Posted by alexandra_k on March 18, 2014, at 1:47:34
In reply to Re: Jelly is food of the month, posted by Partlycloudy on March 17, 2014, at 10:40:52
yeah, i remember eating jelly crystals out of the pack as a kid. and then we discovered powdered fruit drink mix (containing no fruit). mostly sugar and some... citric acid or something... sherbet.
macaroni cheese is also working out quite well for me, right now. though... microwaved macaroni is just wrong... i've figured a magical blend of milk, tasty cheddar cheese, and powdered paprika... a little cornflower to thicken... a cup of peas... i must be a student, ha!
learning more about the overlapping year one (bio-med). the more i hear about it the less... appealing i find it. apparently there are too many people for the lecture theatre (the big one that seats around 1,000) so they have an overflow room. they have a security guard outside it. so people don't... trample each other too much trying to get in.
i don't like to be jostled. i don't like to be all squished up so the person next to me is flipping their hair in my face or so that i can smell the breath of the person one over. i like to sit in the same place... next to the wall, preferably, to minimise the people... so i can focus on... the lecturer as much as possible... since most people are incapable of shutting up and not fiddling.
so... that is that, really. that is sort of how i'm feeling about that. and i imagine labs where people are downright... obstructive wherever possible... and then i think about how the year is designed (really) for those private school kids who were made by their teachers (at their boarding school) or their parents to sit down and work each night... for them to be doing mostly revision... to give them a chance to adjust to university life... then just enough new stuff to do a bit of sorting... (thinking of people i knew who were opposed to private schooling until they had their second and they said they knew they simply needed to send him to the best school they could afford because otherwise he really didn't stand a chance).
there is this huge volunteering thing... go overseas... help build a school of recycled bottles or some such. of course they have to market it by saying you can engage in this and that recreational activity... of course they have to market it by saying you can earn credit towards your degree...
why market it?
why not sort by... assessing genuine altruistic tendencies.
?
i need to remember:
1) i would have gotten into the other place but they didn't have faith in my academics. i just need to focus on the academics. the rest will be fine.
2) i need to remain true to me. i don't want... at all costs. not at all.
3) i need to have faith that most of the grown-ups find the obnoxious little selfish prats to be totally obnoxious... (that the worst of it comes from insecurity anyway, and that many will grow out of their selfishness in time. actually... no... i honestly don't believe that to be true... that the most truly obnoxious are weeded out by interview).
either it will happen or... it won't. if i'm not a good fit then i guess it won't. i might be better suited to something more... academic. a bit more low key. there is a lot of... superficial stuff. like the volunteer 'opportunity' thing. how about sending the money mummy and daddy forked out for your airfares to people who know how to design wells and stuff? sigh. not that anybody is in it for the helping of others, actually...
chemistry is fun. must... remain... focused. the concepts are cool. we have a whole section on measurement etc later... and all will be explained... all that stuff that... i got it into my head was supposed to be prior knowledge for this course. it is next to impossible for people to understand (until they actually get to know me) that while i don't have any math i am actually really capable of learning it. not having any problems with counting protons or figuring out what is less negative or less positive and what that does to the numbers... balancing the equations... not yet, anyway... can simply see the answer... concepts are easy for me. i mean, i do need to work at them... but i love them. i love playing around with them in my mind... figuring them out... it is like getting a ball and you start playing with it and over time you can do more with it and stuff that was hard becomes easy... i like that. i guess it is only the maths people that actually try and trip you up with the math... the chemistry people try and trip you up with the actual chemistry... and even the physics people... well... i suppose i'll have to wait and see about that.
science is way different from arts... i don't understand how science justifies this one lecturer per couple thousand students deal. i simply don't understand it. or: why not give your teaching to your grad students. the lectures can be scripted. then one per (reasonable sized) class. i... simply don't understand.
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