Shouzer

the answers were finally posted for puzzlecrack, and we figured that even if we HAD realized earlier the part we were missing, we still most likely wouldn’t have used the right method to decrypt it. we had actual confirmation that we were leading or in the top 5 the entire day friday, which makes the defeat pretty sour. not to mention, if we had gotten ourselves into gear on mon-thu last week, we would have undoubtedly finished in the top 3.

what a team effort, though, by “the big enchilada”! everyone knowing their roles and stepping up to the plate when they were called upon. cliches aside, it was the most fun i’ve had at school this year, and i can’t wait til next year. i believe mr. bert johnson will be recieving a few emails requesting more frequent competitions.

in other news, the jaguars beat the undefeated bengals. who dey? dey da loozas.

I posted about PuzzleCrack the other day and now it’s gone. I think somebody else posted something today and that’s gone too. That’s messed up.

Oh thank god!!!

This week has been pretty stressful, which has attributed to my lack of posts, but thankfully, the weekend is finally here and I’m actually smilin’.

So the week started out bad because we were supposed to get our first molecular biology exam back on Monday. They weren’t graded, so he said we’d get them back on Wednesday. I was also informed on Monday, we’d have our second Immunology exam on Friday. That put me in a bad mood right away because Mal, Ketta, and I were all planning on going to Wild Country on Thursday for the first time in, like, four weeks. So needless to say, that ticked me off.

To top it off…we didn’t get our study guides for this Immunology test–which, by the way, the prof said would be A LOT harder than the first one–until Wednesday…2 days before the exam, that covered 6 chapters. Now, 6 chapters may not seem like a lot…but you haven’t seen my Immunology book and just the sheer amount of details we have to learn is so immense.

Finally, we get to today…the day of my Immunology exam. It was pretty tough…a lot harder for me than the first exam. So I was a little worried about that. But I talked with some classmates afterwards, and they all felt similar about it, so that made me feel better.

Then today, we finally got our exams back in molecular biology. The average on the exam was a 63.5, the highest was a 97.5 and the median was 65.5, I believe. Needless to say, this teacher curved the exam. In fact, his grading scale has a curve built into it. Must be why I love that professor! Basically you can get 30 points out of 100 and get a C on the exam. 50 points is a B and 70 points is an A.

Well, unfortunately, I didn’t get an A…but I did get a B, which was a hell of a lot better than how I thought I’d done. I basically left that test thinking I’d be lucky to get 10 points or something crazy like that. So, thank god for his curve and for the partial credit. IT SAVED MY LIFE!

Anyways, gotta work this weekend, per usual. 1030 a.m. – 11:30 p.m. Those shifts are actually startin’ to suck because I’m not gettin’ home until midnight on Sundays and I usually still have some homework to do, which makes me dead tired on Mondays during my 8 a.m. class.

Well, now I think I’m gonna lay down and take a nap, wait for Mal and Ketta to get home and then hopefully go to happy hour…

Have a great weekend everybody!!!

Blam!

That lady is awesome.

I just got back from my ECE exam. I’m pretty sure I got about a 50% on it. That’s because there were 4 problems worth 25% each. I’m fairly certain I got the first and last ones right. I had to guess on the others. That means I got 50%. Oh well.

The thing with it is is that I’m finding it harder and harder to care.

I just got back from Detroit last night. I had to go up there for a ChallengeX conference/workshop. We saw some cool GM stuff when we were up there like the learning center, where they take apart competitors’ cars to see how they work, the assembly plant for the Pontiac G6, and the Heritage Center, which is basically a GM museum. They have all kinds of old cars there, mostly ones they consider to be special. They had old concept cars, some really nice Corvettes, Indy and Nascar cars, old Caddies, and even a few jet powered cars.

I can’t really say too much about the conference. They went over the rules for the June competition and had some various technical sessions to help us out. Most of the comments I have about it are not appropriate for this setting.

It was fun, but it was exhausting too. Last week would have probably been my busiest week of the quarter, and I jammed it into 2.5 days. Phew, I’m glad it’s over. I had 3 tests, a 5 page paper, 2 prelabs, and my regular homework, including an unusually long Signals set. I was incredibly stressed out last week, so that’s why I didn’t post much. I’m really glad it’s over now. I’m gonna take today off and watch football. The Rams are actually on this week!

Those of you who haven’t done it need to go see Serenity. I mean this weekend, too. The show rocked when it was one, the movie rocks, and I want a sequel. Seriously, go see it tomorrow!