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May. 20th, 2009 05:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tylikThat was weird.
So I just took my last exam from this semester (possibly the last course I take - certainly the last one I need for this degree). I took it on a computer.
I'd kind of thought about doing this before. A even reasonably well set up computer is much better for me to use than trying to write by hand. By an hour into any exam, pain (and lack of fine motor control) start becoming a real problem. And this is when I'm fairly healthy - writing by hand just isn't good for me. (Mind, after more than three hours, I am feeling it - it wasn't my computer, and it wasn't an ideal set up. But it's pretty minor - I didn't even notice until I was walking home, really.)
Anyhow... this was so much easier, and so much more fun. I really didn't realize how much exams had just become this horrible grueling death march for me, and how much that was probably affecting my performance. It was also a lot harder to pace myself... I think I could compensate with practice pretty easily, though. And it just feels really weird. I'm not all tired and dead the way I normally am from an exam. (Uh, why didn't I notice how big a problem this was earlier? I mean, I kind of knew that I used to generally do really well on exams, and it's gotten more erratic since the spine issues, but stil...)
Bwah! I could have done this years ago. It's an easy accommodation, and it's not like there's any lack of medical documentaiton. I mean, seriously. *shakes head* (Okay, that computer use does mess with me confuses the issue. But it messed with me at least an order of magnitude less. It's just that left to my own devices, I will spend the whole day on the computer, and I won't even try to write by hand that long.)
So I just took my last exam from this semester (possibly the last course I take - certainly the last one I need for this degree). I took it on a computer.
I'd kind of thought about doing this before. A even reasonably well set up computer is much better for me to use than trying to write by hand. By an hour into any exam, pain (and lack of fine motor control) start becoming a real problem. And this is when I'm fairly healthy - writing by hand just isn't good for me. (Mind, after more than three hours, I am feeling it - it wasn't my computer, and it wasn't an ideal set up. But it's pretty minor - I didn't even notice until I was walking home, really.)
Anyhow... this was so much easier, and so much more fun. I really didn't realize how much exams had just become this horrible grueling death march for me, and how much that was probably affecting my performance. It was also a lot harder to pace myself... I think I could compensate with practice pretty easily, though. And it just feels really weird. I'm not all tired and dead the way I normally am from an exam. (Uh, why didn't I notice how big a problem this was earlier? I mean, I kind of knew that I used to generally do really well on exams, and it's gotten more erratic since the spine issues, but stil...)
Bwah! I could have done this years ago. It's an easy accommodation, and it's not like there's any lack of medical documentaiton. I mean, seriously. *shakes head* (Okay, that computer use does mess with me confuses the issue. But it messed with me at least an order of magnitude less. It's just that left to my own devices, I will spend the whole day on the computer, and I won't even try to write by hand that long.)
