In my mind... running commentary
I feel somewhat accomplished tonight and I like that feeling. I'm still behind in my classes but I finished lots more work than I thought I would. (YAY!) So I'm rewarding myself by giving myself time to write in here. ^-^
I fell asleep in my Chem lecture like 3 times today. I didn't intend to, but I was extremely tired and the seats in the Earth Science Auditorium are almost a nap waiting to happen. There may not be a lot of room, but those seats are comfy. I had shifted down in my seat so that I could lean my head against the back of the chair and that was a mistake. I found myself nodding off in the middle of my Prof's lecture. I feel bad, since I was pretty close to the front, but it wasn't my fault I was tired. I think the cat nap did me good though. I didn't feel as sleepy after class.
I got my quiz from my Chem Tutorial back today, which I thought I failed, but I didn't. I got perfect. Whee! I'm happy about that one. At least I know I understand one concept of Quantum. Only about 50 more that I have to relearn. >.< Although, today's quiz I know I only got the last one right. I totally did not know how to find the Molar Mass of that compound using freezing point constants. I don't even remember reading about it! *sighs* I guess I can let this one quiz go. It is best 5 outta 6, that's soome consolation. I really have to make up for my first term test. I'm still kicking myself for it. I knew I should have studied more. Stupid Chemistry. I think Chemistry and I have a love hate relationship.
During my break today I managed to finish two chapters in Chemistry of notes which is really good since I can tell you now I wouldn't have been able to do here at home. I still have to do the questions for those chapters and for Chapter 10, but I'm glad I at least finished those notes. That's one less thing to do. I still have to do my lab report for Chemistry. Grr. I thought I didn't have a lot to do for Chemistry any more but I'm wrong. Oh damn and that PreLab for the lab next week.
I find my Physics Lectures pointless, I went today and didn't pay attention. I spent my time rewriting my Chem Tutorial Notes since I wrote them on different paper that I couldn't put in my binder and they were messy and I hate that. I really can't stand my notes being messy, but that doesn't mean I try to be neat in the first place to avoid wasting my time rewriting them. I also rewrote one of my Lecture notes from Physics and to be honest it doesn't help me at all. I've come to the conclusion that I learn more on my own since my neither my Tutorial or the Lectures teach me anything. I teach myself and I've never done Physics before. Now, that makes me feel smart. ^-^
I went to my first Physics Lab on Tuesday and OMG I had no idea what I was doing. Seriously, no one did. It was an odd way to start a lab too:
TA: What's your name?
Me: Carla
TA: okay, what lab would you like to do?
Me:... uhh either one is fine. I have no preference
TA: Well, which do you want?
Me: Either will be fine
TA: You're prepared right?
Me:... uhh sure?
TA: Okay... you can do Spectra. Go in that room over there.
Later on...
TA: Can I have your Prelab?
Me: I don't have one, they said (the website) I didn't need to for the first lab.
TA: Okay then. Do you know what you're doing?
Me: No...
None of the four of us (those doing the lab, my partner and these other two) had any idea what we were doing. We made shit up and we're hoping for the best. We spent most of the time laughing, talking and pretending like we knew what we were doing. We did anage to write something in our notebooks so you can't say we didn't try. We have the next lab session to make up for it. So, I'm gonna to do heavy duty research into this lab and the Heat Capacity one so I know what I'm doing for once.
The best part of my accomplished feeliing is that I did about 2 and half sections of math homework. I'm not so behind anymore! I just have to relearn how to find an equation once I found the slope to it and am given point. It sounds easy to do, but I manage to screw it up, big time. But i'm happy I finished that much so that's why I stopped for now. I still have a few more sections to go, but I'm into this week's homework, which means ... *drum roll* I'm not behind in math! Oh that makes me happy.
I have this major, like MAJOR big urge to go shopping and I think I deserve a treat before I have to cram for my Bio, Math and Physics tests that are coming up. So I'm gonna go to tomorrow and spend lots of money. Well, it's money on gift cards that have been hanging around for eons that I might as well spend. How could you not? *grins* I need to go to Grand and Toy anywys to buy graph paper, hole reinforcements and some cool paper and envelopes. I'm in a letter writing mode. I'm also in a I wanna buy random shit I probably don't need mode. I need more ball point pens. In the last month I've gone through about 4 of them. They just keep dying on me. So I should remember to pick some of that up. I hear there's a Tommy sale on at The Bay, which is good since mom said I should prolly use my gift cards to pick up that kind of stuff. Mind you she said that ages ago but it's still valid. Oh, the possibilities are endless. But, I promise not to go to Chapters or Indigo. *lol* We all know that's a death trap right there.
I fell asleep in my Chem lecture like 3 times today. I didn't intend to, but I was extremely tired and the seats in the Earth Science Auditorium are almost a nap waiting to happen. There may not be a lot of room, but those seats are comfy. I had shifted down in my seat so that I could lean my head against the back of the chair and that was a mistake. I found myself nodding off in the middle of my Prof's lecture. I feel bad, since I was pretty close to the front, but it wasn't my fault I was tired. I think the cat nap did me good though. I didn't feel as sleepy after class.
I got my quiz from my Chem Tutorial back today, which I thought I failed, but I didn't. I got perfect. Whee! I'm happy about that one. At least I know I understand one concept of Quantum. Only about 50 more that I have to relearn. >.< Although, today's quiz I know I only got the last one right. I totally did not know how to find the Molar Mass of that compound using freezing point constants. I don't even remember reading about it! *sighs* I guess I can let this one quiz go. It is best 5 outta 6, that's soome consolation. I really have to make up for my first term test. I'm still kicking myself for it. I knew I should have studied more. Stupid Chemistry. I think Chemistry and I have a love hate relationship.
During my break today I managed to finish two chapters in Chemistry of notes which is really good since I can tell you now I wouldn't have been able to do here at home. I still have to do the questions for those chapters and for Chapter 10, but I'm glad I at least finished those notes. That's one less thing to do. I still have to do my lab report for Chemistry. Grr. I thought I didn't have a lot to do for Chemistry any more but I'm wrong. Oh damn and that PreLab for the lab next week.
I find my Physics Lectures pointless, I went today and didn't pay attention. I spent my time rewriting my Chem Tutorial Notes since I wrote them on different paper that I couldn't put in my binder and they were messy and I hate that. I really can't stand my notes being messy, but that doesn't mean I try to be neat in the first place to avoid wasting my time rewriting them. I also rewrote one of my Lecture notes from Physics and to be honest it doesn't help me at all. I've come to the conclusion that I learn more on my own since my neither my Tutorial or the Lectures teach me anything. I teach myself and I've never done Physics before. Now, that makes me feel smart. ^-^
I went to my first Physics Lab on Tuesday and OMG I had no idea what I was doing. Seriously, no one did. It was an odd way to start a lab too:
TA: What's your name?
Me: Carla
TA: okay, what lab would you like to do?
Me:... uhh either one is fine. I have no preference
TA: Well, which do you want?
Me: Either will be fine
TA: You're prepared right?
Me:... uhh sure?
TA: Okay... you can do Spectra. Go in that room over there.
Later on...
TA: Can I have your Prelab?
Me: I don't have one, they said (the website) I didn't need to for the first lab.
TA: Okay then. Do you know what you're doing?
Me: No...
None of the four of us (those doing the lab, my partner and these other two) had any idea what we were doing. We made shit up and we're hoping for the best. We spent most of the time laughing, talking and pretending like we knew what we were doing. We did anage to write something in our notebooks so you can't say we didn't try. We have the next lab session to make up for it. So, I'm gonna to do heavy duty research into this lab and the Heat Capacity one so I know what I'm doing for once.
The best part of my accomplished feeliing is that I did about 2 and half sections of math homework. I'm not so behind anymore! I just have to relearn how to find an equation once I found the slope to it and am given point. It sounds easy to do, but I manage to screw it up, big time. But i'm happy I finished that much so that's why I stopped for now. I still have a few more sections to go, but I'm into this week's homework, which means ... *drum roll* I'm not behind in math! Oh that makes me happy.
I have this major, like MAJOR big urge to go shopping and I think I deserve a treat before I have to cram for my Bio, Math and Physics tests that are coming up. So I'm gonna go to tomorrow and spend lots of money. Well, it's money on gift cards that have been hanging around for eons that I might as well spend. How could you not? *grins* I need to go to Grand and Toy anywys to buy graph paper, hole reinforcements and some cool paper and envelopes. I'm in a letter writing mode. I'm also in a I wanna buy random shit I probably don't need mode. I need more ball point pens. In the last month I've gone through about 4 of them. They just keep dying on me. So I should remember to pick some of that up. I hear there's a Tommy sale on at The Bay, which is good since mom said I should prolly use my gift cards to pick up that kind of stuff. Mind you she said that ages ago but it's still valid. Oh, the possibilities are endless. But, I promise not to go to Chapters or Indigo. *lol* We all know that's a death trap right there.