Posted by alexandra_k on February 1, 2014, at 0:00:36
In reply to Re: the natural order, posted by alexandra_k on January 31, 2014, at 23:46:46
because the 'different breed of people' thing... that is how that goes down.
sigh.
(of course *it doesn't*. that is what is wrong / upsetting about that)
just thinking aloud...
sigh.
*just thinking aloud*.
i'm not particularly upset. a little stressed that year 6 math is getting harder and i simply don't see how to do various things (though i finally finished all of year 5!!!!!) i... do need this program. i mean... i'll make things work if i don't get in because there isn't anything else to be done except that, but i really do need this program.
maybe the math teacher will let me audit the class anyways ahaha. actually... that's not so silly...
i'm scared that i won't get in. and then, i'm also scared that i will get in, and that it will turn out to be like tech.
all i need for it to be okay: is for them to let me learn. for them to understand that it isn't about me aiming to be the best of my cohort... it is about me aiming to be as well prepared to do the best in bio-med as i possibly can. so... i'll do my very best to power through the work and... if at all possible... do some extension stuff. along the lines of those other functional groups etc etc. head-start stuff. because even if i ace the program... it is still a huge jump from there to bio-med. being proficient with a microscope will help heaps for labs. practice with chemistry equations...
if they are like 'you have learned enough' so i'm expected to spend all my time... sitting quietly in the corner. or helping others. then i don't know what i'll do. i mean... helping other is really important -- so long as i get to learn too. that is the thing.
if it is okay to excel anywhere at all in this whole stupid country... it is here. it is just that this program. well, it is supposed to be a bridge. so it... isn't quite there yet.
anyway... year 6 math... ticking along, i am. just some trouble dividing smaller numbers by bigger numbers (long division / decimals) and converting funny fractions (yeah, x by 25!!! why didn't that occur to me!!) and some freaky sh*t just happened with geometry... dilations... wtf??? getting there, i am, though. half way through, actually. only 6 more years to go. yah.
i've been reading this engineering book and it had some stuff on visuo spatial skills and was describing how to... do plans (I forget the terminology). how you draw 2d top and front and side so the person can reconstuct a 3d image... *in their mind*. how you learn to do that. how you learn to translate 3d mental pictures into these 2d images... starting with staircase blocks and simple stuff, of course. eventually... well... building up to things like organic molecules and bones, i guess. like learning to read music... there was stuff on how you learn to get better at drawing, too. how to draw elipses and circles of various diameter and archs... way cool.
math is very visual. can't really describe a lot of it. have to see or be shown... way cool.
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