The last exam (for this semester)

I know I've written about this somewhere but I can't remember. Could it be here, facebook or just mentioning it to my friends... Anyway, here I go again...

The last paper is always the hardest to study for. I have only four classes this semester.

BBMB301 : Exam throughout the whole week of the exam week can be taken at anytime

ChE430 (Senior design class) : Due at 6pm today. Just need my group members to proof read the report and hand it in to our professor and I'm done with this class.

ENVS 324 : Best 3 out of 4 exams, best 5 out of 6 quizzes. The 4th exam is the final comprehensive paper. I've already aced the class before the final paper so I can just skip that.

Math307 : Monday 9.45am til 11.45am

So basically after I hand in my report for che430 I only have to worry about two exams.

The problem is... I H-A-T-E BBMB. Hate studying for it. It bores me unlike envs 324 which was an interesting class and thus easy to absorb all the facts even if it's statistical and geographical data.

Math307 I've been doing well and understanding more. But the professor tends to be notorious with the exam questions. After Math 307 I fear that I would even care less about BBMB. I think that's what happened to the last exam I had last semester. The final paper I kinda lacked in studying for it and got a bad score for it.

The LAST exam paper is always the hardest....

Dohhh...

Stomach Ache and Diarrhea for the last few days since eating the food from grad night....

Doesn't help with the fact I've been eating spicy foods the last few days too...

Bleeding love bleeding pt 2

The last few days, I noticed a trend...

I usually have a nose bleed when I'm laying down on my bed. I wake up in the middle of the night for some reason (didn't have a nosebleed yet) but as I try to get back to sleep, some how the veins in my nose starts to leak blood out. It's been going on now for the past few days.

Less one final exam paper to take.

Upon scoring 185 out of 200 points (92.5%) for ENVS 324 a class about energy and the environment, I no longer have to take the final exam paper next week.

This means in this semester I'll only be taking two final papers plus one exam.

BBMB 301: Exam 5 and Final Comprehensive exam

Math 307 : Comprehensive final exam

The other class has only a final design project (senior design) which I need to hand in this Friday by 6pm. It's almost done as all we (it's a group project) need to do is to fix some tables, organize some stuff, add in a discussion, conclusion and extract. Hopefully that wouldn't take too long and that we can finish it by Thursday evening.

Bleeding love bleeding

Somehow I've been getting nose bleeds often recently.... again

The worst part is, it's hard to stop it. Having years and years of countless nose bleeds because I pick my nose too much, because it's too dry or because of high blood pressure(?), I am rather used to it and know how to stop it.

Only thing I hate about it is that when it starts bleeding and wont stop for almost 5-10 minutes. Plug up my nose with toilet/tissue paper but it just seeps through. Look up and the flows back down my throat (hate it when that happens but I can regurgitate it back in my mouth and I start to look like a cannibal). The most serious occurrence happened during the trip back from Colorado in spring break.

In the hotel where we spent our night taking a break from the 16 hour trip back, I woke up in the middle of the night after feeling a familiar thick liquid flowing down my throat. I knew I was bleeding and rushed to the toilet before I made any mess of the area. Stood at the sink for 5 to 8 minutes and feeling very light headed. Loosing blood. Trying every trick I know to stop it. Didn't work. Finally after a while of repeated trying, it stopped.

Only thing that I can think of to explain this is that I'm lacking some nutrients (vitamin K if I remember correctly). Back in form 2 or form 3, I was really enthusiastic about the science/ biology class. There was one section of that class that requires us to learn the use of nutrients and vitamins as well as the side effects for lacking them. Vitamin K if I'm right, is what help makes your blood to solidify and thus clogging up the tears in your skin (that reaches a blood vessel) should you bleed.

Hate BBMB

Hate it.

Having an exam tomorrow and studying it now.

From what I'm reading, there is a possibility that one species can reproduce/ give birth to a totally different species.

Expect to see humans giving birth to a dog.

An gorilla giving birth to a human.

An elephant giving birth to a gorilla.

A whale giving birth to a drowning elephant...

In the future, it won't be weird seeing a mother claiming her dog is her son/daughter...

Death of the blender

Blender died last week.

Base of blender cracked.

Motor still works.

Gonna get a new one, because the old one sucks; makes too much noise, doesn't mix well.

Hopefully the new one would be better and mixes/blends better

The double down

KFC just introduced a new food item called double down.

2 Chicken Breasts

2 Bacons

2 Cheese

I'm sure you can see where it gets its name.

Last Monday after a month of hype among friends, we finally head over to the only KFC in Ames hoping to indulge ourselves in this so called death sandwich.

At the end of the night, none of us had even a bite of it. No it wasn't sold out, we didn't even order it at all. We opt for the usual KFC buffet...

All that hype for over a month and we didn't even order it. This is what I'll call from now on, 'The Double Down'.

To hype over getting or doing something but in the end not doing it.

Design project

Designing a Phenol production plant step by step only to find at the end when you recycle the product back into the reactor leaves your simulation into a state where you have to re-enter and reanalyze everything all over again...

Consistency

Which is harder and more stressful?

Maintaining an A grade in a class or attempting to boost up your grade in a class you're doing bad in?

On one hand, I'm thinking,

"Oh shit, if I mess up this exam, all my hard work from the previous exams and homeworks are wasted."

On the other,

"Shit, if I mess up this exam my grades are going to go lower but if I excel in the next exam, I can manage to scrape off a B"

Then I think of the overall picture,

"Hrmm it's okay if I screw up one as long as the other compensates for it..."

That ended up in me retaking the class... damn the system that leaves no room for mistakes.

At home on Friday

Yes, that's right! Instead of going out to play basketball I'm stuck at home because of a sprained/bruised finger and a sprained ankle

New Watch

New watch.

Same casing (in case it's broken i can just replace the case with the old one).

Velcro band.

Looks like plastic (hopefully it's not)