squeal!

[jinian]

I was in a bad mood all last afternoon and evening (though alleviation was accomplished by hattifattener, eub, and some giant ants) because I thought I'd really messed up on my physics test in the morning. Couldn't make the decimals go the right places, was positive I was wrong about Jupiter's gravitation, that person cannot have been going 400 kph at the bottom of the slide, argh.

This morning, we got our tests back -- have I mentioned that I love my physics teacher? -- and it turned out that, far from leaving out friction entirely as I thought I'd managed to do, I'd simply forgotten to take the square root of the answer. That is a one-point mistake. I got a 99. Kick ass.

Also had a very interesting lab on ferns today. Heterospory is way cool; I finally see all the steps from algae to flowering plants. Lunch with drakemonger was lovely as well. I do think a nap might be in order once I manage to quit being so bouncy.

Comments

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

yay! for! you!

yay!

[rubricity.livejournal.com]

You are the academic ass kicker. :)

I love ferns. Spores makes them seem so alien. I used to walk through Ravenna park examining the ferns and educating people about spore reproduction. Much of my knowledge is forgotten (or very hidden) so now all I would do is make up silly spore songs.

[btw, coyotegirl and I have decided that a Nanobot song needs to be written.]

[eub.livejournal.com]

99! I kinda supposed that might happen but wasn't sure how to phrase it as "cheering" rather than "flip", but now I can just say "remember the 99!".

Not to teach your lovable physics teacher to suck eggs, but does she promote computing the units alongside? Though I have to admit that I first learned to do physics problems without touching the physics, by pure dimensional analysis -- really only one way to multiply/divide the given quantities to get the desired one. The habit stood me in poor stead later. (Also, I learned to read piano fingering instead of the score. Questionable character.)

[jinian.livejournal.com]

When people did say that it didn't help, so no worries.

Of course she promotes unit-computing. It's just that I did them in my head (rather than taking up valuable test-paper real estate). They came out very well for what I meant to do with the numbers.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

well done. *hug*

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

woot! yay, you!

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

p.s. in the apartment that i lived in the summer before my senior year of college and also senior year, we named all the rooms. the kitchen was named "ants!" i'll let you figure out why.

[eub.livejournal.com]

place of savage mandibles.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

well, yes. but of the non-human, insectoid sort.