October 5, 2007
Alright, so I know that I posted one last night, but I felt like I should add another story. This is my attempt to begin having more frequent posts covering fewer events instead of one giant summary. I mentioned that I had a Midterm in a few hours when I was writing the last post. For those of you who don’t know how college grading works, Midterms and Finals account for almost your entire grade. So, it’s pretty important. It was in Microeconomics and it was my first quiz/test in the class. I had Economics in high school and felt that everything was review. I brushed up on the Power Points for ten minutes after writing my last post and then was so exhausted that I went to bed. I planned to get up at 7:20 so I could study a little more for my 8:15 class. However, my alarm was set for PM and not AM, so I woke up at 8:05 and flew out of my room to get to class. I tried to study on the way, but realized there would be no way for me to remember all of the lists. I arrived to class and everyone else was already there and had started. I had somehow forgotten my calculator in my room and so I was pretty much freaking out. I had to skip a lot of the questions right away since I didn’t know the answer. I began to settle down as the test progressed and I was able to finish and still feel okay with how I did. I’m keeping my fingers crossed as I await my fate. He is a fairly tough grader and so I am a little worried. Yes, it was entirely my fault that I did not study more, but I had a lot of other stuff going on too. The campaign, paper, other quizzes just made me feel overconfident about this minor test. Anyways, that was my morning.
In Men’s Health last night, we talked about stress and relaxation techniques. We also had to take a stress quiz to see how we fared. Each term, such as “Fired from job” or “Change in sleeping habits” had a numerical value. A score of 150 – 300 had a 50/50 chance of serious health risk within two years. There were probably ten people in the class who fell into this category. There were ten over 300. I managed to score a 491. Most of my categories were stuff that every freshman dealt with: “Change in social activities”, “Change in living conditions”, “Change in number of family get togethers”, etc… I believe that I do handle stress really well, but this morning did not help. So, every student here has been going through a fair amount of stress, but that is nothing new for most of us. I lived this life in high school as well. I probably would be really bored if I wasn’t so involved.
Anyways, the moral of this post is: Always study for a major test, whether you think you need to or not. I didn’t study too much in high school and that worked for me. I haven’t studied too much here except for my other midterm, and that has floated me through. But when harder classes come around, I don’t think I will be as lucky. I have a gut feeling I pulled a B on the test, but only time will tell. I’m signing off for the weekend, which looks to be busy. Now, I’m off to write that CORE paper… or get sucked into Facebook…. again.
Quote of the Day: “Of two evils, choose neither” –Charles Spurgeon
Thought to Ponder: What shape is the sky?
