OT: I'm bored.

[quoipourquoi]

Man, I only got up to Algebra II. That happens when you don't go to college.

That's pretty much all you need to know in order to function(x) in this world.

 

[Darkstone42]

The 15-pager isn't going to be all that bad. It's a chemistry paper, so half of that will be diagrams, tables, and charts. I'm probably going to use either a kinetic or a quantum study of azobenzene isomerization as my topic, so there will be plenty of graphs and equations and chemical formulas and diagrams and the like to take up space.

And I, like you, work best under pressure. Although, I put everything off to the last minute, so I honestly don't know how I work without pressure...[/QUOTE]

Ha! So true. I should say that I definitely work more quickly under pressure. How does that saying go..."If you wait until the last minute, it only takes a minute to do."
Edit: I somehow fucked up the formatting, but whatevs.

I've never heard that quote before, but I like it. I've just had a really hard time staying motivated this semester. I think I'm just looking ahead to my summer research, and ultimately my senior project research next year. I'm actually really excited for it, and so it's hard to care about these classes I'm taking now, especially since they're largely distribution and graduation requirement classes.

 

[Destroydacre]

I gave up on Calculus in my Junior year of high school (after years and years of annual math competitions). First week in, I just said fuck it, and I switched to an English class with the Freshmen girls.

I know how that goes. At community college, the group taking the engineering prereqs had 13 guys, no girls. At UW, the CEE undergrad class had rougly 110 guys and 10 girls.

 

[dare2be]

I had 2 years of Calculus and 2 years of Physics in HS...once I got to college I tested out of Calc I and Phys I and breezed through the II courses. In Physics, I went to the first lecture, looked at the syllabus to see when the tests were, went to the midtem, and took the final. Attended all of 3 lectures all year and got an A.

 

[naslundfan19]

That's pretty much all you need to know in order to function(x) in this world.

Seems to be working for me so far.

 

[loki604]

That's pretty much all you need to know in order to function(x) in this world.

Haha. Unfortunately, I can't give you any more reputation for that because I already gave you some and it says I have to spread it around more.

 

[Destroydacre]

Thank you. I was driving my mom's four month old 2009 Hyundai Sante Fe. Completely the other dude's fault. Car was totaled. They said if I had been driving anything smaller, I would be dead. I had very minor injuries...just fucked up muscles in my shoulders that gave me some bad pain for awhile. Still aches, but not horrible at all. I hope you were similarly lucky.

My back still gives me problems every now and then, but on the whole I'd have to say I was pretty lucky. I'm glad everything worked out. I hope the jerk's insurance rates skyrocket! :p

 

[Darkstone42]

Everyone always said that they didn't like integration by parts, but I never thought it was that bad. Integrating using trigonometric substitutions always game we trouble though.

Agreed. Integration by parts was simple, it was just a math marathon: a mental stamina test. Trig-sub was just confusing.

 

[KindaChang]

Exactly why I was an engineering student. No topic sentences, no plot dissection, etc. Just procedures and data analysis. So simple! :p

Four years of an anthropology degree with things like 20 page papers about the religious indications of water in the movie "Once Upon A Time In The West" makes me now laugh in the face of my 3 page papers for a sports management degree and my 1 page assignments for a journalism assignment.


Also, I will correct papers for beer.

 

[Darkstone42]

I had 2 years of Calculus and 2 years of Physics in HS...once I got to college I tested out of Calc I and Phys I and breezed through the II courses. In Physics, I went to the first lecture, looked at the syllabus to see when the tests were, went to the midtem, and took the final. Attended all of 3 lectures all year and got an A.

I found Calc I and Physics I both incredibly simple. Calc I was an easy A, one of only two easy A's I've taken. But my physics I professor was so ridiculously picky. I couldn't stand it. If you didn't follow his method word for word and step by step, he took off points. I answered at least 90% of the quiz and exam questions correctly but finished with a 60% average because he took so many points off for my work not being "detailed" enough. Of course, since he did that to everyone, that 60% ended up being a B+ anyway.

 

[GagneFire12]

Agreed. Integration by parts was simple, it was just a math marathon: a mental stamina test. Trig-sub was just confusing.

The stamina part is what killed me. I had Counter-Strike 1.6 to play, I didn't have time for 5-pages of integration. :p

 

[quoipourquoi]

Four years of an anthropology degree with things like 20 page papers about the religious indications of water in the movie "Once Upon A Time In The West" makes me now laugh in the face of my 3 page papers for a sports management degree and my 1 page assignments for a journalism assignment.


Also, I will correct papers for beer.

I'm going to get back to work before that discussion happens, because sadly, I'm pretty I could hold my own in it. :p

Later, gentlemen and lady.

 

[GagneFire12]

My back still gives me problems every now and then, but on the whole I'd have to say I was pretty lucky. I'm glad everything worked out. I hope the jerk's insurance rates skyrocket! :p

Here's to the "nasty car accident" club. I completely totaled my car a couple of years ago; front bumper ended up on the roof of the car. I had to crawl out of the passenger seat window. It was a mess.

 

[loki604]

Here's to the "nasty car accident" club. I completely totaled my car a couple of years ago; front bumper ended up on the roof of the car. I had to crawl out of the passenger seat window. It was a mess.

Wow. That's awful. Sorry that happened to you. The dude that hit me came from some store, between two cars in the backed up right lane, and nailed me in the left lane (I was going like 30 because my lane was clear). The worst part has been the mental aspect...I have a stress response when I see a car to my right (even if it's just a side road and the person is stopping at a stop sign...I think they're going to ignore it and hit me). I'm hoping that goes away with time. Did you have anything like that?

 

[naslundfan19]

 

[jstducky09]

Here's to the "nasty car accident" club. I completely totaled my car a couple of years ago; front bumper ended up on the roof of the car. I had to crawl out of the passenger seat window. It was a mess.

gosh, that answers sooo many questions about you. no wonder you're the way you are....

i'm just sayin....

 

[GagneFire12]

Wow. That's awful. Sorry that happened to you. The dude that hit me came from some store, between two cars in the backed up right lane, and nailed me in the left lane (I was going like 30 because my lane was clear). The worst part has been the mental aspect...I have a stress response when I see a car to my right (even if it's just a side road and the person is stopping at a stop sign...I think they're going to ignore it and hit me). I'm hoping that goes away with time. Did you have anything like that?

I had that for at least a year after my accident. To tell you the truth, I didn't drive a car for a couple of months after mine. The damage to my body was minimal, but the the damage to my mind...that's a different story.

Sorry to hear about your accident, but I'm glad you walked out of it. The mental stuff will go away the more you drive.

 

[GagneFire12]

gosh, that answers sooo many questions about you. no wonder you're the way you are....

i'm just sayin....

That doesn't answer where I got my boyish good looks and machete sharp wit. The Miley Cyrus thing, however, may be a result of the accident.

 

[Darkstone42]

I had that for at least a year after my accident. To tell you the truth, I didn't drive a car for a couple of months after mine. The damage to my body was minimal, but the the damage to my mind...that's a different story.

Sorry to hear about your accident, but I'm glad you walked out of it. The mental stuff will go away the more you drive.

That's true in my experience, too, and I hated driving before the accident. I'm actually a better, more vigilant driver because of it.

EDIT: Also, I just learned that if you screw up a quote by bolding something it's because the bold command injects itself into the quote command. All you have to do is edit the post and move the end bold command to the inside of the end quote command.

 

[dare2be]

Good night, all. Can't stay awake any longer.