I just finished my chemistry study-binge

[Graham Donaldson]

I find chem really interesting (the 1 1/2 quarters we've done), especially when we light things on fire or blow them up! Or put red-hot crucibles under a stream of water and watch them steam! I love fire... it is a great thing.

[lukevanoort]

Originally Posted by robotcanuck1676

I find chem really interesting (the 1 1/2 quarters we've done), especially when we light things on fire or blow them up! Or put red-hot crucibles under a stream of water and watch them steam! I love fire... it is a great thing.

Ah yes, those were the good times. Good ol' Chemistry. I can proudly say that the Chemistry classes at my school have another one of these "fun" experiments (in this case black gunpowder) due to my constant nagging of the teacher, followed by me making the stuff during AP last year. Good stuff.

[Graham Donaldson]

Originally Posted by lukevanoort

Ah yes, those were the good times. Good ol' Chemistry. I can proudly say that the Chemistry classes at my school have another one of these "fun" experiments (in this case black gunpowder) due to my constant nagging of the teacher, followed by me making the stuff during AP last year. Good stuff.

And I just found out that on Wed. (during lab) we're burning different chemicals for spectrum analysis...I LOVE FIRE (and Bunsen burners)!!!! he he...

[Michael Hill]

Well, I think I did fairly well on the exam. In fact, it's still going on right now. I finished 55 minutes early There were only a couple questions on subjects I didn't study or forgot about. But out of 35 questions, a 32 or 33 isn't too bad, especially on a college final exam. (CURVES FOR THE WIN)

[SamC]

You get graded on the curve? I think only one of my teachers does that...

[Wetzel]

Originally Posted by SamSofa330

You get graded on the curve? I think only one of my teachers does that...

I had a Stat teacher calculate the curve to "normalize" the grades. How that effected me was when my 66 was normalized to a B. It was crazy for a intro level class. Most teachers I've had that 'curved' took the diffrence between the highest grade and 100 and added that to everyones score.

My chem final is on Friday, at 8am. After a week of finals with the earliest being at 1pm, Friday is going to suck.

Wetzel

[sciguy125]

Originally Posted by Wetzel

Most teachers I've had that 'curved' took the diffrence between the highest grade and 100 and added that to everyones score.

This is the first time I've heard of that. It would have been really nice on my Fields and Waves midterm. Highest was 96, lowest was 1.

As for chem, I didn't think it was that hard. Actually, I thought it was really easy. The extent of my studying was showing up to class every day (sometimes sleeping through part of it) and doing the labs (which were required anyway). I made it out with a B.

All of my problems stem from math, I don't have any problems learning concepts though. I didn't have any problems with chem, thermodynamics, materials, or digital design. However, I barely scrape by in math classes, and have a lot of trouble with heavily math based classes (i.e. electromagnetics, physics, signal analysis).

As for studying... none of you have anything on what I just pulled. I started studying for digital design on thursday night. I got a full night's sleep and got back to it on Friday morning. I went until midnight. The test was on Saturday morning and ended around noon. I took the rest of Saturday off. Starting Sunday at around 9am, I started studying for Linear Systems. I went until 10:30pm. I couldn't find anywhere to sleep, so I had to go home to take a nap. I woke up at 3:30am and came back to school. I studied until 7, when I decided to check if the professor was in his office. I asked him some questions, then went back to studying. I took a 1 hour nap right before the test. The test ended at noon. I went home, ate lunch and took a break. I took a 3 hour nap. Now, I'm back at school (I'm eating dinner/reading CD). I need to work on Network Analysis now, test on Wednesday. My friends want to spend all day on it tomorrow, so I think I'll only go until 10ish, so I can recover and start a new sleepless study session. SLEEP IS FOR THE WEEK!!11one!

[Ian Curtis]

One of the math teachers here takes the square root of your score and multiplies it by 10. You can lose points on the multiple choice section, so it's possible to get a complex number as a score. Have fun explaining that one to your parents/friends.

[Jeremiah Johnson]

Eh... I'm pretty sure I got more than the 17% I needed to get a C, but not the 85% that I needed to get a final grade of a B. I'm content with a C in a class that I could have screwed up at anytime.