Final Exams

Well im home now but theres still a lot of things I didnt add to the blog in the last few weeks...

After classes ended on October 28th we had a full week for "stuvac" or a study week before finals.  I wasnt planning on studying at all but I got a little bit done, more then I expected because everyone else was studying and there wasnt much else to do.  Anyways the next two weeks were exams.  I had four exams.  Biology practical, biology lecture, locating australia lecture, and psychology of sport lecture.  All of them went pretty well i thought.  Psych was definitely the worst because it was full of random statistical questions which were nearly impossible.  The exams were a little stricter then here in America, they had large rooms with a few hundred desks with atleast 50 old ladies walking around with those bright orange construction vests on.  I swear they just rounded up them all from the local nursing home because honestly none of them couldve been under 60 years old, but they took their jobs seriously.  Once you sat down you had to fill out two forms of all your information and leave your student id on your table as they came around and checked.  They took what seemed like 2min at each table to verify that the person sitting at the desk was in fact the person on the ID card, idk if they were almost blind or if they were super suspicious that someone was trying to have another person take the exam for them.  Also you had to take everything out of your pockets and put them in a plastic bag beneath your table and your backpack must be left outside the lecture hall in another room or building.

Anyways I survived the exams and have already received my final grades which were:
Biology - D
Psychology - C
Locating Australia - C

Now dont think I did horrible by looking at those, remember we are using the Australian grading system which goes...

HD - High Distinction = 100-85
D - Distinction = 85-75
C - Credit = 75-65
P - Pass = 65-55
F - Fail = 55-0

So i did fairly well, considering it is really hard to get an HD in Australia.  The grade equivalent for an HD at UMass would be an A+,  a D would be a B+ to an A, a Credit would be C+ to B and so on...so ill probably end up with an A and two B's which I am happy with for trying to study while in Australia.