I have touched upon this subject before, but now
I feel I need to bring it up one last time. Today our exams started. As usual
the first exam was maths. And I am not so good at maths.
In fact I hate
maths.
I hate the ominous
looking brackets, I hate the curled up integration signs, I hate fourier
transforms, oh Lord, I could go on and on…
But, coming back…
I got into the exam
hall and turned over the exam paper. I scanned the paper roughly. Nothing
extremely venomous to watch out for. No vipers or adders or cobras. So I
started, with my fingers crossed.
Part A. This is
where things get dirty. Random process and random variable. Definitions? Come
on!!! I barely know how to solve those problems, and now you want a word by
word definition? Well, I believe an example is worth a thousand words. Let's
just hope they feel the same way too. Anyway, I wrote down my example and a
brief explanation.
Question 10. Hey, I
finished part A. This didn't get as dirty as I thought.
Part B. The really
big fish swim here, by the way. I caught a lot of trout, lets hope I can catch
a shark or two here. Module 1, module 2…hey I can actually do this stuff!!!
And BAM!!!
A brick wall was
hit. And it is called module 3-Random processes. One of the most despicable
things in our syllabus. But whoa, wait one damn second, fellah!! I did this
question last night!! And bam!!!
I was done. With
half an hour to spare. This had never happened before. I am usually sitting
with my head in my hands during this time.
Now, what actually
happened? Did I prepare too much? I don't think so. I prepared like I usually
do. I did nothing more, and nothing less. Then what?
I can only think of
on thing. Maths ends this semester. For being on my back for so long, for
making me pull out my hair time and time again, for being a serious pain in the
a** for so long, maybe this is your goodbye kiss. Your parting gift. But I
shudder to think otherwise. Maybe I avoided the truly venomous adders and
vipers and cobras, but were there too many little snakes in the grass? Will
they play spoilsport?
You gave me your
goodbye kiss, I just hope it doesn't turn out to be a dementor's kiss.
