Midterms Memes
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For those students among us, we have just been subject to the publicly legalized torture method known as midterms. Here are some midterms memes that will hopefully help fade away those emotional scars.
Have you ever begged your teacher to round up your grade by just that little bit?
Here’s a tip: don’t try and calculate what grade you need to get on the midterm to pass the class. It will only end in suffering.
Have you ever been so desperately trying to finish reading your research paper even though you know you’re not remembering any of it?
When the midterms look nothing like you’ve studied for:
Hey, you gotta study when you gotta study.
When your only hope is that the test will be curved:
And there you have it! Hopefully these pinnacles of human culture and intellect have managed to drive away that which inspires fear in gods and mortals alike: after-midterm postmortem. If not, then… I feel you. And, before I leave you to lead those glorious lives of yours, I would like to lend a moment of silence to those who couldn’t make it through those times of agony…
SQ studied Electrical Engineering Computer Sciences, and Business Administration at UC Berkeley, and now works as an AI engineer at Google, working on large language models. He has been recognized as Hong Kong’s Young Scientist and Mathematician of the Year, built AI solutions for some of Hong Kong’s largest institutions like the train system, and received second place on the Vesuvius Challenge, an AI competition to read ancient scrolls for which he won $50,000.