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[Rose]

[Tellemurius]

another great author down the hole.... *sigh*

[Mindmaker]

All right, so this is my first attempt of making a thread-crossing post.

Today I was going to have a test and psychological evaluation, to determine what major might be the right one for me, when enrolling at the university.
Knowing the city, but not the exact location of the institution conducting the test, I got up 3 hours early at 5 am, so I could catch a train at 5:40 and have nearly an hour and a half to wander around the city looking for it (they've given me a map, with a appoximate route).
The train, which I looked up on the hompage of our train company didn't came. Well that's not exactly right. It was 10 minutes late and did not stop at my station.
After that I had to spend 50 minutes shivering and cursing under my breath for the next one.
That basically screwed up my plan on getting breakfast along the way and I had to test on my empty stomach.

After arriving in said city, I had only half an hour left and only a loose plan on where the institution was. Luckily I found the right bus quite quickly (it was far too late for walking). I asked the busdriver for further directions and about where exactly I had to get out. Even though I asked him several times, if he was sure about pointing me in the right direction, I ended up in front of the wrong institute. Somehow I managed to find it in the last 5 minutes that were left using the sketchy map I had, after racing down the streets like an idiot.

I managed to fuck up the part measuring my word pool, which wasn't an important part of the evaluation, but is usally my strong suit. Well, it was "around average", measured with the other graduates from the different school types.
My knowledge of math was average as well. Had I bothered leaf though my notes at home, I wouldn't have had any problems at all. I guess I'm a sad sample for the mathematical knowledge of my country.
The questions regarding the recognition of pattern were ridiculously hard, as well.

During the break and before the psychological discussion, I chugged my favorite energy drink to calm myself, since I was pretty nervous, which was rewarded with a rising heart rate, which remained constantly high for at least an hour. Afterwards exhaustion overshadowed me.

Well, time to post the other part in the happy thread.

[Tellemurius]

wait you needed to take a psychological extermination to get into a university? O_o

[Taricus]

Damn, they're on to us.

To the supervillan union meeting!

[Mindmaker]

wait you needed to take a psychological extermination to get into a university? O_o

No, it was just supposed to help me narrow down the options I should consider, as well as provide aditional information about those.

[Leafsnail]

Man, through seventeen years of school, I never learned anything more about WW1 than its existence, at least in the course of any class.  Most textbooks didn't even give an entire chapter to itself for independent reading.  The way I came to understand it, was that the events of WW1 flowed directly into WW2.

...Kindof.  It's more like the stipulations imposed on Germany afterwards flowed directly into WW2 though (assuming you're sticking purely to Germany).  I'm pretty sure we learnt more about what happened before and after WW1 than during it (and most of the stuff during was about what it was like to be an ordinary person during WW1).  Then again, those are probably the areas where there's most lessons you can apply to today...

Now that I think about it, my college world history class did go into quite a bit of detail about it, namely how the European commanders tried through most of the war to approach other European armies with the kind of industrial-scale contemptuous destruction they had managed to visit on aboriginal warriors over the century prior.  Or snippets like how Britain, good little empire that it was, began the war with an artillery ammunition stockpile specifically intended to survive and win a war against Germany.  It was exhausted in nine months.

Hey, "It'll all be over by Christmas"...

[Urist Imiknorris]

I locked myself out of my apartment this morning. Waking up thirty minutes before class is not conducive to momory.

[Tellemurius]

i can see that

[Bauglir]

-snip-

[ToonyMan]

News update.  Have until Friday so I'll be sleeping in a new home Thursday night.  Grandma's house is in Wolcott which is a bit of a ways away, but cool enough two of the kids in my classes are from Wolcott so it'll probably be the three of us on the bus.

[Duke 2.0]

 How will be the web situation over there? I imagine you'll be able to move the computer well enough, and you might not have to live in an attic anymore.

[ToonyMan]

My grandma has a desktop set up with a direct Ethernet connection from the modem.  I have a router I can bring over as well too for laptops.

[Tack]

Well at least you still have us then. And TF2?

[Vector]

Well, I've been given a cease and desist order.

Time to go bother the education department.