Monday, October 18, 2010
Blog 25 :)
Today was lovely, I came back to school with 5 times the stuff I left with, and then studied for chem until 3am. PF changs in the middle was nice, but seriously, chem until 3 am. And this isn't like distracted, facebook a little bit and other things study, this is hardcore study. Today is like a new day, never in my life have I ever studied for that many hours straight, for anything. Ever. I usually don't even study, but this, this is ridiculous. Chem 201H is a deathly class, unless you love chem, and physics (I love chem but I hate physics so this is death) don't take it. I learned something about my learning method today. In grade school they would always ask what kind of a learner you are, visual or whatever. And then, how like structured and organized the things you learn need to be for you. I realized i'm one of those people that needs to be able to visualize stuff, and know stuff building from the extreme basic to completely understand it. Neither of these really applies to 201H. Its very theoretical stuff that kind of just skips over the basics, that you can't really visualize because its been altered dimension-wise so you can understand it? I don't know if that made any sense, but pretty much, my learning style is the opposite of the class. Fabulous. Hmm but I really do love chem when it isnt about quantum mechanics and the deBroglie's equations. I love inorganic chemistry, but this PChem stuff is just not fun. I'm learning a lot, but i don't know if i want to be learning this. I'm definitely thinking very hard about not taking 202H, but we'll see I guess. If you've read this far in this blog that's awesome :) thanks for listening to my ramble!
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These kinds of classes tend to be the most difficult, and by "these kinds of classes" I mean the ones that are very mental-processing based. Where you really have to understand the material works in order to do well. As much as I do hate it sometimes, I also like it because, at least for me, I've always been the student that had trouble memorizing things. I would spend hours memorizing things for class while others would breeze through the material without really putting an effort into understanding it. Everyone's different!
ReplyDeleteI hate having to visualize things in 3-D, I learned that this quarter with vectors!
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