Posted by alexandra_k on May 17, 2014, at 20:10:02
In reply to Re: lectures, posted by alexandra_k on May 15, 2014, at 17:25:03
over physical chemistry. even if there was this brief window where i thought it was kinda sorta somewhat interesting...
the disconnect between the conceptual and the... the solving of the problems. put a minus there because otherwise you get a minus in your answer and rates can't be negative. uh huh.
i feel like... they blindfold me by not giving me access to the powerpoints prior to class. then they get to say 'see, you can't do it, we told you so!' the kinetics stuff we are doing now... isn't in our textbook... but there is stuff online. that's what i need... worked through examples... the ones we have are full of typo's... last thing i need right now is to be worrying about whether something doesn't make sense because i'm not following along vs it actually just doesn't make sense.
not that making sense means a damn... our next lab is... recording the temperature of water cooling. no joke. over a period of about half an hour. a tedious something that could be done in the quiet... that is of course only going to get f*ck*d up in a room full of chatterers chattering about their numbers...
only three more weeks of classes... equilibrium... acids... bases... i hate solutions... equations... lets write things up this notationally different way that means the same thing (that you must have done years of maths to know - just for the sake of being complicated and making things harder!) i've had enough.
test not this monday but next... i'll try and print off some of past years... see about the time pressure... i suspect it will go better than i thought... like how i over-prepared for organic before and the actual test was straightforward. i think this will be like that with pattern recognition for most of the questions...
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