Post-Midterm<\/p>\n
Despite the surrounding birthday balloons and birthday mail, I feel sad. I blame my midterms, which threw me into a funk because I studied for them every day since receiving the material, but didn\u2019t get the desired grades. When I took my midterms, I felt pretty confident and knew most of the answers, but my grades suggest otherwise.<\/p>\n
I guess I should study more. Once my first year seminar ends, science and art history will dominate my life. Did I mention I have to make a giant comic book for my first year seminar? It\u2019s not difficult or anything. It\u2019s just work and I think that\u2019s behind most A\u2019s in college: diligence. You need to focus on schoolwork all the time and you can\u2019t think about or do anything else because it\u2019ll distract you from the task at hand. Maybe that\u2019s why so many kids take unprescribed Ritalin\u2014maybe they don\u2019t have the discipline to sit and study for a couple hours.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t really know, but I do know I tutored Zach in chemistry for the better half of last week. It was more difficult than I expected, seeing as he\u2019d never taken a chemistry class before and I barely remembered the material from two years ago, but I scored well in the course and wanted to help him.<\/p>\n
Sometimes we worked in circles, going over the material several times before moving to a different task. The worst was valence electrons because I didn\u2019t remember it and he didn\u2019t understand it. We spent three-ish days on it, and by the end, we had enough of electronegativity.<\/p>\n
In the middle of our studying, he would roll around on the floor and ask, \u201cCan we take a break?<\/p>\n
\u201cLike lunch or something?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOkay.\u201d I\u2019d gather my things. \u201cAnd we\u2019ll study when we get back?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah.\u201d<\/p>\n
We never studied when we came back. We usually watched Glee<\/em> or read bad fan fiction or something. Sometimes we\u2019d take another break and then study again. It was a good routine, but I felt like we didn\u2019t do much those days. Maybe it\u2019s because I\u2019m used to intense studying, so breaks throw me off, but maybe we could have done more if I\u2019d pushed. Maybe not. Who knows?<\/p>\n Earning grades is a little tougher than I expected, but I think I\u2019ll pull through. I study every day, and I know it didn\u2019t earn me A\u2019s from the get-go, but I\u2019ll study harder and then everything will improve. The most intimidating classes are science and art history because there\u2019s a heap of material to memorize and it\u2019s not as much understanding as it is recitation, but I\u2019ll be okay.<\/p>\n Another thing: my birthday landed on my art history midterm. Isn\u2019t that lovely? When I should have been celebrating my 18th<\/sup>, I was identifying ancient coins and corbelled architecture. Maybe I\u2019m being harsh, but it was<\/em> my 18th<\/sup> birthday and who wants to take a midterm during their initiation to adulthood? I hope it went well. A poor grade would make a terrible birthday present. :<<\/p>\n In response to the snail comment, name your sluggish little pet whatever you want. Gary would be creative (even though I\u2019m not a huge Spongebob fan) and it\u2019d be nostalgic. If I had a snail, I\u2019d name it something lame like Shelly or Goo. Isn\u2019t that lame? I wish I were as good at naming snails as you. Please tell me if\/when you buy it and what you decided to call the darling little molluscan.<\/p>\n Anyway, I\u2019m going to study dinosaurs until someone comes along to talk. Right now, we\u2019re learning about ceratopsians. They have bones on their upper jaw that don\u2019t connect to their nose. Hooray!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Post-Midterm Despite the surrounding birthday balloons and birthday mail, I feel sad. I blame my midterms, which threw me into a funk because I studied for them every day since receiving the material, but didn\u2019t get the desired grades. When I took my midterms, I felt pretty confident and knew most of the answers, but … Continue reading Post-Midterm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-campuslife","category-events","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/rebecca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}