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12 years ago
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1. School:
School is going fairly well. I just had my first round of exams for all my classes. Oddly enough, I'm finding Calculus to be fairly easy, especially compared to the nightmare that was college algebra last spring. Conversely, Organic Chemistry is turning into my own personal hell. I hate that class and I'm not too fond of the man who teaches it. He comes from the "I refuse to acknowledge any responsibilities and/or issues you may have outside this class" school of thought. His homework assignments are brutal, he forces us to listen to one pre-recorded lecture per week at home in addition to the in-class lecture, and his tests are legitimately the hardest I've ever taken. No joke, it literally makes the SAT's look like a second-grade math test. On his first exam, I got a 78....out of a possible 150. Sad thing is, I need to take another Organic Chem class next semester....fml.
2. Work:
Work is....there, I guess. I try not to think about it, as it's kinda boring and miserable. Money's good enough to keep me in my own place, and it's not nearly as horrifying as Comcast was, but it's still not what I'd like to be doing with myself. I'm keeping an eye out for possible job/pay upgrades. I suppose we shall see.
3. Business:
My snake business is slowly advancing. I'm up to 7 animals, 3 of which are still waiting to be shipped out. The breeder and I are waiting until the weather warms up enough to be sure of the animals' safety. They're shipped with hot or cold packs as necessary, but if it's too cold, that may not be enough. Once they arrive, I'll take photos of all of my snakes and upload them. Finally, Pi, my little corn snake girl FINALLY ate yesterday. I was getting worried at her continuous refusal of food. It's only been 2 weeks, but already, Aurum, who was the same size as her when I got them, is much larger and bulkier. Hopefully she'll start adding weight now.
4. Psychological state of the dragon:
Stress. Pretty much sums up my life right now. I'm showing several warning signs of having inherited the family condition from my mother and grandmother...that being worry vampirism. I find any topic that it's possible to worry about and I suck the worry out of it, adding it to my own massive stockpile of worry. I hear once my worry count gets OVER 9000, I'll be able to unleash worry blasts at my foes, causing them to instantly have a nervous breakdown. One of my biggest issues right now is on the topic of my GPA. I'm afraid that I won't do well enough to get into medical school. Everybody keeps saying "I have confidence in you" when it's really just blind faith. Trust me, I'm looking at the numbers, and all the confidence in the world won't change a 3.3 to a 3.6.
Anyways, that's about it for my rants. I separated this journal into major areas of interest because I know damn well nobody's going to read all of it. *waits for inevitable "I read all of it" reply.*
School is going fairly well. I just had my first round of exams for all my classes. Oddly enough, I'm finding Calculus to be fairly easy, especially compared to the nightmare that was college algebra last spring. Conversely, Organic Chemistry is turning into my own personal hell. I hate that class and I'm not too fond of the man who teaches it. He comes from the "I refuse to acknowledge any responsibilities and/or issues you may have outside this class" school of thought. His homework assignments are brutal, he forces us to listen to one pre-recorded lecture per week at home in addition to the in-class lecture, and his tests are legitimately the hardest I've ever taken. No joke, it literally makes the SAT's look like a second-grade math test. On his first exam, I got a 78....out of a possible 150. Sad thing is, I need to take another Organic Chem class next semester....fml.
2. Work:
Work is....there, I guess. I try not to think about it, as it's kinda boring and miserable. Money's good enough to keep me in my own place, and it's not nearly as horrifying as Comcast was, but it's still not what I'd like to be doing with myself. I'm keeping an eye out for possible job/pay upgrades. I suppose we shall see.
3. Business:
My snake business is slowly advancing. I'm up to 7 animals, 3 of which are still waiting to be shipped out. The breeder and I are waiting until the weather warms up enough to be sure of the animals' safety. They're shipped with hot or cold packs as necessary, but if it's too cold, that may not be enough. Once they arrive, I'll take photos of all of my snakes and upload them. Finally, Pi, my little corn snake girl FINALLY ate yesterday. I was getting worried at her continuous refusal of food. It's only been 2 weeks, but already, Aurum, who was the same size as her when I got them, is much larger and bulkier. Hopefully she'll start adding weight now.
4. Psychological state of the dragon:
Stress. Pretty much sums up my life right now. I'm showing several warning signs of having inherited the family condition from my mother and grandmother...that being worry vampirism. I find any topic that it's possible to worry about and I suck the worry out of it, adding it to my own massive stockpile of worry. I hear once my worry count gets OVER 9000, I'll be able to unleash worry blasts at my foes, causing them to instantly have a nervous breakdown. One of my biggest issues right now is on the topic of my GPA. I'm afraid that I won't do well enough to get into medical school. Everybody keeps saying "I have confidence in you" when it's really just blind faith. Trust me, I'm looking at the numbers, and all the confidence in the world won't change a 3.3 to a 3.6.
Anyways, that's about it for my rants. I separated this journal into major areas of interest because I know damn well nobody's going to read all of it. *waits for inevitable "I read all of it" reply.*
semiceri
~semiceri
It wasn't that long to not read all of it. I'm still around these days if you ever need someone to talk to
You removed me from Skype
dreigiau-arian
~dreigiau-arian
I undertake your pain with organic chemistry. First exam I got a 38/100. Also the professor a lot of old school reactions instead of the mainstream straight forward reactions we did in organic chemistry 1. He is also all over the board when it comes to going through reactions. He does go through the reactions but he doesn't explain them in the detail I got with the previous professor.
