Posted by alexandra_k on August 20, 2014, at 20:26:06
In reply to Re: another year..., posted by ClearSkies on August 19, 2014, at 18:52:09
i lost my pencil case yesterday. which is a bit deal, actually. i keep my glasses in there. and i can't see anything physics guy writes down without my glasses. uh... that might have had a little bit to do with why the equation stuff in chem was so hard last semester...
anyway...
it turned up. people... left it there. through most of yesterday... over night... through half of this morning...
with a nice (reasonably expensive, actually) mechanical pencil and a box of leads... a neat little metal ruler (neat label lines are what makes your biology drawing legit)... glasses... people left it there.
wow.
i feel... happy about people today.
onto electricity now, which is hard. a bunch of new concepts and new units and everything seems all confusing...
i've sort of got the hang of displacement, time, acceleration, and velocity. for weird things... like the final velocity squared is equal to the initial velocity squared plus 2 times the acceleration times the distance. which is useful for figuring how fast a sloth is going when it falls from a tree just before it hits the ground (and you don't know how long it takes it to fall). still have some work to do on work and power and force and KE and PE... but nearly there... electricity stuff seems to much harder... but perhaps because it is not very familiar to me... unit of charge and field of charge and voltage and current and resistance. and ohms and coulombs and voltage and...
circuits are kinda cool, i think. parallel and serial circuits... they are pretty cool....
the physics help room was... annoying. people just wanted answers for their assignments. i guess i'm supposed to feel... a bit sad for them, really. since they are struggling. since they will f*ck up the tests / exam components completely. i should be more relaxed about things. give them an answer here and an answer there. appreciate that in this manner they will use different people to piece together their whole assignment. they'll probably get a better mark than me... since i work independently. because, uh, that's what i sign that i've done on the front of the form...
'supposed to'... i think the idea is... they aren't going to do very well if that is what they are reduced to / if that is what they choose to do. so... why involve myself in unpleasantries? what am i? their judge, jury, executioner or something? what does it matter?
i guess i was pissy that people do better than me with that strategy... which is why i need more time. for that to most certainly not be the case. for me to... perhaps figure how to develop good working relationships with capable individuals...
it takes time. to foster that... time for tutors to get to know you... etc... the more i relax and show myself to be helpful to others... the more opportunities to do things with competent others will come my way...
and perhaps i'll eventually get lab partners or whatever who are capable of pulling their own weight...
someone called me a nerd the other day. actually, not quite... i was in the gym and people started to get a bit strung out as the guys during the day sometimes tend to (since people are more newish around then and i think i am a bit scary) and one of the guys was 'she's a nerd' in my direction... and then they relaxed a bit... i think because they realised i wasn't playing a happy puppy game. i was... exercising. doing what my body needs to do not... trying to make them feel bad or whatever... i was... thinking about what i was doing and how i could do it better. not paying any attention to whatever they were up to at all... not interested in being impressed... but not being critical either...
anyway... i felt bad. because i thought geeks were smart and nerds were wannabe geeks. and then i think about how i suck at math and i guess i'm a wannabe geek, really. which, uh, makes me a nerd. huh. which is odd for me... to think... anyway... whatever... a few years of hard work and things will come right... and i guess it is obvious to people who matter that i care about understanding. not percentage points on whatever. which means rather a lot.
anyway... not sure what i'm saying.
people didn't steal my pencil case. for which i am truly grateful. it is a wonderfully sunny day...
even if i don't have a physical copy of campbell's bio :(
i do have the nice current edition as a PDF... and it is a wonderfully delightful book to read...to the gym...
yay.
i wish my tests were AFTER the study break... but still... here's hoping for a nice exam schedule. fingers crossed...
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