I've got a big exam in one and a half hours.

[DrWeird]

It's a cumulative preliminary exam. Three hours of brainracking dread that won't be over unitl 10:30 local time. There are two each quarter, each worth a maximum of two points. You need four points by the end of your second year, or else they show you the door.

I've noticed that I'm still real rusty from spending the summer out of the classroom. I'm not to worried about it though. 'Cause I'm a pimp player.

[UrbScotty]

1. GET OFF D-U AND STUDY, YOU LITTLE REPUBLICAN!!

I'm just kidding. ;-)

Good luck.

[Droopy]

2. What are you studying Dr. Weird?

What do you want to be when you grow up?

[DrWeird]

3. If I may answer the last question first: Barry White.

and chemistry.

[confusionisnext]

6. Where do you go to school?

My prelim in chemistry at Berkeley was a joke! I worried about it for two years, and it was so anticlimactic. What kind of chemistry do you do?

[DrWeird]

7. Synthetic organic.

At good old Miskatonic U.

[confusionisnext]

10. I did p-chem.

NMR of proteins, to be specific. As such, I don't have any useful advice, except that you know more than your committee does about your specific topic, so in a way, you can kinda direct the exam by what you say or don't say.

Organic was always the other side of the fence for us. I couldn't tell my Diels-Alder from a Friedel-Crafts reaction if my life depended on it! Good luck though!

[Concerned American]

4. 7 is always a safe answer

[patdem]

9. I always preferred 'C'

[MissMarple]

5. You can do this.

Are you still here?!!! Be sure to get some sleep. You will remember what you just learned better. Trust me. :D

[jrthin]

8. You have an exam in

ona and half hour and you are HERE? Shut this site off and hit the books.