I'm not dead, I swear.
Muahaha
Guess who just finished organic chemistry?
*dances*
...Well, okay, it's been finished for a week or two, but the final marks only got posted last night, and I've been waiting and nervous as hell, since instead of scaling stuff as the class goes, final marks were adjusted on a case by case basis (ie. most people really messed the first midterm up, enough that the average for the thing was a fail, so if you did considerably better on the second midterm and final, the first mark was either worth less or dropped), plus lab marks were adjusted to account for the different TAs, so it took forever. Am giddily happy with the mark, which ended up right around my average so everything is still easily at an A, whee (transcript killer, my ass!).
*further giddy dancing*
Promised not to talk about the class until it was over, and now that it's really, truly over:
Guess who just finished organic chemistry?
*dances*
...Well, okay, it's been finished for a week or two, but the final marks only got posted last night, and I've been waiting and nervous as hell, since instead of scaling stuff as the class goes, final marks were adjusted on a case by case basis (ie. most people really messed the first midterm up, enough that the average for the thing was a fail, so if you did considerably better on the second midterm and final, the first mark was either worth less or dropped), plus lab marks were adjusted to account for the different TAs, so it took forever. Am giddily happy with the mark, which ended up right around my average so everything is still easily at an A, whee (transcript killer, my ass!).
*further giddy dancing*
Promised not to talk about the class until it was over, and now that it's really, truly over:
- It was bad because it was a week's worth of material every friggin day, but the actual course itself isn't nearly as bad as people say (and there's no bias there just because organic chem has always been my favourite chemistry topic), and the content isn't incredibly difficult once you get the hang of it. On the other hand, looking at the mark distribution, I've never seen a class where people could study so hard yet do so badly, not even psyc. Y'know how normally grade distributions have most of the class around 70-80%? This class? Not so much. Apparently you do either really well or really badly, since 1/5 of the class had marks over 80%, but more than 1/4 failed and almost 2/3 ended up at 65% or less, with 65% as the course average, eep.
- That very small 1/3 of a page of Dr. Mombourquette's first year notes on Sn1 and Sn2 is the basis of at least half a semester. *grumbles*
- According to upper years in the course, you'll never write out so many damned cue cards during undergrad, ever.
- Nor has stereochemistry ever mattered so annoyingly much. Damned enantiomers.
- Saw Andrei, who was taking Biol 102/103 with Dino Bill. Imagine twice the amount of microtubule talk we got *cringes*
Have been slowly catching up on lj and email, and I'm really sorry for never replying to emails and keeping almost completely off msn for the last month or so. I procrastinate like crazy when the internet is there in all its electronic seductiveness, so I tried to give it up as much as possible. All the stuff that needs catching up on will be caught up on sometime!
Also, crudmonkey's LJ tag from so very long ago, except no passing on because pretty much everyone's done it already:
Post your six current favourite songs, something about each song, then pass it on to six other people. No particular order.
With the exception of old, familiar favourites:
1. Lisa Loeb - Fools Like Me (Maybe [love's] the sanest thing, or just the sweetest kind of dream): it's a song about angst that's cute and upbeat, which is refreshingly nice
2. Keane - Somewhere Only We Know I have no idea why I like this song this much, but I do. Oh, and it gets stuck in my head every time I heard it, ugh.
3. Jack Johnson - If I Could (A brand new baby was born yesterday, just in time/Papa cried, baby cried, said "your tears are like mine") birth of a child and the death of a friend; doesn't get much more touching than that
4. David Gray - Easy Way to Cry (And as I watch you leave, I stand/inside my house of straw/And everywhere I go, I find/things recollecting to my mind/How right it all could be...) angsty, and so relatable, because who hasn't made stupid mistakes like this?
5. Craig Armstrong - Glasgow Love Theme from Love Actually beautiful piano
6. Guns n' Roses - November Rain (But if you could heal a broken heart, wouldn't time be out to charm you?): the gorgeous piano and guitar kill me every single time; couldn't think of a better song to close my eyes and slow dance to with someone
Speaking of music, I saw some fabulous jazz with people last night, as well as a fabulous pianist who somehow made large gold earrings and dreadlocks look damned sexy (no, really, solizma and crudmonkey will back me up on this)