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Most.Intense.Period.Ever.
Sep. 23rd, 2004 08:58 pm
Math worksheet lab was easy today. I just had my first ENGG 130 (Engineering Mechanics) worksheet lab class this afternoon, and was *it* intense! (Not like choir auditions. This is far more intense than that.) First of all, I didn't know I needed to bring my Engg paper for it. So I spent a few minutes asking people if they could spare a few sheets. Then it took me another 15 minutes to try to understand what the questions were asking of me, which was sort of partly due to the fact that I totally zoned out for about 1/3 of the ENGG 130 lecture today (I was tired, okay? I haven't had any more than 5 hours of sleep on any weeknight ever since I got here!)
Problem was, there's only two hours to finish all three questions on force vectors and stuff. If you waste those 20 minutes at the beginning getting Engg paper and figuring out what's going on, you will not finish the sheet. Actually, most people don't finish. I skipped over a few questions near the end, so if I ace the questions that I did, I should still have 80%, which I'm happy about, but really isn't competitive enough. Most of the profs for that class are there to answer our questions, but they never seemed to sense our common panic, because when we put our hands up to ask them something they'd take a leisurely stroll to our desk rather than a brisk walk. Which was annoying. TIME IS MONEY!!! Well, technically, time is time. Mostly. Unless there is perpetual panic. In that case time is stress. I think I would have been able to finish the questions if I had another hour, because I knew how to do the questions, but this vector stuff is very tedious!
Right after that I went to a make-your-own-sushi dinner with ASK (Asian Students on Kampus - I believe they're a Christian student group, but that doesn't bother me). I think something in the food made me feel a little bit sick, and one of my teeth started hurting again. I think I need to see a dentist soon, even though I saw my dentist just before I moved here anyway and he said everything was fine. A little bit of deep breathing is helping me deal with my stomach upset.
All three of my roommates and some of their friends are going to the Powerplant (one of the SU-run bar/restaurants) for some drinks tonight. I'll go too, just because I don't want them to feel like I don't want to hang out together with all of my roommates. Of course I can't drink a lot, because, well, I can't (ability-wise or affordability-wise).
I still haven't gotten my knife from Mike (from Calgary, not Mike from Fort Sask) yet :( I'm sure it's not in trouble. Hopefully my phone line / internet will be fixed tomorrow and I won't have to put up with this blinking on and off wireless internet that is partly the cause of my late nights.
Homework (for Odd Boy):
Problem was, there's only two hours to finish all three questions on force vectors and stuff. If you waste those 20 minutes at the beginning getting Engg paper and figuring out what's going on, you will not finish the sheet. Actually, most people don't finish. I skipped over a few questions near the end, so if I ace the questions that I did, I should still have 80%, which I'm happy about, but really isn't competitive enough. Most of the profs for that class are there to answer our questions, but they never seemed to sense our common panic, because when we put our hands up to ask them something they'd take a leisurely stroll to our desk rather than a brisk walk. Which was annoying. TIME IS MONEY!!! Well, technically, time is time. Mostly. Unless there is perpetual panic. In that case time is stress. I think I would have been able to finish the questions if I had another hour, because I knew how to do the questions, but this vector stuff is very tedious!
Right after that I went to a make-your-own-sushi dinner with ASK (Asian Students on Kampus - I believe they're a Christian student group, but that doesn't bother me). I think something in the food made me feel a little bit sick, and one of my teeth started hurting again. I think I need to see a dentist soon, even though I saw my dentist just before I moved here anyway and he said everything was fine. A little bit of deep breathing is helping me deal with my stomach upset.
All three of my roommates and some of their friends are going to the Powerplant (one of the SU-run bar/restaurants) for some drinks tonight. I'll go too, just because I don't want them to feel like I don't want to hang out together with all of my roommates. Of course I can't drink a lot, because, well, I can't (ability-wise or affordability-wise).
I still haven't gotten my knife from Mike (from Calgary, not Mike from Fort Sask) yet :( I'm sure it's not in trouble. Hopefully my phone line / internet will be fixed tomorrow and I won't have to put up with this blinking on and off wireless internet that is partly the cause of my late nights.
Homework (for Odd Boy):
- CHEM 103: Prelab assignment for Monday
- CHEM 103: Online stoich test done for Tuesday (if my ADSL internet isn't up tomorrow, then I'll have to find a library computer to do it on, because this wireless internet still sucks - I can connect but not be able to authenticate, or not connect to it at all most of the time)
- CHEM 103: In-class stoich and atomic theory test Tuesday
- ENGG 100 (a.k.a. "Yo, wazzup! This is what Engg is all about!" class): Assignment will be given out Tuesday. Heard from veterans that it should be a one page essay on 'why you want to be an engineer.' Do they want an original paper or something clichéd? Trevor still owes the class our free Engg clipboards.
- ENGG 130: Problems 2-1, 2-6, 2-27, 2-43, 2-54 due Monday 9:00am (might as well hand in on Sunday)
- MATH 100: Homework #3 due Wednesday
PHYS 130: Chapter 33 #18, 40, 46, 52, 56 for Friday (tomorrow)done- SOC 100: Read chapters 1-5 by Oct 8 midterm (finished reading chapter 3 already)
