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torquillI'm starting to realize that the reason so many people I spoke with were terrified of Plant Physio is that they have never taken physics. Or standard chem. Or maybe even higher math.
Having taken all of those, and thus not being scared of a) Greek letters, b) natural logarithms, and c) equations which consist solely of symbols, I find that I'm actually kind of bored. This is nowhere near as interesting as Plant Devel. Sure, the course is graded on only seven questions -- but that's because I don't think you could come up with a full four-page midterm based on water potential and simple transpiration. Three questions sounds about right for what we've covered so far. I could pack the entirety of the last four lectures into the first half of one of Abel's Metabolism classes.
If it weren't for the fact that it gets one more class out of my impacted scheduling mess, I'd resent paying $700 for this. I could take it alongside three other classes and (so long as I went to lecture) yawn my way to at least a B. It's more effort just to get up, go to class, and come back than actually learn the material.
Am I grousing about a class being too easy? Yeah, I guess I am.
Having taken all of those, and thus not being scared of a) Greek letters, b) natural logarithms, and c) equations which consist solely of symbols, I find that I'm actually kind of bored. This is nowhere near as interesting as Plant Devel. Sure, the course is graded on only seven questions -- but that's because I don't think you could come up with a full four-page midterm based on water potential and simple transpiration. Three questions sounds about right for what we've covered so far. I could pack the entirety of the last four lectures into the first half of one of Abel's Metabolism classes.
If it weren't for the fact that it gets one more class out of my impacted scheduling mess, I'd resent paying $700 for this. I could take it alongside three other classes and (so long as I went to lecture) yawn my way to at least a B. It's more effort just to get up, go to class, and come back than actually learn the material.
Am I grousing about a class being too easy? Yeah, I guess I am.
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Date: 2007-07-03 02:52 (UTC)It's not that I can't do math -- it's that I have this inexplicable fear that I won't be able to understand it.
Once I sit down and read, it gets easier. But physics and a good teacher would make comprehension come sooner.
Gah. =/
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Date: 2007-07-04 00:59 (UTC)I've just been exposed to enough of it, in sufficient complexity (solving Schroedinger's equations in physics comes to mind) that looking at a simple linear relationship doesn't scare me, even if the arguments do happen to all be greek letters. I've done my time; advanced algebra doesn't even merit a blip anymore.
I may get stung on the midterm -- I really, really need to remember some of these simple equations by Thursday, and I'm too bored to put much effort into it.