Comments | evilgirl_1388: of midterms, lab reports, and home

evilgirl_1388

of midterms, lab reports, and home

Oct 26, 2006 22:05

So, now that midterms are over for...a week... I can sit and process and catch up on the work that I totally dropped because of midterms. Here at Waterloo, 5 courses is the norm and labs are technically separate courses that have separate exams as well. After the 5 midterms I just had, I'll have 3 more in a week. Engineering may be hard, but ( Read more... )

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zhudson October 27 2006, 04:27:19 UTC

Nice work on chem. :) I'm gonna take a shot in the dark and guess that the lab with all the stylization corrections was bio... haha, the bio department was always SUPREMELY anal about that. The not numbering the WC thing is stupid; that'll be ditched sooner or later. Scientific journals wouldn't be navigable at all if all the citations weren't numbered.

Speaking from experience, I think taking some summer/distance ed courses after first year is a GREAT idea. I don't mean to scare you or anything, but at least here, second year is a bitch compared to first year. Second year chem at Queen's has something like 35 labs for the year. Thirty Five! What the hell! 1.5 7-15 page papers a week, plus experiments, all year, sucks ass. So yeah, if you can get some of it done during the summer, I say DEFINATELY go for it, even if all you can do is some electives. I definately think it helped me out ( ... )

evilgirl_1388 October 27 2006, 04:33:53 UTC

You're totally right, it was bio. I'd like for once to see some standardization of style, rather than Departments and subjects completely contradicting each other (ah, grade 11/12 chem vs bio sig dig fights).

I'd be doing the Distance Ed because I'm in co-op and I have an extra semester at the end in a Fall term - or at least trying to push things into a 4 year schedule...just lessening the load would be nice too.

I'm waiting for the interesting. I have to make a map of pre-reqs of how to get to interesting soon...

Thanks.

underadarksky October 27 2006, 19:14:20 UTC

We don't have to write lab reports, we just do the calculations. It's pretty sweet. I've gotten 100, 100, 95 in chem and something like a 95 and a 97 in bio. I don't know when they plan to spring the attack on us of written reports, haha ( ... )

evilgirl_1388 October 27 2006, 19:25:06 UTC

The only calculations thing is what we do for Physics, which I love. I don't think I've ever done a full formal lab report for Physics ever...

Is it hideously windy and rainy in Guelph too, or is it just isolated around Waterloo? If it's isolated I'm soooo blaming the geese. Cocky bastards.

The weekend after next being....the 4th or the 10th? Dates confuse me... If you're coming up the 4th I'm free, so long as I study a bit for my next round of midterms that start after that weekend. Unfortunately, cough drops have replaced chocolate for me for the past few weeks.

underadarksky October 27 2006, 19:29:00 UTC

I just got a Nestle Crunch bar, I havent had one of these since I was a kid. Its so much thinner than I remember, those cheap bastards. People agree with me they were never this thin when WE were young. but it's still delicious.

I think I might go home next weekend (3-5) just because it's my first midterm free weekend.

also, Guelph is SO FACKIN RAINY! Then it's MUDDY, and it smells like shit. it's basically a sea of mud outside. so grey and depressing.

msmarfleet October 28 2006, 14:14:23 UTC

If it's any consolation, which I doubt it is, it's been rainy and gross in Ottawa for a week now too. Bleh.

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