Not to trivialize rape or nothing...

[trinityvixen]

...but yeah, that's how my test went.

Either this professor has mastered a heretofore unrealized goal in my academic experience to date--the perfectly timed test that fills the allotted time perfectly--or that test was like assault. Made worse because before I could be good and violated by it, I had to sit and listen to him drone on about stuff not on our exam. (And that's the last I make of that metaphor because it's creeping me out.) Because we only have one class a week, we can't actually afford to spend a whole class just on a test. So we had more lecture. Then a test. Because a room full of people anxious about their first midterm are totally going to pay attention to anything he's saying that's not related to test material.

Know what else doesn't help? The strange requirement that we fill out an index card with our names and general info during our testing interval. After, before, fine, but using test time for that shit? Really? And the TA? Coming by and TAPPING ON THE EMPTY CARD SO WE FILL IT OUT RIGHT THAT SECOND? Suuuuper helpful. Passive aggressive much?

I have to let it go. I'll have time to fret about how this class will destroy my GPA later. In the mean time, I've got a new iPad to play with, a trip to The Colbert Report with my lab mates tomorrow, and I've had "Bad Romance" stuck in my head for, like, a week, at this point.

Is it Friday yet?

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[ivy03.livejournal.com]

a trip to The Colbert Report with my lab mates tomorrow
Sooo jealous. I couldn't manage to get tickets in a year of unemployment.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

If I were in charge of getting these tickets, I'd never manage it. Luckily, my just-in-from-Texas labmates are all keen to run all over New York--they'll know it better than I do in another few weeks--so one of the girls kept trying and trying and trying. She came running into the room where I was working to be like "ARE YOU FREE ON THE 6TH OF OCTOBER?" when she got the window to get the tickets. This was in...July?

[fairest.livejournal.com]

Seconded. I am practically frothing.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

Mine was like that, too. :( I don't even think our prof grades on any sort of curve, so I feel like I'll be lucky if I somehow manage to pull off a B for the whole entire midterm. I probably failed today's half.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Ugh, looking over molecules involved in our test is making me depressed about how much I got wrong. Trying not to think about it. Let's agree to just not think about it for a while.