Fail

May 21st, 2010

So, remember that big huge final I was taking Thursday morning? Yeah… it did not go well. Actually, it didn’t even go.

I was hyperventilating in the hallway when my professor came to get me. I made it two feet inside the door and started bawling. He sent me home.

I feel bad for wasting the professor’s time, and embarrassed that I’m having so much difficulty with this. I’m so used to school coming easy for me - even the so-called “hard” classes. I have some kind of mental block about neuroscience, I guess.

So anyway. I get another shot at it next week. I feel like I should get my professor a present after this is all over, to say thanks for taking all this time to baby me along. What do you get a professor, though? All I know is he has horses and likes beer. Maybe I will bake him some cupcakes or something.

AFTER I spend the next four days studying, that is.

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Transitions

May 19th, 2010

So, I just found out from my excellent friend Alex that it costs $150 a year to maintain this website. And I write, ohhh… four to six times a year? That is a terrible cost-benefit ratio. So, obviously I need to write more.

Things are changing drastically around here. A lot of it is sad and a lot of it will be good for me. I just hope that now I will be more able to focus on school. The last semester was hell. I’ve already started a new semester while simultaneously still trying to wrap up the old one. I got A’s and B’s in all of my classes so far; now I just have to finish up neuroscience (I arranged to take my final late) and pray to heaven and hell that I pass. I’m not too humble to say that I’m a very smart cookie, and yet neuroscience continues to sound like Japanese to me, even after days of studying. So if everyone could just cross their fingers from 9 to noon tomorrow, I’d really appreciate it.

I will write more about said changes sometime soon. Back to banging my head on my desk for now.