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May 12, 2003 Why is it that we do things we shouldn’t at the most inopportune times? Take me, now. I should be doing my IT Coursework due in on Friday, and at the same time revising for my Psychology exam – also on Friday. Yet alls I find myself doing is staring out the window, watching the birds fly around, and for want of a better phrase – watching the grass grow. With my first exam but four days away, it’s annoying to think that I’m procrastinating to this degree, this magnitude. I must get this done, I must complete it. If only. Realistically, I know that I don’t have a lot to do. I know it’s just a few more paragraphs until I finish a second IT report, then I have to do the same thing again for a third time, this time using a survey I made in Excel last year. After this, I have to revise. I started revising on Saturday. Yes, I know. But better late then never I suppose. And at least I now know the key assumptions for the Cognitive approach in Psychology. 1. A computer analogy. 2. The information-processing theory. 3. … Okay, so I don’t know the third – and I’ll be damned if I can explain the information processing theory. I wonder how long this will stay in my brain. Not that long I should imagine. Until one of the other five approaches pushes it out. Actually, I know different brain scanning techniques. MRI, PET, CAT, X-Rays and something else that I can’t spell, but involves a person actually being sliced open. It begins with a ‘L’. Anyhoo. Probably the most I know in Psych is in the Social Approach. About how individuals and groups affect our behaviour (key assumption) and a key application of this approach is reducing racism. I know their going to ask a question on Piaget’s seven stages of childhood development, because they’ve asked that for the past few years now – and I don’t remember anything about that. So that’s another thing I’m going to have to revise. Can’t wait till the 13th June… my final exam I think. If its not that, it’d be my second to last exam – for law. I’m not that bad with law actually. I failed Psychology last year and so am re-sitting the first year again, because I’d thought it would be easier. It’s not. Law is easy (the bits I know – but then, everything is easy once you know it) even in the final (and apparently harder) year. I guess this could be due to the fact that the stuff from the first year is actually slotting into place – but I’m not sure. I.T – well. Year one was a complete sham. I had this annoying git of a teacher who was almost as big-headed and arrogant as me (I said almost) and basically shattered everyone’s hopes. The thing was, year one work was too easy. Type up a letter, design a letter head. Do this on a spreadsheet. That wasn’t what I signed up for. If I wanted to know how to type a letter, I’d go back to GCSE level and improve on my ‘A’ grade (only thing higher than an ‘A’ is an ‘A star’) or I’d just flash my GCSE IT certificate in their faces. Year two was the bit I wanted to know. Programming. But nope. We aren’t doing that. Instead it’s the human-computer interface, databases, and systems analysis. Bastards. I hate HCI (the three types of reports I have to do), database was a waste of time as I apparently only received 4-5 marks for that, and systems analysis isn’t that bad, I hope. I have some pre-release work left to do for it, which I’ll do after my HCI reports. This sucks. Life sucks. We spend a third of life in education, another third in work and can’t do anything we enjoy because we either don’t have the cash or don’t have the time, and the final third when we do actually have the time AND the cash – we’re too frail and old to do anything. Anyway, I kinda got into trouble in work before. Elsie, the back-stabbing two faced bitch. Told the manager that I was deliberately ignoring her on Saturday. Pah. I just wanna scream now – too much stuff to handle. Again, life sucks. |
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