finals are over. but, sadly, I am dumb.
Dec. 16th, 2004 07:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jinianMonday night: The math final was awful. I had trouble remembering how to substitute to reduce the Bernoulli equations to first-order, and some of the early problems I just couldn't get a handle on. Worse, the problems I did know all about were so long that I only had a little time to go back and fill in. It isn't that I didn't know how to do the problems, it's that they were especially hard in non-diffy-q-specific ways. The "how the hell do I integrate that?" kind of problem was the main one. I did put down an answer to I think every problem but one, but there was no time to recheck so I have no confidence in any of them. And after I came home and looked all through my notes, I was even more frustrated, because we didn't have any problems like that during the class either. I feel like there's no reasonable way I could have prepared for the test, and that still makes annoyance bubble in my chest. Eventually I figured out worst-case scenarios, and I think I'll still get a pretty good grade in the class, but argh.
Tuesday night: The biology final was no problem. Well, maybe a little problem. The bus was late, so I came in five minutes late and got our previous test handed back to me just as the final was being passed out. The first question on the final was a reprise of a poorly phrased question from the test I'd just gotten back, a question I had guessed on. I got a couple of points over 100% on the previous test (finally! I did as well as I thought I did!) so I knew I'd probably guessed right the previous time -- but I couldn't remember what I'd guessed. I guessed again, and checked after the test what I'd put before: they matched. I knew pretty much all the other questions, too. Rereading most of the book was a good idea. With just a little luck, I will get an A in that class.
Wednesday afternoon: The o-chem final was easier than anticipated. The in-class assignment over the stereochemistry chapter had been handed in the previous Thursday, which means we hadn't had class to get them back corrected before the final. When I got the answer key, I thought I'd completely misunderstood something about cis/trans bromonium-ion addition, because I thought the alkene that would make the products shown was the cis one and the key said trans. So I played with gumdrops and toothpicks to try to make it come out as trans, and it wouldn't, the compounds produced by the trans alkene were just not those. I pretty much decided the key had to be wrong, but I was in doubt and went in to class early to check with the teacher. Yep, the key was wrong! And he said, "If you got that, you really have it down," which is a pretty great thing to say to someone just before a test. I zipped through the test, checked answers, and left to see![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cheesepuppet that afternoon, which was lots of fun.
However, my memory betrayed me / I am a giant idiot. The UW spring application deadline was yesterday. As I discovered this yesterday after business hours, it's summer for me. Please try not to poke me in my mortification.
The Jo-Ann in Ballard is hiring.
Tuesday night: The biology final was no problem. Well, maybe a little problem. The bus was late, so I came in five minutes late and got our previous test handed back to me just as the final was being passed out. The first question on the final was a reprise of a poorly phrased question from the test I'd just gotten back, a question I had guessed on. I got a couple of points over 100% on the previous test (finally! I did as well as I thought I did!) so I knew I'd probably guessed right the previous time -- but I couldn't remember what I'd guessed. I guessed again, and checked after the test what I'd put before: they matched. I knew pretty much all the other questions, too. Rereading most of the book was a good idea. With just a little luck, I will get an A in that class.
Wednesday afternoon: The o-chem final was easier than anticipated. The in-class assignment over the stereochemistry chapter had been handed in the previous Thursday, which means we hadn't had class to get them back corrected before the final. When I got the answer key, I thought I'd completely misunderstood something about cis/trans bromonium-ion addition, because I thought the alkene that would make the products shown was the cis one and the key said trans. So I played with gumdrops and toothpicks to try to make it come out as trans, and it wouldn't, the compounds produced by the trans alkene were just not those. I pretty much decided the key had to be wrong, but I was in doubt and went in to class early to check with the teacher. Yep, the key was wrong! And he said, "If you got that, you really have it down," which is a pretty great thing to say to someone just before a test. I zipped through the test, checked answers, and left to see
cheesepuppet that afternoon, which was lots of fun.However, my memory betrayed me / I am a giant idiot. The UW spring application deadline was yesterday. As I discovered this yesterday after business hours, it's summer for me. Please try not to poke me in my mortification.
The Jo-Ann in Ballard is hiring.
