right-braining problem type immediately before math test

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24 May 2010, 4:41 pm

This is in the category, if things get tight . . .

I took a Computer Science class on algorithms one summer session (probably should not have taken it in summer), and I just flat-out mismanaged my time.

In particular, there was one search/sort procedure I wasn't getting.

So, in the 15 minutes before the test, I was in the library looking at old CS textbooks and lo' and behold one had this topic and a pretty good sample problem. I went through it again. not the logic behind it, not the verbalizing. Just the flow of what procedure they're doing. And I think I just stood there using a low bookshelf as a desk rest, calming myself, looking off the distance for maybe 20 or 30 seconds. Went through it again. Then I went and sat down at a table and (gently) let myself go through it all over again. Just the feel and texture of what they're doing.

In the class, I scanned the test for this type of problem. Not at all sure I'm doing it right, just the same flow, and the same feel and texture. This is where you have to take a chance.

And as it turned out, yeah, I did really well on the test.