fun day at school
Dec. 7th, 2007 04:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauradi7dwwhich is just as well, as I was nearly in tears on Wednesday from doing badly on a test and spent yesterday being the embodiment of this cartoon
while supposedly working on my research paper. It's about 2/3 done, I guess.
1) physics (I withdrew from the course but go to class on the theory that I might learn something that will be helpful in the spring when i take it again). a.Something that I'm glad somebody knows how to figure out but don't personally feel the urge to try (expansion forces on a metal bridge), b. something I basically understand (how much bigger a bubble will get as it rises from the ocean floor to the surface. i have some familiarity with the ideal gas law).
c. Something everybody probably should know (first law of thermodynamics).
2)psychology The teacher was agonizingly careful to explain the apparent gender differences in reaction to stress by going to great lengths about physiology and evolution and stuff. I felt that he was doing this for my benefit (or for his, to avoid having me pounce). I appreciated it.
Here's a fairly clear explanation of the study in question
http://www.psu.edu/ur/2000/womenstress.html
3) phy chem spent the whole hour learning the IUPAC naming system for organic chemistry diagrams (currently working mostly with alkanes).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUPAC_nomenclature_of_organic_chemistry#Alkanes
I'm not much of a puzzle person, but it's like a very simple puzzle, so I was fine.
while supposedly working on my research paper. It's about 2/3 done, I guess.
1) physics (I withdrew from the course but go to class on the theory that I might learn something that will be helpful in the spring when i take it again). a.Something that I'm glad somebody knows how to figure out but don't personally feel the urge to try (expansion forces on a metal bridge), b. something I basically understand (how much bigger a bubble will get as it rises from the ocean floor to the surface. i have some familiarity with the ideal gas law).
c. Something everybody probably should know (first law of thermodynamics).
2)psychology The teacher was agonizingly careful to explain the apparent gender differences in reaction to stress by going to great lengths about physiology and evolution and stuff. I felt that he was doing this for my benefit (or for his, to avoid having me pounce). I appreciated it.
Here's a fairly clear explanation of the study in question
http://www.psu.edu/ur/2000/womenstress.html
3) phy chem spent the whole hour learning the IUPAC naming system for organic chemistry diagrams (currently working mostly with alkanes).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUPAC_nomenclature_of_organic_chemistry#Alkanes
I'm not much of a puzzle person, but it's like a very simple puzzle, so I was fine.
