Busiest Ever. Huge Chem Exam Coming up I'm not ready for. And I wouldn't be generally ready even if I was ready for the test. I got locked out of my apartment - the lock did a 180 degree turn and stuck there. Somehow. Jury duty on Thursday - tried to get excused on account of college/exams/labs, but the courthouse never even got back to me as promised.
.... wonder if that should legally excuse me from showing up, as promised.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Monday, September 20, 2010
... Really?
Got back the cell biology test today, and was (pleasantly) surprised to have an 88%. It's not a great score or anything (mean was an 84%), but I was expecting something in the low 80s, or even in the 70's. I guess all the multiple choice questions I thought I was probably right on, but wasn't positive, ended up swinging things in my favor. All in all, I could probably keep an 88% exam average in this course and end up with an A for my final grade, if I keep getting A's in everything else.
Great bit of news that took away some stress (although I still have to find a way to do another O. Chem lab report tonight...)
Anyways, the big problem is still that O. Chem exam on the 5th. I'm still behind there (although have been working hard to catch up lately). If I somehow manage to pull off a good score on it, I think I'll be very pleased with where things stand at that point.
Great bit of news that took away some stress (although I still have to find a way to do another O. Chem lab report tonight...)
Anyways, the big problem is still that O. Chem exam on the 5th. I'm still behind there (although have been working hard to catch up lately). If I somehow manage to pull off a good score on it, I think I'll be very pleased with where things stand at that point.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Gah! Cell Bio
So we had our first test in Cell Biology today. It was hard. Much harder than I had been led to believe (by my own thoughts, as well as by the prepared "review" sheet). Not that I can really complain, after a year of complaining how the other science classes were jokes. The test didn't go great. I don't think I failed it either though. And the tests in that class are worth an incredibly small percentage of the total grade (we even have four of them), so this is far from disastrous. Good call to (further?) action though.
Well. If the test went badly you might be asking if my last weekend was productive, as I had said it had to be.
The answer to that is... kind of yes. I got my lab report done for O. Chem lab, and was apparently the only person around who got an A on it. Most of the grades were actually really bad, like 70 or under. So.... that was impressive and well done. Then again, with hindsight, I'd probably have been much better off putting all that time into my Cell Bio studying instead. So I didn't really come out on top even though I did what I had wanted to do. Frustrating.
But on to the next thing. The next thing is the /big/ thing. It's the first of our two Organic Chemistry tests (or of three, if I take the optional last one). So as somewhere between 33-50% of my grade in that class, it's huge. It's also something I'm entirely not prepared to take, as of now. I have other stuff that needs to get done well too... but I'm just going to have to sac that stuff in order to get ready for this exam. A D on my next lab report will be totally fixable. A D on this test would pose problems.
Well. If the test went badly you might be asking if my last weekend was productive, as I had said it had to be.
The answer to that is... kind of yes. I got my lab report done for O. Chem lab, and was apparently the only person around who got an A on it. Most of the grades were actually really bad, like 70 or under. So.... that was impressive and well done. Then again, with hindsight, I'd probably have been much better off putting all that time into my Cell Bio studying instead. So I didn't really come out on top even though I did what I had wanted to do. Frustrating.
But on to the next thing. The next thing is the /big/ thing. It's the first of our two Organic Chemistry tests (or of three, if I take the optional last one). So as somewhere between 33-50% of my grade in that class, it's huge. It's also something I'm entirely not prepared to take, as of now. I have other stuff that needs to get done well too... but I'm just going to have to sac that stuff in order to get ready for this exam. A D on my next lab report will be totally fixable. A D on this test would pose problems.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
This Weekend
Is going to have to be everything the last one wasn't. Very. Very. Productive.
Full stop.
Full stop.
Monday, September 6, 2010
Happy Labor Day
Time flies. Somehow I managed to get so little done this weekend. Before I knew it the first three days were up, and I'm spending the fourth one right now working on my O. Chem lab report. That qualifies as keeping up, assuming I get this finished, but it certainly doesn't count as catching up.
It's cause I went out on Friday, which was fine, but ended up having a few drinks more than I should have after dinner. Which kept me from doing anything other than feeling the pain of an awful headache on Saturday. Lesson learned? Going out and doing stuff with people is bad...
Well. I still think I'm in a fixable spot right now. I might not be up to speed with Organic Chemistry just now, but it seems so neat to me. The way the shapes of the molecule fix everything, and set up every reaction, and how all the different functional groups you draw on are responsible for everything... it's hard to describe, but it's kind of artsy, almost. There's something I find really fun about it. Hopefully that good attitude can transform into some sort of good understanding in the near future. We shall see.
It's cause I went out on Friday, which was fine, but ended up having a few drinks more than I should have after dinner. Which kept me from doing anything other than feeling the pain of an awful headache on Saturday. Lesson learned? Going out and doing stuff with people is bad...
Well. I still think I'm in a fixable spot right now. I might not be up to speed with Organic Chemistry just now, but it seems so neat to me. The way the shapes of the molecule fix everything, and set up every reaction, and how all the different functional groups you draw on are responsible for everything... it's hard to describe, but it's kind of artsy, almost. There's something I find really fun about it. Hopefully that good attitude can transform into some sort of good understanding in the near future. We shall see.
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