I received back the results of my second midterm today and they are Not Good. Not good at all.

My econ test pretty much was a failure as I left my calculator at home and when it came to do equation busting I got lost in my own math. Entire pages were scribbled in numbers and symbols. I’d start on something, realize it was wrong and work at it another way, repeating this process many times. I got confused at the sheer amount of numbers that I wrote down and mixed stuff up. Ugh… In the end I broke down the problems into the equations that they needed to be in to correctly solved and all that needed to be done was to simplify by punching it into a calc. I no longer had the time nor page space to finish that last bit so I left it as is. Apparently TAs don’t appreciate that. On a side note: I find it rather frustrating that a teacher delegates test grading to a TA. Ugh…

My organization exam was also rather frustrating. I scored at the top end of the class in the multiple choice portion of the test and apparently botched the essays. I was lead to believe that the essays were worth less then the multiple choice but to my dismay it wasn’t. One of the essay questions I had no idea what he was talking about so I deduced what it should’ve been. From his reading of a “perfect” essay, I was almost perfect in my explanation but somehow that was just failed. Not of much comfort to me but apparently the entire class did rather poor on the essay portion and so he’ll be spending a full class period on explaining how to go over it for the next test. But that’s the next one.

I still have yet to do the math to see what sort of damage this’ll do in the long run but I can say that my goal of achieving my 4.0 in those two classes is pretty much shattered. Needless to say, I am a sad panda.

I need to reevaluate my study habits quick status and rehaul my methodology of obtaining my academic goals. I can’t allow myself to be pushed back already at the beginning… I can take care of it all but I need to become more efficient and toss aside my distractions that I so easily allow myself to be caught by.

Farewell Honor Harrington. Perhaps we’ll meet again but for now I need to shift my focus to less frivolous things.

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