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I had six quizzes last week: two in chem, one in chem lab, two in bio lab, and one in physics. There will be three exams this week, one for each class.
[LJ-CUT TEXT="Here there be whining"]
Chemistry is turning out to be my killer class. I thought it would be bio, but so far it's chem. (Ask me again after that bio exam, though.) Chem homework is a couple hours every time (3x/week), lab writeups are impossible to do well enough to get a good grade (she often doesn't say ahead of time what she does and doesn't want to see), and after getting perfect scores on all previous quizzes, I flunked the one on Wednesday. A two-question quiz, this one began by asking the formula for sodium phosphate and built from there. I'd forgotten the charge on the phosphate ion. I got one point (out of the possible ten) for remembering how to do oxidation numbers.
So last week was hell. I even went to talk to my chem teacher on drop date: hey, I need to learn this stuff, but I also need an A-, and if you think there's no hope for me I need to drop TODAY. She said "oh, please don't drop; it's looking like you're my A student." Umm, with a grade of ONE on a ten-point quiz? With every section of my lab report always losing half a point for something I didn't know ahead of time? But I'm a chump and easily swayed by persuasion, so I went with it. The good news is that if this gamble pays off it won't cost me another quarter of prep schooling before applying to vet school. The bad news is that I am not at all certain that I do have a good shot at that A or A-. (Also, this choice means I'm still taking three exams this week. Eh. That means I missed a party last night, with people I would really have enjoyed seeing, to study chem. I know I better get used to that kind of thing, but it's still a bummer.)
Obviously, this week bids fair to be worse than last. Next week may be better if my exam scores come back looking good. Or I might wig out and run away from this whole thing. I really don't have much of a sense of perspective right about now.[/LJ-CUT]
In short, I'm overwhelmed. I read LJ about once a week. I haven't replied to some thoughtful replies to last Sunday's entry. I apologize. I'm not even remotely catching up, except for a few key folk. I apologize for that too, but that's what's happening and it's not likely to change soon. I learn about how Rob is doing by reading LJ, so that one I've got to keep up with. I wish I were joking. With his master's program in astronomy, his flight instruction, and the occasional full weekend square dance commitment with its hundreds of hours of prep, he's slogging as heavily as I am. I last saw him awake... um... I HAD TO THINK ABOUT THAT.
Anyway. I'll live, I'll get used to things, and as time goes on I'll stop griping, but I miss you guys. And cross your fingers or light candles or something for me and chemistry.
[LJ-CUT TEXT="Here there be whining"]
Chemistry is turning out to be my killer class. I thought it would be bio, but so far it's chem. (Ask me again after that bio exam, though.) Chem homework is a couple hours every time (3x/week), lab writeups are impossible to do well enough to get a good grade (she often doesn't say ahead of time what she does and doesn't want to see), and after getting perfect scores on all previous quizzes, I flunked the one on Wednesday. A two-question quiz, this one began by asking the formula for sodium phosphate and built from there. I'd forgotten the charge on the phosphate ion. I got one point (out of the possible ten) for remembering how to do oxidation numbers.
So last week was hell. I even went to talk to my chem teacher on drop date: hey, I need to learn this stuff, but I also need an A-, and if you think there's no hope for me I need to drop TODAY. She said "oh, please don't drop; it's looking like you're my A student." Umm, with a grade of ONE on a ten-point quiz? With every section of my lab report always losing half a point for something I didn't know ahead of time? But I'm a chump and easily swayed by persuasion, so I went with it. The good news is that if this gamble pays off it won't cost me another quarter of prep schooling before applying to vet school. The bad news is that I am not at all certain that I do have a good shot at that A or A-. (Also, this choice means I'm still taking three exams this week. Eh. That means I missed a party last night, with people I would really have enjoyed seeing, to study chem. I know I better get used to that kind of thing, but it's still a bummer.)
Obviously, this week bids fair to be worse than last. Next week may be better if my exam scores come back looking good. Or I might wig out and run away from this whole thing. I really don't have much of a sense of perspective right about now.[/LJ-CUT]
In short, I'm overwhelmed. I read LJ about once a week. I haven't replied to some thoughtful replies to last Sunday's entry. I apologize. I'm not even remotely catching up, except for a few key folk. I apologize for that too, but that's what's happening and it's not likely to change soon. I learn about how Rob is doing by reading LJ, so that one I've got to keep up with. I wish I were joking. With his master's program in astronomy, his flight instruction, and the occasional full weekend square dance commitment with its hundreds of hours of prep, he's slogging as heavily as I am. I last saw him awake... um... I HAD TO THINK ABOUT THAT.
Anyway. I'll live, I'll get used to things, and as time goes on I'll stop griping, but I miss you guys. And cross your fingers or light candles or something for me and chemistry.
