Studying in school on weekends is something i've done before. today, however, i've been having some trouble concentrating on my organometallics notes for the past couple of hours. my guess is that i have to get rid of some excess mental baggage before i can absorb stuff a little better.
let's see...at the forefront of my thoughts now is group meeting (where i presented). it's over, but it's given me a fair bit to think about. seems that my research progress is slow, to the point where my professor reminded me that time was limited. it's quite worrying, actually. with that, the chance of me applying for TA next semester has dropped to like...5%, unless december research goes super-smoothly. even then, i might not do it, since the ending weeks (or months) of a project are usually the busiest. that decision is still some time away, though. but something tells me that i shouldn't try.
another thing is that my research may take a different direction than originally planned. nothing wrong with that, but right now, i've suddenly got so many ideas about how to go about doing things, so much so that it's kind of distracting. well, i foresee a lot of lab time after next tuesday.
the japanese exam was...ok-ish. not really difficult, but not that easy at the same time. the main challenge for me was getting through 2 horribly long passages for reading comprehension. luckily most of the comprehension questions were multiple choice and true/false, with only one requiring some writing. i know i made one stupid error in another part of the paper, because i had no idea what it meant. the sentence went something like "what should i do if i want to _____ it into the shelf?" now that my friend explained the meaning of that sentence to me in english, it makes sense to me that the answer should be "return". not knowing this during the exam, i wrote something like "what should i do if i want to not want to look at it into the shelf?" well, it's just a one-mark loss (in addition to other mistakes, of course). with any luck, i'm looking at an A- or an A.
still feeling a little not-all-there. like there's something which i've forgotten about, or didn't do. maybe it's just me feeling guilty about lagging behind for research. the next (and last!) exam's in 3 days (almost exactly 72 hours away, actually), and i know that i should focus on studying. on the other hand, the notes are quite self-explanatory. and yet, i know that the professor will twist something somehow, or test something really obscure, like common names for certain complexes.
well...i think that's enough of a break for now. hopefully, i'll be able to concentrate a little better after this. or maybe i'll give myself a couple of songs' more time before trying to dive in once again.
let's see...at the forefront of my thoughts now is group meeting (where i presented). it's over, but it's given me a fair bit to think about. seems that my research progress is slow, to the point where my professor reminded me that time was limited. it's quite worrying, actually. with that, the chance of me applying for TA next semester has dropped to like...5%, unless december research goes super-smoothly. even then, i might not do it, since the ending weeks (or months) of a project are usually the busiest. that decision is still some time away, though. but something tells me that i shouldn't try.
another thing is that my research may take a different direction than originally planned. nothing wrong with that, but right now, i've suddenly got so many ideas about how to go about doing things, so much so that it's kind of distracting. well, i foresee a lot of lab time after next tuesday.
the japanese exam was...ok-ish. not really difficult, but not that easy at the same time. the main challenge for me was getting through 2 horribly long passages for reading comprehension. luckily most of the comprehension questions were multiple choice and true/false, with only one requiring some writing. i know i made one stupid error in another part of the paper, because i had no idea what it meant. the sentence went something like "what should i do if i want to _____ it into the shelf?" now that my friend explained the meaning of that sentence to me in english, it makes sense to me that the answer should be "return". not knowing this during the exam, i wrote something like "what should i do if i want to not want to look at it into the shelf?" well, it's just a one-mark loss (in addition to other mistakes, of course). with any luck, i'm looking at an A- or an A.
still feeling a little not-all-there. like there's something which i've forgotten about, or didn't do. maybe it's just me feeling guilty about lagging behind for research. the next (and last!) exam's in 3 days (almost exactly 72 hours away, actually), and i know that i should focus on studying. on the other hand, the notes are quite self-explanatory. and yet, i know that the professor will twist something somehow, or test something really obscure, like common names for certain complexes.
well...i think that's enough of a break for now. hopefully, i'll be able to concentrate a little better after this. or maybe i'll give myself a couple of songs' more time before trying to dive in once again.
-random thought of the day: Library books are due next week, not this week.-
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