Monday, July 05, 2004

What about when jenny kissed me on the cheek a few weeks ago?? What about her other guys she likes. Are they all just a clever ruse? I mean, do girls just kiss guys on the cheek when they are leaving? She's the only one who does that.

I'm making a mountain of a mole hill there but I thought it needed some forward thought.

anyway, here's a snippet of my extra credit assignment for Cell Bio and Physiology. It had soem stuff that pertains to my life, I think it ties in well with my blogging

Luke G
Extra Credit Exam 2

2.
I had allocated most of my study time to answering and finding out the answers to the study questions and going over the class notes, because the first exam was made up of half of the study questions, the other half was split between notes and the book. I thought I had learned form the first test and go over the study questions as well. I went back and forth from different website to find out these sample test questions and LEARN something from them, because what use is memorization if you don't learn. This was my downfall to this test. Almost no questions came from the study questions, but rather from the book, most book questions we don't really cover in class. To be honest, I don't have the book, I share an old version with a friend I study with. I will probably fail or get a D in this class but I won't give up, there's still the miracle of getting an A on the final test, plus doing this extra credit. I did the extra credit for the first test but I didn't know there were instructions for it online. As a result I probably did not get any extra credit. To make matters worse, I ran out of printer paper and had to print my extra credit out on notebook paper. This whole session had been bad for me. I missed 1 or 2 classes because I had 2 different kinds of flu. There was a death in my family, my uncle Domrong Klupngam passed away. I do not intend to make excuses, in the end if I don't pass its my fault. I'll try to do the best I can and I'll probabably be taking this again in Fall. However, I can say that I did LEARN in this class. I learned a lot. The teaching method is great, even though Dr. Tomasek may not be the best lecturer I like the slides and the daily quizzes. I also think the extra credit is ridiculusly tedious and the questions on the exam are misleading, but theres nothing I can do about either one. So those are all the reasons why I missed these questions on exam 2. I could have just spread them out over the course of the 33 questions I got wrong, but I think I'd run out of excuses, and Dr. Tomasek said he doesn't want to see the excuses. So here they are in paragraph form, which I shall no doubt copy and paste for each one I got wrong, then explain the correct answer.

Cholesterol is correct because is has a fatty acid tail.

Summary:

How I plan to change my study habits is a perplexing question indeed. No matter what I do I fail the tests, even though I feel like I know everything we go over in class. Theres not enough time in the day to study for this class, but I'll study all night for these next five days till the last exam because theres still a chance. The inconsistancy of the material on tests makes them very hard to study for. One test it is half sample questions, the next test there are about three sample questions. My notebook is filled with almost everything Dr. Tomasek says in class, I'm at the last few pages left of it. I take part and ask questions at the begining, in the middle, and at the end of the class. Everything he puts on the board I copy instantly into my notebook, and put into memory. I don't know why I'm doing so bad, I love biology and I love this class. Here's to more studying.