July 30th, 2003
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
Now to RL; feeling stressed and physically ill. Perpetual headache have appeared, back pains have started and stomach is really upset that I want to throw up.
I'm behind on lecture reading (this is only the second week of Uni) and research for the three 3000 words assessment due in September and October is not going anywhere. Resources for the essays is on loan and already booked till the end of October when the assessments have already finished. Have one psych assessment due in two weeks time. It's a critique of a journal article which should be fairly easy. 'Should' being the operative word.
On the up side I actually know what the fuck is being taught in the lectures.
Found out today that more than 50% of students failed Psych 201, which was a bit of a surprise. Psych 201 and 202 is known for being hard, but damn over 50% of the students. Considering there's ~500 psych students, that's truly impressive. What stunned me more was the fact that the results for 201 students were bi-modal! Since I know for a fact that the psych units haven't changed at all I'm left a bit curious. Just how the hell did that many people manage to fail? It's hard, but it has always been hard.
I'm quite happy that I passed when I took 201 (okay, downright gleeful), but I'm also slightly scared. If the psych units haven't changed at all (I know it haven't, hell they are still using the same bloody notes from 2001, the year I took the unit), and they have the same lecturers then, well, then obviously there's somethign wrong with the way the students are going about studying for psych.