Am I getting older?

I feel like an old woman. Seriously. I have a crick in my neck that won't go away, and my limbs are stiff after sitting "Indian-style" in bed for 20 minutes, and when I try to movie it's really difficult. Plus, it's only 8pm and I want to go to sleep. This is the affect finals has on me.

I only have one left, but it's the mother of all finals--Animal Behavior. I loved the class; it was super interesting and the professor is really enthusiastic. But there is so much material, and I'm just starting to study. I think I need a cup of tea to keep myself awake.

I learned a new life lesson today. It's something I have learned before but just didn't take to heart. Here it is: You can't trust anyone more than you trust yourself. No matter how much you want to, you can't. Now I don't mean in a life-or-death situation way; what I mean is that if you have a gut feeling about something, then go with that gut feeling. For example, for my final today on Cognitive Psychology, I had reviewed most of the material once. However, we'd watched 4 movies in class, and I wanted to go back over them. Each one was between a 1/2 hour and an hour long, and I thought that, if the professor had taken the time to show them, then it would be good to go back over them.

However, a friend of mine in the class had gone to the last class of the semester, and I had not. When I was asking them if the professor had said anything about the exam set-up, they said that they couldn't remember, but that the professor had said that the movies "wouldn't play a large part" in the exam and that we just needed to know "general topics." Well, the general topics of the movies were also in the lecture notes. So, even though I thought that the movies were going to be important, my friend had said that the professor said they weren't that important, so I didn't re-watch them.

When I arrived at the exam today, I felt really well prepared. I'd made flashcards for all the material and gone over it multiple times. However, upon receiving the test, I noticed almost the whole short answer section was from the videos, which I hadn't reviewed. In going over the exam, about 20% of the material was from those videos. I was a bit upset with myself, as you can imagine. I was on the edge of an A and an A-; now I'm not sure that I'll get even an A-. So that's that. Live and learn. That's how it goes. From now on, I am vowing to myself that I will study how I think it is best, and not listen to others. Let them do what they think is best, and I'll do what I think is best. Then we'll see who winds up on top.

Oh, and a biology fact? Instead I have decided to post this cartoon:It's by someone named Joe Sayers; so kudos to him. This work is his work, not mine. I just really thought it was funny.