sometimes I amaze myself...
Well so I got my second midterm mark back in Biomechanics, and it was 78%!! My first midterm mark was somewhere near 46%. This just proved to me that it was never Biomechanics that I failed to understand, it's goddamned torque diagrams from first-year Physics that is my comprehension bottleneck. I've been re-doing the study questions over and over and keep doing something different every time, all of it incorrect. I'm very thankful I found a girl my age to harass to study with who understands it way better than me and shows me. I wouldn't have done nearly as well if I tried to go it alone.
My second Physiology midterm didn't go as well. Not poorly (65%) but given I got that same mark on the first one and I studied my face off for the second one, I was mad at my performance. My TA tried to put a positive spin on it though: "But how was your mark on the 2nd midterm the first two times you took this course?" "Oh. I failed it. Probably 45%?" "Well then you improved your mark by 20%. That's significant!" "Yeah I know. But for the amount of comprehension I thought I had, I thought I did a lot better."
Anyway, so I'm not out of the woods yet. 2 more weeks and then my finals will be over and then there will be several pints of craft stout in mah belly.
And I have to not get cocky with my other two courses, Active Health: Behaviour and Promotion and English: Intro to Prose Genres (my breadth-humanities class). Both classes right now I'm sitting somewhere in the 75-85% range and my heart will sink if I let those fall. But I will throw up if I have to repeat Biomechanics or Physiology again. So....
I feel like I've figured out how not to fail at school. And I believe I can do it. I just have to be diligent. And slow down on reading questions because my reading comprehension has always been shit, ever since elementary school, despite my writing being decent.
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My second Physiology midterm didn't go as well. Not poorly (65%) but given I got that same mark on the first one and I studied my face off for the second one, I was mad at my performance. My TA tried to put a positive spin on it though: "But how was your mark on the 2nd midterm the first two times you took this course?" "Oh. I failed it. Probably 45%?" "Well then you improved your mark by 20%. That's significant!" "Yeah I know. But for the amount of comprehension I thought I had, I thought I did a lot better."
Anyway, so I'm not out of the woods yet. 2 more weeks and then my finals will be over and then there will be several pints of craft stout in mah belly.
And I have to not get cocky with my other two courses, Active Health: Behaviour and Promotion and English: Intro to Prose Genres (my breadth-humanities class). Both classes right now I'm sitting somewhere in the 75-85% range and my heart will sink if I let those fall. But I will throw up if I have to repeat Biomechanics or Physiology again. So....
I feel like I've figured out how not to fail at school. And I believe I can do it. I just have to be diligent. And slow down on reading questions because my reading comprehension has always been shit, ever since elementary school, despite my writing being decent.
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