June 08, 2006

intelligence

it was a groggy morning, considering the lack of sleep. praying that a tram would come soon, i hopped onto the next one, and promptly set the finance notes on my lap. my last round of revision, 30minutes before time. the tram was half-full, and i mindlessly held my wallet in my hands, should the need arise for my to validate my ticket. next stop, william's street. in my mind, i was reasoning out why the riskfree interest rate gives value to call options. Next thing i knew, "Scuse me, can I see your ticket please?"

6th of june 2006. 060606.

my first tram fine, before my very first exam, and my very first time at the royal exhibition building.

moving on- 2 down, 2 more to go.

extreme procrastinators have a distorted view of exams. they cannot decide whether it's a good thing that the major component for assessment lies in that one final paper (which means there's not much reason to study during the semester), or that it's generally bad because they still have to cram everything in at the very last minute.

are exams actually a good measure of intelligence? if you think so, think again.

Multiple intelligences(1983) have been discovered by Howard Gardner:

Linguistic - The word player
Logical / Mathematical - The questioner
Visual / Spatial - The visualiser
Musical - The music lover
Bodily / Kinaesthetic - The mover
Interpersonal - The socialiser
Intrapersonal - The loner
Naturalistic - The nature lover

which one are you? http://www2.bgfl.org/bgfl2/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/ict/multiple_int/questions/choose_lang.cfm

on a completely unrelated note, shau fun (in white) turned 20 recently!

as always, we gave each other some boobybootyluvv..

6 comments:

LX said...

Apparently my style is "linguistic" which isnt really surprising, I guess, cos I like to talk and write... and I learn best by talking and/or writing things down.

Those mugs are awesome btw, where do I get one? :D

Alex

Anonymous said...

gosh the mugs are so cute...are they available in m'sia ??

liss said...

lx: mine too! linguistic, interpersonal and kinaesthetic. the mugs? i have more pictures, if u're interested=]

anonymous: looks like the mugs are a hit. i dont know if they're real, although they sure do look real. a friend sent me numerous pics- all just as adorable. will check it out!

Anonymous said...

I can't believe I actually did that test. I was getting restless after the second screen. But apparently I'm linguistic/interpersonal.. but then again I'm not very intelligent so maybe it doesn't count. But I know I'm an extreme procrastinator!

Heids said...

When you start doing tests like this, you know you really are procrastinating. heheh
I got interpersonal, kinaesthetic (when i'm such a bum) and logical. Whereas my lowest one is naturalistic and linguistic. What a non-surprise. lol.
Anyways, thanks for the procrastination outlet. :) Good luck for your next 2 exams!

Take care, heids

ps. I still have yet to pass you those songs.. heh

liss said...

looks like most of us have linguistic-interpersonal. cept heidi, who has logical! wow. gluck for your next papers too babe.

thomas, saying that u're not intelligent defeats the purpose of arguing that intelligence isnt all about exams or anything. being great at people relationships or words is a form of intelligence too!