Oh hey I've written enough for Monday to be it's own post. I guess I'll publish it.
Monday Last week I forgot to take my calculator, this week I forgot to put my pencil case in my bag so I was pen-less and calculator-less for the day. I swear Monday doesn't want me doing work, even though I get to campus over an hour early because first class starts at 12:00 and I rather spend my mornings getting some work done. Luckily Elena lent me a calculator and pen. I spent the hour doing maths in the library. People sat next to me were annoying. Annoying because they wouldn't stop talking and their vocabulary was rubbish. I enjoyed how they were annoyed by another talking group. At least those guys were talking about school work.
Chemistry lecture was good. Learnt about a new atomic model known as the Valance Bond Theory. I'm still sketchy but I'll get it eventually. I'm sure the worksheets require me to use it anyway.
In BABS we talked about metabolism. In that lecture they talked about ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate) Which they happen to explain now, despite me seeing it used constantly in the previous lectures with it being defined. The lecturer wanted a volunteer to use ATP, which I volunteered for. For ten seconds I lifted up and down two Biology textbooks (which of course were massive) as fast as I could for ten seconds. Then she asked how much ATP I used up. People made guesses but I think my answer was the 'best' (hint: What does the scouter say?). The actual answer was 100 million. Feeling scammed of using my ATP she reimbursed me with chocolate.
Chem lab was good. Last week I didn't get my titration experiment marked off. Now I did and turns out I got a pretty accurate result, I was off by 0.002. Not bad I must say. The lab was on intermolecular forces. Luckily you can't really mess this up. Even the vapour pressure was done by computer simulation. It was good that I went through the lab sheet and went over the theory, which meant I got through it a whole lot faster, minimal questions asked. Also I'm starting to make friends with the people on my table. Which is good cause now we can compare results! Not the guy on my right though. I've already labelled him as a slacker and I don't really want anything to do with him.
I also should note that throughout the day, I had a cold. Like I had a runny nose non-stop through the day. I'm glad that campus has a shop for pocket tissues. During lab was the worst I could not go two minutes without having to blow my nose.
I wonder if the guys at Crossover have this much "fun"
It's week 4! And a slightly different layout to my blog
Monday
Got to uni and forgot to bring my calculator with me. Which was a shame cause I intended to work on maths exercises, which involves calculators the most. I ended up borrowing Carmen's but only got an hour's worth of work done.
Our chemistry lecture was alright. It was about Lewis electron dot diagrams and how we make them from scratch. Needs a bit of getting used to but other than that it was relatively easy. Also the lecturer was testing out a system where the students use Twitter and they would tweet questions and stuff. And no surprise, there were troll posts. In fact I think over half the posts were troll posts. I think the idea was dumb, unless they somehow remove the anonymity of it.
The BABS lecture was... non existent. The lecturer didn't show up.
Chem lab was both good and bad. Good as in it was easy. Bad as in I messed up a few things which in the end made me finish much later than everyone else. My demonstrator ended up postponing checking my results till next week. It was that bad haha.
Holy crap Technika 3 is out. I need to find time to play it. The reason why I'm excited is because it's the first version to have well known Kpop in it. Well just one band but it's pretty good.
Tuesday
BABS lab was full of fun with looking at microscopic beings. Too bad my knowledge of cells sucks. Also our demonstrator chatted with me and Norman about videogames. Such an awesome demonstrator. Note to self, I should definitely go over the basics of cells. I feel like biology was assumed knowledge when it isn't.
Normally I would have my favourite four hour break but it was cut down by crashing Carmen's lecture on cell integrity since it turned out there was a miscommunication on Monday's lecture stream. It was actually understandable which was rare for me. Maybe because it was just about a simple specific part of a cell and not something extremely broad like domains... Also the word of the day is permeable.
Math tutorial was last and in that time I had finally done all the exercises that was talked about during lectures so I'm set for a while in terms of maths.
Wednesday
Maths lecture was alright, nothing much to say here.
Chemistry was alright. Talking about lewis diagrams and etc. It's easy at the start, but then there's the more complex questions that require going back to quantum theory. I should probably pay more attention to what the lecturer says, cause the slides are unhelpful most times on their own.
I didn't go to dance because I had to go meet with my partner to do an interview on. In the end I ended up with more information than needed which was good cause I'd easily break that 600 word limit on my biography.
Thursday
Typical uni day. No need for boredom.
Friday
SCIF tutorials. You never know what to expect. This time we went through our homework which involved a lot of reading science articles, writing our own and editing bad ones. I learned a lot on the details which I didn't pick up on with the editing homework. We had time on the end so our tutor showed us really random journal articles including one that suggested magic was a genetic trait based on Harry Potter. The reference list even included all of the Harry Potter books. There was also one about how to effectively do a comb over for a balding head. Science.
Went to Crossover to do popping, turned out that practice for Upstaged starts next week, but Lay ended up teaching foundations that would most likely be in the choreo.
Since I missed out on Wednesday I had to start picking up the beginning of She's Back. It took me awhile and I still haven't started the first verse yet. Luckily I have a bit of time.
Saturday
Due to increasing demand (from one person) I got my hair cut. Personally I don't like having short hair, but now I've reached the age where I don't mind anymore, in fact, it's nice to not deal with hair in my face for now.
Afterwards I headed over to the city for rehearsals. Holy crap the train was so much nicer than the other one. Formations were improved as well as deciding on a second performance.
On the way home I found out that my family wasn't home yet so I had to walk from the station. Before leaving I figured I could use something to help me not be lazy studying before bed so I bought a can of Mother from the vending machine. (Note: never buy from the vending machine unless you have no other alternative). I ended up doing work while casually web surfing till 5:00.
Sunday
Oh hindsight. I ended up sleeping in for an hour so when I got up I had no time for a proper meal. luckily I shaved some time off by asking my father for a lift. I made it to Crossover and caught the class just after stretching. So when you've had minimal sleep combined with no food what do you get? Well for me it was fatigue and not being able to move my limbs properly. If I was better I would have learnt it much better, but no my body couldn't follow so that was a pain.
After class I headed straight for Mappen and got a large bowl of udon and some tea to help me up. I can say it worked well for me. Afterwards we all went to Market City for lunch/looking for accessories. While everyone was eating I decided to go to Galaxy World and play DjMax Technika 3. The game mechanics are the same and they have all the songs from the previous game as well as new songs. I ended up playing Step, Play the Future and Mister.
When everyone finished eating we looked at the dollar shop next door and had a lot of fun playing with all the stuff there. People ended up buying eyepatches, pirate hats and chains. On the way back I decided to get some gelato cause I was craving some. Ellyn suggested blood orange and lemon. I got blood orange which was really nice as well as mango cause I still think mango is an awesome gelato flavour. I'll try lemon next time.
Afterwards was heaps of training. I think our main one is getting there. It's very exciting. Reminiscent of SM Town preparations. Didn't Jaye say he wanted to wipe the floor with everyone on that event? Let's do it again this time. I missed a call from my parents saying that they were in city and asked me to eat with them. Being the lazy and cheap person I am I agreed and we had sushi at near World Square.
I slept on the drive home, then when I arrived home I went to my room and napped again for half an hour. And in that half an hour I had a vivid dream. You can tell it's one of those dreams that represent your inner thoughts. It was uncomfortable to say the least, but also enlightening. I woke up and my brother showed me a music video from an old band called 4 Non Blondes. The song was called What's Up. The reason why was because the song was used in this other video which he's obsessed with. And I can see why.
Monday was my first proper chemistry lab class. It was nice. Though it was easy to make mistakes. The task was to perform a series of reactions with the end result obtaining copper. I managed to get more yield than theoretically allowed. Woops.
Tuesday was a biology lab. It was mainly us using microscopes to look at cells. I think the demonstrator likes me and Norman. We're such great role models. We ended up taking all three hours because we're that motivated for science. Everyone else was weak I tells you.
Thursday was Huy's graduation. We got him flowers and a card which I had written the most awesome message. So after the last lecture we went over and said hi and took pictures and the standard.
Looking sharp as always.
Also I noticed that Huy got a haircut. If I wasn't concentrating, I probably wouldn't have noticed.
Okay, subtle mode off-
haha I kid, it looks good (Y)
Friday SCIF tutorial. Our activity was to group up in terms of our personality type. I was supposedly an idealist. So our task was to draw a known fictional character that shared the same traits as our personality type. So in summary, an idealist
-works to improve themselves
- social
-loving, kindhearted and authentic
-are good leaders
I could add more but you get the idea. Anyway, my group literally had no ideas. It's like they don't read or watch anything. It was really frustrating to watch them. I already had a character in mind which fit perfectly, but too bad, nobody else had even heard of it. Unbelievable.
I haven't even gotten to the worst part. My character wasn't used and I didn't mind whatever character they decided on. But what they ended up deciding on was a caterpillar, a cocoon and a butterfly. I'm sorry, but didn't I hear the tutor say we had to do a REAL FICTIONAL CHARACTER? They're reasoning was that the butterfly is a metaphor for spiritual growth. HOW DOES THAT EVEN RELATE TO A PERSONALITY TYPE?! I literally facepalmed when our group had to talk about it. Maybe you're better off doing an arts course.
Saturday
I spent the whole day at home studying, mostly chem. I think I now understand everything I need to know, except gas related questions. I haven't had much practice on them.
Today
Practice time at Crossover. We didn't end up doing any practice till late. But in the meantime we worked out some things and some of us did our homework cause we're such good students.
Formations look pretty good. By the end I was tired. Damn you uni and your demanding hours and your amount of homework and your heart attack inducing meatboxes!
This blog is very lacking. Mainly because I'm not used to writing once a week and I've been drafting this this whole week. Maybe next time I'll be more detailed.
Doing higher chemistry made me realise that I really should have paid more attention during high school. The fact that I pretty much deleted almost all facts in my head doesn't help. Did I mention I was doing higher chemistry? Not only am I slightly freaked out at the expectations they have of me, part of me is actually excited that I have to work even harder. Yes that's what I said. It's kind of interesting, rather than being bored all semester.
Tabletop games in the future? Very exciting. We're so cool it hurts. There's a comic series I like to read, right now they're doing a Warmachine themed storyline and now I'm really interested in playing it.
This one's my favourite
Today's topic was stuff Whitney likes, specifically Doctor Who. I actually do find the show interesting but I never had the bother to watch all of them. There's like what, 11 series? Daunting if you ask me. This coming from a guy who watched all the episodes of Naruto Shippuden start to latest episode lat last year. Speaking of BBC shows, Sherlock is by far my favourite TV show. Whitney you might like it, they have the same producers and writers. Also Matt Smith applied for the role of Sherlock and failed. Now he's the 11th Doctor.
Next was Power Rangers. Ellyn hated the blue ranger of the Turbo series. So you're saying you can be a power ranger despite being a child. Okay that's believable I guess.. But the fact that HE CAN NOW DRIVE A CAR baffles me to this day.
Also the movie was awesome, the best written movie of all time.
If you're don't want to watch all of it 11:37 is just gold.
Just letting people know that I'm going to be blogging less often now that I have to actually spend my time studying or sleeping early. I'll be posting about once a week now.
Intro lab tomorrow. Don't need lab coats and we're told to wear whatever such as mufti. Big mistake good sir.
Woke up,
got to city at 11:30am,
got Mappen before going to Crossover,
taught Bonnie, Ruby and Yuki Warrior - good progress but more practice needs to be done.
We filled out our application form, despite doing it twice and thinking of answers.
Had dinner at Sussex Centre,
Went home, trackworks is a pain.
Now I prepare for first day of uni in over half a year. Should be interesting.
Woke up pretty late today. Till dinner I was at home all day, doing final editing stuff and whatnot.
My dad took us to dinner at a sushi place. Probably said this already but salmon belly is so good. Also my family are savages when it comes to eating sushi. They either overload their soy sauce with wasabi, or dip every single sushi into soy sauce. Feels like I'm the only one in my family who appreciates eating food. But whatever floats their boat. I'll convert them one day...
Afterwards we went for dessert. We got mango and coconut gelatos. My god the mango one was delicious. Also I couldn't figure out the difference between ice cream and gelato. I realised that I confused gelato with sorbet. Gelato does in fact have dairy in it. Probably something to do with the ratios of cream and stuff.
That was a pretty short blog. Allow me to share a hilarious video I just watched.
