Saturday, November 27, 2004

I need a better chair.

Wow, that was certainly a week from hell. From Sunday night to Thursday night, the night I got the most sleep was when I went to Kim's significant other's birthday party (bar). All other nights received 3 or less hours of sleep. Not fun. Especially when you are sitting in front of this computer for hours after hours, and realizing that the chair is not padded enough.
I just calculated how many pages of stuff I've written this semester. The answer? 90! Yes, 90 friggen pages! 73 of which came from Lab Methods. 10 more pages more to hit the big 100! Which is not hard, considering I've got one more lab report, and one more big essay for this coming week. I'm going to enjoy this winter break of no work.

Wednesday, November 17, 2004

I'm not dead yet.

Well, the last post was some time ago. I'm still alive (don't know how though). Sorry for the delay. Couldn't help it though. Got things to do coming out of my behind one right after another. By the way, I HATE LAB METHODS!! Everytime I have something due in that class, I end up having ZERO hour of sleep the night before. So, why don't I do the lab reports earlier you ask? Well, I would if I could, but I can't, so I don't. Why? Well, if the lab report was due on Friday, and you had a midterm on the Thursday and Wednesday right before it, and you haven't study for them yet, as well as the necessity of preparing for group work so I don't get killed by my partner on the Sunday before it, it's kind of difficult to find time to construct the stupid lab report. Oh, and there was also the stupid term paper for that bloody course (ended up to be 35 pages long) the prior Friday. (That term paper also killed my sleep).
I hate that course also because of the bloody midterm. I thought I was prepared for it by studying previous year's midterm, but apparently I wasn't. I could do any possible calculations they throw at me, as well as some chemicals and what they are used for. But what did the midterm consisted of? Of course. Memorization of what each bloody chemical does and why you add them OF THE ONES I DON'T KNOW! Big long calculation questions ended up being out of 1 whole bloody marks. HOW?? And the amount of detail you needed for the explaination... GRRRR!!!
Well, so far, I'm getting a 91% in the lab report, a 72% in the quiz, and less than 50% on the midterm. Am I doing well? I can always count on this course to put me into shock. Why am I taking Lab Methods 2 next semester?
The upcoming weeks consists of presentation for Transmission Genetics on this Friday, one term paper for Population Genetics due the Monday after, one paper for Transmission Genetics as well as lab report for Lab Methods on a week Friday, lab report for Lab Methods two weeks (Wednesday), and a 20 pages essay on Ethics 2 weeks Friday. Oh, I also have the weekly Ethics reading of approximately 50 pages to do. Oooowwwwwww!!!!
I guess the $1905 bursary would help ease the pain slightly.

Thursday, November 04, 2004

Bush Won?

This is rather amusing, in a dark satanic twisted kind of way. Bush won. The war hungry maniac is gonna stay in office for another 4 years. How do you think the world is going to end? This is very strange, considering that every US citizen that I know hates Bush (they don't like Kerry either, but they hate bush more). We live in an interesting time I guess.
I think Bush is overdue for an assassination. What ever happened to the fatal 20s curse? I see this election as a failure in democracy. I guess Plato was right, that democracy might be one of the worst political system there is, especially when majority of the people in question are morons or illinformed.
I suppose Bush gives me an incentive to take over the world. I mean, I bet I can do a better job than him. First order of business I have is to stop all these nonsense jihad. I'm going to place UN headquarters in Jerusalem and make it a city state. Next I will demilitarize every country as well as make it illegal for countries other than the UN to posess nukes. I will also make it possible for country leaders to be put on trial for war crimes. The UN should be the only one that has military might. Maybe if I'm up to it, I'll illegalize organized religion as well. Religion makes too many angry people. The harm outweighs the benefit.

Tuesday, November 02, 2004

Yey, I feel slightly happier ;)

Well, at least I'm no longer accused of accademic misconduct. Sweet. Thank you confession letter I made my lab partner sign.
Yesterday my prof pretty much went "so from what I get out of this letter is you (me) saying it's not your fault, and you (my lab partner) agreeing to that"? We both agreed, and I got off the hook. My lab partner got 50% on that lab report as punishment, and I got my original mark back. This almost makes me feel like I got a 41% extra free mark :D.
Hopefully my term paper that's due this Friday will go as well.