Right now I am not in my Computer Science lab. I feel a little guilty. I should be there, but I’m not.

This morning I woke up after 3 hours of sleep. I was coughing all night and intermittently having nightmares about Lewis dot diagrams. For the past two weeks I have been sick and steadily getting worse and worse. At 8:00 this morning I decided to phone the student health centre to make an appointment with a doctor (which is why I am not in my CSPC lab right this moment). The doctor gave me some medicine and sent me on my way… I really hope that this cough disappears soon!

As much as I was looking forward to it, Thanksgiving weekend was kind of awful. I couldn’t speak, couldn’t hear (very well) and couldn’t taste anything, so much for family fun = (. Over the weekend light headedness and sleep took over half the time that I had set aside to study/ do assignments which was irritating. Now I have an insane week ahead of me (and I thought last week was challenging).

That brings me on to my next point: Chemistry. Tomorrow we have the Chem. 121 midterm. A.k.a the midterm of death. It seems like everywhere I go people have their Chirps (Chemistry Integrated Resource Packages) out and are staring at them, trying to make some sense out of the information at hand. Ah, Chemistry, the bane of my current existence. I was feeling good about the midterm until I took the practice midterm yesterday. I legitimately scored 31/60 on that… oh dear… must study more, it seems like a lot of the material on the practice midterm was never covered in class (hmmm… I forgot, this is university). I also have a chemistry lab to do this week, a Physics assessment, a scary looking Physics assignment (I mean scaaarrry looking), I am tutoring someone for math 12, I have my own math homework, and I need to complete the computer science lab that I missed. That lab in itself is supposed to take about 24 hours!! When oh, when in my schedule am I ever going to find time to go to the Demco Learning Centre?

Errr, learning, right. I have also (writing this feeling incredibly grown up) scheduled myself to go to a couple of conferences this year! I have never ever been to a conference before and am already signed up for ICE (Interuniversity Conference on Education) on Saturday (Oct 5^th, more info and sign up here) and CLASS (Conference for Learning and Academic Student Success)(Oct 25^th-28^th registration is now open more info and sign up here) and well as one later in the year. As a student and math tutor I am really interested in the way math is taught/ how people learn/ the use of technology in education (good and bad) so I think that the conferences will be quite interesting.

Ok, back to my own learning again… Chemistry, why do I have to understand you?<3

p.s. good luck to everyone else out there taking the Chem 121 midterm tomorrow

p.p.s If during the midterm, you happen to be sitting beside a girl with a terrible, loud and distracting cough, chances are that it is me. Sorry in advance!