work that I needed to get done, I went into DIS early. Once there, I finished my paper and managed to refresh my memory for my Danish midterm. I was definitely ready to get my oral midterm over with though. I was to the point in studying where random phases were popping into my head – in Danish, French, and English. It was crazy! I think the midterm went okay though, but the best part about it was that it was my last assignment for the week. Therefore, I was pretty much done! I did have my last class after that but I had definitely checked out. I did feel bad for the professor in that class though because there were all of eight of us in a class that normally has about 30 students. Additionally, we had a guest lecturer in class, which made the situation even worse. Anyways, once the class was over I took my time heading home. It was a beautiful day in Copenhagen, so I decided to take a longer walk to a train station a little farther away.

Once home, I simply wound down from the week by doing several little thing that were on my To Do list, watched some TV, and simply relaxed. At around 8:00, I went over to the hojskole down the street to meet up with a few of my friends to officially celebrate being on break! We were going to hangout a little and then go out in our town, however we all started to crash pretty quickly since we all had long weeks. In the end, we mostly hung around and chatted a lot, which was actually really nice. (We did manage to celebrate though with several drinks.) Overall, it was a nice way to end a very long week.