Plans for the semester
Mar. 1st, 2004 08:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tarigwaemirAd Mundo Exteriore,
So I fall one point short of being within one standard deviation of the mean for the first chemistry midterm. (To the negative side of course.) If the average is set at B, this should mean that while my chemistry grade right now is pretty horrible, I haven't actually failed--I think. How does standard deviation work again?
I've decided that I can't let chemistry of all subjects beat me this semester. I'm going to make it my top priority. Who cares about expos? I do know how to write well enough to pass any humanities classes here at Harvard. (Oh, yes, by the way, I just turned in the worst essay I've ever written. Even my eighth grade work was better than the utter flop I handed in. It was going well and then it all derailed and went kaputz. I didn't have enough time to rework my already twice revised thesis by that point, so I just gave up and forced it into an ending. I think I'd give myself a D. Maybe a C, if we were being generous.) But as I've said, I know what's wrong with my writing. Chemistry on the other hand needs to be learned. I want to spend my life researching the prebiotic synthesis of biological molecules! I want to study the development of early metabolisms! I can't do that if I don't figure out chemistry!
I'm going to study this subject and enjoy it. Yes, enjoy it. Hmph. Even if I have to go to office hours or get extra help. ::sticks tongue out at the metaphysical embodiment of organic chemistry that is trying to daunt her::
...Tari
Post-script: If a word of this gets back to my parents, I am going to be in so much trouble. They've been nagging at me to not be so involved in kendo, and they'll seize upon my latest decline in schoolwork as the perfect excuse. They don't seem to realize that I can't possibly be not involved in kendo right now. That club sucks your soul out whether you want it to or not. Kind of like the Crimson except less time-consuming and more cultish.
So I fall one point short of being within one standard deviation of the mean for the first chemistry midterm. (To the negative side of course.) If the average is set at B, this should mean that while my chemistry grade right now is pretty horrible, I haven't actually failed--I think. How does standard deviation work again?
I've decided that I can't let chemistry of all subjects beat me this semester. I'm going to make it my top priority. Who cares about expos? I do know how to write well enough to pass any humanities classes here at Harvard. (Oh, yes, by the way, I just turned in the worst essay I've ever written. Even my eighth grade work was better than the utter flop I handed in. It was going well and then it all derailed and went kaputz. I didn't have enough time to rework my already twice revised thesis by that point, so I just gave up and forced it into an ending. I think I'd give myself a D. Maybe a C, if we were being generous.) But as I've said, I know what's wrong with my writing. Chemistry on the other hand needs to be learned. I want to spend my life researching the prebiotic synthesis of biological molecules! I want to study the development of early metabolisms! I can't do that if I don't figure out chemistry!
I'm going to study this subject and enjoy it. Yes, enjoy it. Hmph. Even if I have to go to office hours or get extra help. ::sticks tongue out at the metaphysical embodiment of organic chemistry that is trying to daunt her::
...Tari
Post-script: If a word of this gets back to my parents, I am going to be in so much trouble. They've been nagging at me to not be so involved in kendo, and they'll seize upon my latest decline in schoolwork as the perfect excuse. They don't seem to realize that I can't possibly be not involved in kendo right now. That club sucks your soul out whether you want it to or not. Kind of like the Crimson except less time-consuming and more cultish.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2004-03-01 07:44 pm (UTC)I wonder if it is too late to back out and run far far away...
Probably. Eh.
Hey! I've got like the same grade! Though I was actually right on the mean, but your tests were harder anyway.
I should have studied and prepared for Wednesday, instead I scanned PMK and downloaded a crapload of manga. Shonen manga, in fact. Whee!
OMG. I am gonna die. I'm gonna get a B in Chem like last semester (I really didn't try last semester) and my mother's gonna get not happy again, and I won't get into med school, and I'll clean floors for a living, except they probably won't take overqualified people like me, so I'll just be a bum like my older cousins, except my mom probably would send me to the army and I'll become all messed up and kill people....wait, that's probably gonna happen anyway..>.> <.< >.> oh well..)
O.o
(no subject)
Date: 2004-03-01 09:43 pm (UTC)...Tari
(no subject)
Date: 2004-03-01 10:18 pm (UTC)::hug::
::run away!!::
O.o