just came from the india midterm, wow did that ever suck. i had thought that since i’ve never missed a lecture, i take really good notes, and i’ve done all the reading that i wouldn’t have to study too much - silly me! i studied for six straight hours last night and still wasn’t completely prepared. i’m hoping he’s pretty lenient with regard to grading, as almost all of us walking out of the exam looked like we’d just seen our favorite puppies raped with chainsaws.

i suppose my mistake was in focusing on einstein over the weekend, since i figured that would be the harder of the two - physics has never been my strong point. einstein of course turned out to be easy and india a deeply traumatic experience. i suspect i’ll wake up screaming from nightmares about the rowlatt act of 1919 and the significance of the census for the next few weeks at least.

at least i had no problems getting into the city on time this morning, thanks to spides, who provided a newzealandy wakeup call JUST FOR ME. there aren’t that many people who are awake at 6am est, but he is one of them (hooray for insane time differences)!