It’s always a negative!

This week is a week of laziness and returned tests. Spent quite a bit of time playing RF Online, its a pretty nice game. The quest system has it’s good and bad parts. The fighting system is pretty standard. What is nice is the macro system, which I really haven’t done much with cept setup auto potions, so I don’t have to remember to drink’m.
But I digress. I got my programming test back, got an A like i suspected. I should have gotten a higher A, but an A’s an A right? However, got my calc test back, got a 73 as i suspected I would get, however he curved so i got a B insted. I know I shouldn’t complain, but I’m going to. This jackass really erks me off. I lost 4 points because I didn’t put information down that the problem didn’t state to put on there, WTF? I also lost a bunch of points because I had the correct information down, but apparently i didn’t put the correct correct information down.. What a fuck, most teachers if you have the correct answers down but you have one extra and don’t specify, they might take 1 point of, now this ass whole takes almost 1/2 the points off. Now my grade wasn’t all his fault. I punched some stuff into my calc and wrote it down w/o thinking, even though i did think about it, but at the time my thought was that it was correct. Which it was not, and when i got it back i was like, WTF you stupid fuck what the fuck is your problem, are you stupid or something? Uggh so pissed at him and myself. I’ll be glad when this semester is over and I can look to brighter and better classes.
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So I’m sitting here, not able to sleep, thinking about how could that test have gone better. You know, as many if not everyone knows, standard tests are balls when it comes to testing your knowledge on a subject. I’m living proof of that. I can teach people about said subject, but I will fail a test hands down. I have narrowed down my failure to one simple thing. I cannot catch mistakes while taking the test. However after the test, they poke out like sore thumbs. Yeah, so their’s ink marking said mistake, but I generally look at it and i’m like, OMG WTF, your so dumb how could you do that. Many times its as simple as not copying something down right from part A to part B, or I completely fubar it, and i look at it and am amazing how i couldn’t have caught that. So why don’t more teachers allow students to go over their tests after the test, correct mistakes and let the teacher check it again. Maybe not even mark it, maybe a day later give the test again for a fraction of the time, just enough to check it over for mistakes again with a fresh look. I mean, how many times have you heard people say, walk away and come back later and you’ll see your problem. Same with everything, why can’t you do that with a test? Some people, like me, just can’t see their errors right away. Grawww! Just upsets me.

What I’ve always been saying is true.  The harder it is, the easier it is for me.  We’ve been doing Electrostatics the last 3 weeks or so in physics and has been pretty tough.  Mostly because a lot of the work is setting up integrals and working with lots of trig.  I suck at trig hard core, so its pretty tough for me.  However, taking my physics test last Tuesday, I actually thought I knew what i was doing.  Got it back Friday, sure enough I did: 94.5% baby!  I was floored when I saw it.  Some of the mistakes i made were simple stupid mistakes as normal, but this time they didn’t dominate the test.  Now if I could do that on my next Calc test. So all i can say is WHOLY BALLS!

Last Thursday I took my CS312 midterm test. This test was so simple a monkey could probably get at least a B. Even though I got every question almost perfectly there was one question which for one reason or another put me in another demention in which one minute = one hour. This along with being completely high or something cost me 10% of my grade. So instead of 97% I got 87%. I guess I should be used to this by now. Its the reason why I’m a C student and not a A-B student. I always look over some dumb ass mistake. What’s worse, after I was done with the test, about 10 minutes, I spent another 20 minutes looking over each problem making sure I didn’t make any mistakes. I guess I was in dimension X the whole time cause I didn’t catch it the 4 times I went over the problem. *sigh*

This is a cause for celebration!! I just got an email back from my professor, and I got a B in circuits!! Very happy about that, a few of my friends who are 4.0 students were fail’n this class hard-core, so I was super freaked, but somehow I made it though! Hopefully I can keep it up though the 2nd circuits class. Maybe I’ll get a A in the next class Here’s to hope’n.

Today ended the horde of classes of this spring. All that’s left is a weekend of heavy study’n and headaches. The next post you see will be probably from me whilst very drunk.

Simple == Hard && Simple == Hard;