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Spring '05 Finals
May. 12th, 2005 08:12 amI emailed in my final for Solid State Chemistry. I didn't think it was that bad, although a lot of my labmates seemed really nervous about it. Then again I have a slightly better preparation for it than a lot of the others. I also use the material on a regular basis.
Suddenly though I find myself really rather nervous about my Reactor Design final today. Reactor Design is one of those courses that I feel is a major reflection about my ability to be a chemical engineer. A lot of other things can be fudged, but this seems to be one of those things that if I can't get then this is a bad field for me. To make it worse this is not even a graduate level course. It is the undergraduate prerequisite to the graduate course which is among my core curriculum (though it is an upper level one). And I feel like I spend all of my time working as hard as I can just to stay on top of things.
I got to school early this morning. I figured this would let me organize my materials further. All of the exams in this department are open book and notebook. So I put labeled tabs on my book to more easily reference tables, equations and chapter summaries. I reorganized my notebook to seperate answer keys to homeworks from general notes and turned in homeworks. I made sure my calculator could do cosh, sinh, and tanh. So at this point all I really have left is to pick up the answer key for homework 9 (which I am missing for some reason).
Unfortunately no one will be in the office until 9 at the earliest. And the people I am looking for probably a bit after that. Well think happy thoughts for me... Urg I just double checked the time of my exam. Someone had said that it was at 12. According to Tuftslife though J block is at 3:30pm - 5:30pm. Does it matter that Reactor Design is a J+ block? I have no idea.
Suddenly though I find myself really rather nervous about my Reactor Design final today. Reactor Design is one of those courses that I feel is a major reflection about my ability to be a chemical engineer. A lot of other things can be fudged, but this seems to be one of those things that if I can't get then this is a bad field for me. To make it worse this is not even a graduate level course. It is the undergraduate prerequisite to the graduate course which is among my core curriculum (though it is an upper level one). And I feel like I spend all of my time working as hard as I can just to stay on top of things.
I got to school early this morning. I figured this would let me organize my materials further. All of the exams in this department are open book and notebook. So I put labeled tabs on my book to more easily reference tables, equations and chapter summaries. I reorganized my notebook to seperate answer keys to homeworks from general notes and turned in homeworks. I made sure my calculator could do cosh, sinh, and tanh. So at this point all I really have left is to pick up the answer key for homework 9 (which I am missing for some reason).
Unfortunately no one will be in the office until 9 at the earliest. And the people I am looking for probably a bit after that. Well think happy thoughts for me... Urg I just double checked the time of my exam. Someone had said that it was at 12. According to Tuftslife though J block is at 3:30pm - 5:30pm. Does it matter that Reactor Design is a J+ block? I have no idea.
