21 September 2006

Routine

I guess I already have a pretty good picture of how my weekly routine is going to be for this semester. After spending most of Saturday at Dreamland, I went grocery shopping and cooked some "real" dinner that night.

Sunday was dedicated to grade lab reports. Man! I took to much time going through the first few. I hate working under those conditions. You cannot think clearly just wondering about all the homework you have to do for the next day while stuck reading about somebody's speculation on error in a measurement of a pendulum's period. Oh well. I spent all afternoon at my office until before 9:00 PM. I worked on the Electrodynamics problems, but was not able to finish all. I am used to not handing in all problems solved, but this cannot go on far. A third of my grade is being determined from the homework scores. The same thing happen with the Quantum Mechanics problem set, one (of two) problems was handed in blank. I really do not care if the professor thinks I am stupid because I did not handed in my "reasons" for not "solving" the problem. I just think that either you can figure it out, or you do not. I guess some sort of feedback is good so the professor has an idea where I got stuck. It turned out that there was a hint in many books and I did not checked them. I felt very stupid when I realized this. Oh well, now I am checking every book I have.

This week has been pretty rough. I was able to solve every problem of the Mechanics set, so that made me feel better. Electrodynamics is looking pretty nasty, but I already have one in the bag. And Quantum is not going to sneak on me again.

Friday....

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