A long delayed update on my school life...
Wow, I wrote kinda a lot so I've considerately hidden it behind an LJ-cut. Start Cut... ...
Whoa, I have finally made some time to update my journal. I’ve been working so much on my school work lately that I haven’t had much time to do anything else except sleep, eat and drive to school. My room looks like an A-bomb hit it. Literally, I can’t walk from my door to my bed without stepping on something. Last time it was something sharp so I ended up cussing loudly as I stumbled. My mom came to see what was wrong, or else to reprimand me for using strong language but never got past “Oh My God! What are you doing in here, testing missiles?!” Thanks for your concern about my well being, mom. Nah, I can’t blame her, the pile of clothes in my closet has reached my waist and I’ve forgotten which are clean and which are dirty. Well, at this point in the semester I’m willing to trust to the old smell technique for choosing my clothes for the day. Today is the last day for classes and I’ve got one 6000 word paper to turn in, which I think I did pretty damn well on, and one history of math final to take. I don’t know what to think about my math class. I overheard him say that the people who he sees that have tried hard this semester will get an A and the others which he called “ignorant” will get a B. He can be so screwy sometimes. I’ve given up trying to figure him out. One thing I did write on his teach evaluation that we did last week was that it would be helpful if the teacher of the course knew more about the subject then the students and didn’t rely on the students to supply him with mathematical inspiration. He couldn’t even help us with homework! He hadn’t done it yet and didn’t know how on some of them. ErrrrrrRRRR! That’s the last time I take a 4000 level course for “fun!”
Eh, but my chemistry class is what I’ve really been stressing over. I already was in it before but had to withdrawal because of family issues and now it looks like I might not pass it this time. *sigh* I don’t know if that means I will have to pay out of state tuition the next time I go to take it. That would mean a credit hour that typically costs 96.95 (it went up! You bastards!) dollars would cost, like, 458 dollars. Ack! That’s a little less then 1400 for one class. No, No, NO! *has a temper tantrum on the floor of the computer lab* I am getting so damn tired of school lately. I’m sure it’s just the end of the semester blues, but its gotten pretty bad. And I will have to take Chemistry over again in the summer if I don’t pass it now. That means I won’t get my summer off. And those friggin’ summer classes are M-F for one stupid hour a day! How efficient is that shit!?! One hour? For that I have to drive 30 miles in and 30 miles back EVERY FUCKING DAY!! And I can’t be at work while I’m driving so I lose even more time and money. *simmers in her fury for a few seconds* But at least I’ve secured my seats for my classes for the summer and the fall. I guess we are way under staffed because the important classes fill up amazingly fast. And just because I say ‘amazingly’ doesn’t mean I’m impressed. If they can justify upping tuition how can they then not hire more teachers?? Even the fall classes fill up before the summer classes even start. That’s because a person can sign up for fall at the same time as summer. If anyone is reading this who is thinking of starting in college anytime soon, DON’T go to a university strait off. It will make your life hell. Freshmen get the last of all the classes and seats are grotesquely limited. Go to a local community college for your fist 2 years. Then you will start as a junior in the university system and you will be much better off.
As for my classes for the fall semester, I’m taking Physics WITHOUT calculus. I’ve learned my lesson last time. Me last semester, “Oh, oh, I like math, I got an A in calculus I, I should be able to manage physics with calculus, and I’ll have FUN!” What the hell was I on?? Not to mention that what they don’t tell you in the description of the class is that the calculus used is a particular kind of calculus involving integrals, which I had absolutely no experience with. I took DIFERINTUAL calculus, which is much different. I had to ask someone near me what that little squiggle sign that the teacher kept using meant. “Um, that’s the indicator to do an integral, you nitwit.” I just barely got a passing grade of a C in that class. You want to know how bad I did? I got a fucking 8 on the third test. And that’s on a scale of 100! I think I must have gotten one small part of one problem correct. And even that may have been a fluke. Thank God he curves the grades generously. The only thing that helped me to pull my head out from the ground was that my mom told me that she took physics with calc. in her school days and she got a 4 on one of her tests in there. Seeing as my mom is the smartest person I know, and possible one of the smartest people in the world, I decided to not take it so hard. Maybe my bad grade will help to console my kid when they come home with a low grade. “Mommy! I got a 12 on a math test! I’m so stupid!” “Not as stupid as me! I got an 8 on a test before and look how far in life I’ve gotten. Things are never as bad as they could be!” Yeah, that makes thing not so bad.
Any way, I’ve also signed up for Organic Chemistry. Another chemistry class, you say? Haven’t I learned my lesson? Well, it’s required for the Bio major and supposedly its much different then regular chemistry. It’s manly concerned with the carbon atom and the many combinations it makes with other atoms. Each of those classes has the lab that goes with it, but the lab for organic is just as bad as the course. It is even given 2 credit hours instead of just one like most labs. So that totals 5 for organic and 4 for the physics. And those are the only ones I’m taken’. I’m not wearing myself out this time and potentially having my grades suffer for it. I don’t want anything to happen to my scholarship.
Well, that was nice to get off of my chest. I haven’t had a good rant in a long time. I didn’t realize how much I’ve been holding it in until I started letting it out and so much was brought to the surface. I think I’m going to need to put this in an lj cut, though. It’s kind of a lot to monopolize other people’s friends’ pages with. And I didn’t even get to mention any of the good things that have happed as I’ve been holed up in my room typing my papers and living off romen noodles and ginger ale. I don’t have any more time now to write, so I’ll just update again later. Yay! Tuesday is the last day for classes! *looks forward to her meager summer holiday with shinning eyes*
Whoa, I have finally made some time to update my journal. I’ve been working so much on my school work lately that I haven’t had much time to do anything else except sleep, eat and drive to school. My room looks like an A-bomb hit it. Literally, I can’t walk from my door to my bed without stepping on something. Last time it was something sharp so I ended up cussing loudly as I stumbled. My mom came to see what was wrong, or else to reprimand me for using strong language but never got past “Oh My God! What are you doing in here, testing missiles?!” Thanks for your concern about my well being, mom. Nah, I can’t blame her, the pile of clothes in my closet has reached my waist and I’ve forgotten which are clean and which are dirty. Well, at this point in the semester I’m willing to trust to the old smell technique for choosing my clothes for the day. Today is the last day for classes and I’ve got one 6000 word paper to turn in, which I think I did pretty damn well on, and one history of math final to take. I don’t know what to think about my math class. I overheard him say that the people who he sees that have tried hard this semester will get an A and the others which he called “ignorant” will get a B. He can be so screwy sometimes. I’ve given up trying to figure him out. One thing I did write on his teach evaluation that we did last week was that it would be helpful if the teacher of the course knew more about the subject then the students and didn’t rely on the students to supply him with mathematical inspiration. He couldn’t even help us with homework! He hadn’t done it yet and didn’t know how on some of them. ErrrrrrRRRR! That’s the last time I take a 4000 level course for “fun!”
Eh, but my chemistry class is what I’ve really been stressing over. I already was in it before but had to withdrawal because of family issues and now it looks like I might not pass it this time. *sigh* I don’t know if that means I will have to pay out of state tuition the next time I go to take it. That would mean a credit hour that typically costs 96.95 (it went up! You bastards!) dollars would cost, like, 458 dollars. Ack! That’s a little less then 1400 for one class. No, No, NO! *has a temper tantrum on the floor of the computer lab* I am getting so damn tired of school lately. I’m sure it’s just the end of the semester blues, but its gotten pretty bad. And I will have to take Chemistry over again in the summer if I don’t pass it now. That means I won’t get my summer off. And those friggin’ summer classes are M-F for one stupid hour a day! How efficient is that shit!?! One hour? For that I have to drive 30 miles in and 30 miles back EVERY FUCKING DAY!! And I can’t be at work while I’m driving so I lose even more time and money. *simmers in her fury for a few seconds* But at least I’ve secured my seats for my classes for the summer and the fall. I guess we are way under staffed because the important classes fill up amazingly fast. And just because I say ‘amazingly’ doesn’t mean I’m impressed. If they can justify upping tuition how can they then not hire more teachers?? Even the fall classes fill up before the summer classes even start. That’s because a person can sign up for fall at the same time as summer. If anyone is reading this who is thinking of starting in college anytime soon, DON’T go to a university strait off. It will make your life hell. Freshmen get the last of all the classes and seats are grotesquely limited. Go to a local community college for your fist 2 years. Then you will start as a junior in the university system and you will be much better off.
As for my classes for the fall semester, I’m taking Physics WITHOUT calculus. I’ve learned my lesson last time. Me last semester, “Oh, oh, I like math, I got an A in calculus I, I should be able to manage physics with calculus, and I’ll have FUN!” What the hell was I on?? Not to mention that what they don’t tell you in the description of the class is that the calculus used is a particular kind of calculus involving integrals, which I had absolutely no experience with. I took DIFERINTUAL calculus, which is much different. I had to ask someone near me what that little squiggle sign that the teacher kept using meant. “Um, that’s the indicator to do an integral, you nitwit.” I just barely got a passing grade of a C in that class. You want to know how bad I did? I got a fucking 8 on the third test. And that’s on a scale of 100! I think I must have gotten one small part of one problem correct. And even that may have been a fluke. Thank God he curves the grades generously. The only thing that helped me to pull my head out from the ground was that my mom told me that she took physics with calc. in her school days and she got a 4 on one of her tests in there. Seeing as my mom is the smartest person I know, and possible one of the smartest people in the world, I decided to not take it so hard. Maybe my bad grade will help to console my kid when they come home with a low grade. “Mommy! I got a 12 on a math test! I’m so stupid!” “Not as stupid as me! I got an 8 on a test before and look how far in life I’ve gotten. Things are never as bad as they could be!” Yeah, that makes thing not so bad.
Any way, I’ve also signed up for Organic Chemistry. Another chemistry class, you say? Haven’t I learned my lesson? Well, it’s required for the Bio major and supposedly its much different then regular chemistry. It’s manly concerned with the carbon atom and the many combinations it makes with other atoms. Each of those classes has the lab that goes with it, but the lab for organic is just as bad as the course. It is even given 2 credit hours instead of just one like most labs. So that totals 5 for organic and 4 for the physics. And those are the only ones I’m taken’. I’m not wearing myself out this time and potentially having my grades suffer for it. I don’t want anything to happen to my scholarship.
Well, that was nice to get off of my chest. I haven’t had a good rant in a long time. I didn’t realize how much I’ve been holding it in until I started letting it out and so much was brought to the surface. I think I’m going to need to put this in an lj cut, though. It’s kind of a lot to monopolize other people’s friends’ pages with. And I didn’t even get to mention any of the good things that have happed as I’ve been holed up in my room typing my papers and living off romen noodles and ginger ale. I don’t have any more time now to write, so I’ll just update again later. Yay! Tuesday is the last day for classes! *looks forward to her meager summer holiday with shinning eyes*