Savor the flavor
Today my second midterm was passed back in physics. I was very reluctant at first, thinking I did a dreadful job and was going to bomb, yet, another midterm in college. Yet this one turned out quite the opposite. Sure it was a 78/100 (18 points higher than my previous exam), but I felt a little more accomplished in my life. I'm glad staying up all night studying appeared to pay off in some respects of not completely crapping out on a test I would have else had no idea what to do on. I don't know how these grades compare to anyone elses, but to me they are low; at least for the first one. I can now look forward to the final and know my efforts in physics to maintain at least a C average were there. But that's the future, 2.5 weeks away. This is now and I still need to focus on the task at hand of completing the homework and doing well on the quizzes this week and next.
It goes the same way with math, but I don't have the results of the midterm from yesterday right now. Maybe by tomorrow or Friday I will and hopefully it won't be as bad this time around either. God I hate discrete math right now. At first I thought it was going to be a breeze, but now getting into crap like recursion and growth rates... ugghh. Don't even want to talk about it.
CSE right now is always a bitch because they have different rules than other classes. This rule is, if you fail the final you fail the course no matter how good your other grades might be. You could be an A student all the way through the course getting As on the midterm, homeworks, and labs, but come the day of the final, you had better make sure that A effort is not misplaced otherwise you're in a load of shit. Seeing that I scored relatively low compared to my midterm in the previous class, I can only hope the final goes over well this time. I hope to at least have enough time to think things through just for a minute to come up with the needed algorithms or tracing the steps to see what's missing. That was my problem on the midterm. Writing computer code with pencil and paper is the dumbest concept ever. It should all be computer-based god dammit. I hate writing twenty lines of code only to have forgotten to add a variable declaration or a command call and not having enough room to shimmy it in there to make any fucking sense.
Anyways, I'll be glad to finally be back in Amelia for a while knowing for certain three things:
1) I have my old job of working at West Clermont all summer with at least Nathan and Emily, if not anyone else.
2) My comfortable and hugantic room in the basement where nobody can bother me.
3) A comfortable and hugantic room waiting for me here in Columbus next year with no ResNet and no annoying ass little quirks like our dorm has (showers from hell, DJs next store with $1500 speaker setups to blow women's clothing off).
It'll be grand.
Ciao
P.S. I love Italians.
It goes the same way with math, but I don't have the results of the midterm from yesterday right now. Maybe by tomorrow or Friday I will and hopefully it won't be as bad this time around either. God I hate discrete math right now. At first I thought it was going to be a breeze, but now getting into crap like recursion and growth rates... ugghh. Don't even want to talk about it.
CSE right now is always a bitch because they have different rules than other classes. This rule is, if you fail the final you fail the course no matter how good your other grades might be. You could be an A student all the way through the course getting As on the midterm, homeworks, and labs, but come the day of the final, you had better make sure that A effort is not misplaced otherwise you're in a load of shit. Seeing that I scored relatively low compared to my midterm in the previous class, I can only hope the final goes over well this time. I hope to at least have enough time to think things through just for a minute to come up with the needed algorithms or tracing the steps to see what's missing. That was my problem on the midterm. Writing computer code with pencil and paper is the dumbest concept ever. It should all be computer-based god dammit. I hate writing twenty lines of code only to have forgotten to add a variable declaration or a command call and not having enough room to shimmy it in there to make any fucking sense.
Anyways, I'll be glad to finally be back in Amelia for a while knowing for certain three things:
1) I have my old job of working at West Clermont all summer with at least Nathan and Emily, if not anyone else.
2) My comfortable and hugantic room in the basement where nobody can bother me.
3) A comfortable and hugantic room waiting for me here in Columbus next year with no ResNet and no annoying ass little quirks like our dorm has (showers from hell, DJs next store with $1500 speaker setups to blow women's clothing off).
It'll be grand.
Ciao
P.S. I love Italians.
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