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godreamGot calculus test back. Was happy. Took chemistry test. Got chemistry test back. Was moderately unhappy.
It's interesting, though. According to the professor, understanding the concepts should get you a 50%, and that's his bare minimum passing grade. The other half is all in the execution. Or something like that. At which point my brain says "but, but, 50% == bad, not passing" and explodes in a small messy heap. I ended up with a seventy, by the way, which is therefore passing by a pretty decent margin, and which I probably deserved. And -- well, now we get into the typical mit freshman stuff -- I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I've gotten a test score this bad (is it bad?) and have fingers left over. On the other hand, first semester is pass/no record, and this is squarely in the former bracket, under the category of "good enough". No one except me (and, uh, everyone reading this) will ever know if I aced 3.091 or just barely slid by. In theory this means I shouldn't stress, and I'm not, much. I am though sort of stressing about the fact that I'm not stressing -- shouldn't I be taking this a little more seriously? Oh well.
In the same vein, I have a paper to do for MAS.110, and I should be studying for this evening's physics test, and I'm totally consumed by apathy with regards to the letter and partially with the former. Everyone said my terrible high school study habits would screw me over in college. How come it isn't happening yet? Guess I'm still kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop or whatever. Which probably comes next semester when I'm on actual grades. :P
It's interesting, though. According to the professor, understanding the concepts should get you a 50%, and that's his bare minimum passing grade. The other half is all in the execution. Or something like that. At which point my brain says "but, but, 50% == bad, not passing" and explodes in a small messy heap. I ended up with a seventy, by the way, which is therefore passing by a pretty decent margin, and which I probably deserved. And -- well, now we get into the typical mit freshman stuff -- I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I've gotten a test score this bad (is it bad?) and have fingers left over. On the other hand, first semester is pass/no record, and this is squarely in the former bracket, under the category of "good enough". No one except me (and, uh, everyone reading this) will ever know if I aced 3.091 or just barely slid by. In theory this means I shouldn't stress, and I'm not, much. I am though sort of stressing about the fact that I'm not stressing -- shouldn't I be taking this a little more seriously? Oh well.
In the same vein, I have a paper to do for MAS.110, and I should be studying for this evening's physics test, and I'm totally consumed by apathy with regards to the letter and partially with the former. Everyone said my terrible high school study habits would screw me over in college. How come it isn't happening yet? Guess I'm still kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop or whatever. Which probably comes next semester when I'm on actual grades. :P
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Date: 2004-09-30 10:33 am (UTC)I don't know, but it isn't happening to me yet, either. I guess we should just be grateful for now. :)
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Date: 2004-09-30 12:14 pm (UTC)