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lydyWell, Chap. 3 of Bio doesn't look to be any easier than Chap. 2. I only got 95% on the quiz (20 questions, so I missed one). Given that it was open book and I had just gone through the chapter again, that's just not so good. I think that biochemistry and I will never be good friends.
Chap. 3 is all about cell function, including cell respiration. More biochemistry. I read it and comprehend almost none of it. That's actually a fascinating sensation, but I'd rather try it out in an interesting fiction book that I'm not reading for class. Having nice, discrete facts go mush is very bizarre. This isn't even flash card material, yet. I haven't parsed it well enough to tear it down into flash card sized info bites. I'm used to retaining a bit more detail from a simple read, and this was more than just a simple one. I was trying to concentrate. Maybe going to school isn't like falling off a bicycle, after all.
I'm hoping for a hard-fought A in this class, but I'm thinking it'll be more like a hard-fought B. I would hate for it to be a C a whole lot. Ds and Fs don't bear thinking about. I'd like to hate my Psych course, but just at the moment, I don't have the energy for it. Keeping up with the reading in both classes is about to become very difficult. Thank god for Algebra. (I am experiencing cognitive dissonance, now. All in all, I'm wondering if now is really the best time to be reading The Butterfly Kid.)
Chap. 3 is all about cell function, including cell respiration. More biochemistry. I read it and comprehend almost none of it. That's actually a fascinating sensation, but I'd rather try it out in an interesting fiction book that I'm not reading for class. Having nice, discrete facts go mush is very bizarre. This isn't even flash card material, yet. I haven't parsed it well enough to tear it down into flash card sized info bites. I'm used to retaining a bit more detail from a simple read, and this was more than just a simple one. I was trying to concentrate. Maybe going to school isn't like falling off a bicycle, after all.
I'm hoping for a hard-fought A in this class, but I'm thinking it'll be more like a hard-fought B. I would hate for it to be a C a whole lot. Ds and Fs don't bear thinking about. I'd like to hate my Psych course, but just at the moment, I don't have the energy for it. Keeping up with the reading in both classes is about to become very difficult. Thank god for Algebra. (I am experiencing cognitive dissonance, now. All in all, I'm wondering if now is really the best time to be reading The Butterfly Kid.)
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Date: 2007-09-10 02:06 pm (UTC)For my part I'm good at chem and bio but the combined things that go into cell respiration suck. What book are you using? You're hitting the same things in the same chapters I did. When I had this stuff last fall the book was next to useless, the professor summed it up ok and I managed through it, but it was my worst section. Everything after that was easier. I got lucky because my prof dropped our lowest grade and this subject was it.
Hang in there. I don't think school is like falling off a bike. I worked hard at getting back in the right mind set but it does improve. Honest.