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Turns out I got a C+ in my last math course. Considering I blanked out on the final, that is quite surprising. My grades are really slipping.
So I just took my math final which counts for half of my grade this semester. I totally blanked out. I studied the wrong stuff. I am very worried about this. I can't afford to fail a course and I just totaled my 3.9 something GPA.
Hopefully all the nights I stayed late to discuss things beyond the scope of the course will count for something and I'll get at least a C.
So the past three nights I've been getting anywhere from one to three hours of sleep. My parents have met Allie and Mom is all excited about her coming over on Christmas eve. I've got to finish one paper tonight and study for my last final, math, that is tomorrow. Aside from that, I've got nothing but work until school starts up again on January 22, 2007.
Allie is home and spends most of her time just hanging out. She's sort of in limbo. Can't get a job, got surgery coming up, so she's stuck in a holding pattern. The issues I have are being put on hold. I just need to ride things out. She said she is OK with me feeling strongly about certain things, but that I need to look at the bigger picture. And I do see the bigger picture, it's just tough for me since it really does eat away at me. She doesn't apologize for who she is and while I know that she's an adult and entitled to make her own decisions, I can't apologize for myself either.
Anyhow, she asked me out of the blue if I wanted to hang out last night, so we spent last night like we spend most nights together, just joking around.
So the test I thought I did horrible on wasn't really so bad, I got an 83, so I'm at a solid B+ for the course with a decent chance of getting an A.
I'm way behind on other school work, but such is life. I should be able to catch up tonight and this Saturday.
So I took my third test for this course today and while it was difficult, that isn't the reason that I bombed. I was completely unprepared for it. However, given the new weighting system that will be applied to all of our tests, I'm not to concerned. My other grades weren't the greatest, but they were alright. If a B is considered a good grade for this course, then I'll do good. Hooray for the weekend being here soon, I need to catch up on tons of other school work.
So in addition to my dozen page paper on what I want to be when I grow up and and my papers for credit by evaluation, I now have a physics test next week (which I will bomb), a math test the week after (which I will get an A on), I have to read The Condition of American Liberal Education, Liberating Education, Orators & Philosophers and Education and Democracy before Thanksgiving Break. All are a few hundred pages long and written by academics for academics about academia, so they're all very wordy. I think this is intentional. Give the science, logical geek all this liberal arts education stuff.
I should take a week off from work and just sit down and do this shit.
This past Thursday, I took my first math test of the semester. Went alright, I know I got an upper 80 on it. Still plenty of time to pull my grade up to an A before the end of the semester.
In other news, 20 credits at a time is a very bad thing. All I've been doing is school. Though work doesn't seem to suck as much as of late. That might all change by tomorrow morning, however.