Exciting day! We got to interview ECNU students today for our Chinese midterm! As a Chinese person who can’t speak Mandarin, I was fully prepared to say I was Japanese or Korean in order to not look like a complete fool. OK, maybe not Japanese. Don’t know how they’d react to that. Fortunately, it wasn’t that bad. The girl I interviewed gave me short and simple answers (like “eat cake”). She even complimented my Chinese!

Since I didn’t finish my definitions for Law the night before, I scrambled to finish the other half before Law. Looking up definitions basically became my studying as I finished shortly before class. I had about half an hour to remember everything I looked up. Nice.

The quiz itself was frustrating. It was easy and general at times, but other times it was just too specific. The one thing I always hated about history is that people expect you to remember a slew of dates or years, which I honestly don’t find too important as long as you can place them in the proper chronological order. Of course, sometimes the date is important, so I’ll give it that. Funny thing though, I couldn’t remember the year of Pearl Harbor, but I somehow remembered the month and day. Figures.

Luckily, with that quiz over, the highly stressful midterm week ended. It’s amazing I survived with all the sleep deprivation.