Wow, 4 full months and not one blog. Thats….messed up. BUT! I have an excuse, my plucky canadian friend Megan Tompkins does not!
So, lets start with….school!
This semester was a little rougher than usual. I was taking 4 classes:
Geology 340 – Stratigraphy: Well it goes without saying that anything that has to do with sedimentary rocks I hate, and this class was no exception. True, the prof was EXTREMELY nice and knowledgable and it was a complete turn around from my Sed prof, but I just can’t get into it, nor can I find the time to care. The lab was a series of projects, which started well (95%) and ended poorish (75%). Over, a lovely 80% in the 30% lab. Not too bad. The midterm was stupid, because he gave us true and false, and if it was false we had to correct it. These types of questions are not my strong point, so I biffed it hard ending in a 70% midterm. I wrote the final, and it went very well. I found out that if I get an 80 on the final I get an 80 in the class. I’m hoping!
Chemistry 330 – Inorganic II (study of transition metals): This class was an awesome class! I learned lots, had a fun time, the assignments were going ok, until BAM! 56% on the midterm. I was just so tired from that week, and I had a midterm the day before, that I just wasn’t in the zone, and was being retarded. Then, the labs were not going very well either since Henry Yee is a big giant asshole. So, I went into the final with about a 60, and if I want a 70 in the class I need 70 on the final. Well thats a whole other story, that involves me metamorphically taking 4 bats in the butt dry. The questions were tough, I have no clue if I did them right or not, and am just stressed. I may have to anticipate lower than a 70, which is really dissapointing because I really do understand the concepts in that class, its just the questions were a little more complex than what I could get from them. *Sigh*
Geology 471 – Geochemistry: HAHAHAHAHA! Easy as pie. I averaged 92 on the labs, a 81 on the midterm with only one hour of studying. Everyone else was running around all stressed and I think they’re all a silly bunch of morons. But, then the lab final came, and there wasn’t a single question from our labs actually on it. His explanation? He wanted to see if we UNDERSTOOD the equations we were using. Ugh, suck it Chi! Then, we had to write papers and do a presentation. Well I decided to do something he has an entire lab dedicated to, and got a new asshole torn out of me. So then I write him an email and pretty much say sorry for making a shitty presentation, and he tells me “I thoroughly enjoyed it.” FUCK YOU BUDDY! If you did, then why did you HUMILIATE me infront of the entire class? Most of which I am smarter than I might add, and actually picked a topic that solves a geological problem (me and the masters student were the only two people to actually do this). *Sigh*. Well then the final came, and I aced it hardcore. It was so simple, so easy, everything I knew and studied were on there. Yay!
Geology 315 – Metamorphic Petrology: Well I can’t complain too much about this class, accept that it was kind of a gong show at times. The department is really cracking down on cheating, and the main advocate of this was our proffessor. So, she caught people cheating on the midterm (through an answer key she gave out last year, which kind of makes it her fault) and so she adjusted marks and stuff based on that. That brought me to an 80 on the midterm, the 3rd highest mark in the class. I could have done better, but my multiple choice were god awful. I just suck at it sooo bad. I rocked short answer, which is where I came up with most of my marks, and then did really well on the description of the rock. I missed a few things, but she said overall I am one of her more promising students. The labs went fairly well aswell, as when I compared them with the rest of the class they seemed to be doing a lot poorer than I was. BUT! There was this lab final. It was done in pairs, and was more of a lab project final. The person I got stuck with? Tracy Putz, a girl who failed every single lab this semester. So, I did all the work and she wrote things down, and I think we did just fine. We still haven’t gotten lab marks back yet, but I asked her the other day and she said I was doing just fine. I haven’t written this final yet, but I am very confident in the material, so I will do just fine.
Apart from all this, I haven’t really done too much, just shit tons of projects and homework. I’m still teaching dance, and that is always a good time. Provincials are coming up, so all the teachers and dancers are stressing really bad, and I’m starting to feel it too.
But, on a good note, I GOT A SUMMER JOB! With the geological survey of Saskatchewan, doing office stuff. I’m stoked! I was so worried I wouldn’t have a job for the summer, but now I do!
And I would love to talk more, but I’m all blogged out.
Cya!
