Posted by alexandra_k on September 25, 2014, at 22:25:57
In reply to Re: not doing particularly well..., posted by alexandra_k on September 22, 2014, at 22:47:26
things are tick tocking along. another week down. another hard week... a bunch of grading. a physics assignment. a rat dissection. a work and income meeting to secure this place for next year.
got through it all okay :)
i'm... proud of me, again. so proud. really, very.
we had one rat between two. i was grateful not to have to do it all myself. the smell comes in waves and you just have to stand back for a few minutes... so turn taking works out fine. the rats were all part of a diabetes study. we got the biggest fattest rat i've ever seen. fat around his heart and stuff... just... wow. i mean honestly, the dude was almost cat sized... we couldn't cover him with water in the tray because he barely fit in the tray...
my lab partner is getting better. has been learning. i mean, the first lab she didn't have the stuff she needed... now... not only does she bring all her stuff, she's started marking up her lab manual before class and she's doing much better at following along... they really are nearly second years. she's a biology major... she's going to be okay.
work and income meeting went really well. there were security guards on the door but the atmosphere was... everyone seemed to be trying really hard to keep things amicable and relaxed... and it really did seem to be. it went smoothly, actually. one of the smoothest appointments i've had with them. and i was worried to ask about whether it would be okay for me to study full time next year... and she just said 'while we encourage you to work as much as you can - you don't have a work obligation'. and, uh, the reason why i wasn't allowed to study full time before was because i couldn't honour my work obligation if i was studying full time. so now i don't have a work obligation... i am free to study. just... wow. so i don't even need to try and make a case for why i can study but not work. so... very smooth indeed. and i told them about the small amount of grading work that i do have and it doesn't affect things. so...
so...
next week is much more relaxed... and then things pick up again. assignment... labs... test... another batch of grading... won't be so bad since last lot so don't need to do feedback... and then a few weeks of exams.
waiting for my molecular model kit to arrive... will get the A&P book from grading... and hopefully organic chem too (fingers crossed i get enough for that)... they will keep me... hanging in there. i just gotta hang in there... keep things ticking over between now and the last exam.
life is good... the epidemiology people said the stats is very simple indeed so doing stats probably wouldn't help particularly. from what i've seen of the course it is more critical reasoning stuff about the sorts of inferences you can make from different sorts of studies (stuff like not inferring causation from correlation). the textbook was very... readable, anyway. and from what i've heard it tends to upset the bio-medders more than the health science people, so...
we had to solve a simultaneous equation for physics. apparently it probably wasn't meant to be one... but it turned out that we were only given one of the values so we needed to do that... so he showed us a bit of how to do one in class... then the tutors showed me a bunch of algebraic equivalencies / rearrangements. and it is a lot like logic. just that the rules of inference are different because we have mathematical operators instead of boolean connectives...
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