Not even close to the weekend yet

I've been out of touch because I have two midterms today. Thankfully, one is a take-home, but it isn't the one I'm worried about. So I've been spending almost every waking moment ( studying biochem. )

I've determined that I ride my bike differently than just about everyone else here. I think it's because I am, first and foremost, a driver rather than a bike rider. It means that I lack that defining arrogance that has other bikers heading straight into an intersection and assuming they'll just dodge the cars... I know how nervous that makes drivers, so I actually stop at stop signs. The fact that many drivers don't believe I'll stop even when I have a foot on the ground shows how much of a minority I'm in.

I won't be starting on the take-home exam until after the biochem exam, I suspect. I hope it doesn't cost me too much. It's due tomorrow at 5pm, and I was planning on coming up to go to the bike church anyway... we'll see how it all works out.

No rest for the weary

The clock is running. I can't pay any attention to it yet.

Even so, the plant physio midterm doesn't look exceedingly scary, especially since we can use books, notes, and online resources. It should be possible to finish it tonight. I'll have a closer look at it on the train.

I need to spend the rest of my lunch hour studying biochem... but I wanted to make sure I know when the App of Comp midterm is.

The good news: it's not today, it's next Tuesday.
The bad news: it's right on top of my first-pass registration appointment.

I really, really need to find out how long first-pass appointments are good for. I can't afford to be late for the midterm... but I could be late for biochem. I can only hope that an hour's delay in registering doesn't cost me a workable schedule.

What all this means is that when I hand in the plant physio midterm tomorrow, I have to launch right into scheduling insanity, and scramble on Tuesday. This is going to be nucking futs.

Edit: The first-pass appointment is two hours long. I'll see whether I want to be late to biochem lecture so that I can at least get a foothold... If I miss that, I can log in again at 8pm that day and register. A small blessing is that I'm told I have an early pass time again this quarter -- the upperclassman I talked to said hers wasn't until Friday. So I have hope.

None of this will help me get into the 6-hour lab, but I'm pretty well convinced that I won't get into that without divine intervention... Microbio majors get first crack, and there are so many of them that there's a waitlist by the end of first pass; I don't get to even try until second pass. I need to talk to my advisor and see what on earth I can do about that, as I need that class.

Coming up for air

That was... um. That was hard.

Very seldom have I studied that hard for an exam, sure that it was going to be a killer, and a) studied the right things, b) been exactly right about how difficult it was going to be, and c) been convinced that more studying in the short term probably wouldn't have helped my grade.

I'll pull a B from it, if I'm not mistaken. He may curve it heavily, since I'm virtually certain that -- however bright most of the students here may be -- the median is going to be pretty damn low.

I was afraid he was going to ask us details about random enzymes with no context. I was right.

It wasn't unreasonable, as such... it was just that you had to know your stuff, absolutely, no question. Some people probably did. After four days of studying such details really hard, I didn't. That's the way it goes.

There was only one term I had never heard of in my life, and I tried to wing it. Dunno if the TAs will buy it. *shrug*


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