Happy cake day @ashesoftime and @hilaryfol ! 
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Thank you all guys 
@anna834 I’ve been kinda busy with the university…trying to pass all the exams…I came back home a couple days ago. I’m trying to rest a bit before starting to study again 
I’ll be back soon 
I miss you all too…
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You still have exams? When do you finish?
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I had the last one four days ago…and I still have 3 exams left
I’ll do two of them in September, I just have to choose which ones
You get to choose exams as well? What is this?
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I meant that I have to choose which ones of the 3 left I want to do in September c:
I still have physics 2, quantum chemistry and organic chemistry 
And actually yeah, sometimes we can choose some exams
For example, this year (which was my second year) I could choose one exam for the second semester…and next year I will have to choose another two
They are “optional exams” c:
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I wish we had a system like that, we just get thrown into whatever they have planned for us. You exams sound like nightmares though. Out of curiosity, do you get formula sheets and other such content during the exam?
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I thought it was kinda the same everywhere so I suppose that we’re quite lucky. We don’t have sooo much choice but it’s still a nice thing to be able to choose
It depends, for me it’s waaaaay harder to study physics than quantum chemistry. And it will be even harder for me to study something like history or literature. I think that it depends on personal “taste” c:
It depends on the teacher. Someone (very rarely) lets students bring books, notes, formula… everything during the written part. And trust me, it doesn’t help at all 
when the teacher allows students to do something like that it means that the exams is just impossible
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At least you get something. We get nothing. Last year we had an exam that was about 6 pages long, the formula sheet was 18! This year, I had an exam in the continuation of the module, it was much harder, we got 0 formulae.
You know it’s bad when it’s easier to develop your own encryption system to save formulae into calculators with basic and limited memory (they only save numbers of upto like 12 digits), so that you can smuggle formulae into the exam. Then developing your own hieroglyphic system in parallel so you can smuggle stuff in on the side of your pen as well and make it look like random doodles or just the design of the pen.
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Wooo, It sounds awful. And actually I don’t think that it’s always useful to learn so many formulae by heart. I mean, in your future life you’ll be able to read them on books! I don’t get why they want us to fill our brains with information that you can find everywhere whenever you want. In my opinion what’s important is the “concept”.
I used to develop so many different ways to cheat when I was in the high school, I was a pro at that 
Now it’s not always that useful anymore. Let’s say that (in our case) if you now the law, the concept (and of course you need to study a lot to truly understand it), it’s easy to derive the basic formula…and from that one you can derive the more complex ones. It doesn’t work for every subject…but yeah, sometimes it does
(Ps. I’m sorry that I’m writing in the wrong thread 
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It’s not, we learn to be the very tools we’re meant to be using. Their training us to be computers and it’s bloody stupid. We’re engineers, we’re supposed to use computers, not be them.
It’s not even so much the concept in our case. We just have to know how to produce a result. It’s what differentiates us from physicists. A physicist is steeped purely in the theory. To use the PC example again, a physicist wants to know exactly how it works. An engineer just wants to use it to get their job done as efficiently as possible.
You have it easy. We have to derive formulae, momorise others, memorise diagrams, design stuff according to real scenarios and answer theory as well. We legit had a question asking us to write an essay mid-exam. The paper was asking a bunch of nightmare-ish maths questions and then, mid-paper, randomly asks for a full essay on a theoretical part.
Here…
LOL, I didn’t even realise what thread we’re in.