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I feel completely unprepared for this midterm. I have a quiz today too. 4 hours sleep. Wish me luck.

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My life has been undergoing some restructring. Academic Probation was seriously a wake-up call for me. I'm trying hard to get my act together, even if it means having to dedicate a lot of time to studying. I finished two of my 2nd round of midterms already and have one more coming up. It feels good to walk away from a midterm and know exactly what you did wrong. Yeah, I didn't make a mistake typing that. I used to walk away from exams with relief, but at the same time I would just be wondering how much partial credit I got.

I definitely didn't ace my midterm today. On the last problem, I forgot how to integrate Cos^2 Theta. I know now, but it's a day late. I'm pretty sure I got over a 80% though, which is just around my goal. You could say overall, I'm a lot more focused than I used to be.

The restructuring doesn't end there. My passion for photography has been fading a bit. I don't know if it's because I've been so busy getting my act together or if it's just becoming somewhat uninteresting, but I've decided to try to put an end to the decline by.. what else? Buying more stuff.

I sold my Canon 50mm f/1.4 USM and my Sigma 70-210mm f/2.8 APO and purchased this: A Sigma 100-300mm f/4 EX HSM.

I have a Sigma 1.4x teleconverter coming in tomorrow too.

Update (5/24)



Another toy arrived today.


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I have another midterm today. Wish me luck!

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Hi Anne.

Wish me luck on my midterm tomorrow.

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Well at least the things around me are. My headunit is going crazy and I accidently threw my phone into the wash.

I swear, I'm having the worst of luck lately...

My headunit stopped working on the left side after a hot day. It was pretty weird. I put it in the freezer and now it works again.

I washed my clothes and find out I forgot to take my phone out of my short pocket. So... my phone is broken now. I don't know why I opened both of them up. I guess I feel like I can at least say I tried. That I did something instead of just giving up and conceding to defeat.

That's how I felt this morning. I don't remember hitting the snooze button. I woke up with a numb feeling on the right side of my body. I rolled over to check the time. I already had the feeling that I missed my first class... but.. 11:30? My midterm started at 11, the class ended at 12:50. I got up and put the first thing I had on which just happened to be a sweatshirt and pants (AND IT WAS HOT !!!) So I drove through traffic and got to school in less than 30 minutes, looked for parking and...

Nothing. So I parked in the dust bowl and ran to Engineering Gateway from there, in my sweatshirt and jeans. When I got there it was 12:33 (my class ends at 12:50) Luckily for me, the instructor said that I could make it up on Friday or Monday. He asked me why I even ran to lab if I was already that late. I wanted to say, "Because I was afraid you'd be a jerk and make me take it anyway. " But I didn't want to push my luck.

I guess the reason I ran was because I wanted to feel like I at least tried to do something rather than just conceding to defeat. Never give up so easily.

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Woohoo. ...Too bad I have this stupid midterm to worry about.

Said Elghobashi ratings

I'm a little weary of my professor's ratings. Looks a little bit.. ... uh... too good to be true?

It probably is too good to be true. Disappointment. That's what I'm feeling right now after the midterm. I studied for a little over two days and when I sat down and flipped the exam over to see the two problems, both worth a total of 40 points, fourty .. percent of our grade which means each point represents 1% of our final grade, I blanked out. I couldn't remember what specific volume was, what the first law of thermodynamics stated or anything. I bombed it.

To make matters worse, there is speculation that he is grading the class straight scale, which means that if I get 10 points on this midterm, I'm going to end up with, at most, a D-. That can't be good for the academic probation So with that said, I'm going to try to drop the class tomorrow, well petition to drop the class. We'll see how things turn out.

Theres a little bit of sunshine to brighten up this gloomy day.

This would be a lot more meaningful if it wasn't on a straight scale.


I did a lot better on Econ than I thought I would.

While it's amazing what I can do when I apply myself, it is still too early to celebrate. I haven't gotten my math midterm back yet and I have two more midterms next week. Taking 19 units is hard work.

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