AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!
Oct. 13th, 2003 07:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
songofjoy02LOL! I left the house at 5:30 this morning...with the intention of studying for my science test once I got to school (which I did by 6:00). Well, I did do some studying, but then I ended up sleeping in my car. Oh, well...at least I did get into my classroom at about 7:15 (half an hour before class began), and I got to study with a bunch of other people who straggled in and wanted to know the answers that they couldn't find in the book themselves. My science teacher came and found us all studying together...and he kindly decided to have mercy on us and let us have the test before the lecture. Some of the questions were...STUPID! LOL. One of the things he told us to know was the basic tenet of cell theory. Now, the cell theory states that living things are made up of cells, and that cells only come from preexisting cells (which came from where? But that's not part of the theory). So he had a true/false question, which said that "Living things are made up of cells, and cells develop out of thin air." Several of the questions were that way, and the one extra credit question (worth 5 points in addition to the test's 100 points) was VERY easy...especially because he told us what it was in advance. He told us about everything in advance. Now, I don't think I did perfectly...I really didn't study as much as I had hoped...but the test really was easy. We will see when he grades the tests...
I turned in my anti-flirting paper with great trepidation (okay, not quite) because my English teacher lectured on punctuation before she had us turn in our essays. I'm afraid mine could be full of unnecessary commas, but she has not commented on my commas in any of my work so far, so I'm hoping that it won't be a problem. She also talked about semicolons and colons (I happen to love both) and their correct usages. She said that she didn't really start using semicolons until she was in graduate school...which amazed me. It does explain, though, why I see so many periods in the writing of undergraduates. I absolutely hate a stream of short, choppy sentences, and I'll do anything possible to avoid using periods. Okay, that's not quite true...but I usually have as many independent clauses in one sentence as is reasonably possible. Anyway, I do use semicolons AND colons (even if I don't use them quite as much on LJ), and she has not had a problem with my usage of them. My assignment is bothering me just a bit, though, because we are supposed to analyze poetry. I do not like poetry or any form of abstract art--whether it's in literal pictures or in word pictures. Well, I can't say that I really don't like it because it's more that I don't understand it. Hopefully by the time we complete all our assignments on whichever poem we pick out of the bunch, I'll know something about analyzing poetry.
I spent my entire afternoon working on my ETEC midterm...a take home exam that I didn't do at home because I didn't end up having time to do it (especially while I was preparing for my science test). In class, I worked on my PP presentation, which actually isn't due until November 17th. I hope to have it done at least by next week.
My history teacher was late to class today (remember, now, that he's the guy who very much prefers that people be punctual)...because of a doctor's appt. at 2 this afternoon (class was at 4:45). He's going to have surgery on his eye (I'm not sure if it's the one that has been recovering or the other one) on the twenty-fourth, and he will be out for four weeks...which means that the students will be in an interesting situation. He said he will do what he can to make sure we don't suffer from it...and he also said that was his main concern about this whole thing...much more even than how the surgery and being out would affect him. Anyway, I'm really sorry that he'll be gone for so long...especially since I suspect that any substitute we might get would be terrible in comparison. Oh, that reminds me of the other thing I wanted to say...I got my grade back on my history test. Out of five questions that I was unsure about, I got four wrong. This was a 50-question test. For three of the questions that I got wrong, the teacher decided that he had either not been clear enough in the lecture or he had presented the questions unclearly...so he restored credit for all three of them (something he said he will not do again) AND I had the credit for the 2-point bonus question (each of the test questions were worthy two points). What this means is that I got 92% on the test, but that my grade is 100%. I feel like I should do the extra credit work he offered to make it more fair somehow, but my mom reminded me that I do have other things to do. So I am posting an LJ entry instead.;-) I'll do the extra credit thing on the next test, since I doubt that I'll get 100%, so a 2-point project would make it worthwhile if I got anything short of 100. =)
Well, we shall see if I do any more such long LJ entries for a while. I love telling everyone about my day (boring as it really was), but living my days is requiring a lot more time than it previously took. LOL! I'm afraid my grades are not very good incentive for me to study more, but I still feel that I should do it...so...adios!
I turned in my anti-flirting paper with great trepidation (okay, not quite) because my English teacher lectured on punctuation before she had us turn in our essays. I'm afraid mine could be full of unnecessary commas, but she has not commented on my commas in any of my work so far, so I'm hoping that it won't be a problem. She also talked about semicolons and colons (I happen to love both) and their correct usages. She said that she didn't really start using semicolons until she was in graduate school...which amazed me. It does explain, though, why I see so many periods in the writing of undergraduates. I absolutely hate a stream of short, choppy sentences, and I'll do anything possible to avoid using periods. Okay, that's not quite true...but I usually have as many independent clauses in one sentence as is reasonably possible. Anyway, I do use semicolons AND colons (even if I don't use them quite as much on LJ), and she has not had a problem with my usage of them. My assignment is bothering me just a bit, though, because we are supposed to analyze poetry. I do not like poetry or any form of abstract art--whether it's in literal pictures or in word pictures. Well, I can't say that I really don't like it because it's more that I don't understand it. Hopefully by the time we complete all our assignments on whichever poem we pick out of the bunch, I'll know something about analyzing poetry.
I spent my entire afternoon working on my ETEC midterm...a take home exam that I didn't do at home because I didn't end up having time to do it (especially while I was preparing for my science test). In class, I worked on my PP presentation, which actually isn't due until November 17th. I hope to have it done at least by next week.
My history teacher was late to class today (remember, now, that he's the guy who very much prefers that people be punctual)...because of a doctor's appt. at 2 this afternoon (class was at 4:45). He's going to have surgery on his eye (I'm not sure if it's the one that has been recovering or the other one) on the twenty-fourth, and he will be out for four weeks...which means that the students will be in an interesting situation. He said he will do what he can to make sure we don't suffer from it...and he also said that was his main concern about this whole thing...much more even than how the surgery and being out would affect him. Anyway, I'm really sorry that he'll be gone for so long...especially since I suspect that any substitute we might get would be terrible in comparison. Oh, that reminds me of the other thing I wanted to say...I got my grade back on my history test. Out of five questions that I was unsure about, I got four wrong. This was a 50-question test. For three of the questions that I got wrong, the teacher decided that he had either not been clear enough in the lecture or he had presented the questions unclearly...so he restored credit for all three of them (something he said he will not do again) AND I had the credit for the 2-point bonus question (each of the test questions were worthy two points). What this means is that I got 92% on the test, but that my grade is 100%. I feel like I should do the extra credit work he offered to make it more fair somehow, but my mom reminded me that I do have other things to do. So I am posting an LJ entry instead.;-) I'll do the extra credit thing on the next test, since I doubt that I'll get 100%, so a 2-point project would make it worthwhile if I got anything short of 100. =)
Well, we shall see if I do any more such long LJ entries for a while. I love telling everyone about my day (boring as it really was), but living my days is requiring a lot more time than it previously took. LOL! I'm afraid my grades are not very good incentive for me to study more, but I still feel that I should do it...so...adios!
