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so i havnt really updated much recently so heres whats up!
here are my plans for this next semester
ill be living in Seal and Serpent, its my new frat which i was recently initiated into. Its a good place for me and i am very agreeable with at least 80% of the brothers (i dont know a few of them, they were away or are very to themselves-y)
I was elected the rush chair as well as the house manager, so thats pretty cool. I like it lots and i hope i do a good job for this semester.
Also I'll be one of the new Cornell Bears! this is super exciting for me and i can hardly believe it its so unbelievable!
Im not sure of the classes that i will be taking but at the moment its looking like a Fluid Mechanics/Dynamics class, some Math, Engineering Dynamics, and BioGeoChemisty
im kind of scared of the biogeochem as i dont have any backgroud in bio so idk if ill actually take it or drop it like 3 weeks into the semester
im thinking about taking bowling as well cus i really like bowling
when i was in china the hotel had a bowling alley in it and i totally dug it
i really want to learn how to play the guitar but father discourages my taking it at cornell as you can learn it anywheres and it costs mad doughs so i think ill wait or just try to teach it to myself
I used to take lessons in both piano and guitar but i have forgotten almost everthing (i can read music and play piano slowly, and i can play twinkle twinkle little star on guitar so thats not so good)
i think guitar hero is to blame on this one. i do enjoy that game ever so much!
me and sis went to the best buy just to play it, it was AWESOME- no one was there so we could play for like 30 minutes with no one coming about
im kind of obsessed with it, i need to get one!
i think this semester im going to go to office hours all the time this way everyone will love me and my being wack at tests and good at homework will be more ok
i dont really like the grading system at cornell, its kinda BS
for example, i was in this earth science class this semester and i was doing ok, not great but i was about half a standard deviation above the mean. So i took a look at the median grade report and it said A- so i was like OMG WTF thats sweet aceeee! so then i get my grades for this semester and i see i got a B, so im like OMG WTF this is BS and its because the new median grade was B- so thats like not cool
also i think that students should be allowed to schedule their own tests and finals, it would make it way more fair as the current system is lame as hell
for example, i took an engineering computation class that started at like 1010 in the morning but the final was scheduled for 9 in the morning (maybe it was 930, w/e the morning final is)
thats not really cool as it is possible that some kids wake up at this time normally
idk, maybe im just a little bitter as iv been screwed with my final schedule 3 semesters in a row now
i took a computer science class once and they gave you one test, homework, a final project, and an interview with the final project and interview being the most important. i thought that was a great way of grading people as there are lots of people who get freaked out during tests
im sure some would argue that some people get freaked out during interviews but i think that a professor would understand that.
some people also argue that it would be super difficult to allow people to schedule their own finals, but some schools do that already and the kids love it and only a few people cheat (they get caught and expelled according to one of my math TAs, he went to i think Connecticut College or something)
anyway im going to run away now, ill talk to yall later
here are my plans for this next semester
ill be living in Seal and Serpent, its my new frat which i was recently initiated into. Its a good place for me and i am very agreeable with at least 80% of the brothers (i dont know a few of them, they were away or are very to themselves-y)
I was elected the rush chair as well as the house manager, so thats pretty cool. I like it lots and i hope i do a good job for this semester.
Also I'll be one of the new Cornell Bears! this is super exciting for me and i can hardly believe it its so unbelievable!
Im not sure of the classes that i will be taking but at the moment its looking like a Fluid Mechanics/Dynamics class, some Math, Engineering Dynamics, and BioGeoChemisty
im kind of scared of the biogeochem as i dont have any backgroud in bio so idk if ill actually take it or drop it like 3 weeks into the semester
im thinking about taking bowling as well cus i really like bowling
when i was in china the hotel had a bowling alley in it and i totally dug it
i really want to learn how to play the guitar but father discourages my taking it at cornell as you can learn it anywheres and it costs mad doughs so i think ill wait or just try to teach it to myself
I used to take lessons in both piano and guitar but i have forgotten almost everthing (i can read music and play piano slowly, and i can play twinkle twinkle little star on guitar so thats not so good)
i think guitar hero is to blame on this one. i do enjoy that game ever so much!
me and sis went to the best buy just to play it, it was AWESOME- no one was there so we could play for like 30 minutes with no one coming about
im kind of obsessed with it, i need to get one!
i think this semester im going to go to office hours all the time this way everyone will love me and my being wack at tests and good at homework will be more ok
i dont really like the grading system at cornell, its kinda BS
for example, i was in this earth science class this semester and i was doing ok, not great but i was about half a standard deviation above the mean. So i took a look at the median grade report and it said A- so i was like OMG WTF thats sweet aceeee! so then i get my grades for this semester and i see i got a B, so im like OMG WTF this is BS and its because the new median grade was B- so thats like not cool
also i think that students should be allowed to schedule their own tests and finals, it would make it way more fair as the current system is lame as hell
for example, i took an engineering computation class that started at like 1010 in the morning but the final was scheduled for 9 in the morning (maybe it was 930, w/e the morning final is)
thats not really cool as it is possible that some kids wake up at this time normally
idk, maybe im just a little bitter as iv been screwed with my final schedule 3 semesters in a row now
i took a computer science class once and they gave you one test, homework, a final project, and an interview with the final project and interview being the most important. i thought that was a great way of grading people as there are lots of people who get freaked out during tests
im sure some would argue that some people get freaked out during interviews but i think that a professor would understand that.
some people also argue that it would be super difficult to allow people to schedule their own finals, but some schools do that already and the kids love it and only a few people cheat (they get caught and expelled according to one of my math TAs, he went to i think Connecticut College or something)
anyway im going to run away now, ill talk to yall later