I'm starting to think nuclear physics would be easier! I wish I could take classes that actually interested me, rather than just being interesting. I mean, this stuff could be interesting, but a not inconsiderable number of the teachers in the sciences are shit at everything but research and don't teach worth anything, which is managing to kind of turn me off of the entire subject.
It's all complicated by this scholarship that I have, which means I have to take a certain number of hours *and* make pretty much all As in them or I lose a bazillion dollars and have to drop out and become a bum on the street. Otherwise, I would probably have already dropped organic chemistry--I didn't go to one test because it was when my dad was having his cancer surgery, so I'll be taking a makeup at the end of the semester, but I realized that means I will have earned about only 1/3 of the final points for my grade by the drop date, meaning even if I've got an A then (unlikely, as this class and I don't get along), I could still spectacularly fail the course. Very scary.
This is one of the reasons I was always really bad at school… I would've preferred being at home writing.
Ditto, though more often reading. I also have the . . . idk--advantage? disadvantage? of being very good at the subjects that interest me (sometimes to the point of the class being totally worthless, as in last spring's abnormal psych) and very bad at the subjects that don't (case in point, organic chemistry). And I'm pretty sure that's the direction it works in--of course, I'm less likely to like a class that kicks my ass, but it mostly starts with me not being interested enough to try.
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It's all complicated by this scholarship that I have, which means I have to take a certain number of hours *and* make pretty much all As in them or I lose a bazillion dollars and have to drop out and become a bum on the street. Otherwise, I would probably have already dropped organic chemistry--I didn't go to one test because it was when my dad was having his cancer surgery, so I'll be taking a makeup at the end of the semester, but I realized that means I will have earned about only 1/3 of the final points for my grade by the drop date, meaning even if I've got an A then (unlikely, as this class and I don't get along), I could still spectacularly fail the course. Very scary.
This is one of the reasons I was always really bad at school… I would've preferred being at home writing.
Ditto, though more often reading. I also have the . . . idk--advantage? disadvantage? of being very good at the subjects that interest me (sometimes to the point of the class being totally worthless, as in last spring's abnormal psych) and very bad at the subjects that don't (case in point, organic chemistry). And I'm pretty sure that's the direction it works in--of course, I'm less likely to like a class that kicks my ass, but it mostly starts with me not being interested enough to try.