SIXTEEN MINUTES

5:44pm.
i shouldn't be blogging YET again, since i have to study like crazy uli, so i compromise nlng. blog until 6pm lng. then la na.

5:45pm.
we had our statistics exam this afternoon! and was i PLEASED with myself as soon as 3pm struck.
you see, i was confidently answering this and that and all (well not exactly confident, pero at least i had final answers), when i realized, at 2:57pm, JUST THREE MINUTES before the end of the exam, that i got my test statistics mixed up. ayun, for the chi-squared test, would you believe i looked at the t-test table?

pero it was understandable. i was nervous. i didn't feel as nervous as i was when i did some elocution stuff in grade school, but i swear my hands were shaking uncontrollably. might be the aircon, and my rather "small" PR comm shirt. anyway..

5:49pm.
ayun, i was extremely glad i found out my error at that crucial period. grabe, the t-test value, which i mistook for the chi-square value, was 1.943. the calculated statistic was 12.5820, so that meant that i could safely reject the null hypothesis. basta. it would be too dorky to explain. hehe. (as if this isn't nerdy enough).

ayun, when i realized my mistake, i checked the right table, and the correct chi-square value was 12.5916!
imagine that! ang lapit lapit na pala.
and more importantly, the conclusion changed. dapat di na ireject ung null.

grabe, i was soooo relieved kasi that was a complicated problem. actually, not complicated = difficult, but complicated = looong arduous process! lalang. solve for this and this to get that which you use to do this and yada yada.

anyway, glad i made it just in time.

5:55pm.
pero after pala, i realized i made this stupid mistake pa rin. SAYANG talaga.
i was reminding myself not to ask other people about their answers and possible scores and all, since they may potentially diminish my self-esteem, but what the heck, everyone was discussing outside the exam hall.

ayun, i got this conditional probability question wrong. sayang!
muntik ko na tlgang makuha, except i didn't divide this by that. basta.

and what's even more annoying is that I SOLVED A SIMILAR PROBLEM IN THE MIDTERMS!
i was proud of myself then, kasi, kahit na iba ung sagot ko sa ibang bridging, it turned out tama pala!
never mind if mababa ung total score ko. haaaay, sayang tlga. i was suuuuuper close na.

5:58pm.
ayan. tumawag na si korinna for dinner.


actually, i felt okay leaving the exam hall. sabi ko, ang liit naman nun. okay lng.
i was still hoping my answer was correct, perhaps.

brice was cursing sa msn kasi mali sya sa problem na un. hehehehe. i didn't know napakagrade-conscious pala nya. but then again, he wants to take on a tough double degree course next sem, and for that you apparently must have straight A's. he estimated na what he'll get in the exams based on the mean and standard deviation of the midterm test, and he feels he's only gonna get A-.

ano na kaya ako no? hmmmm... never mind. hehehe. i think i did good today. (except for that nasayang na question though). oh well. basta i'm glad the exams are 1/3 done, and that i'll be going home in 2 weeks!

AND, kristia sent me a real nice email. THANKS krish. =)
replied din to my long-lost childhood friends sa friendster. masaya.

6:03pm.
overtime ng 3 minutes. sorry!

haha. i could never produce quality work under grave time constraints. oh well.
all for the glory of academics! yiheeeeeee.

i'll go down for dinner, then study for maths exam on thursday.

6:04pm. 4 minutes overtime.
twenty minutes pala dapat title ng post na to. oh well.

happy day!