Halloween and Random Stuff 11/2/2001
Well, my first Halloween kind of sucked. I knew I had a test that Friday in my Religions of the World class. The first test was incredibly easy. Twenty-five multiple choice questions and an essay topic so broad I could've written about anything. He informs us that Wednesday (Halloween) that there would be two essays, not one, and out of the three books we've read, he's going to randomly pick quotes, and we'll have to know who said it, what audience the speaker was trying to address, and we'd have to fully explain each quote using its religious connotations. Fantastic...So I decided not to go out to the party at the club that night with Erin. I tried to tell her I couldn't go, and she flipped out on me. She starts yelling, in the hallway, about how she spent $50 on her costume, she had no-one else to go with, blah blah. Yeah, so I ended up going, when I not only really didn't have the money, but I also needed to study. I knew the overall themes of each of the books, but I couldn't identify quotes.
So I went to the club, and I was already pissed at Erin. Her fucking roommate was at the club. Why couldn't Erin go with her roommate to the club??? Erin and her roommate get along really well, and Stephanie, the roommate, had offered to go with Erin...So yeah. To top everything off, I got NO play. None. Who got play? Erin. Figures. At one point, two boys were fighting over who got to dance with Erin. Yeah. It was just that kind of night. I begged Erin, BEGGED, to leave the party early at one so I could get some studying done. When it came time to go, what happened? She asked for more time. We got back at one-thirty, and by the time I washed my face, settled down, etc, it was two in the morning. I had an eight-thirty class and there was no way in hell I was pulling an all-nighter, attending my classes, and being able to study all day the next day. So I got no studying done on Wednesday.
Academically, I'm kicking some serious ass. I got two papers back in Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, both were A's. So I felt a little better. If I do well on the test, I basically have an A in the class.
I got my calculus test back later that day. 82 baby! Granted, that's not the best grade in the world, but I got a 48 on the first test. Professor G, my tutor, is an awesome teacher. Plus, I can make all of the grades up. If I do better on section one than I did on the first test, the grade gets replaced with what I got on the final. So if I get an 85 on section one, the 48 gets replaced with the 85. I stand an extremely realistic chance of pulling a B+ in the class. Now I know I can get a B, I want an A. So we'll see.
I studied all day and night on Thursday, plus I studied this morning. I don't want to jump the gun, but I think I got an A on my religion class. Wacth this, I really got a D... If I do as well on the essays as I think I did, I definitely pulled an A. The multiple choice questions weren't so bad, except for one or two.
I have no more upcoming tests until late November/early December, but I figured I'd take a break this weekend and start studying. My chemistry final looks like it's going to be a bitch. On the last test, the average person got 10 questions right...out of 25. I got a nine, which equals to about a 36. There's going to be a monster curve, so I'm not flipping out too much...I have to do well on the final though. I want my GPA as high as possible. Plus it's not going to look good if I'm a biology major and my lowest grade is in a science class.
I received my application from Rochester today. It's almost all filled out, except for the part about the classes I'm taking next semester and for the essay part. I'll work on that stuff later in the weekend. I'm in the process of declaring myself as a biology major with a concentration in art, so I was assigned a biology professor. Finally...an advisor who knows what they're doing. I'm going to him before I sign up for any classes. My other advisor, who's a philosophy professor, doesn't knows what he's doing and I'm afraid of getting screwed.
I just wish my social life was as good as my academics.
Until later
Artist
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