Troubleshooting is like my new Biology. I find it interesting, it seems fun, but I just don't get it. Be it the anatomy of a rat, or a system unit, it just doesn't stick in my brain. It's probably the memorization. It's not like history, or Islamic Studies, you don't have a plot, or notions, you just have technicalities. I don't know why I suck so much in memorizing anatomies. I try. I really do. I've got a great lecturer, she explains everything, and the book explains a lot too. The only explanation for this whole situation, is me. I just don't get it. I honestly just don't get it. And it worries me how much of a big deal this is to my CGPA. I've currently failed both quizzes and fairly passed the assignments. Midsem wasn't that bad, I studied a lot, and I could answer most of the questions. But considering the percentage of exams in the carry marks is quite low, I don't think I'll get anything higher than a B-

Arab. I find language fascinating. I do, really. The tones, the culture, the words you emphasize in a sentence that indirectly contributes to the meaning itself, the minor things that are lost in translation, and other linguistic fascinating trivial stuff. Even my conscious change languages. When I talk to myself in my brain, it's sometimes English, sometimes proper Malay, sometimes Kelantan, sometimes Korean, and very very rarely French, but never Arab. I wonder sometimes, but then again, even though I've learnt practiclly my whole life, it's always the same basic thing. Madhi, Mudhari', amar. Jama' mufrad. Jumlah Ismiyah Fi'liyah. And no matter what language you're at, vocabulary is the key. Grammer only works in technicalities, but to truly master a language, it's vocab that you need. Sometimes I feel really bad for Arab, because I can't seem to like it. Sure, it's the primary language of our religion, but you don't necessarily need to like it. It's a great medium for resources, but not much for communication. 

Physics. I love Physics, it's the only subject that makes proper sense right now. The theories, the application, the calculations are all well explained, and I enjoy it a lot. Midsem questions were okay. I could answer most of it, except for thermodynamic questions where I partially forgot the equations, but that's okay. I just know for a fact I won't be getting full marks. I kind of have a strong faith towards Physics being my CGPA saviour. As it did to my Semester 1 GPA, if it weren't for Physics, I don't think I'd even be on the 3.00+ side. Questions were fairly normal, my emotions were fairly stable, and I had Fish & Chips for dinner that day :D Me Gusta!

Calculus. I like calculus, I've always liked differentiating stuff back in SPM, it's really fun, and now differentiating radicals and rational equations and absolute values is just awesome. I was really excited that I even completed my tutorials about a month before the due date. *eyebrows double jerk* .But the exams was really...funny. I opened the exam questions and just started giggling in my seat. Those were really out of this world. There was this one question where they gave a very complicated rational equation involving radicals and fraction within a fraction, and they asked us to give them the intervals of something moving, with the equation of velocity being the said complicated equation. And I was sitting there like...

LOL, okay, I know that the fundamental concept of the first principle of derivative is to find the intervals. But it just ended up being very complicated that it seemed unlikely of an answer for 3 marks. I just wonder what people were thinking when they made this question. They must have a sense of humor, I can just picture them being like "Hey, why don't I give the speed of a car, the duration of the journey, and ask the mass of the sun, they'd be dumbfounded!". I just wonder, what do they get for lowering all of our GPAs? I wonder that a lot. Those questions were really tough, I accepted my failure the moment I opened my pen lid to start writing my answers. And I've already suspected a drop in my calculus carry marks. It's probably a good thing that midsem counts for only 20%...I'd probably just get 1%

Programming. The exam for Programming was exactly the day after Calculus. Right after calculus, everyone was so bummed, and was like "Let's watch movies!" lol, irrelevant, but it ended up being a study drive night filled with chocolate, chicken chop, twitter jacks, and C programing problems. Then, the exams turned out just fine. I was extremely exhausted because I didn't get a wink of sleep the night before. Everyone started sleeping at 2 and 3, but I was filled with enthusiasm to do all the problems (Cheh~ semangat terlebih), but it was fun, and I could answer the exams quite smoothly :)

All in all, learning is more than just sitting in class, listening to the lecturer, passing the exams, doing all the assignments. It means we know more than we used to. Studying doesn't make you any smarter unless you truly want to know something about that subject. Studying means nothing if you just do it for the exams. Studying is something you want to do, not something you should do. My advice, if you don't feel like studying, then you shouldn't do it. What's the point of so-called studying if your mind's not into it? That you're reading the same paragraph for 11 minutes? I'm never stressed out over studying, and I don't intend it to be that way. Rather, appreciate knowledge, because it makes us less stupid than yesterday.