The Clouds Are Grey Today

Lol, I feel really happy right now.  On Friday I had both my Chem and Math midterms.

I didn’t sleep at all.

My night consisted of doing Chem practice problems and watching Professor Toupadakis talk.  As enjoyable as it was, I was really tired.

I studied mainly for Chem because my Chem midterm was at 8:00am.  I tried to memorize some of the Calculus definitions and theorems but I was scared it was going to mix me up because I might forget the Chem stuff.

But yeah, I felt sort of confident when I took the Chem midterm.  It feels so good to actually know what you’re doing on the test and to actually find your calculations in the answer choices!  Lol, but yeah a couple of hours later I found out I got an 89/100!  Yeah, they grade very quickly and SO much better than last midterm.  Oh and the class average was 57, so I’m pretty sure I got an A.  Lol, and I got in the top 20 scores!

Okay, for my Math midterm, I wasn’t as confident because I didn’t have all night to study for it.  And the midterm was at 4:10pm.  I wasted so much time trying to memorize all the definitions!  I think I have OCD.  I’m an ALL or NOTHING kind of person.  So either I memorize it word for word, or I won’t remember it at all.  Gosh, there were so many terms, lol, seriously waste of my time, I should have been trying the math problems instead.

And when I was doing my Math midterm, I didn’t know how to do some of the problems.  It made me nervous because although on the last midterm, I didn’t remember completely how to do some of the problems, I was able to do SOMETHING, but on this midterm I guessed on some of the problems and even left a problem BLANK.

That’s already 8 points down the drain.  Darn differentials … I memorized the equation dy=f’(x)dx, but the problem gave me 2 numbers and told me to approximate.  Lol, I had no clue as to what to do!  Also 1 of the definitions was to get the differential of a function f at a point x knot.  Lol, okay I memorized the definition (sort of) … Let f(x) be a function … dx is an independent variable … dy=f’(x)dx … but I was so confused when they asked for the differential at x knot.  What?!?!  I don’t recall this in the book, but I wrote down the STUPIDEST thing possible … I put down the definition for a derivative.

WHAT THE HELL?!?  Lol, well that’s 4 more points down the drain.  Studying for the terms was stupid.  Lol, out of the 3 definitions, I only got 1 right.  What a serious waste of time.  I got 5/12 points for the definitions.

Also on Question 2, they tell you to answer 4 out of 5 parts.  Part a asked you to state the chain rule.  Omg, lol, I couldn’t remember it.  Lol, I was able to prove it but I couldn’t state the formal definition.

Okay, 92, 89, 88, 86, … , 10, 9, 8, 7,7 … the mean was 51.5 and the median was 53.

Therefore, A=80, B=70, C=40, D=30.  I already knew that I had 16 points off.

Me: Wow, why did people get such high scores this time?
Seth: No, they’re about the same as last time.
Me: Do you have the average from last time?  Well it’s 10 points higher, that’s a big difference.
Seth: Don’t worry, you probably got a 92.
Me: No, I definitely got 16 points off.

A couple of minutes later.

Me: Did he say K through L?
Seth: I think he said K through M.
Me: Oh …
Seth: Um, that’s still you … L … K through M.
Me: … Oh yeah!

(Jenny runs down, finds her test and runs back up!)

Me: Omg!
Seth: You got a 92.
Me: No, what is this?!?!
Seth: That’s an 82.
Me: Omg!

(Seth … FACEPALM!)

1 point more than the last midterm.  That’s IMPROVEMENT, and that’s all that matters … lol, according to Professor Milton.

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