So my classmates are "studying" for the midterm exam for this class. This verbage annoys me. What they are doing is not studying. Studying is what I did in Japan, working on learning characters and vocabulary 8 to 12 hours every single day in addition to school time. Studying is systematically learning something as a lifestyle, in a way that precludes other activities. I'd be very surprised if anybody in this class has actually studied. Cramming for a few hours is not studying. It's not even reading up. Reading up is reading lots of stuff. Books and whatnot. I checked Wikipedia to make sure I know the normal forms of databases properly--that wasn't "reading up" on database normal forms, it was looking it up, quick and sloppy.
I like hyperbole more than most people, but I just get annoyed when people don't realize they're using it.
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