Since the previous post is totally freaky, this one shall be a decent post.
My life in general, for the past few months, is stressful. It’s pretty much my fault; I still haven’t got that enough motivation to actually focus on schoolwork. The things that happened during the second semester really made me hit rock bottom that I still haven’t stood up and started being the usual me again (read: the student who really deserves the OWWA scholarship).
Let me just give you a brief description of my subjects and how I am coping up with them, before I go to bed.
Chemistry 28. I seriously thought this was going to be Chem17 part II. Well, technically it is, because the pre-requisite of Chem28 is Chem17. So pretty much everything we’ve discussed so far are related to my doom last semester. But then ‘lo and behold, I passed the first exam! Not with flying colors, though, but still! It was a hard exam, judging from the fact that only half of the whole class passed. I guess I was just lucky to be included in the ‘passed’ list. Or maybe I just studied really well.
Chemistry 33. This is the reason why I’m alive, alert, awake and enthusiastic at 3 in the morning. I was supposed to study for the second long exam (I am very depressed to say I failed the first one: konti na lang, papasa na, e!), supposed to study REALLY hard for the second long exam, but no, I’m lacking motivation. Can you give me motivation? /shot Okay but seriously. The pre-requisite of this happy subject is Chem16, the only Chemistry subject I loved so far in my college life. Chem33’s supposed to be easy. It is, really. I’ve been acing a lot of our quizzes, and my professor is really good, perhaps she’s my favorite Chemistry professor so far. It’s just that the motivation I get when I study for the quizzes is not enough when I study for the exams. For more info, see previous post.
Chemistry 101.1. Now this is what I call a cool class. Last year, an upperclassman told me and my friends that 4 hours and 30 minutes of laboratory class is not enough. So far he’s wrong. We do the usual things a 101.1 class would do in class: pre-lab quizzes, pre-lab discussion, a bit of post-lab discussion and the experiment. The longest time we stayed in class was the time when we started at 12:00 NN (we’re supposed to start at 11:30 but yeah, our instructor’s cool like that) and ended up at 4:30, and that took up only 4 hours of the lab time, technically. The experiments are fun, as usual, and they are the reason why I still pursue my course up to this day. We just had the midterm exam last week, but the results aren’t out yet. I hope I pass, since I liked answering the 101.1 exam more than the 28 exam (we took it the day after the 101.1 exam).
Physics 71. I take this class at 7 AM, and during the first day of classes I was blown away when my professor told us how she teaches the lessons: she gives quizzes every day (yes, we meet every day). I passed the first exam, and so far I am liking the lessons discussed in class. This totally reversed my way of thinking towards Physics; back in high school I thought Physics is the worst subject ever (that’s why I took Chemistry), but now, during ridiculous, boring times I think of shifting to Physics because it actually sounds like fun.
Physics 71.1. This class, with or without the instructor, is not fun at all. The manual looks like shit; it doesn’t look like the usual laboratory manual you imagine in a laboratory class. It’s not bound to the awesome cover I saw last semester when some of my Math53 classmates were taking the class. It’s just a stack of papers. It’s a bit annoying to look at because it seems to make all the motivation go away. As for the instructor, well, she just reads what’s written in the lame-looking manual, and I don’t learn anything except that jumbled-up stuff written on the lame-looking manual. I have to consult my Physics book at times. Wait, the class isn’t really not fun; I forgot to mention that the materials used in the experiment are wicked awesome: the Vernier LabPro, the calipers, the heavy force tables, the marbles, the steel ruler, the thick meter stick, the Vernier LabPro, the Vernier LabPro and did I say Vernier LabPro?
Communication 3. This class is amazing. I’m usually shy around people I don’t know, but this class existed for people who have difficulty in communicating in public, so I was forced to be myself around strangers (did that make any sense?). The professor isn’t requiring us papers, just journals to be passed by the end of the semester and two amazing plays (I watched the first one, and it was great!) we are required to watch. There’s only one exam for the whole semester, to be taken on September 2. The speeches make me a bit nervous but I think I can manage to go through the whole semester without being much shyer around strangers.
Ah, that felt good. I haven’t blogged in a while and looking at Kingsley’s blog posts on Tumblr made me post here again. It’s 3:28 on my clock and my mother is going to wake up after 2 minutes so bye!