Countdown time...

Less than 12 hours until my first Greek test. We're having three of these tests, but the catch is that our lowest scored test will be dropped and our top test score will count twice. Basically, this means I should rock this test, which covers only one chapter, so that it is, by far, my top mark. Although, it would be nice to have solid top marks on all three, but just in case, I want a stellar mark on this one.

I'm surprised by how comfortable I feel with the material. The accents are still getting me, but I know all the vocab, I'm feeling tremendously stronger on the cases than I did earlier this week (thank you flashcards!) and the article, the part I was having difficulty with, agrees so well with the cases, that as long as I observe a few deviations, I'm set!

Watch, having been so confident here, I'll go in tomorrow and get slaughtered. Here's hoping I don't!

Latin, as a side note, is going well...but I think I'm going to do all the sentences in each chapter as soon as we begin them. We do a few of them in class every week and my class mates are much faster than I at translating on the spot, so I never get to answer. I want to make it clear to the professor on a daily basis that I am picking up the material - not just with the hand in homework and the quiz (which, let's be fair, haven't been my "A's").

My game plan for tomorrow is to wake up early, eat a great breakfast and spend another two hours on review. I want to nail attributive position and take the time to write out the cases and article again - I'd like to see if all my endless writing and rewriting of the paradigms has taken hold. I believe it has. We have 1.5 hours for the test and I fully intend to take as much of that time as necessary. I don't care if I'm the only person there, I'm not leaving until I have gone over the test with a fine comb, dealing with accents, breathings, attributive position etc.

A little of this, a little of that

What I can't quite understand about these classmates of mine, is why they spend so much time fighting with the professor over things they're not likely to have an impact upon...say, oh, the way the professor chooses to mark! If she is used to marking in that manner, live with it and stop looking for ways to improve your odds at a better mark through less work.

Appropriately enough, both my classes are plagued with senseless commenters. Was university always like this?

I feel quite bad for a girl who just picked up our Greek class today...that's a heap of information to have missed! Silently I was thankful that we didn't do a refresher for her though, nor was anyone asked to help bring her up to speed - it appears she knows someone in the class anyway. Man, what horrid course selection is that on her part. Poor thing.

I'm happy to report that I received a 5.5/5 on my Greek quiz. I'm on a little Greek roll....or should that be a dolmathakia...hee hee...

So to recap where I'm at...
Greek: feeling good about the alphabet, pronunciation, accents and getting started on the first declension. No feelings of dread, nothing I can't handle. Looking forward to the thinning of the class next semester and possibly building a new peer group, since, you know, everyone I did my BA with is gone!
Latin: feeling not-so-hot here, feels like some major concepts may have flown over my head in previous classes and I'm having trouble picking up the pieces. In all honesty, I would benefit from some more structure in my study...I might have to buy myself an egg timer and set out allotments each day of what I should cover.