mental weirdism

so yesterday i was using my school laptop when that notification saying that there's 7% of battery left popped up. i was googling the difference between social and ethical issues (for ipt and the web results actually contradicted what my teacher said, so i don't know ...)

i then found this really awesome webpage (which is actually on the website of another school so ehe) and i was like WOW THIS IS SO USEFUL! and i start to read it. i start to panic because the laptop battery reads 6%. i got really annoyed at how the laptops defaultly hibernate at 7% so i changed my settings so it hibernates at 3%. so i was like WOAH yeah this is exactly what i'm looking for! while scribbling some notes from the webpage onto my little sheet of paper in front of me. i see that the battery is now on 4%. my heart begins to race and my palms grow sweaty (because i'm too lazy to turn on my home computer unless i really need to).

THEN A BRILLIANT IDEA POPS UP.

grabbing my phone next to me, i take a photo of the URL of the page. then LITERALLY 1 SECOND AFTER I TOOK THE PHOTO, the monitor dimmed and my school laptop began to hibernate. what my brain was thinking: WOO i made it in time! now i don't have to open my home computer! haha lucky i was smart enough to take a photo of the url so i could keep reading on my home computer -

and then it dawned on me. i had tried to avoid turning on my home computer by taking a photo of the url so i could check it on my home computer. brain, what were you thinking.

then i told my mum what happened cause she told me to go outside and eat grapes but then the moment i finished my story she was like 'why didnt you just charge it while using it?' and i was like:

O.O

... why did i not think of that. yeah. i'm an idiot. the first time you are an idiot it's a silly mistake, but the second time? you're a real idiot.

study study study study study

ok, so just then i was like I'M GONNA GO AND STUDY MORE SCIENCE!!!!!!!! so i went to the bored of studies website (haha mr denyer joke) and tried some past school cert papers.

OMG THEY WERE HARD. ESPECIALLY this one which struck me as strange:

i mean ... seriously. if i knew exactly what to do, i would have:

a) got a friend's shirt on fire before

b) expected to get a friend's shirt on fire - hence i revise this

but WHAT I GOT IT WRONG! like ... okay. looking at the options i was like wait all of them sound feasible. then i was like ... wait but the sand won't really stop the fire, would it? i mean it'd just fall off. and plus, i'd never heard of a fire bucket before. so i cancel d. i know for sure c works. i mean, don't we all? b sounded good too. fire extinguishers extinguish fires right? and in movies don't they always squirt it on someone when they go on fire? but hm ... i'm guessing that it won't work in real life when it's a person cause then the stuff that comes out (which i think is meant to restrict oxygen from the fire?) will just fall off. maybe not that ... and i was like. hm. I HAVE NO IDEA. and the fire blankets i've seen ... (i think there's some in our school dangling and stuff - cause i somehow have this mental snapshot of one) they seem small. like not big enough to cover a whole body. so im like WHATEVER go with the one that everyone knows works.

tcccccccccchhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

this one? oh, i dont think any of you will get this. it's just that this is a typical IPT HSC question, and when it came up i had a big of a WHAT AM I DOING THE RIGHT PAPER thing. like we spent 2 entire topics on databases. but then (system) flow charts got kicked out of the course and we dont focus much on graphs or tables. EXCEPT FOR THE GANTT CHART OMG.

well anyway. so when i was reading this i was actually tossing between database and table. cause TECHNICALLY a database is a table. and i was like WHAT do they expect us to overthink this and stuff? and i knew it worked fine with database and would be really efficient cause you can just conduct an SQL query BUT i was like BUT MOST PEOPLE DOING THE EXAM DON'T KNOW ABOUT SQL!!! WHAT DO I EXPECT THE EXAMINERS TO EXPECT OF ME?!?!

yeah, annoying. but i chose database and got it right in the end :D

so i was wondering, to all those that dont do ipt, do you guys know what a database is? how much do you guys know? have you guys ever used/made one before?

it's just one of those things that i'm curious about cause i fear i take some things for granted. cause i doubt i knew anything about a database before ipt and stuff :) yeah, i'm a weirdo.