A grueling week over, another one coming up. It was a tough week to begin with. Chemistry 1C midterm on Monday, Lab on Tuesday, Calculus/Physics HW on Thursday along w/ Physics Quiz and Econ midterm.. then a Calculus miterm on Friday. I ended up skipping the Physics hw and quiz and instead focused on my three midterms for the week.
Chemistry
Economics
Calculus
I messed up in Chem. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid mistakes. You know that feeling you get when you read the book before the exam and you say to yourself, REMEMBER THIS! IT WILL BE ON THE EXAM!.. and then you take the damn thing and you forget? Well, it happened to me. Nineteen problems, I missed three problems because of two STUPID mistakes (I didn't notice it was an ionic compound, so I didn't include i, which is the number of particles that the soln breaks up into into my equations), nevertheless.. I scored above the mean. I just can't help to think what if...... what if I got the 3 extra points? I would have had a 16/19, which is a solid B without a curve... After two consecutive quarters of C-'s in Chemistry, its hard not to be wanting a little more from myself...
Econ was a little easier. I studied hard for it. 2 hours one day, about 4-6 the other. I skipped Physics discussion and Calculus discussion (After I turned in Calc homework) just to study for Econ. I grabbed something to eat and then walked in and took the test. How'd I do? I'm not sure, but I hope I did well. I messed up graphing because I didn't remember what Human Capital is. After writing the problem out incorrectly in pen, I realized Human Capital is measured by people's education/skill/training. Its over now, though. Something I'll have to remember for the final.
Calculus. Oh Calculus! When I first started at UCI, Calculus was my nemesis. I came in and got a D/F on my very first midterm at UCI and I was freaking out. The mean was a like a 70% and I scored in the 50's, so I dedicated myself to it and turned things around. I've gotten B's in the last two quarters for Calc (even though one was a B-).. but Math 2D.. man. 3 dimensional functions are just a little bit out of my visualization spectrum. I just don't see it! Regardless, I went to tutoring two days in a row and put over 18 hours of studying over a course of three days +1 hour before the exam and I think I did pretty well. I'm hoping to score a B without curve, which would be a B+ with curve? I hope? We'll see.
eBay update
I e-mailed Beth Barbonda again and I received no reply. I hate to do it, and I've only done it like 3 times throughout 100+ auctions, but I decided I had to do it. Negative feedback given. Its not really that I even want the extra items (although it does add resale value), its the principle of listing the itmes in your description, then lying to the buyer about "oops sorry I forgot but I'm sending them out" and never doing it.
advert xtr itms/only sent lens/lied about shipping rest/WLD NEVER BUY FROM AGAIN
I hate the 80 character limit. *sigh*
I also decided to give negative feedback for my other auction. An update:
I did receive an EXTRA set of batteries from AF. He decided to send me one for "all my trouble," according to him. The problem? I decided I can't be bought. I had to e-mail over 10 times and called them twice just to get them to believe me. They lied to me three times, once stating that they had "gone out of town for business" and then once saying "we shipped it out".. another saying "we'll ship it monday". I'm not sure if theres people working there or if its one person, but the e-mails seem to me that one person runs the damn thing and the convo I had on the phone makes me believe that its only one person, which means there was a LOT of lying going on during the whole transaction.
By the way, I made SURE that both parties had given me feedback prior to giving neg. I hate retaliation negative feedbacks, they are ridiculous.
BAD comm. 10 eml/2 tel calls to get both items, sent extra but not worth troule
Well... thats all for now. I have a Physics midterm on Friday. The fun continues.