Me and my Organic Chem teacher have problems. Its only been like, 3 or 4 weeks into the quarter and we've had numerous arguments about the most pointless stuff.
Our first argument had to do with the lab notebooks. In our chem lab, we need special carbon paper lab notebooks. And I didn't buy the book in a packet because I wanted to save money, so I ordered it offline. And you know how it is when you order stuff offline; it comes like 2 or 3 weeks later. So obviously by the time our first lab report in lab was due, I didn't have my lab notebook there. When I asked my teacher if it was alright that I didn't have the lab notebook yet, he went into this little stuck up tone of voice and started lecturing me about how I need a lab notebook and how I could have went to another school and gotten one. First off, I find it fucked up that I'd have to go out of my way and drive to a totally different school just to pick up a lab notebook. Secondly, while he was lecturing me about the "necessities of having a lab notebook", he said the line "its not science if its not written in a lab notebook". What the fuck does that mean? Apparently nothings science unless its written in a notebook. This first encounter just got me hella pissed at him and it left me with a bad impression of him.
A week after this me and him had another altercation. This one had to do with the due dates of assignments. I know with our last argument, it was a little bit my fault for not having the notebook, but with this one, its all on him. We had an assignment that everyone was working on, but on the syllabus the due date was a few days later. So when our teacher asked us to turn in the assignments, I told him "thats not what it says on the syllabus". Of course he responds with his typical stuck up tone "well ive always told you assignments are due a week after the due date". Thats hella bullshit because if the date is on your syllabus, then thats what the damn due date should be. I always go by whats in writing rather than words, because people can fuck up while talking, whereas while writing something up, they can go back and review and change it before they make final copies. And what really pisses me off is when I asked him if I could just turn in the assignment on the date on the syllabus just this one time since I apparently didn't know his words come before his own syllabus. He told me I had to have it in by that day, before class ended. Fuck that shit man. Thats not even fair at all. Its his fault for having his own syllabus all fucked up, and hes going to make me either rush to finish the assignment or take points off for having it in late. So here I am rushing my experiment just so I can run to the computer lab and finish the fucking thing. I got it done but its still bullshit how I had to do it. And the funny thing is, the next lab session we met at, he goes and says "I have an announcement, you guys can turn in stuff on the date it says on the syllabus without getting points off." Fucking dumbass teacher. I was just starting him down when he said that but the bitch wouldnt make eye contact. Totally going against his own words. Real good teacher man.
And just a week ago, I brought a drink into lab. Unopened, and I set it on the backshelf next to my backpack so it wouldnt be anywhere near the lab benches. Of course the teacher notices it and tells me to take it and leave it outside. Leave it outside? Its a brand new drink. Hell no am I leaveing it outside. Waste of money. He doesn't even suggest for me to put it in my backpack. He tells me to leave it outside in the hallway. What the fuck kinda shit is that? Its unopened also so theres an airtight seal there, but apparently it didnt matter. I ended up just taking my backpack outside with me and putting the drink in my backpack.
Hes a really horrible teacher also. He'll just start talking and the class will kinda understand it, but all of a sudden he'll just start talking as if its a different language. Today in class, we were just talking about stereoisomers which is confusuin in its own regard, but the class in general was doing alright with it. All of a sudden he switches gear and gets into extracting enantiomers, and he starts naming all these techniques and these different crazy named substances and the whole class got lost within seconds. This kind of thing has happened nearly every class section. Also, whenever someone asks him a question in class, he'll answer the question but it'll be with that sorta stuck up tone like "geez you're so stupid you're supposed to know this already". The guy really knows his shit about ochem, but he cant teach it at all.
Fuck chemistry. I'm going to be matching bullets for my job. I'll never use this shit ever. I'm not going to need to know how 2-dimethylethyl cyclohexane is going to look like so this is all pointless anyways. Just pointless shit theyre feeding us in that class. Waste of time, and if you know me, my biggest pet peeve is when people waste my time.
In other news, aphio is awesomeeeeeeeee.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Add this one to the list
Driving really irks me. I enjoy the subtle aspects of it, such as the feel of the road and feeling the wind rushing into that open window, but there's just too many horrid things about it for me to keep on enjoying it.
First off, I really hate red lights. Unless they are at a very busy intersection, then I find them to be a complete waste of time. I wonder how much of my life I've wasted waiting for that random red light to change to green. So many red lights are unnecessary. There's this one red light close to my house that is red nearly all the time I pass it up. The intersection it is at is basically frequented by about 5 or so cars a minute. Its the perfect example of a red light that should not be there. A stop sign would easily suffice as a replacement, but instead, I find myself waiting for the light to change every single time. Its not a quick transition from red to green either. It takes a few seconds for the light to change to green. You may think that a few seconds is almost nothing and that I'm just exaggerating my anguish, but everything all adds up. I think thats one of the things in society today that people always forget. Seconds spent adds up to minutes and eventually days. Just picture yourself spending a whole day at a stoplight. Stuck forever at the mercy of a single red light.
The price of gas is also one of the reasons why I don't like driving. I drive a 2000 Honda Civic, which is supposed to be a pretty good car when it comes to gas mileage. Yet whenever I go to the gas station, I pop in 20 dollars and it only fills my gas tank up halfway. We can probably thank our current president for this situation, due to his war. But another problem is that it seems like people aren't really making an effort to stop using gasoline. Our government has so much money rooted into the car and gasoline industry, that they're probably never going to make the logical decision to pour money into developing new possibilities for fuel.
Another thing that I dislike about driving is that, if you have a car, you find yourself being the person that has to drive around everyone that doesn't have a car. I usually don't have a problem with this because it doesn't really matter to me, but sometimes it gets out of hand. I don't like being depended on for giving people a ride, and I don't like having people just assume that I'm going to pick them up and drive them. I don't want to be known as just a chauffeur. It makes me think that the only reason I get invited to events is because I have a car and I can bring people to the event.
I can live with all these reasons though, if not for this last one. Other drivers on the road are perfect evidence for how retarded some people in this world are. Nearly all drivers have had an experience with a bad driver, and some of us thinking "Hell yeah man!" are probably guilty of being bad drivers in their own regard. I'm not saying that I'm a perfect driver because I do make mistakes, but I'm not one of those drivers that makes those kind of ass backwards mistakes that some people seem to make. A few days ago when I was on the road, I had a person cut me off twice in a row because he was trying to pass up the car in front of him. Excuse me, but last I checked, you're not the only person driving on the road; don't act like it. There's also those drivers that don't make mistakes but just do things that are generally annoying. For example, those drivers that drive the speed limit while in the fast lane. Sorry, but the fast lane has its unofficial speed limit set at about 20 mph above the official one. Its just simple little annoyances like these that happen whenever I go driving that makes me hate it.
I think the world would probably be a better place if everyone only used cars for necessary trips, like ones that are above 5 miles or require you to carry a load. All other trips can be done by walking or biking. Just think of the benefits of it; it would help our nations obesity problem and eventually people wouldn't complain because the walking would help shave off pounds and the extra effort wouldn't effect them cause they'd grow muscles and begin to become accustomed to walking. Sure, people would have to leave earlier in order to be on time, but that's not really a problem for most people. Making the workday start later on would also help ease the problem. Also, just think of the effects on the environment. As much as our government tries to deny it, the consumption of fossil fules is adding to the hole in the o-zone layer which is causing global warming. Any lowering of fossil fuels being consumed would help the environment. Our dependence on cars in this world is sickening, and I for one will begin cutting down on my car usage and start to ride my skateboard around more.
First off, I really hate red lights. Unless they are at a very busy intersection, then I find them to be a complete waste of time. I wonder how much of my life I've wasted waiting for that random red light to change to green. So many red lights are unnecessary. There's this one red light close to my house that is red nearly all the time I pass it up. The intersection it is at is basically frequented by about 5 or so cars a minute. Its the perfect example of a red light that should not be there. A stop sign would easily suffice as a replacement, but instead, I find myself waiting for the light to change every single time. Its not a quick transition from red to green either. It takes a few seconds for the light to change to green. You may think that a few seconds is almost nothing and that I'm just exaggerating my anguish, but everything all adds up. I think thats one of the things in society today that people always forget. Seconds spent adds up to minutes and eventually days. Just picture yourself spending a whole day at a stoplight. Stuck forever at the mercy of a single red light.
The price of gas is also one of the reasons why I don't like driving. I drive a 2000 Honda Civic, which is supposed to be a pretty good car when it comes to gas mileage. Yet whenever I go to the gas station, I pop in 20 dollars and it only fills my gas tank up halfway. We can probably thank our current president for this situation, due to his war. But another problem is that it seems like people aren't really making an effort to stop using gasoline. Our government has so much money rooted into the car and gasoline industry, that they're probably never going to make the logical decision to pour money into developing new possibilities for fuel.
Another thing that I dislike about driving is that, if you have a car, you find yourself being the person that has to drive around everyone that doesn't have a car. I usually don't have a problem with this because it doesn't really matter to me, but sometimes it gets out of hand. I don't like being depended on for giving people a ride, and I don't like having people just assume that I'm going to pick them up and drive them. I don't want to be known as just a chauffeur. It makes me think that the only reason I get invited to events is because I have a car and I can bring people to the event.
I can live with all these reasons though, if not for this last one. Other drivers on the road are perfect evidence for how retarded some people in this world are. Nearly all drivers have had an experience with a bad driver, and some of us thinking "Hell yeah man!" are probably guilty of being bad drivers in their own regard. I'm not saying that I'm a perfect driver because I do make mistakes, but I'm not one of those drivers that makes those kind of ass backwards mistakes that some people seem to make. A few days ago when I was on the road, I had a person cut me off twice in a row because he was trying to pass up the car in front of him. Excuse me, but last I checked, you're not the only person driving on the road; don't act like it. There's also those drivers that don't make mistakes but just do things that are generally annoying. For example, those drivers that drive the speed limit while in the fast lane. Sorry, but the fast lane has its unofficial speed limit set at about 20 mph above the official one. Its just simple little annoyances like these that happen whenever I go driving that makes me hate it.
I think the world would probably be a better place if everyone only used cars for necessary trips, like ones that are above 5 miles or require you to carry a load. All other trips can be done by walking or biking. Just think of the benefits of it; it would help our nations obesity problem and eventually people wouldn't complain because the walking would help shave off pounds and the extra effort wouldn't effect them cause they'd grow muscles and begin to become accustomed to walking. Sure, people would have to leave earlier in order to be on time, but that's not really a problem for most people. Making the workday start later on would also help ease the problem. Also, just think of the effects on the environment. As much as our government tries to deny it, the consumption of fossil fules is adding to the hole in the o-zone layer which is causing global warming. Any lowering of fossil fuels being consumed would help the environment. Our dependence on cars in this world is sickening, and I for one will begin cutting down on my car usage and start to ride my skateboard around more.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
The week in review.
Yesterday was probably one of the most eventful days I've had this school year. My school had its annual Al Fresco celebration, which is basically a little festival where each club, greek society, and scholarly department at the school sets up a table and tries to spread information about their group. It's a really cool thing because its more like a party than a school event. This year we actually had some decent artists perform at our school, that being Talib Kweli and David Banner.
This year though, I actually got to help out at one of the tables. Nerdy as it may sound, I helped out at the Anime club's table this year and I had a real fun time with it. I brought along my guitar and played a little and I got to meet alot of new people that seemed like they would come and join our club. Also got to see all of my old friends from the club which was a plus.
My main mission for the day though, was to get information about the frat that I'm going to rush for this quarter. I went over to their table and talked to the girl handing out the flyers, and she said they were having an information night that very night at 7:30. So I got a flyer and I was like "yes mission accomplished".
Info night was pretty cool though. Met alot of new people there. Its kind of hard for me to meet new people since I'm not really that great of a talker, but I found it really easy to get along with the people at the info night. I also got to meet a few of the other guys and gals that could be pledging along with me. In all, I had a really good time and I thought the night as going to stop there. . .
. . .but it didn't. I was about to leave the info night, when one of the guys there asked us if we wanted to go to Chevy's and eat dinner there with the PASA club from our school. I was like "sure why not" since I hadn't had dinner yet and it would have also been a good way to get to know the guys better. We got there and ordered our food and it was pretty good, and we just hung out there for awhile. Then one of the guys had a pretty random urge to go running, so we decided we'd go running. We went to his house, and I swear, he has one of the best views in all of Hayward. From his backyard, you can see alot of SF and other parts of the Bay Area. Really quite beautiful. So we drove back to the school and went out to the track to go running at 11:30pm. It was pretty fun though, because the temperature was really cool late that night, and also we saw some deer while running. In all, the night was pretty cool.
Well this Saturday, I went to SF to go hangout with my girlfriend. We stayed at her house for awhile, then we went to go meet up with our friend Noreen and some of her friends. Noreens one of those people I met from online, so seeing her is always a fun experience. Technically I met my girlfriend online also, but we hardly even spoke online before we started dating lol. Well we went to dinner at Westfield mall in SF and had some interesting moments with my hamburger. I put too many condiments on it, so it got really soggy and ended up falling apart on me. Well after dinner, I took my gf back to her house. Sucks cause its gonna be the last time I see her for two weeks. Oh well, waiting has always been one of my strong points so hopefully I can last.
From SF, I drove to my friend Jaime's house since his birthday was on wednesday. All of us had school on wednesday, so we decided to celebrate on Saturday. We ended up playing a board game for a little bit at his house, then we drove all the way to Sacramento to go pick up our other friend. Then we drove back to Woodland to go get some food from Sonics, and then we drove back to Sacramento. Crazy night though. Laughed so hard it hurt. Keywords to remember : "Nigga are you gay?"//"Flip him over flip him over!"//. Ahh good times but yeah, we ended up staying the night in Sacramento. Drove back at around 1 the next day, ate a hella good breakfast at Red Robins. We kept on getting refills for our drinks and refills on our fries, and our burgers were insane delicious. It filled us up all the way till dinner time. Well I got home at around 2, and I took a nap until around 7.
I actually got alot accomplished this weekend. I got batteries for my wireless mouse, I got business attire clothes for my pinning on tuesday, I got my N64 games and controllers for the dorm. Those 3 things were the missions I set out prior to the weekend. Also this weekend, I got my halloween costume from Christine as well as talked to her for awhile, and I also sent in my application for an absentee ballot so I can vote in this years election. Today was pretty nice also, since my friend let me have a few pages from her lab notebook so I can turn in the assignments, and I also received my chem book in the mail today. I cashed in the check from selling my old chem book also, so I made a quick 100 bucks from that. About the only thing I didn't accomplish this weekend was that I didn't get a stuffed scooby doo as the final part to my halloween costume. Oh well, I'm geting that this weekend so its all going to begin to fall into place.
This year though, I actually got to help out at one of the tables. Nerdy as it may sound, I helped out at the Anime club's table this year and I had a real fun time with it. I brought along my guitar and played a little and I got to meet alot of new people that seemed like they would come and join our club. Also got to see all of my old friends from the club which was a plus.
My main mission for the day though, was to get information about the frat that I'm going to rush for this quarter. I went over to their table and talked to the girl handing out the flyers, and she said they were having an information night that very night at 7:30. So I got a flyer and I was like "yes mission accomplished".
Info night was pretty cool though. Met alot of new people there. Its kind of hard for me to meet new people since I'm not really that great of a talker, but I found it really easy to get along with the people at the info night. I also got to meet a few of the other guys and gals that could be pledging along with me. In all, I had a really good time and I thought the night as going to stop there. . .
. . .but it didn't. I was about to leave the info night, when one of the guys there asked us if we wanted to go to Chevy's and eat dinner there with the PASA club from our school. I was like "sure why not" since I hadn't had dinner yet and it would have also been a good way to get to know the guys better. We got there and ordered our food and it was pretty good, and we just hung out there for awhile. Then one of the guys had a pretty random urge to go running, so we decided we'd go running. We went to his house, and I swear, he has one of the best views in all of Hayward. From his backyard, you can see alot of SF and other parts of the Bay Area. Really quite beautiful. So we drove back to the school and went out to the track to go running at 11:30pm. It was pretty fun though, because the temperature was really cool late that night, and also we saw some deer while running. In all, the night was pretty cool.
Well this Saturday, I went to SF to go hangout with my girlfriend. We stayed at her house for awhile, then we went to go meet up with our friend Noreen and some of her friends. Noreens one of those people I met from online, so seeing her is always a fun experience. Technically I met my girlfriend online also, but we hardly even spoke online before we started dating lol. Well we went to dinner at Westfield mall in SF and had some interesting moments with my hamburger. I put too many condiments on it, so it got really soggy and ended up falling apart on me. Well after dinner, I took my gf back to her house. Sucks cause its gonna be the last time I see her for two weeks. Oh well, waiting has always been one of my strong points so hopefully I can last.
From SF, I drove to my friend Jaime's house since his birthday was on wednesday. All of us had school on wednesday, so we decided to celebrate on Saturday. We ended up playing a board game for a little bit at his house, then we drove all the way to Sacramento to go pick up our other friend. Then we drove back to Woodland to go get some food from Sonics, and then we drove back to Sacramento. Crazy night though. Laughed so hard it hurt. Keywords to remember : "Nigga are you gay?"//"Flip him over flip him over!"//. Ahh good times but yeah, we ended up staying the night in Sacramento. Drove back at around 1 the next day, ate a hella good breakfast at Red Robins. We kept on getting refills for our drinks and refills on our fries, and our burgers were insane delicious. It filled us up all the way till dinner time. Well I got home at around 2, and I took a nap until around 7.
I actually got alot accomplished this weekend. I got batteries for my wireless mouse, I got business attire clothes for my pinning on tuesday, I got my N64 games and controllers for the dorm. Those 3 things were the missions I set out prior to the weekend. Also this weekend, I got my halloween costume from Christine as well as talked to her for awhile, and I also sent in my application for an absentee ballot so I can vote in this years election. Today was pretty nice also, since my friend let me have a few pages from her lab notebook so I can turn in the assignments, and I also received my chem book in the mail today. I cashed in the check from selling my old chem book also, so I made a quick 100 bucks from that. About the only thing I didn't accomplish this weekend was that I didn't get a stuffed scooby doo as the final part to my halloween costume. Oh well, I'm geting that this weekend so its all going to begin to fall into place.
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