On being a grade whore.
I've been fucking up too much lately. I've got to sober up and just...shut myself off from all sorts of distractions from now until fall break. I mean, sure it'd be cool for someone ELSE's parents to have a GPA of 3.xx, but you know with my parents, that simply won't do. Should I disseminate? Yeah. I think I will. I shall use this time to revel in being a scholastic bitch, so anyone who's not interested, please stop reading and go about doing more interesting things.
I'm pissed as all hell that my O-Chem is really going downhill. Lab sucks so much. I thought that I got it under control and that it'd be an easy A. Now, I find that I'm struggling with EVERY single experiment, and that if I still want to get that A, I'm going to have to start memorizing now. What really pisses me off about the midterm is that a lot of the stuff on it had no practical use. What I expect in a labratory midterm is something along the lines of a practical. Basically, how can you analyze these results, or what steps do you take to extract compound C? Considering I had to memorize a whole lot more shit for Structural Bio, I guess I put Chem on the backburner and now it bites me in the ass. I got a 70 something, which for me (and considering that lab classes are pretty easy) is a pretty big fuckin' disgrace.
Structural bio wasn't nearly as bad as I anticipated it to be, but I still by no means did stellar. I'm content with a B, possibly a C in that class, and I really don't care that much. That's the end of that.
Chinese I need to relearn completely. I think I'm going to spend a lot of the fall break reviewing my characters because I won't have much else to do.
And everything else is how it should be pretty much. I'm sure I'll come back with some more pertinent information later.
I'm pissed as all hell that my O-Chem is really going downhill. Lab sucks so much. I thought that I got it under control and that it'd be an easy A. Now, I find that I'm struggling with EVERY single experiment, and that if I still want to get that A, I'm going to have to start memorizing now. What really pisses me off about the midterm is that a lot of the stuff on it had no practical use. What I expect in a labratory midterm is something along the lines of a practical. Basically, how can you analyze these results, or what steps do you take to extract compound C? Considering I had to memorize a whole lot more shit for Structural Bio, I guess I put Chem on the backburner and now it bites me in the ass. I got a 70 something, which for me (and considering that lab classes are pretty easy) is a pretty big fuckin' disgrace.
Structural bio wasn't nearly as bad as I anticipated it to be, but I still by no means did stellar. I'm content with a B, possibly a C in that class, and I really don't care that much. That's the end of that.
Chinese I need to relearn completely. I think I'm going to spend a lot of the fall break reviewing my characters because I won't have much else to do.
And everything else is how it should be pretty much. I'm sure I'll come back with some more pertinent information later.