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torquillI took the early train, just to ensure I'd get here before 4. I studied on the way up. I still have to go through the cards one more time, and try hard to get the equations for enzyme kinetics straight, but I'm pretty much ready. I'm also bored.
I do know the pitch (0.54nm) of an alpha helix, that there are 3.6 residues per turn, and that the pitch of an alpha-keratin helix is 0.51nm. I also know that if she really asks us to remember those, I'll answer the question, then give her written hell for filling our heads with pointless bullshit. Oh, and the pKa for acetic acid is 4.76, which would be more useful if we ever used acetic acid in this class.
It's the enzyme kinetics that will smack me around, and there isn't a lot I can do about that. She was so busy deriving equations and drawing graphs that she didn't focus much on the overall meaning of them, and the book didn't manage to fill in all the connections necessary for it to make coherent sense. So I'll do the best I can on it, and then I'll be Done.
I put up a review on RateMyProfessors. Not terribly favorable. My profs for next quarter seem to be okay or better.
It isn't actively raining up here, thankfully. I can deal with cool and damp.
They want a picture ID from each of us before they let us into the final. If that doesn't include someone checking names off the roster, I will laugh myself silly. I suspect it will. I hope it will. It does strike me that if this is what you get with a class of 300 students, I'm glad I'm quickly working my way far into the upper-division courses. I don't like feeling like I have to go through airport security every time I take an exam.
An hour and a half left. At least I'm not nervous. I'm very faintly ill, and cynical. I have soda to deal with the former. I have snark to deal with the latter.
I do know the pitch (0.54nm) of an alpha helix, that there are 3.6 residues per turn, and that the pitch of an alpha-keratin helix is 0.51nm. I also know that if she really asks us to remember those, I'll answer the question, then give her written hell for filling our heads with pointless bullshit. Oh, and the pKa for acetic acid is 4.76, which would be more useful if we ever used acetic acid in this class.
It's the enzyme kinetics that will smack me around, and there isn't a lot I can do about that. She was so busy deriving equations and drawing graphs that she didn't focus much on the overall meaning of them, and the book didn't manage to fill in all the connections necessary for it to make coherent sense. So I'll do the best I can on it, and then I'll be Done.
I put up a review on RateMyProfessors. Not terribly favorable. My profs for next quarter seem to be okay or better.
It isn't actively raining up here, thankfully. I can deal with cool and damp.
They want a picture ID from each of us before they let us into the final. If that doesn't include someone checking names off the roster, I will laugh myself silly. I suspect it will. I hope it will. It does strike me that if this is what you get with a class of 300 students, I'm glad I'm quickly working my way far into the upper-division courses. I don't like feeling like I have to go through airport security every time I take an exam.
An hour and a half left. At least I'm not nervous. I'm very faintly ill, and cynical. I have soda to deal with the former. I have snark to deal with the latter.
