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Woooooooooooo midterms~

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:21 am
by feedback
Just failed my Exercise Physiology, Anatomy and Physiology Lab, and Anatomy and Physiology Lecture midterms. Had a fever of 104 the night before, and had all 3 exams on the same day.

Here's hoping they curve 48% to a C :icon14:

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:25 am
by Canis
Aww...

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:27 am
by Dave
I had midterms last week. The first test on the American Revolution, I got an A and the prof posted my test as an example for the rest of the class to follow.

My 4th test of the week was a C+ in African environmental history (boring but enlightening shit).

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:33 am
by Fury
senior year for the win, no midterms woot.

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:48 am
by feedback
Dave wrote:I had midterms last week. The first test on the American Revolution, I got an A and the prof posted my test as an example for the rest of the class to follow.

My 4th test of the week was a C+ in African environmental history (boring but enlightening shit).
I wish I was doing that kind of boring textbook stuff, the physical science courses I have to take to get my Exercise Science degree are fucking bogus.

For Anatomy/Physio lab midterm, we had to memorize every bone in the axial and appendicular skeleton, all the features of the bone + how and where they articulate with eachother, joint types, and recognizing tissues from slides. It's simply too fucking much, there's no way you can successfully memorize all of that unless you know 3 months ahead of time. What's worse was that the model bones used were old and fucked up, held together by loose fishing line. The line was so loose that all the bones in the model arm+hand were handing low and spinning around, so I couldn't figure out what side of the body it was one. I know all that shit, thumb side=radius, pinkey side=ulna, radius articulates with the humerous, then from the thumb side the bones go trapezium, trapezoid, capitate, hamate, piseform, triquetrum, lunate, scaphoid, on and on but I thought it was the left hand. It was the fucking right, so I got all those wrong. Fucking hell I want to drop out of this shit and move to some 3rd world country where I don't need a degree to open a clinic. I don't care if I'm Tracer Tong's chiropractor.

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:00 am
by Dave
I'm studying "boring textbook stuff" because science bores the hell out of me. When it comes to technology, i like to tinker, I don't like to be told what to do. Except for a few facts, history is completely open to interpretation and not so rigid as science. It's all about the strength of the argument you're able to make. I guess science is too, but I just can't find meaning in it.

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:01 am
by Grandpa Stu
i have all art classes hence no midterms of finals. but boy am i burnt out of fucking hell trying to come up with shit for my projects at the moment. i have a huge headache just thinking about it.

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:04 am
by feedback
A couple years ago I remember my friend who was in Graphic Design pulled at least 1 all nighter a week just to finish some mess of triangles and stripes the instructor thought he should draft 10 times and eventually ink.

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:10 am
by Dave
The rest of my year is pretty similar. I mostly have to research and write papers. Two out of four of my class finals are just papers and presentations. Usually I'd rather do that, but sometimes i'd rather not. Sometimes you latch on to your topic and other times you don't, and you waste days or weeks trying to get some garbage assigment done when you'd rather the prof just give you a test and let you go home for summer/winter.

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:21 am
by Grudge
lol, school

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:28 am
by Dave
Yeah, learning is for tards

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:35 am
by Grudge
nah, it's more like that when you guys have been out working for a couple of years you're gonna think back of your college days and thing "fuck, I had it easy back then, damn that was the best time of my life"

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:39 am
by mrd
why didn't you just stay home? or do you go to the type of school that doesn't believe in people getting sick? get a fucking doctors note or something.

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:44 am
by Dave
Grudge wrote:nah, it's more like that when you guys have been out working for a couple of years you're gonna think back of your college days and thing "fuck, I had it easy back then, damn that was the best time of my life"
I have been working.. In fact I work and go to school. I'm the man

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:47 am
by mjrpes
I'm taking a speech class at the moment. I had to critique a video of a speech I gave. I discovered that I use far too many annoying fillers... "ummm", "errr uh", "then uh". Annoying fillers really do ruin speeches, no matter how interesting your subject is.

Quite an eye opening experience, as I thought I had a handle on those fillers.

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:51 am
by mrd
What if you're talking about stupid annoying fillers, such as "ummm" or "errr uh"? What THEN!?

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 8:00 am
by mjrpes
mrd wrote:What if you're talking about stupid annoying fillers, such as "ummm" or "errr uh"? What THEN!?
You mean if annoying fillers are the subject of your speech? That's a very interesting question.

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 8:03 am
by MKJ
thats like asking carmack to talk about clicks

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 8:09 am
by mrd
MKJ wrote:thats like asking carmack to talk about clicks
hahaha... :paranoid:

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 10:18 am
by Nightshade
Dave wrote:
Grudge wrote:nah, it's more like that when you guys have been out working for a couple of years you're gonna think back of your college days and thing "fuck, I had it easy back then, damn that was the best time of my life"
I have been working.. In fact I work and go to school. I'm the man
I'm also the man, ain't it great?

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 12:52 pm
by werldhed
I don't have midterms, per se, but I have an upcoming exam on recombination and transcription. I haven't even started studying.
And every week I have a 50-point essay test on some shitty topic for another class. This week it's microbial genomics. Past tests have been on cyclinA/cdk4 nuclear receptor signaling, apoptotic pathways, and effects of laminin-1 in cancer. :icon13:
Grudge wrote:nah, it's more like that when you guys have been out working for a couple of years you're gonna think back of your college days and thing "fuck, I had it easy back then, damn that was the best time of my life"
Thoroughly untrue. Working and having a job was much less of a hassle than college. Granted, life was more fun back then...

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 12:56 pm
by werldhed
Nightshade wrote:
Dave wrote:
Grudge wrote:nah, it's more like that when you guys have been out working for a couple of years you're gonna think back of your college days and thing "fuck, I had it easy back then, damn that was the best time of my life"
I have been working.. In fact I work and go to school. I'm the man
I'm also the man, ain't it great?
I find that "being the man" in that context actually sucks ass.

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 1:46 pm
by plained
you can make alot mo money with the sciences, its so much harder ey.

i would try to get a re-squeduale fb, doen forget youre quite the sweetalker :drool:

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 2:52 pm
by Transient
Grandpa Stu wrote:i have all art classes hence no midterms of finals. but boy am i burnt out of fucking hell trying to come up with shit for my projects at the moment. i have a huge headache just thinking about it.
Yea, I thought it would be great being a Graphic Design major because I have no midterms/finals/thesis, but now I realize that essentially every project I do is a midterm...

Right now I'm bogged down with 2 semester-long projects (that are literally going to take all my time until the end of the semester to finish), 2 random design projects, and 1 project where I have to work with some dude who is in charge of promoting the college's "school spirit" or someshit. I'm doing all the propaganda that will be displayed around campus along with several other group members. :icon29:

Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 3:07 pm
by Nightshade
werldhed wrote:
Nightshade wrote:
Dave wrote: I have been working.. In fact I work and go to school. I'm the man
I'm also the man, ain't it great?
I find that "being the man" in that context actually sucks ass.
SSSH! Don't blow it.
Yes, it blows. Spring semester is going to be horrid, 11 credit hours and 40 hr work week.
*shoots self*