So, like a month later, HI!

Well, judging from my last post I have a lot to fill you in on.  Let the story telling begin!

Finals were all around pretty good, accept for sedimentology.  That one stuck a butt plug in my ear and didn’t stop thrusting for the full 2 hours I spent in there.  However, I apparently did just fine.  Let me recap the final marks, and the marks I got on my finals:

Paleontology: 81 overall, 66 on the final.  Yeah, she definitly put me in the WRONG headspace when she said it was a piece of cake.  I didn’t explain anything in depth and that was my only problem.

Statistics: 92 overall, 95 on the final.  Yeah, not sure what else to say!  I could have had a higher mark if I handed in my last two assignments and done better on the second midterm.

Igneous Petrology: 74 overall, 76 on the final.  Well, this wasn’t a bad mark considering I barely studied and I was getting crappy marks the whole semester.  I did pull out the highest lab final and lab mark in the class though, which was nice.

Sedimentology: 71 overall, 73 on the final.  OMFG! I jumped for JOY when I saw this mark.  From what I hear, its the highest mark in the class.  I don’t want to go around and ask everyone their marks, but I mean it was a sweet mark, and its nice to finally be ontop of something for once.

So for this semester, my average went up one percent.  I’m now at a 73, and hoping that it climbs even higher this semester.  I really think I can pull out top notch marks if I try hard enough.  The only thing that might stop me is me being tired all the time ><

So then christmas came!  I also will not prepare a long list, but I did get pretty much everything I wanted (INCLUDING A WIIIIIII!), so I was very happy.  The one thing I was kind of hoping for was a backpack, because I like the back backpack style, but the one I have is falling apart.  I’ve had it for like 8 years though, so that might be why.  I’m also looking for more of a hiking style one since if I ever do field work I will need one of those.  So, I am trying to save up for one.  Lets see how that plays out!

Phils family also came down…and that was interesting.  I think they sort of drove my mother nuts a little bit, since phils brother apparently doesn’t eat anything accept for kraft dinner and is allergic to our cats, a fact they perhaps should have alerted us to before hand.   But, they did buy me some new ram for my computer, and now it is all spiffy and fast.

Then they left, and I sat on my ass for a week doing nothing but teaching private lessons and playing world of warcraft until 4 in the morning.  God, it was sooo nice. 

And now I’m back to school.  The class line up this semester IS:

Metamorphic petrology – the proffessor has one tone of voice, and its killing me.  Its absolutley killing me.  I sleep every single time.  The nice thing is is that she takes a break half way through, which gives me ample time to run to tim hortons and pump myself full of caffiene.

Geochemistry – as a chemistry major, the introduction to chemistry chapter had me banging my head against a desk.  The only lovely thing is is that when we did the assignment, all the loser geologists confused the hell out of me by trying to do all these weird things, which I then did for some reason, then was told my way of doing it was correct.  The only annoying thing about this class is that I have to dumb down my explanations of things, because they proffessor and the lab TA are both chinese, and don’t understand my lingo.  *sigh*

Stratigraphy – today, I drew a kung fu kirby on my page for 10 minutes.  Enough said.

Inorganic II – if theres a proffessor who can hold my attention, its Dr. M.  He’s amazing, and I am really enjoying this class. I just can’t wait to get into the transition metal coordination stuff, we’re still on introduction.  Yay!

So far everything is going ok.  I am not really remembering anything I am learning though, so thats sort of problematic.  Oh well.

Anywho, I have a lab to start typing up.  I’ll catch up with you guys later!

-Ryan