"Inteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeennnse" [Quote: Lost in translation]
Paper 1:
I stressed a LOT about this exam. Funnily enough the night before the exam I was nicely asleep, when all of a sudden I sat up and went "Macular Degeneration .....", rambled on about the whats and hows of it and while I did my little monologue I woke myself up. Once I realized what I was doing I giggled at myself and went back to sleep. Yes indeed quite funny.
The exam went smooth except of course a few things like Prosopagnosia. HOW COULD I NOT KNOW WHAT that is? Seriously? The guy mentioned it so many times in the lecture and in the tute too and I just put the general definition for agnosia and then spoke about the Wenicke's & Broca's agnosia ... SERIOUSLY! ARGH!
I came across this rather interesting Blog about Prosopagnosia and it is quite a phenomenon. Oh yes before I forget, Prosopagnosia is also known as "face-blindness". People with this type of agnosia cannot recognize faces nor remember any of the faces previously seen. Basically, every day, every person - even if it's a family member, has a stranger's face. It is so strikingly interesting, because I know for example my parents faces or TDH's face in and out. I know every pimple, every spot, every wrinkle and then there are people who are unable to recognize even gross features. Depending on the severity even their own face sometimes.
Anyway, so I found this Blog and there is this guy "Chaz" who has Prosopagnosia and he shares a bit of his experiences and I thought it was quite amusing *haha*. I guess it's all about determination and will in the end, even when someone cannot recognize the face of a loved one.
Moving on to the other things I got wrong, binaural cues! Number 1. Interaural level difference and Number 2. Interaural time difference. *sigh*. Interaural LEVEL difference takes care of the high frequencies that we perceive and the interaural TIME differences worries about the low frequencies. Buuuutt, because the head acts as an acoustic shadow to sound and I somehow remembered that the hair and what not stops high sounds from coming in, I said time differences was for high instead of low *sigh*. Yes very depressing.
Third thing? I drew the sensorineural hearing loss audiogram wrong. I drew a positive slope when I was supposed to draw a negative one.
I hope that was about it.
Paper 2:
Paniccc! My stats exam. I was so engrossed with the study for Paper 1 that I neglected Paper 2 entirely. Thankfully it was an open book exam, ... which was quite funny actually, because the exam was in the gym along with 2 other exams and you could tell the stats students apart from everyone else, just because we all carried at least 3 big books. It was an afternoon paper, too so by 2 o'clock I had myself so stressed and panicked and confused and unconfused again that I just wanted to get it over with. So yes. We had to do at least 2 full calculations by hand and I was seriously dreading 2 particular types of questions (Factorial Between Groups ANOVA and Chi Square Goodness of Fit), but only because I had confused myself about it in the morning. The exam was about to start and then finally, Mr. exam invigilator guy lifted his mic and told us to start, I opened the paper and what did I say? EXACTLY! A Factorial Between Groups ANOVA! So many MCQ and so many calculations I panicked. I tried but got it alllllll wrong. I spent literally 45 minutes doing NOTHING pretty much. I had to choose whether to continue and run out dramatically and cry or to move on and make sure I had enough time to come back to question one. Emotionally I just wanted to cry and run out, but obviously I did the rational thing, sat there and moved onto my beloved Chi squared Independence question. *Phew* I think that went pretty ok. I finally did have another 45 minutes left in the end to finish the oh-so-awesome question number 1 and I got all answers right.... and I think by the end of it I wanted to just cry,
AGAIN, because I had managed another oh-so-very-stressful stats exam *sigh*.
Yesterday after all this massive examage I read some of my friends Blogs and I found this absolutely breathtakingly beautiful youtube video one her Blog (Chai), which I would just like to share too.
[Tune]
Barcelona: Please Don't Go
Paper 1:
I stressed a LOT about this exam. Funnily enough the night before the exam I was nicely asleep, when all of a sudden I sat up and went "Macular Degeneration .....", rambled on about the whats and hows of it and while I did my little monologue I woke myself up. Once I realized what I was doing I giggled at myself and went back to sleep. Yes indeed quite funny.
The exam went smooth except of course a few things like Prosopagnosia. HOW COULD I NOT KNOW WHAT that is? Seriously? The guy mentioned it so many times in the lecture and in the tute too and I just put the general definition for agnosia and then spoke about the Wenicke's & Broca's agnosia ... SERIOUSLY! ARGH!
I came across this rather interesting Blog about Prosopagnosia and it is quite a phenomenon. Oh yes before I forget, Prosopagnosia is also known as "face-blindness". People with this type of agnosia cannot recognize faces nor remember any of the faces previously seen. Basically, every day, every person - even if it's a family member, has a stranger's face. It is so strikingly interesting, because I know for example my parents faces or TDH's face in and out. I know every pimple, every spot, every wrinkle and then there are people who are unable to recognize even gross features. Depending on the severity even their own face sometimes.Anyway, so I found this Blog and there is this guy "Chaz" who has Prosopagnosia and he shares a bit of his experiences and I thought it was quite amusing *haha*. I guess it's all about determination and will in the end, even when someone cannot recognize the face of a loved one.
Chaz decided to speak out about his face blindness, because of the misconceptions he lived with during his younger years. “I was told when I was young that I was kind of standoffish. Because I didn’t say hi to people when I walked past them. And it’s not because I didn’t want to say hi. I didn’t know who they were,” Chaz says.
Today friends and neighbors know the routine. They offer up their names when greeting Chaz, in the store or on the street. And when it comes to greeting his own wife there’s never been a problem. “I told her when I married her 11 years ago, up front and simple. ‘When I come home from work at the end of the day, if there is a redhead in my home, I’m going to kiss her. Because that’s my wife.’ And to this day, she doesn’t have any red-headed friends,” Chaz says.
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Moving on to the other things I got wrong, binaural cues! Number 1. Interaural level difference and Number 2. Interaural time difference. *sigh*. Interaural LEVEL difference takes care of the high frequencies that we perceive and the interaural TIME differences worries about the low frequencies. Buuuutt, because the head acts as an acoustic shadow to sound and I somehow remembered that the hair and what not stops high sounds from coming in, I said time differences was for high instead of low *sigh*. Yes very depressing.
Third thing? I drew the sensorineural hearing loss audiogram wrong. I drew a positive slope when I was supposed to draw a negative one.
I hope that was about it.
Paper 2:
Paniccc! My stats exam. I was so engrossed with the study for Paper 1 that I neglected Paper 2 entirely. Thankfully it was an open book exam, ... which was quite funny actually, because the exam was in the gym along with 2 other exams and you could tell the stats students apart from everyone else, just because we all carried at least 3 big books. It was an afternoon paper, too so by 2 o'clock I had myself so stressed and panicked and confused and unconfused again that I just wanted to get it over with. So yes. We had to do at least 2 full calculations by hand and I was seriously dreading 2 particular types of questions (Factorial Between Groups ANOVA and Chi Square Goodness of Fit), but only because I had confused myself about it in the morning. The exam was about to start and then finally, Mr. exam invigilator guy lifted his mic and told us to start, I opened the paper and what did I say? EXACTLY! A Factorial Between Groups ANOVA! So many MCQ and so many calculations I panicked. I tried but got it alllllll wrong. I spent literally 45 minutes doing NOTHING pretty much. I had to choose whether to continue and run out dramatically and cry or to move on and make sure I had enough time to come back to question one. Emotionally I just wanted to cry and run out, but obviously I did the rational thing, sat there and moved onto my beloved Chi squared Independence question. *Phew* I think that went pretty ok. I finally did have another 45 minutes left in the end to finish the oh-so-awesome question number 1 and I got all answers right.... and I think by the end of it I wanted to just cry,
AGAIN, because I had managed another oh-so-very-stressful stats exam *sigh*.
Yesterday after all this massive examage I read some of my friends Blogs and I found this absolutely breathtakingly beautiful youtube video one her Blog (Chai), which I would just like to share too.
[Tune]
Barcelona: Please Don't Go
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