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Thank you so much for all your positive thoughts!
It worked out so well! The gray drizzling day kept all the neighbors and/or their hired gardeners inside and away from their lawnmowers and leaf blowers. Just quiet sounds of wind and water going through the rain gutters on the house. Such a lovely snuggle a cat at home day!
No Eric to talk to his computer and the TV and whatever else. He must be feeling lonely with me stuck in my studies so much because he's noiser than he's ever been, even when he knows I'm trying to take a test.
Anyway, I did as I said I would and started my laundry, made a cup of soy mocha and had a rare treat, buffalo wings for lunch. Scamperdoo loves it when I have buffalo wings because I save her the meat from one of them and she has some, too.
I felt calm and fairly clear so I decided to do the meditation time after I worked through my flash cards. There were two batches. The larger batch was the module assessments I'd captured, 15 to 20 multiple choice questions per module. I'd somehow not captured module 2. I think I remember it being completely review and I already knew it, so I didn't stress too much about it. I got through them by 4pm, all memorized and understood. That took re-reading one of the modules from the start of the quarter because the routing protocols we covered were so completely different that it confused me.
I put my laundry in the dryer and did a chakra meditation. Brian's meditation takes 45 minutes and I still wanted to get through the module quiz flash cards I'd made so there wasn't time to do the longer meditation. My gosh it's been a long time since I meditated. I'd almost forgotten how. But I got back into the swing of things and cleared each chakra with some extra focus and visualization. With each breath, in goes the light of the universe, out goes the chaos and stress. With each breath the chakra glows more brightly with pure color, expanding out to the size it should be, the stress binding it stretching past the limit and snapping, falling off and disappearing. Scampi even got off my lap at the right time for me to do it! What a sweetie. :) It took me more than 10 minutes but since I wasn't really paying attention to the clock I'm not sure how long it really took. When I'm in practice, I can do it in seven breaths.
I didn't get through all the quiz flash cards but I made a major dent in them. Since I'd gotten through the module assessment ones, I was feeling confident that I'd do fine. With the calmness I was feeling, I was hesitant to play my Linda Ronstadt CD on the way but you know, it makes me happy to play it. That's why I've been playing it over and over for a couple of years now. I figured if it hyped me up too much, I could always do a quick meditation in the car after I got to school to regain my calmness. I didn't need to.
I found the testing room and there was an open seat next to my lab partner, so I took it. I had my piece of blank printer paper in my hand and did the preliminary sketch I needed for my subnetting calculations in ink so I could use it the way I was using Windows Paint at home for my calculations. With Paint, I drew my grid with the bit values and copied it so I could just paste it back over my scribblings. With paper, I used pencil so I could erase it and have my grid free for the next one.
Last quarter, I was so rattled that I figured I either knew the answers or I didn't and didn't recheck them. This time with the flash cards, I came to understand how tricky the questions could be and how I don't always read them well. This time, I decided I'd go back and check each one after I finished the test. I wrote down a list of recheck questions I wasn't sure I'd answered correctly so I'd focus more on them.
For five of them, I changed my answers. If I did that, I re-read them a couple more times just to make sure I read them correctly.
I held my breath and hit "submit." The number correct score was 80%, the weighted score that really matters was 85.6% WOOT! I'd hoped for a 90% with all the studying, but 86% is totally respectable!
My lab partner finished about the same time I did. I asked him in a whisper what he got and he also got 86%. Man I hope he didn't miss the same ones I did! The questions come in random order, so I'm sure he wasn't peeking at my answers. Besides that, he started trying to give me hints about the lab practical final as if I didn't know the material last week. I told him to please not help me because I need to do it on my own. He must think I don't know my stuff just because I wasn't as quick to get through the course material as he was and he pushed into the case study before I understood the final modules we covered. My score on the final was hopefully a wake-up call for him. Ha! Chauvenist.
I went into lab afterwards to find Robert, the guy with CP I've become good friends with over the quarter. He said he wasn't going to take the next course because he has a heavy load at the other campus next quarter. He wanted my email address and I went in to give it to him and hopefully, steal his lab partner Christine for CCNA4. When I asked her and she agreed, Robert said if we were both taking it then he'd take it too. So there will be three of us on the team. :) I almost joined their team when my lab partner missed the second arranged meeting and didn't show up in class. Christine started saying she knew they didn't look like they'd pull their weight but they actually did finish the case study with glowing results. I said I had no doubt in them or I wouldn't have asked them.
Anyway, I'd better get my butt in gear. Last night I finished answering the final that's due tonight but with all of Eric's chatter at the TV, I couldn't focus enough to prove my answers in the book. I want to do that before I fill in the scantron sheet. Then I've still got to find all the answers to the 90 question test that's due Thursday night. Tonight after we go over the Windows Server final, I'm planning to come home and try the settings for the CCNA3 lab final on my router and switch to make sure they work before I go in to take that test tomorrow night.
Guess I'll be doing test questions at work today. I'm so blessed that this is an internship where doing school work is cool.
It worked out so well! The gray drizzling day kept all the neighbors and/or their hired gardeners inside and away from their lawnmowers and leaf blowers. Just quiet sounds of wind and water going through the rain gutters on the house. Such a lovely snuggle a cat at home day!
No Eric to talk to his computer and the TV and whatever else. He must be feeling lonely with me stuck in my studies so much because he's noiser than he's ever been, even when he knows I'm trying to take a test.
Anyway, I did as I said I would and started my laundry, made a cup of soy mocha and had a rare treat, buffalo wings for lunch. Scamperdoo loves it when I have buffalo wings because I save her the meat from one of them and she has some, too.
I felt calm and fairly clear so I decided to do the meditation time after I worked through my flash cards. There were two batches. The larger batch was the module assessments I'd captured, 15 to 20 multiple choice questions per module. I'd somehow not captured module 2. I think I remember it being completely review and I already knew it, so I didn't stress too much about it. I got through them by 4pm, all memorized and understood. That took re-reading one of the modules from the start of the quarter because the routing protocols we covered were so completely different that it confused me.
I put my laundry in the dryer and did a chakra meditation. Brian's meditation takes 45 minutes and I still wanted to get through the module quiz flash cards I'd made so there wasn't time to do the longer meditation. My gosh it's been a long time since I meditated. I'd almost forgotten how. But I got back into the swing of things and cleared each chakra with some extra focus and visualization. With each breath, in goes the light of the universe, out goes the chaos and stress. With each breath the chakra glows more brightly with pure color, expanding out to the size it should be, the stress binding it stretching past the limit and snapping, falling off and disappearing. Scampi even got off my lap at the right time for me to do it! What a sweetie. :) It took me more than 10 minutes but since I wasn't really paying attention to the clock I'm not sure how long it really took. When I'm in practice, I can do it in seven breaths.
I didn't get through all the quiz flash cards but I made a major dent in them. Since I'd gotten through the module assessment ones, I was feeling confident that I'd do fine. With the calmness I was feeling, I was hesitant to play my Linda Ronstadt CD on the way but you know, it makes me happy to play it. That's why I've been playing it over and over for a couple of years now. I figured if it hyped me up too much, I could always do a quick meditation in the car after I got to school to regain my calmness. I didn't need to.
I found the testing room and there was an open seat next to my lab partner, so I took it. I had my piece of blank printer paper in my hand and did the preliminary sketch I needed for my subnetting calculations in ink so I could use it the way I was using Windows Paint at home for my calculations. With Paint, I drew my grid with the bit values and copied it so I could just paste it back over my scribblings. With paper, I used pencil so I could erase it and have my grid free for the next one.
Last quarter, I was so rattled that I figured I either knew the answers or I didn't and didn't recheck them. This time with the flash cards, I came to understand how tricky the questions could be and how I don't always read them well. This time, I decided I'd go back and check each one after I finished the test. I wrote down a list of recheck questions I wasn't sure I'd answered correctly so I'd focus more on them.
For five of them, I changed my answers. If I did that, I re-read them a couple more times just to make sure I read them correctly.
I held my breath and hit "submit." The number correct score was 80%, the weighted score that really matters was 85.6% WOOT! I'd hoped for a 90% with all the studying, but 86% is totally respectable!
My lab partner finished about the same time I did. I asked him in a whisper what he got and he also got 86%. Man I hope he didn't miss the same ones I did! The questions come in random order, so I'm sure he wasn't peeking at my answers. Besides that, he started trying to give me hints about the lab practical final as if I didn't know the material last week. I told him to please not help me because I need to do it on my own. He must think I don't know my stuff just because I wasn't as quick to get through the course material as he was and he pushed into the case study before I understood the final modules we covered. My score on the final was hopefully a wake-up call for him. Ha! Chauvenist.
I went into lab afterwards to find Robert, the guy with CP I've become good friends with over the quarter. He said he wasn't going to take the next course because he has a heavy load at the other campus next quarter. He wanted my email address and I went in to give it to him and hopefully, steal his lab partner Christine for CCNA4. When I asked her and she agreed, Robert said if we were both taking it then he'd take it too. So there will be three of us on the team. :) I almost joined their team when my lab partner missed the second arranged meeting and didn't show up in class. Christine started saying she knew they didn't look like they'd pull their weight but they actually did finish the case study with glowing results. I said I had no doubt in them or I wouldn't have asked them.
Anyway, I'd better get my butt in gear. Last night I finished answering the final that's due tonight but with all of Eric's chatter at the TV, I couldn't focus enough to prove my answers in the book. I want to do that before I fill in the scantron sheet. Then I've still got to find all the answers to the 90 question test that's due Thursday night. Tonight after we go over the Windows Server final, I'm planning to come home and try the settings for the CCNA3 lab final on my router and switch to make sure they work before I go in to take that test tomorrow night.
Guess I'll be doing test questions at work today. I'm so blessed that this is an internship where doing school work is cool.
