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[Toaster]

Mostly, we played Mafia.

Nah uh.

[darkpaladin109]

Posting here since it doesn't seem apropriate to post in the thread now that I'm dead.

I had actually, despite my arguments for his actions suggesting scumminess, not believed that darkpaladin was mafia. However, he's been decidedly absent lately. Any explanation for this, darkpaladin?

I was fricking at bed and my connection got cut last night.

[Mephansteras]

Cobalt! Welcome back!

[Scripten]

Posting here since it doesn't seem apropriate to post in the thread now that I'm dead.

I had actually, despite my arguments for his actions suggesting scumminess, not believed that darkpaladin was mafia. However, he's been decidedly absent lately. Any explanation for this, darkpaladin?

I was fricking at bed and my connection got cut last night.

None of us knew that. We only have what gets posted in the topic to go on. You were gone for an entire day during a sprint game, so I tried to get your attention. With no other evidence for scum, you looked like the best choice. The other option was a no-lynch vote, which is pretty much agreed to always be bad. We just had poor luck that game.

[Jack A T]

Advice: when dealing with lurkers, check their profiles to see when they were last on the forum.  People who haven't been on the forum (actively posting or not, being online shows up) for a while are likely honestly away.

[Vector]

I'm waiting on a bit more news to figure out what I'm doing in June (there may be significant traveling making it smarter to start in July), but I'm expecting that Iron Diadem is going to re-open for good shortly after I relocate on the 2nd.

[Cheeetar]

Fingers crossed!

[Tiruin]

YES.

I can now put to use this medieval quotes book. Mwahaha!

[4maskwolf]

Hey all.

I posted something to this effect on the Prince of the Mafia section, but due to unfortunate life things I am having to take an indefinite hiatus from playing mafia.  My apologies to all of those whose games I was forced to leave because of this.  I may be able to come back for a game or two during the summer (fingers crossed), but consider this my resignation from playing.

It was fun while it lasted, and I will miss all of you.  If anyone feels like running The Home Front, pm me and I can give you a link to the google document I set up for it.

Adios.

[Persus13]

Bye, sorry to see you go. I enjoyed playing with you.

Can you edit the Prince of the Mafia title so it just says Prince of the Mafia and without the Round 4 D5 stuff?

[4maskwolf]

Will do.

[notquitethere]

Keep cool Wolf.


Possibly-relatedly, why's it so quiet on the forum this week? Do the kids have exams again?

[Tiruin]

*kids*
*hmmhmmhm*
...Well my exams and finals are over. Just destressing and/or making up for the lack of [tons of] sleep.

[notquitethere]

Do you think you did well in your exams? I never used to revise for mine except maybe on the day or the day before. I used to quite enjoy them really. I like writing essays and I work well under tight time constraints so it was pretty ideal. Now I think about it... I might miss doing exams.

[ToonyMan]

I've taken my fair share of university exams in the last three years so I think I'm pretty good at it.

All of my classes are math and engineering related so I can't help you with creative writing (or technical lab briefs for that matter...).

From my experience:
1. Don't cram or do any stupid shit like stay up all night trying to "study". If you don't get the material in at most two hours then try again another day, obviously this means you should practice the material long before any exams are actually happening.
2. Get really good at memorizing. Even if you don't fully understand the concept, if you can remember the procedure to solve a problem, just do it. If you're using units, make sure to rewrite the units each time because it helps to keep things straight.
3. The average course has anywhere between three to five exams, professors usually drop your lowest exam, if the class is difficult it's very possible you can still get an A even if you get 70s and 80s on the exams.
4. The final exam is what they want to see the most improvement on. If your final exam grade is high, then you can expect your final grade to be pretty high as well if they see you're doing all the assignments.

Let me list exam grades for some of my classes with my overall grade; I'll list them from easiest courses to hardest courses. I don't know my final exams scores for some classes, so I'll place a ?? there instead. I also can't remember the scores I got on some classes like Calculus I and II so they aren't there.

Probability : A- (thanks mafia)
75 90 95

Linear Algebra : B+
85 92 ??

Differential Equations : B+
80 94 89

Chemistry I : A
92 95 99 ??

Physics I : A-
78 90 ??

Physics II : A-
89 84 ??

Calculus III : A
64 85 92

Digital Logic : A-
74 75 78 85 ??

Electrical Circuits : A
100 78 75 99 81

Case in point, even if you get pretty decent marks in easier classes, because the exam averages are so high you may not be guaranteed that A.