Just over halfway through the school week from hell :notsure: I don’t think I’ve been this stressed out since some stressful time in IB, and that really says a lot… (Notably that I didn’t think first semester was too bad.)
Monday: realization that this is the week from hell. Panicking about online pre-lab exercise to be completed before 8:00am Tuesday.
Tuesday: Physics lab. Actually, this one wasn’t all that bad, and I actually prefer the lab to the tutorial this term. It was pretty straightforward. Then, French discussion class, during which I kept my mouth shut for the whole hour. (We had a presentation on the decline of Francophones in Canada. “Should all government employees speak French?” Not if it means that an otherwise qualified person is denied a position which is filled by a less-than-compotent person. And let’s be honest here, the only people I have heard speak French here outside of a classroom are tourists and a woman who takes the bus with me in the morning–no, we don’t talk to each other.)
Wednesday: Physics midterm. That was the most difficult physics midterm I’ve ever written. Our prof told us that Gauss’s Law would be a key aspect of the midterm. Naturally, there isn’t a single question about Gauss’s Law on the midterm. I thinks she really wants us to do well–she said as much before the midterm–but feeding us the wrong information is not really the way to do it. I came very close to pulling an all-nighter; I went to bed at 2am. (When you wake up at 6am, that’s cutting it close.) Not only did I have to prep a Chem lab for today, I also had to write the report from two weeks ago. Oops. And I got 6/10 on my quiz.
Thursday: Chem lab. The lab was a partner lab, which only made it more annoying, as I demand exactitude in my Chem labs; my partner, on the other hand, didn’t seem too concerned about contaminating a standard solution by sticking a pipet straight into the volumetric flask. Our equipment was faulty, we broke a graduated cylinder, I printed 40 pages of useless data, we overshot our standard solution AND the pH of the buffer, and we killed out patient by inducing alkalosis instead of curing his acidosis. (pH of blood is about ~7.35 – 7.45, right? We started out with 7.07 and shot to 7.56. Unluckily for us, this was 0.01 outside the acceptable range [7.35-7.55], so we didn’t get the bonus mark either.)
Friday: Math midterm. Can you say SCREWED?! French composition due today about the novel we’re reading. Well, I finished it, but I can’t really say I understand the finer points. And it’s really quite boring! (As one Google search revealed, one review of this book basically said: “This novel can be summed up very succinctly. I woke up, I went to work, I went to the bar, I saw Rose, I went to sleep. Repeat.”)
Oh well, and now I’m waiting for those practice midterms to finish printing. 😥
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