*pokes head out of shell*
Jun. 19th, 2009 09:42 amStill writing like crazy. July first is scary close. *meeps* At least the words are flowing. Now if they would just be the words that tell me what I really need to know! *shakes characters*
Am being good and remembering last week's resolution. No caffeine on Friday. Not even a little. Let's see if this results in being able to actually catch some sleep between tutoring and work while not making me too fuzzy to tutor. Especially as my noon appt is a chem student I've already had twice already who's floundering over my absolutely favorite stuff ever: significant figures and rounding rules. I do get the point to the even rule. I really do. I just hate it with the fiery heat of a thousand suns and wish to stick with 5's always making things round up because it's far less of a pain.
I think I've at least gotten her past the worst of plotting electron distributions anyway. That I am coming to consider pointless torture, considering the fact that once past the test covering it, everything is back to the octet rule. Save it for the GenChem folks who are actually going to take more chemistry. You can't move on to more chemistry courses from this one anyway without starting over in GenChem. Never mind my rant at the time about how they should've taught it to us properly in high school. There, it would, in fact, make more sense, as there's not only the possibility but the hope that some of the students will go on in the subject. But in Concepts? No. It's a dead-end course (insofar as chemistry goes) that only exists to give pre-nursing and pre-dental hygiene students just enough of a foundation to make sense of Bio, A & P, and Micro.
Bleh. Didn't mean to rant. What's ironic is that I'm personally just as glad to have covered stuff like that, because I do like to know that stuff. But watching so many other students struggle with it for no apparent payoff frustrates me. Save the hair-rending agony for something useful like stoichiometry!
But see? This is what happens without at least a cup of decaf coffee or green tea. However, with either of those, I won't be able to go to sleep at 5, so then I'll be dopey and useless at work. May try to get at least some writing done now, before tutoring, but if this post is any indication, I'll probably end up wincing and deleting it all later.
Heh, in the process of finding that old post, linked above, I found where I first dubbed my Chem and Micro prof "Snape." This was, I notice, a whole four days before I started writing Snape (evidence for that being my discovery that MS Word recognizes "Azkaban" as a correctly spelled word), after which I made a careful distinction between this prof being canon Snape that nobody in their right mind wants as their teacher and so very much not fanon Snape that all of us fangurlz drool over.
In other news, I see I'm probably the last person making the offer, so probably a bit too late, but does anyone need/want a Dreamwidth invite code? Because I have a couple.
Am being good and remembering last week's resolution. No caffeine on Friday. Not even a little. Let's see if this results in being able to actually catch some sleep between tutoring and work while not making me too fuzzy to tutor. Especially as my noon appt is a chem student I've already had twice already who's floundering over my absolutely favorite stuff ever: significant figures and rounding rules. I do get the point to the even rule. I really do. I just hate it with the fiery heat of a thousand suns and wish to stick with 5's always making things round up because it's far less of a pain.
I think I've at least gotten her past the worst of plotting electron distributions anyway. That I am coming to consider pointless torture, considering the fact that once past the test covering it, everything is back to the octet rule. Save it for the GenChem folks who are actually going to take more chemistry. You can't move on to more chemistry courses from this one anyway without starting over in GenChem. Never mind my rant at the time about how they should've taught it to us properly in high school. There, it would, in fact, make more sense, as there's not only the possibility but the hope that some of the students will go on in the subject. But in Concepts? No. It's a dead-end course (insofar as chemistry goes) that only exists to give pre-nursing and pre-dental hygiene students just enough of a foundation to make sense of Bio, A & P, and Micro.
Bleh. Didn't mean to rant. What's ironic is that I'm personally just as glad to have covered stuff like that, because I do like to know that stuff. But watching so many other students struggle with it for no apparent payoff frustrates me. Save the hair-rending agony for something useful like stoichiometry!
But see? This is what happens without at least a cup of decaf coffee or green tea. However, with either of those, I won't be able to go to sleep at 5, so then I'll be dopey and useless at work. May try to get at least some writing done now, before tutoring, but if this post is any indication, I'll probably end up wincing and deleting it all later.
Heh, in the process of finding that old post, linked above, I found where I first dubbed my Chem and Micro prof "Snape." This was, I notice, a whole four days before I started writing Snape (evidence for that being my discovery that MS Word recognizes "Azkaban" as a correctly spelled word), after which I made a careful distinction between this prof being canon Snape that nobody in their right mind wants as their teacher and so very much not fanon Snape that all of us fangurlz drool over.
In other news, I see I'm probably the last person making the offer, so probably a bit too late, but does anyone need/want a Dreamwidth invite code? Because I have a couple.
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