Posted by alexandra_k on May 15, 2014, at 17:25:03
In reply to Re: focus..., posted by alexandra_k on May 14, 2014, at 2:06:55
got my *ss to 8am chemistry lecture for next year...
it was okay. got there about 15 minutes early and while there were loads of people there, there were lots of free seats. i think the situation is more about bus times than about people arriving early especially for a seat. it was cold. may as well sit in the theater rather than wait outside. even once the lecture started... free seats.
filled up more for the next class... still free seats, though. i think the issue with the overflow room is that people would prefer to sit with their friends rather than add to the end of a row of a group(?) of people they don't know.
managed to sit behind the most annoying people in the whole room... more of a mild annoyance than a true distraction. i can probably get front row reliably... then i don't have to see people fidget... once things have settled down, anyway... maybe before...
i actually heard other people make ssssh noises... can't remember the last time i heard that...
organic chemistry reactions are all pink and purple, the way they are supposed to be... heh. someone else giving the lecture but, still, more of what i've done. rather a lot more haha.
and some bio-chem. 6 steps in chlorine regulation in cells. i see... if you can talk through / draw through the schematic (with some ability to form inference) you are set... handy to have the ppt slide ideal... but good study technique to draw in the schemeatic, yeah. over and f*ck*ng over haha.
people were... calmer. i was a bit of an oddity in sitting by myself - but only a few chatty groups who seemed a little unnerved and (the crucial bit) they seemed to be the tolerated exceptions rather than the rule. and i could see their coursebooks and, uh, they aren't going to be there the following year most probably.
so...
it was okay.
the pace is a bit all over the show. lots of repetition, yeah, but then lots of new content, too. varied... keeps things interesting, i guess.
the room accoustics really are wonderful... and comfortable seats. i mean... really, very. just as well since it is 3 hours in a row 4 days per week... wish i could remember what time they started in the evening to suss those out, too...
but yeah, i have to go to the lecture. it really is... like theatre. listening to the online is nothing like the same thing. i think there is something about the... environment... arousing... all the people. alerting. that's what makes the lecture traumatic. uh, i mean, memorable. easy to recall later. in the same setting, of course...
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