Finals Week Entropy

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Notice the post-its migrating up my wall.

Eggs in the morning

Suffering for vanity. Burnt my forehead this morning with the curling iron. My roommate can hear me scream from the living room. My first curling iron burn, I tried to remember what my mom told me to do to put on burns. Egg white. I called her just to make sure. After scolding me for being clumsy, she confirmed that egg white was best, no cold water (oops). Immediately put the egg white to prevent air bubbles and scarring. Funny, cause on the episode of Doc Martin I watched last night, when a cook accidentally stuck her hand in boiling oil, he asked for cellophane to wrap around the burn to prevent air bubbles. Both serve as a film to prevent air from entering, but egg white has the added benefit of scar prevention (couldn't find any scientific backing, but whatever my mom still knows everything).

Histamine

What a glorious day. Why? Well I have been dreading getting my paper back for my Arab gender class since the day that I turned it. I felt that I completely missed the mark on this one, focusing too much on analyzing each individual movie and not enough on the patterns. I honestly have no idea how I wrote 12 pages when the minimum was 8, and still feel that I didn't hit all the points I wanted to. But I literally worked up to the last minute I could for the paper (because I didn't sleep at all) and there was no going back. It was the longest paper I ever wrote; with the bibliography and 5 movie reviews we had to include, I could barely fit it into my report holder.

Anyways, fast forward 2 weeks to the last day of class, the Professor started calling out names, some warranted a "Nice job" others - "good work'. I didn't hear my name called the first time, cause I was grouching my head down low in nervous angst. On the second "A-va!", I mustered out a meeble "here!" and she excitedly said "Terrific job!" with one of her big smiles. I looked down at my paper in disbelief. An "A"? My hands shook at the thumbed through my paper, thinking that they made a mistake. But nope, just a "nice work" comment from my T.A.. I texted my roommate my news and my disbelief to which she replied, "I TOLD YOU SO". This paper has singularly teared down and rebuilt my confidence. I don't know what more to say but "game on" for the final.

After class, I checked my e-mail and saw that there was an announcement from my physiology professor. My complaint about a incorrectly written question did not fall on deaf ears and two answers for that question would be accepted. Again, yes I do feel vindication. How can I mark a statement that stated Histamine stimulated the release of both HCL and pepsinogen as true when I was taught that only the former substance is released? When I brought this up in the class's chatroom a few students agreed and followed my suggestion to email the professor. I made sure to include two printscreens of his lecture/book that showed that histamine only stimulated parietal cells and not chief cells.

Hmm, I hope I don't come off as a petulant child to my professors. I just want all the points that I deserve.

And finally after all my classes, I went with some friends to the dining commons for Harry Potter night. It was so cute to see all that freshmen, even saw a few parents. The food wasn't as great as I remembered it to be, but definitely felt some nostalgia. All in all, an awesome day.

"Lost"

What up with some guys being super creepy when they drink?

My friend called me last week to ask about this guy I am friends/used to work with. They were at a party together that I couldn't make it to, and she told me he kind of hung around her all night. And he offered to drive her home since they lived in the same area. Halfway of the ride back, he said he was "lost" and suddenly stopped his car in some dark, deserted street (BS, since I've seen him use his smartphone GPS in the car before).

After a few moments of acting lost, he attacked her mouth. Now, she did give in to a little making out with the guy but stopped him from going further (even with his continued attempts). When he finally got her home, he was trying really hard to get her to let him stay since she had said earlier in the car ride that no one was home. No need to guess what he wanted. But she was able to fend him off.

Well the first thing my friend asked me whens she called was, "Does he have a girlfriend?" (and this was before she told me about the whole story). And I answered in the affirmative, and I definitely heard her voice drop as she said: "Oooh."

After her story, she lamented: I just feel so... so..
Me: Cheated?
Friend: No, not really cheated, since I don't really know him.
Me: Hmmm. Used?
Friend: Yes! Used. He kept asking to go to my apartment (instead of his) so I knew
something was fishy.

Yeah, I didn't think that any of my guy friends could be this...icky. I let him hug me last week! He's very clean cut and Abercrombie-fied (maybe that should have been a warning). Not what I expected. That whole "lost" trick? I wonder how many times he has used that on a girl. I feel really bad for my other friend, the host of the party, cause he's kind of in love with my friend. And works/is friends with that guy. Sad.

On Principle

So I got back a problem set from chem today and I saw that I was docked a point (out of 20). Now I normally don't go arguing with TAs or Professors over points because it's a little degrading and pre-health students get a bad rep for point-mongering anyway. But the reason I got deducted was because I had used significant figures instead of keeping a few numbers past the decimal place. Now this professor has never established any rule on sig figs until a student in class had asked him about it right before our first midterm (after we had turned in our problem sets), to which he responded: "Just put a reasonable number, don't round up too much." Ummm, okay, that's not ambiguous at all.

So I brought up my 1 point with the TA and he looked at it and went "hmmm, thats a good point, ask the professor." So I did. And at first, he was like "however the TAs grade should be fair" and asked what the TA had said. So I told him and I tried to explain myself better.

Professor: So you want one point? That will make you happy?
Me: Well...yeah. But I'm doing it on principle, cause I only made sure to account for significant figures based on the information you gave, I was just being safe.
Professor: *looks more carefully at paper* But even if you did do sig. figures, it should be two numbers.
Me: No, the lowest number you have is 0.04 moles.
Professors: OHH, I see what you did. okay. okay. Alright, I agree with you.
Me: *muhahaha in head*

Yes, I do feel vindicated.

The Last Shell

I am trying to study Physical Chemistry but I seem to have no motivation to learn about the molecular orbit theory and the valence bond theory. I hope I'm not the only person who keep forgetting these theories every time they learn it. I know that it's been covered at least 4 times during my schooling: 8th grade science, 10th grade Honors Chem, Freshmen Gen. Chem, and Organic Chem. Oh well.

In other news, my new netbook is set to arrive tomorrow.



Nothing fancy, just a tentative replacement for my dying laptop. Got it for $200 over president's day weekend. Supposed to have a scratch free surface and a waterproof keyboard though I'm pretty sure mine doesn't have a touchscreen like the one shown above.

Call-back!

Well more like an interview-back for the research position. I recieved a confirmation email that they recieved my application on Thursday, and it said that they would contact me the next day to inform me if I earned an interview. So I was checking my email and phone all day Friday. My housemate said that Friday is too early, it'll probably take a week to get back to me, but I still went to sleep a little bummed. But hurrah, I got an interview. They gave me like 50 different time slots to choose from, so they probalbly gave everyone an interview who applied but whatever, I'm happy.

Currently watching: Doc Martin (netflix recommended)