Finals and Fish
I was trying to make a catchy title for this post, besides just “finals” and so I was like “I’ll add something that starts with an f!” and fish was the first word that came to mind. I then realized that that wasn’t really relevant to anything, so I found a gif with fish in it.
But then, as I was trying to find this gif in my folder, I realized I did have something about fish to talk about. A couple of weeks ago, my old fish Neptune (technically, Neptune the Second) died. That was really sad, but not entirely unexpected since he’d been dying for a week and a half. Then I got this cool new fish whom Katy and I named Io. I’d been taking pretty good care of him until I had three tests in eight days (plus two quizzes…) and got distracted and lazy.
Of course, he got fin rot during that time. I hate that. Neptune got it too and his fin never grew back and then Emily dubbed him “Nubby” and the name stuck for her and it annoying. Io, at least, still has most of his fins, but there’s, like, tattering along the edge. I think I caught it soon, though, and I’ve been diligent in his uptake since then, so there’s hope. So that’s my fish news.
As for finals, those are next week. I keep ranging from wildly confident to completely panicky on those. One moment, I’ll be fine, thinking that I have a plan of study and that I know this stuff and I’ll totally be fine.
The next moment, I am in a sheer panic as I remember that I have grades ranging from a B to a C and that I need high A’s on two of my three finals and that I have gotten B/C averages on my tests and how can I possibly get A’s on the FINAL and that I have two finals on one day and one is on Monday which is only four days away and aaaaa.
So that’s been a bushel of fun.
I have been studying pretty vigilantly, though, and every time I get all panicked, I just completely stop what I’m doing and take a half hour or whatever to do something completely different like watch tv or whatever so that I can just calm down. Because there is no way I’m going to be productive studying while I’m all frazzled anyway.
So far, that system seems to be working. I was just working on Calculus and I was thinking how there was no way I’d get the final review done by Friday and freaking out so now I’m here.
In other news, I registered for my classes a few weeks ago. So next Fall I’ll be taking:
Waves and Optics (Phys 223),
the lab for that (Phy 233),
Linear Algebra (Math 204) (Which, despite the name, is not as easy as you’d think. Apparently it involves matrices and multivariable calc and stuff so joy), Multivariable Calculus (Math 225), and
The Solar System (Astr 315)
Doesn’t that quarter look like such fun? What’s really annoying, though, is that with the two physics, the astronomy, and math 204, I was only at 11 credits (you need 12) and so I had to take MORE math in order to meet that requirement. And I’m STILL only at 15 credits! For five classes! Five relatively difficult classes! It’s an injustice, I’m tellin ya.
I also ran out of meals a couple of days ago (and by ran out, I mean, I have enough to get breakfast for two more days), so I’ve been having dinner consisting of Cup o’ Noodles with chopped up summer sausage and various other things like yogurt, blueberries and sugarsnap peas with it. It’s surprisingly filling, and I feel more like a poor college student now (hah).
Well, this is already probably too long, so I’ll guess I’ll see you again with an update after finals (eventually…).
