One More to Go.

So I now have done 3 of 4 of my finals. Strangely though, I feel good so far. After the A on the astronomy final I feel like things may be going well this first quarter.

Yesterday was chemistry, which I feel went rather well. Chemistry was hard, don't get me wrong. I finally sat down and studied for that painful experience. There were a few instances when I was stuck on a problem then randomly, "THIS CHAIR IS FUN!!!!!" AND IT REALLY WAS! That stupid thought crossed my mind a few times though. I felt a little bad with my TA sitting in front of me, watching me as I randomly started to spin around in my chair. It was the weirdest thing. I had never sat on a chair that was on a swivel arm from between two chairs before. On top of that, the chair twisted on the arm! I was like," TWO DEGREES OF SPIN, OMFG, WTF!!" Back to the test though. I'll admit there were some things on there that caught me for a bit, though I think I got them for the most part. We'll see how it ends up, I figured out that I needed around 180/210 to get like 85% in the class, so with curve that should end up being an A.

Today was Anthro, which I just got back from. Fun. There were a few questions that made me laugh at either the simplicity, or that they were on the practice, verbatim. The last one especially. People kept on sending emails out asking how to do it when it was a simple Hardy-Weinberg question. Not sure why people thought that was so hard... simple 1=p^2+2pq+q^2, where p is frequency of dominant allele and q is frequency of recessive allele. Remember to always mind your p's and q's. Quite possibly my favorite question on there though was about someone running for senator of Delaware in 1998 stating her ignorance of evolutionary theory. "If evolution were true, then why aren't monkeys evolving into humans?" That was her quote. It still shocks me how people holding offices of power in this country can be so ignorant, and proudly so, of high school science. Sadly, it's this ignorance that has made me less fond of a few people I know. Like they're smart, but they hold this veil to shield themselves from any evidence that contradicts their world view. Oh well. Perhaps sometime I convince them, but until then, I'm going to continue enjoying the truth.

Well, only have one more to go. Calculus. They vain of many people's existence. It's on Friday so I have time to prepare and study, I mostly just need to refrain from making stupid mistakes. Last test, the only questions I missed were due to me just over looking one little aspect of the question. As soon as I got the test back I did each question I missed in under 5 min. On one I forget to multiply an integral by y, and the other I did half of it right with the other half needing to be done in the same exact way.... How do you over look that? Clearly I was looking for that in the problem, but I didn't see it happening twice? RAGE!! Everything else, oh just dandy. Had to go and screw up those two with itsy bitsy over sights. Must not happen again.

Finally, I would like to inform people that I try not to do anymore stories on Drew. He has asked me not to because he finds it annoying. Some may say this is censorship, but I feel it's more about his rights and respecting him. But the previous ones will remain up because they have comedic value.

Just About the End of it.

So it has come, the end of my first quarter in college. Oh how time does fly. I have already had one final but it was not much, just astronomy lab. But this week is all about the big 3; Anthropology, Chemistry, and Math


Unfortunately, due to my background as an IB student, I feel that the finals aren't really going to challenge me that much, so I feel I can get away with procrastinating. Like when I try to study I can't focus on it because I look at the material and think to myself, "I know this shit. So why am I trying to read what I already know?" I'm sure this kind of thinking will get me in the end, but it's been almost trained into me thanks to IB (for those who don't know what IB is, I'll do a post about it some other time). My friend Charlie already got the punishment today after his math test, which he did study for. Here I am thinking that I've got it all figured out for my classes so I put off the studying. This is one part of my psychology I really don't like, among many other things. Here I sit on my laptop while in the other room two roommates are studying for chemistry, which is tomorrow, and I feel like I know the material. After all my last test I got one of the highest grades in the class. I should feel good about that, no? At the same time I didn't really study for that test either, I thought it was all fairly straight forward. So I agonize over not studying, but when I do try to study I can't focus. It's almost like a double edged sword and I'm about to swing it in one way or another.


I have learned about myself here in college though, and how to make it so I can study. No it's not use drugs. It's an aspect of myself I rather enjoy actually. When I move around I get into the material more. This might be one of the reasons I enjoy doing math. I do math homework on a white board to allow myself more freedom in motion. I begin to exaggerate strokes, making it more active and by doing so I activate my brain. Now I can't do that in class, so sometimes I'll talk to myself (a bad habit of mine some may claim), but it really does help me think about the problem at hand. I'm glad I'm realizing this about myself now at the start of college, otherwise I may be in for a world of hurt when it comes to the harder classes. 


If this post seems to change directions frequently, well... too bad.

MATH TEST GRR!!

So today finally got our calculus midterms back, only took them 2 weeks to grade it (compared to chemistry that finishes them on the day of the test), but got 104/140 due to curve I got like A-/B+, damn... should have done better. When I got it back though, I look at the problems I got wrong and then instantly see what I screwed up on and did them in 3 steps... HOW DID I NOT SEE THIS!! Don't you hate it when that happens? It feels like you're looking for your keys and remember they're in your room, but you can't find them. Coming back a few minutes later you see them right there on your desk. At that point... mm I'm gonna go hide away so no one see's that stupidity.
What I find even worse about these two is that I had to split it up in two points, to bring them together for the final answer. So I do one split and then forget to put in the second, which is in the same freaking style as the first split.... BUT, I guess it's not too bad overall. Still have the final so time to stu- procrastinate on YouTube.
Some may have noticed I'm keeping from swearing. Personally I don't care about swearing, but I know some people do, so for those who don't care, just replace the soft words with the real ones. Next time I'll just bleep them out and the message still gets across.