Second Beat

[toocoolforthis]

A public service announcement, since it seems that all of you are extremely in need of the reminder:
There is less than a month left of school.
(You're welcome.)

To be precise, there are twenty-three days left. Slightly more than three weeks. Only seven of those are exams, so approximately 30% of our remaining days will be spent in torture.
In terms of hours, it's even less. 23 days is 552 hours. There are 40 total hours of exams remaining. Comparatively, that means 7% of our time, and all of it before the end of May.
I could compare that to the amount of time in your lifespan, or that the universe has existed, but I don't want to write that many fucking decimals.
It will be over soon. Don't give yourselves aneurysms.

Comments

[stubbornskeptic]

Hoo hoo, that does put a lot of it into perspective, doesn't it?
Too bad these tests are important enough to leak into the rest of those numbers.
Just like an overfilled cupcake pan. :B

[toocoolforthis]

Taking studying into consideration, the percentage of time dedicated to the exam does indeed increase a ton.
But studying isn't required.
It's just insanely dumb not to do.

[stubbornskeptic]

It certainly helps more than it hurts!
Unless you study right up until the time of the test and neglect things like, say, eating and sleeping.
In which case, you might've been better off not studying at all!

But I have to wonder, Dirk...
Are you writing this because you're tired of studying or because you're putting off beginning?

[toocoolforthis]

Jane, who do you think I am?
I've been preparing all damn year for this.
Besides, this only took a minute. I can spare this much time.
And I always neglect sleep.

[shitknickers]

Youre doing this on purpose arent you.

[toocoolforthis]

Doing what?
You'll have to be more specific, English.
Reminding you that there's not that much time left, even when we're a quarter of the way through exams?

[shitknickers]

No no youre taunting us!
Giving us all these jumbled numbers that make no sense outside of the mind of a genius like yourself.
Nevermind that its distracting...

What happens to fifth years that dont pass their owls?

[toocoolforthis]

My motives are hardly so twisted.
The point was simply to emphasize how little of our time will actually be taken up by exams.
Anyway, if you weren't looking for a distraction, why are you in your journal?

My guess is that they stay fifth years until they can.
That might be a question to ask your actual head of house, English.

[truestsciences]

im not sure if youre tryin to inspire existential despair or get people to calm dowwn
congratulations

[toocoolforthis]

What, you aren't comforted and calmed?
I suppose I could try harder.
Give everyone a countdown of seconds that they can follow along with.

[truestsciences]

im not really bothered by the proximity to our exams
i meant more in general sense strider
im sure evveryone wwould lovve to see that string a numbers

[starspangledavenger]

Oddly comforting, were it not also informing me that there is less time than I realized til exams.

[toocoolforthis]

Exam week is entirely upon us.
Don't worry, it'll be over in the blink of an eye.
Or 151,200 blinks, but who's counting?

[starspangledavenger]

If I blink more often will that make it go by faster?

[actuallyspeakslatin]

Have you had enough of the first, fifth and seventh years freaking out?

[toocoolforthis]

Of course.
Why else would I take time to write this up?
Of course I wouldn't do so to freak them out further, that would just be counterproductive.

[fleurdelamour]

I am almost tempted to award you five points simply for your sheer ability to calculate with such accuracy the amount of time left to school and all of its variables.

You certainly seem to care about your classmates, petit Strider. How nice of you to attempt to calm them down.

[toocoolforthis]

It's only simple math, Professor.
Multiplication and division.
If I wanted to be really complicated, I'd take into account the number of exams per day, and find a rate at which we're getting through the exams for each day.

I am sorry he's so passive aggressive at Dirk oh my god

[fleurdelamour]

This is true. I am very surprised you have not done this extra work, actually, given that you went on an essay-length tangent just now.

It was quite amusing.

[strideallknight]

man its like i suddenly remember you actually have a hardon for math
just one of those things that you forget is a thing until you find a way to mention it and then its like oh yeah my brother has a math fetish
all a guys gotta do is start spewing algorithms theorems and all that to have you swooning
that or robotics and engineering
also ty for reminding me that exams are a thing
totally needed that

[toocoolforthis]

Doing my duty as a responsible member of the community, bro.
Should I make you notecards and draw up a study schedule for you as well?
But do me a favor and ramble about photography in the near future.
I feel the need to create a "pot calling the kettle black" situation.

[strideallknight]

no
i know how rigorous your study schedules are and im not going through intellectual boot camp
my motivation for learning is high but not that high bro
also everyone knows about my photography fetish
if they dont then theyll soon be educated on the matter
ill keep a scrapbook full of the interesting faces my partner makes
or yours for that matter
i can probably rig something up
see if bro can pitch in
put those in with your baby pictures
it can be titled baby dirks first time

[streetsmarts]

What are you meant to be, a human calendar?

[toocoolforthis]

Probably more of a calculator.
They didn't let me take half a year off just because of my dashing good looks, you know.

[streetsmarts]

You can take the boy out of the numbers but you can't take the numbers out of the boy, huh?

You get your jollies from reminding people over stuff they should've known ages ago? Is it a calculator kink or something?