Posted by alexandra_k on January 27, 2015, at 20:34:52
In reply to Re: uh oh?, posted by ClearSkies on January 26, 2015, at 13:15:35
tee hee I had to look 'ossify' up... i needed to be reminded of it's general meaning after learning about bony fishes...
i learned i came first in class for law! yay me! so happy! i mean... most of the serious law kids did it the semester before, but who knows, i might have kicked their *ss*s too... i guess we'll never know... unless i do some more law...
feeling happy about physics these days. i'm starting to get a general sense of... the physics curriculum that relies on algebra. starting to feel... comfortable with it. like it is reminders. i mean, not entirely... but parts of it. getting the sense of it being a finite amount of material that seems realistic...
how... in later years you would look back on it with fondness. at its ease and simplicity. like how i look back on (well written) first year philosophy of... well... anything, really. perhaps especially descartes... or religion... or mind...
getting little glimmers of how if i could differentiate i could figure out this and that... or whatever...
i remember a great philosopher... once said that what he aimed for in his talks was a 'rule of thirds'. the idea was that 1/3 of the talk should be comprehensible to a general educated audience. 2/3 of the talk should be comprehensible to philosophy grads / professors. and that last third... was for the specialists. people who worked in his area. philosophy of mind or... perhaps... a more specific aspect of the philosophy of mind.
i liked that.
i'm getting a sense of the physics lectures as being something like that.. where expecting me to master 1/3 is realistic. that middle third is work - but do-able. that last third... parts of it... i'd really need to give a bit more of a crap. to learn how to differentiate etc... and... i won't. so... i won't be getting any kind of an A... which seems completely fair, to me... but i hope to get a good B+... and come out with some good basic understanding of physics. yeah.
and chemical bonds are like springs, yeah. masses on strings... dammit. they bloody well would be haha. seriously, though, i'm liking it. yeah. it is... conceptually really f*ck*ng cool. and hard... but once you get it so freaking simple. rearranging equations is like... doing forwards and backwards flips... i still don't entirely have it... but i'm getting there. for reals. and the soh cah toa thing... i finally get that. i mean... i get why it is helpful. i didn't know what the hell it was supposed to be good for before... and square roots... i'm starting to feel a little happier about those...
we're doing waves now.. then we do maybe sound... but a bunch of stuff with prisms. i still don't get all the stuff with the eye so... looking forward to that... i f*ck*d up most of optics last time round but i don't understand why because i thought i was the boss of those damned drawings...
:(
i get a dyscalculia screening test tomorrow.
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