Mild to moderate test anxiety today. The lab exam for chemistry is at 2:30, and I am having difficulties with the qualitative analysis lab with the nine pages of net ionic equations that go along with it. Wrote things in the lab notebook once -badly- so now I must finish re-writing them legibly. Arrgg. Must carefully print these things, and try to remember next time so I don't repeat pages of writing. Big waste of time.
After this test, down to crunch time. Both chemistry and physics finals on Monday-starting at 8 am. This means I must get up almost two hours before, not only to get to school and beat rush hour traffic-but my brain needs time to wake up before fully functioning in the mornings. Then one day to memorize names/dates for the history exam-which is a blue book essay exam. Yuck. My hand tends to cramp after eight pages or so, making driving home tough.
I think taking Aly up on going out for drinks after finals will be done...I also get to celebrate this being my last semester at the junior college-come fall I am in UCD. Up against a slightly more ambitious group of students, so I'm betting my G.P.A. is going to dip a bit. Ah, well. I have managed to compensate for the grades I got the first time through college (walked out after two years with a less than 0.500 -less than a D average). Got a bit of perspective, so this time I actually showed up and did the work.
Running off to study after my blog break-will come back later and someone posted some questions that I wanted to answer, but need more time to think through.
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I feel your pain. Everytime I think I'd love to go back to school, I'll read your blog and come to my senses.
@MorningGloria - I certainly would have stuck with it the first time had I known how hard it is to go back. Only thing that helps this time is I learned how to multi-task, and it works wonders in school. Oh-one other thing-as a parent I also learned how to survive on little to no sleep. Just wish the brain functioned then.