March 10, 2007
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The sociology paper was the last of the tests. Although I was not looking forward to it, the process of attempting the paper felt good. Writing coherent paragraphs was a welcome relief from the graphs of economics and numbers of mathematics and statistics. The economics module differs greatly from that of the ?levels, and actually seems simpler, as there are no essays to be written, just graphs, mathematics, some simple sentences and graphs. As for maths and stats, they are full of numbers and Egyptian hieroglyphs. I felt like an archeologist who could not read ancient writings to save his life.
Back to the sociology paper, I neglected to do my reading due to a late night out and had not much of an idea what the questions were asking for. I managed to recall a handful of sentences from my tutor and proceeded to eke out answers based on them. I marvelled at my ability to churn out fluid answers which were sadly lacking in content. On a different level, it was more enjoyable than producing blog entries, since academic essays need to be well structured, as compared to the latter. It is lamentable that there are no English modules offered, I would do better at them than my current modules.
Not surprisingly, the sociology paper turned in the lowest score. Oh well, at least I passed.
