I apologize for the lack of updates; I have been off for about 2 weeks busting my damn hump preparing for the midterm and chugging away at the homework.

Wow, I just received my Machine Learning test back and I ranked near the absolute bottom of the grades. I did worse on that test than I’ve ever done on any test for any class, ever. I left large sections of it blank and don’t feel I deserved the credit I was even given. I was about at half the median score, which is just pathetic. Normally, I rank new the front of the bell curve but I was the very back end of it this time.

Hopefully this is the rock-bottom I finally needed to reach so I’d relax when it comes to taking tests. I have a bad habit of getting way too nervous and ultimately not performing nearly up to par. I have been struggling with the Qualification Exams and maybe this is the way out of my poor test taking slump.

I’ve never had trouble with school. Even as an undergraduate, school was still pretty easy. I’m only taking a single class and I have to work at it for several hours every night. I had even been struggling with the homework, but it seems I am out of that slump. I finished the third assignment (programming part) with more than a minute to spare; actually, i submitted it with several hours to spare.

Hopefully the midterm is only worth 15% and I can do much better on the midterm.