30 July 2008

V=IR, and other useless physical relations

So, I'm sorry for the rushed first post. Me and my girlfriend Mariana were at the school library, where she was printing out scientific papers to read as she researches where she wants to go to graduate school. When we were ready to leave, I tied up my post real fast. Actually, I should be doing the same thing she is doing...but all this summer physics nonsense is a lot more work than I thought it would be.

Yes, I am taking physics over the summer. Since it is the second session at my university, I'm in physics 2. Thats electricity, magnetism, and optics. fun. The first midterm is on Friday, and it's covering electricity and magnetism and DC circuits. Just so you know, I'm not quite ready for it. I just don't like physics, and all the studying just makes me feel like i'm going to do bad on the test. I got a B in the first session of physics...which isn't bad, since a lot of people that were in my lab got D's, but it isn't want I wanted, and I surely don't want anything less than a B in this session.

The school is trying to make everything fancy and online, but instead of doing it gracefully, they are doing it shittily: i'll explain. They want us to fill out and submit lab reports online. Okay, the students say...fine. I mean, we have to hand in a paper version of the lab report anyway, so it's basically like doing 2 lab reports instead of 1...but whatever. THEN the department magically loses the second lab information. So everyone has until the end of the summer semester to redo the second lab online. So now we are doing that one three times, instead of the already crappy enough 2 times per lab. Good right? Plus all the homeworks are online, and sometimes when you put in an answer with the wrong sign, and the computer will tell you 'your answer has the wrong sign'. okay, that's not bad, i'll just change the negative to a positive. But wait...when you submit that answer, it also has the wrong sign....is there a third sign I missed somewhere?


/rant off

thanks physics, how I love thee,
~Zumacrume

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