Reading Week<\/p>\n
…was awesome! \u00a0Not academic wise, i got nothing done. \u00a0But I did volunteer at an elementary school in the east-side of Vancouver, and it was great. \u00a0It wasn’t what I had anticipated I didn’t know the volunteers would be in the class the whole day for 3 days, pretty much following a lesson plan created by our group leader. \u00a0And a lot of times we would have extra time, and it was fun to kind of think on the spot, and think of a game or activity for the students. \u00a0I taught grade 4\/5 students, the experience was so great, the kids were so awesome. \u00a0Kids are really smart! \u00a0I wish I had their memory, these kids memorized things from day 1 that we taught that I couldn’t remember. \u00a0I will be going to volunteer hopefully once school is over, it’d be fun to go back.<\/p>\n
Now because I had to be up early every day, I couldn’t stay up late. \u00a0This was a problem for me, because I study better at night, its weird but when I studied for all my midterms I was studying hardest like 2am to 7am and then i’d sleep and wake up 2-3 hours before my midterm(they were all evening midterms), Bio 201 was 7-9 and this worked really well for me because this has been my best “midterm season” since I got to this school. \u00a0I think the key difference is that I got 6 hours before every midterm too. \u00a0Now, the only midterm grade I didn’t have after reading week was Biol 201, or Biochem. \u00a0And it showed up on vista, and I was so scared, because its a whopping 35%, a huge chunk of my grade. \u00a0I felt like I did well on the midterm but its usually safe to deduct 10 to 15% from what you ‘think’ you got. \u00a0And when I saw my grade my first thought was like “what happened!” Because it was really low. \u00a0Like were the ta’s grading crazy, did I screw up somewhere, what happened! \u00a0This was the first midterm grade that was bad, and below average (I later found out the average was 72). \u00a0So this depressed me so much, like how come I’m below the majority after studying 3 days straight. \u00a0I didn’t study much for like 4 days after this, I guess I went into a bad funk if that makes sense. \u00a0You know how it is! \u00a0Those days you try to study and its just not working out and you just sleep and fall more and more behind…-_- \u00a0Well anyways I signed up to view my midterm to see ‘just where it all went wrong’ \u00a0And I looked through it. \u00a0Biol 201 TAs are real cruel about a few things…if you went to see your midterm please tell me you agree! \u00a0Like I’ll have the right idea completely, know exactly what I’m talking about, for a few questions the answer key and my answer were almost verbatum… and then i’d add the word “better” \u00a0as in… “creating a stronger nucleophile would lead to a better attack..yada” instantly because of the word ‘better’ -1. \u00a0Apparently its redundant and makes it seem like I don’t understand what nucleophiles do *sighhhhhh* \u00a0And because i repeated myself in different words another -1. \u00a0But nothing I said was incorrect, a few redundant statements maybe, but I’ve never been a great writer! \u00a0I BSed my way through English 110. \u00a0So it annoys me that I lost most of my marks on trivial things like that. \u00a0I guess I know now how things are, so when the final comes around, I know to really pay attention to how I am writing, and to keep it simple. \u00a0BUT THATS NOT EVEN THE CRAZY PART. \u00a0So I accepted the grading, and decided to just add up the marks before I left, I did and my heart literally dropped. \u00a0Because the number on my calculator was 10% higher. \u00a0I re-calculated, same thing. \u00a0Then I gave it to my prof to make sure I wasn’t crazy, and he got the same number I did, and there you go, now my grade makes more sense! \u00a0I’m ok with it, I still want to improve for the final, but WHAT A RELIEF. \u00a0This was 35% , and a 10% increase goes a long way. \u00a0THANK GOD I added it up, before I left sheesh. \u00a0This just goes to show how important it is to look at your midterm over, TAs aren’t computers and don’t think for any reason your midterm won’t be the one they screw up on.<\/p>\n
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Reading Week …was awesome! \u00a0Not academic wise, i got nothing done. \u00a0But I did volunteer at an elementary school in the east-side of Vancouver, and it was great. \u00a0It wasn’t what I had anticipated I didn’t know the volunteers would be in the class the whole day for 3 days, pretty much following a lesson … Continue reading