| ok, so you're only hearing from me during finals time because i finished my last midterm today and i'm up at the media union "working" at keeping an eye on the extra rooms that they opened up for study time. it's an easy 50 bucks, though i only get half that 50 bucks because i had band recording sessions aka waste of time from 7-10. yes, i should have planned my time better but i made the assumption that after crisler concert, we'd have no band for a while. so i went a bit wild with signing up for times to work and then had to renage on those times which then made people hate me so i'm a real popular person right now.
and my midterm was today not because my professor is a heartless person but because i was actually supposed to take the exam last wedneday but my body decided to keel over and die for that day. so i had had this cough for a while, it was almost gone and then on last saturday (thanksgiving break saturday) i started coughing again. i blame it on emily and her crazy activities and me and my lack of a car...oh, and that reminds me of something i have to complain about. but to continue with this...so then on monday night i was getting chills which is never a good sign. on tuesday i felt fine in the morning and then it just went downhill. by the afternoon i was feeling crappy and skipped an optional 445 (dirt class) lecture to go to UHS to get some drugs. i had to sit there for a total of 2 and a half hours to have the doctor (who said he thought he treated someone at pfizer with my last name and same accent. jeez, there seem to be south africans everywhere but i never see 'em) see me, diagnose me with bronchitis, and then have the prescription filled by the university pharmacy. i had to watch the clock tick past 4:45 and curse the fact that i was going to be late for band. i called my mum and cried to her about my state. she notified me that my sister had bronchitis too. weird. oh, and also she told me about 5 times to take the antibiotics until they were out and not until i feel better. i know mum. you've drilled that info into my head plenty of times during my 18 years with you. but this was the worst timing possible. that week i had that fluid mechanics exam the next day, and a mega lab due for dirt class on friday. luckily my fluids prof was understanding when i emailed her and said i could take the exam when i felt better. she's really awesome.
the dirt lab was horrible, but the fact that i have 4 people's aim names and several other's phone numbers of people who are in the class helped alot. plenty of visits to my gsi were helpful too as well as spending friday afternoon with a few people finishing up the lab in his office. but this class makes me glad i'm a structual major and not geotech. it just sucks. and the methods they use are so archaic that it's unbelievable they're in the same century we are. stupid dirt. but what is cool, in a way, is what's happening to North Hall on campus. because of the new construction, the hall is starting to fall apart. someone messed up and half of the building wants to collapse. they have wood beams holding up the windows, steel beams bracing the building against the life sciences building, and bracing holding the back of the building to the front of it. that's dirt engineering and that's fascinating.
and the complaining...the daily (campus newspaper) printed this article on monday about the stereotype of east coast people. east coasters apparently are snobbish, loud, come to michigan as a backup to the ivy leagues, and all drive expensive foreign cars. hello? are you serious? i don't know any east coasters who fit this stereotype and if you are calling a stationwagon, dodge minivan, or no car at all an expensive foreign car, you have to be kidding. the only loud people who i can think of who made a certain stereotype for themselves were the black detriot girls who lived on my floor freshman year and made it hell for everyone else on that floor. i don't know what the daily was trying to do, but the article had me fuming and just lowered my respect of this paper. ok, so there wasn't that much respect to begin with since it is a campus newspaper, but it can at least print articles that have some sort of backing instead of ones about the fictional east coast stereotype.
and people are stupid too. or selfish. at work in the caf the other day, i was memerized by this girl sifting around in the granola mix we have set out by the yogurt bar. after a few seconds, i realized that she was sifting through the mix to pick out every single raisen in the mix and add it to the rising pile she had on her yogurt. way to leave some for the others. every single raisen. and when she had gotten every one, she had a look through again to make sure she had all the possible raisens. holy crap. and then that same day there was this girl talking to her friend on the bus. i didn't catch the beginning of the conversation, but she caught my attention when the girl complained about a $50 dollar spending limit and how all the gifts she was going to get this christmas were going to be under $50. you can't be serious. maybe her family is the type who gives digital cameras and ipods for gifts. i'm just astounded. i'm lucky if i can bum a new pair of shoes and jeans off of my parents this christmas, and that's only because my current shoes are three years old and let the water in when there's so much as dew on the grass. some people.
oh ok, and recording session stuff.
annoying trumpet: "we rule the band"
me under my breath: "you wish"
annoying trumpet: "if we rush, it's how it should go"
me under my breath: "if you rush, i will kill you all, with my horn. i'll just knock you all over the head with the bell."
and the piccs just made me want to shoot them anytime there's two or more of them together. too much estrogen. except for kim, she's cool cuz she's a civil and she gives me rides to band from north campus. oh, but that lindsay moore one just annoys me by existing. she's just too...peppy and blond and happy looking. i think it's the peppyness that does it. when i heard that she was an engineer, i was first surprised and then made a personal bet that she's IOE. a bit of snooping on the umich website and yes, she's IOE. industrial operations engineering or in and out easy. it's basically business engineering and i don't think it's real engineering. but it's where all lindsay's type goes. all the ones who should be kinesiology or communications or something useless but somehow decide to remain on north campus and pursue the pseudo engineering. ok, i do know some ioe's who are very smart people and i respect them and their choice. but there is a high percentage of blonds in that department and it's loathesome.
tomorrow is the last day of classes. yay! oh, but then finals start after that. :( i'm scared. i have 445 (dirt class) on the tuesday, the 16th, and then 325 (fluids) and 412 (structual) on the 17th. two exams in one day! i wouldn't be so miffed if they were from two different departments, but they're not. they're both civil classes. i don't know what the profs were thinking, but it's not hard to schedule the exams to not be on the same day. i don't know. the 445 final is supposed to be hard since they try to pull down the average from the midterm where it was something obscene like an 85. i know i was nowhere close to that and so this final is just going to cement my doom. professor green doesn't even let us keep our exams. we're allowed to see them for the grade and what we did wrong, then he collects them back. it's because he uses the same exams year to year, the rumor is. he apparently doesn't like teaching the undergraduate class and i guess this is how he cuts back on the work he has to do for the class. 325 i kinda like. the material is cool and the professor is in tune with the class and sympathetic. she loves the material and it's great to have a professor who does because they convey that to the class and it gets me more into the material. 412 is straightforward, though frames still scare me. professor wight is someone i look up to and so i'm too intimidated to go to his office. he is scary in an old grumpy man sort of way.
i just want this semester to end. skip the finals, just end now. |
