Proportional to quantity and size of bricks shat

Posted by E-George on October 30, 2007

There was a test last week in my Circuits class over the Fourier Series. I walked into the test feeling fairly confident and left the test and left feeling equally confident. Normally, such confidence before, during, or after a test is a good indicator of how badly I smoked a passing grade. So, naturally, my confidence soon converted to unadulterated fear. The sort of all-consuming paranoid fear that causes one to itch all over and shit blood clots. My worry proved well founded today, for I failed that test by 1 point. 1 more point and I coulda had a C, but nooooo. I had to say “False” when it was “True”.

This just proves that in order to succeed in a test for these classes I have to be a nervous wreck, so fully consumed with the subject at hand that I only just barely retain motor control of my body enough to walk to class and grip a pencil. Anything less than that and I make stupid mistakes like mis-read the test question, or fail to absorb the idea that the assignment of sine or cosine to a coefficient is arbitrary. ARBITRARY! That simple fact was the single greatest cause of my downfall. That, and the stOOpid hubris to assume I knew what I was doing.

If one simply must find a burnished silver lining to the stormcloud, it would be that I will henceforth always remember that the assignment of sine or cosine to a coefficient in a Fourier series is arbitrary.  Sometimes one has to fail in order to truly succeed.  I just wish I could test the theory that passing also facilitates success.

Six weeks and counting….

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