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brokenrecordYay, I have internet again! I was stressing about that (...although not having internet all the time probably wouldn't have hurt this week considering how much work I have to do, but whatever), but now it's all fixed.
I got my first German test back, and I got a 92! I would be a little disappointed with that (only since it's an A-, and I really need to try my best to get all As considering one of my classes is pass/fail), but when she gave it back to me, she told me that it was the highest grade in the class. So that is making me feel awesome; I feel like I'm on track to do well in German this semester. And if you add in the workbook, which I got 20/20 on, I have like a 94 in the class. So all is good there.
We did peer reviews of Intros in Directed Research yesterday, and although I didn't get 2 of the reviews (since the reviewers didn't finish in time), the ones I got really only had minimal criticisms. There were a few awkward wording things, and maybe one or two things I need to reorganize, but overall it looks like my Intro is pretty strong. And that's great, since that means I can focus more of my energy on my methods section now. I have a methods section from last spring in Research in Psych, but my project has undergone some changes since then, so I have to write a lot of it from scratch. It should be fine, though. I mean, it is only a draft due on Friday. Although I am trying to get my IRB in by Thursday, and for that, the methods section needs to be much closer to a final product than a draft. But I talked to my DR adviser today about it and I think it should be ok. I'm going to send it to her tomorrow, probably, so she can look at it and help me improve it before turning it in on Thursday. And the fact that I told her I'm going to try to get it in by Thursday (since it's not absolutely due until a week from Friday, but we can also send it in by Thursday or next Tuesday for earlier feedback) will hopefully motivate me to actually get it done today. I should be able to. I have no more classes today, and the only major stuff I have for this week is in DR. And I might as well get the major stuff done before Thursday anyways since my parents are arriving Thursday and will be here over the weekend, so I won't have much time this weekend to do anything major.
First test in Discrete Math is done! It... didn't go that well. I mean, there were only 10 problems, 10 points each, and I'm really confident about 8 of them. But the other 2 I didn't finish or even come close to an answer. I have some stuff written down so maybe I'll get some sort of partial credit? I think I'm looking at an 80 at best, and a 70 or so if I had mistakes on the other problems. But we're going to be able to earn some points back if we correct it after he grades them, and I am taking the class pass/fail, so... it should be fine? I hope? I would feel better if we had gotten anything graded back so I'd have some idea where I am in the class, but I pretty much have no clue right now. Oh well. I really don't think it's likely that I'll fail the class. I mean, my lowest grade in college has been an A-, and my lowest grade in high school was a B. It'll be fine.
My parents will be here in 2 days! I'm pretty excited about that. It's not that I miss them huge amounts (not that I don't miss them at all, because I do. But it's definitely less than I missed them like freshman year), but I'm looking forward to not having to cook for myself or worry about spending money. And when they come, it's like I'm on vacation and am no longer in school, which is nice. It helps relieve my stress levels a lot.
I got my first German test back, and I got a 92! I would be a little disappointed with that (only since it's an A-, and I really need to try my best to get all As considering one of my classes is pass/fail), but when she gave it back to me, she told me that it was the highest grade in the class. So that is making me feel awesome; I feel like I'm on track to do well in German this semester. And if you add in the workbook, which I got 20/20 on, I have like a 94 in the class. So all is good there.
We did peer reviews of Intros in Directed Research yesterday, and although I didn't get 2 of the reviews (since the reviewers didn't finish in time), the ones I got really only had minimal criticisms. There were a few awkward wording things, and maybe one or two things I need to reorganize, but overall it looks like my Intro is pretty strong. And that's great, since that means I can focus more of my energy on my methods section now. I have a methods section from last spring in Research in Psych, but my project has undergone some changes since then, so I have to write a lot of it from scratch. It should be fine, though. I mean, it is only a draft due on Friday. Although I am trying to get my IRB in by Thursday, and for that, the methods section needs to be much closer to a final product than a draft. But I talked to my DR adviser today about it and I think it should be ok. I'm going to send it to her tomorrow, probably, so she can look at it and help me improve it before turning it in on Thursday. And the fact that I told her I'm going to try to get it in by Thursday (since it's not absolutely due until a week from Friday, but we can also send it in by Thursday or next Tuesday for earlier feedback) will hopefully motivate me to actually get it done today. I should be able to. I have no more classes today, and the only major stuff I have for this week is in DR. And I might as well get the major stuff done before Thursday anyways since my parents are arriving Thursday and will be here over the weekend, so I won't have much time this weekend to do anything major.
First test in Discrete Math is done! It... didn't go that well. I mean, there were only 10 problems, 10 points each, and I'm really confident about 8 of them. But the other 2 I didn't finish or even come close to an answer. I have some stuff written down so maybe I'll get some sort of partial credit? I think I'm looking at an 80 at best, and a 70 or so if I had mistakes on the other problems. But we're going to be able to earn some points back if we correct it after he grades them, and I am taking the class pass/fail, so... it should be fine? I hope? I would feel better if we had gotten anything graded back so I'd have some idea where I am in the class, but I pretty much have no clue right now. Oh well. I really don't think it's likely that I'll fail the class. I mean, my lowest grade in college has been an A-, and my lowest grade in high school was a B. It'll be fine.
My parents will be here in 2 days! I'm pretty excited about that. It's not that I miss them huge amounts (not that I don't miss them at all, because I do. But it's definitely less than I missed them like freshman year), but I'm looking forward to not having to cook for myself or worry about spending money. And when they come, it's like I'm on vacation and am no longer in school, which is nice. It helps relieve my stress levels a lot.
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