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Physics Woes
I've been studying physics, because I've got an exam tomorrow at 6.30pm (weirdest time ever for an exam y/y?). I love physics, but this...
I've got a page of formulas lying next to me. Stuff like v=lambda*f, and q=n*e. Very, very basic stuff. The sort of stuff that you happily forgot in grade ten the minute they told you you were allowed to use a formulary from now on.
I'm not saying those formulas are hard to memorize. They aren't. But if you have ten or twenty of these little three-letter-combinations memorized, it's very easy to get confused. And that, dear uni, is why God gave us formularies. C'mon, I was allowed to use one in school! I thought uni was supposed to be more about understanding things and getting to the bottom of them than school.
I myself don't call making people memorize twenty three-letter-combinations 'getting to the bottom of things'.
The joke is - if you haven't understood what you're doing, you can't use a formulary. You won't know what to look up. I know this from experience. It's perfectly possible to flunk a physics exam even with a formulary.
Next thing they won't allow calculators anymore, and will give us a list of angles and their sinus values to memorize. I really wouldn't be surprised.
I've got a page of formulas lying next to me. Stuff like v=lambda*f, and q=n*e. Very, very basic stuff. The sort of stuff that you happily forgot in grade ten the minute they told you you were allowed to use a formulary from now on.
I'm not saying those formulas are hard to memorize. They aren't. But if you have ten or twenty of these little three-letter-combinations memorized, it's very easy to get confused. And that, dear uni, is why God gave us formularies. C'mon, I was allowed to use one in school! I thought uni was supposed to be more about understanding things and getting to the bottom of them than school.
I myself don't call making people memorize twenty three-letter-combinations 'getting to the bottom of things'.
The joke is - if you haven't understood what you're doing, you can't use a formulary. You won't know what to look up. I know this from experience. It's perfectly possible to flunk a physics exam even with a formulary.
Next thing they won't allow calculators anymore, and will give us a list of angles and their sinus values to memorize. I really wouldn't be surprised.
no subject
I'm not really blaming myself. It's just that I have a lot more problems with the dull memorizing thing than other people seem to have. It's not just annoying, it actually ruins my day if I sit down and waste ninety minutes on stupidly memorizing things that on a grander scale than whether or not I pass my exams are of no use to me whatsoever. That's what I meant with I don't function well like this.
Do you have backup plans in place
Well, if I really do quit after the 4th semester, then I want to go abroad for anything I do next. It's probably going to be the UK, because Canada and the States are just so insanely expensive. I've thought about a couple of different degrees, but I haven't really settled on a specific one yet.
we've got lawsuits aplenty in the Medicine department
Oh yes, lawsuits and idiotic, narrow-minded people. It's not quite as bad as law school as far as solidarity is concerned, but it's still a cut-throat atmosphere. It's really not a very nice place, med school.
Omg, young good-looking professor with geeky super-problems? &hearts That's brilliant.
I've got a friend who's doing Atmospheric Science! It's a cool subject, although, if I were to pick a degree in the area of Physics/Nature, I'd probably go with Physical Geography. Tectonics, geomorphology, all that awesome sort of stuff :D.