My mid-semester summary!

It is already at the end of Octorber. I went through the first half of my tough first semester here. First-round midterms ended last week, and the second round will start soon. Exam system here is weird. Professors try to make the exams as difficult as they can, and the average points for each one is around 40 out of 100. It is kinda frustrating to see your scores are all below 50, after a long time hard working. I don't know how the finals will turn out, and how the final letter grades will be, but currently, those exams make us feel disappointed. My classmates are making fun by saying that maybe we could only get 100 points for the sum of 3 midterms.

Last Wednesday, I went to one of my midterm exams for Metrics, that was my first time to sit in the exam without knowing what I could write there, except my name, of course, that is the only thing I am sure I wrote it correctly. Based on my professor's words "Those exam questions are EASY if you know how to do it." Thanks for the nice encouragement.

The busy life made me keep forgetting things. I left my coat in the computer cluster, and finally found out after 2 or 3 days. I forgot to return the recalled book to the library last Saturday, and finally did it last Sunday. It is insane that the library charged me $25 late fee for one-day delay. I returned the book back only one day late, and I've got $25 fine. How ridiculous it is. I mean I expect to get some punishment because of my fault, but $25 is insane. Library shouldn't rob poor students' money like this. As a punishment, $5 to $10 fine is reasonable, but $25 is too much. I really want to ask them how much fine they will ask for if I return it back 100 days late, isn't that $2500? I could buy hundreds of books for $2500. Anyway, it is a good lesson for my bad memory.