Really short post ahead. Today I had a Chemistry quiz and a Math test, first the Chem, then the Math. The quiz was on quantum numbers (n, l, m_l, and m_s) along with a few other things we didn’t really go over thoroughly in class. We also had no work assigned to get any practice with the stuff so a large portion of the class (myself included) essentially flunked the quiz. I got 5.5 out of 10 possible marks and I’m not particularly pissed. I’d rather mess up now instead of on, say, a test, or on the final mother exam.
The Math test on probability distributions (uniform, binomial, geometric, hypergeometric, and Poisson) went much more smoothly–even though I managed to do almost the entire first page with binomial distribution methods before I realized it was hypergeometric. I don’t think most of the people (of which there are about… four, from the usual commenters) reading my blog are interested in this stuff. I did like how the majority of the test I ended up reasoning out the proper way of looking at the problems rather than regurgitating the homework all over it with different numbers (can’t regurgitate what you didn’t eat, right?). Math is one of those things I want to learn properly, concepts first with formulas/whatever second, since it’s more explosively intriguing (IMO) than most of the other memory-intensive (for me) subjects. Math you can reason and negotiate with.
Yeah, I realize. I am such a nerd…