Posted by alexandra_k on February 6, 2015, at 21:28:58
In reply to Re: uh oh?, posted by alexandra_k on February 1, 2015, at 15:26:29
i'm having a hard time with physics... the lecturer changed, and i don't like the new one. i... don't think he enjoys his teaching, particularly. and he doesn't really work through problems with us... mostly gives us text blah de blah that we could get from the book... shows us derivations that we won't have to do... doesn't really work examples for us so we can follow the number magic along the way...
anyway... it has killed my motivation. just like how the kinetics lady killed the later part of chemistry. and the thermodynamics guy killed the later part of the last physics class. Partly... i guess the stuff just does get harder later. partly... i think they poop out (even though they are just starting)... i think part of it is just putting the crappy people at the end...
so... i did say that it wasn't so helpful to have been given a big list of exercises all in a clump... instead of 2 or 3 each night... and without worked solutions / numeric answers we couldn't even see which ones of them we could do... and he defended himself (of course he did) and then... after other people hit him up (i guess) he gave out numeric answers... but i, uh, don't want to work for him. have no motivation whatsoever. not after that.
which is bad, huh. i didn't know i was like this... i'm not entirely sure what it is about... it is faintly concerning...
the learning disability people have been terrific to me. i had a dyscalculia screening and i got, like, 97%. so... i don't have dyscalculia... not even a teeny tiny bit. i can go on the same way from the patterns etc... it is just that my number fact knowledge is crap etc.
apparently it is standard (from autistic spectrum dx) to get a examination room of less than 20 people and 10 minutes extra time per hour of exam. she said it would help my UMAT application if there were precedent... so we put in an application... and they have got back to me about the accommodations being approved for my physics exam, already. wow. the extra time will help me with the maths-y bits for chemistry... and population health (where we don't get a calculator and need to do basic statistics) etc. yay. and the UMAT, of course. since half the battle with it is about 1,000 people all cramped into a warehouse... and it takes them over 2 hours to seat everyone before you get close to starting...
physics test on monday... exam in a little over a week after that. then one week and a half until classes start. for reals. wow. this is it. wow.
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