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academic panic with distractions
Oct. 17th, 2011 11:47 amWe have a two-part at-home midterm exam due later this week (one part typed out, to be turned in on paper, the other online multiple choice). I decided to try to complete both of them today. Once I began typing on the written part, I began to feel that despite going to all the lectures, doing some of the readings, participating in lab, and reviewing my notes, I have no real comprehension of the subject. I think I will hide in the bed with the textbooks and try to figure out something (anything).
Edit: I took the online test. Wildly harder than expected. It required actual thought, not just knowing stuff.
Also, theoretically unrelated but one more distraction is the fact that I ran a half-marathon yesterday but the results have not appeared online. I know within about half a minute what my time was (it was probably about 2:03:15) . Why am I craving precision? I squandered at least half a minute at a water station along the course explaining to the confused high school track people staffing the table that while I find Gatorade disgusting, after 11 miles I might need some, so would they please mix me a half and half gatorade with water cup? It turns out that even diluted halfway Gatorade is disgusting, and made me burp for a while, but I guess electrolytes are good, and I had eaten my carefully prepared slightly salted orange slices before the race instead of carrying them along with me as I had planned.
Edit: the times have finally been posted. Net time: 2:01:50, 18th out of 65 women my age. I am totally declaring victory and cutting back to shorter distances from now on.
Edit: I took the online test. Wildly harder than expected. It required actual thought, not just knowing stuff.
Also, theoretically unrelated but one more distraction is the fact that I ran a half-marathon yesterday but the results have not appeared online. I know within about half a minute what my time was (it was probably about 2:03:15) . Why am I craving precision? I squandered at least half a minute at a water station along the course explaining to the confused high school track people staffing the table that while I find Gatorade disgusting, after 11 miles I might need some, so would they please mix me a half and half gatorade with water cup? It turns out that even diluted halfway Gatorade is disgusting, and made me burp for a while, but I guess electrolytes are good, and I had eaten my carefully prepared slightly salted orange slices before the race instead of carrying them along with me as I had planned.
Edit: the times have finally been posted. Net time: 2:01:50, 18th out of 65 women my age. I am totally declaring victory and cutting back to shorter distances from now on.
