http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/ Tania's Journal en-us Wed, 14 May 2008 15:48:50 +0800 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss journals.jevon.org widget support@jevon.org http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/entry/15997 I hate walking all over the friggen university to find a friggen computer *makes annoyed sound* anywho, now that I've found one in St. David... I shall bear to you my news for the past few days. A motion is before the OUSA about UMAT and how there isn't any evidance that it dosn't discriminate. The AGM is tommrrow at 1pm and I'm intending to go, means I have to go to 12pm physics but I think it will be good. I hope the University scraps UMAT because 1) the $160 Australian dollars it costs (It's ended up costing me more than $200 New Zealand and It's put me that much more in debt that my lovely Mum has offered to pay) 2) it's just a personality test. There is other tests that the University administers right here and it would be a lot more cost effective to students to have something run here than something in Australia. I don't come from a very privleged background (solo mum trying to raise her 2 kids on the DPB and what not) so there was never much money and unless you actually plan about 2years ahead and ... Tue, 13 May 2008 12:45:42 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/?showid=15997#15997 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/entry/15997 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/entry/15990 CELS191=21.5/60 average mark=32/60 CHEM191=12/30=30% You know there seems to be a trend in this year group with people FAILING. I'm courious to note if it is just this year and if it is, has anything changed from other years or if it isn't what the hell is going on. Most people I've spoken to want to get into medical school and a median mark of that when most people need 70%+ isn't good enough.  I don't know if I'm ever going to get into medical school at this stage. I studied so damn hard for chemistry however, if the unfortunate does happen then I'm going to probably do a BSc in Anatomy or BBMedSci. You know I need to pass chemistry to get into BIOC192 next semester. I'm so annoyed right now it's like I'm trying and it's just not getting me anywhere. I went to the capping show last night. Was completely awesome! and since yesterday was opening night we had the famous capping battle. Our poor HUBS lectuer had them in all her lectures, she did not look impressed when they came in the 2nd time in 5mins a... Thu, 08 May 2008 08:47:54 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/?showid=15990#15990 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/entry/15990 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/entry/15969 update I got 7/20 or 35% for my physics exam! Yay me and I was guessing! I'm thinking twice now about going to Costa Rica. Why? Because of the $450 non-refundable deposit I have to pay. I'm not rich and I still have no job. However, the job is a little bit hard because my workload is through the roof. 13hours per paper per week to get "average grades". Thats 52hours per week then minus the 25hours of class time a week = 27 hours of work per week self-directed learning. I need more than average grades so prehaps add another 2 hours per paper onto that. That is an extra 8 hours per week. Bringing the grand total to 35hours per week. Total spend on school work? 60hours a week. If I get into medical school I have to seek permission from the dean on school in order to have a job anyways. But, I am picking up some extra cash hopefully via helping at a careers fair in the next couple of weeks for about 3 hours that I'm quite stoked with. We have yet another HUBS terms test in a couple of weeks. The resul... Thu, 01 May 2008 12:25:16 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/?showid=15969#15969 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/entry/15969 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/entry/15959 Blurg, man this week has just gone WOOSH. Like last Friday seemed like only a few days ago. I've been studying for chemistry like a good girl. Done some of my HUBS SDL booklet (I'm sure that is due soon I should really get cracking) I've looked at my CELS SDL booklet, I actually was at the University on Thursday but I didn't bring my textbook so I couldn't really do much (and if you've seen how huge Biology by Campbell & Reece is, you'd not want to take it any where either) at the moment I'm trying to do a few of my reading tests for Physics. It annoyies me so much that it's only worth like 1% of my whole mark for PHSI191 when there is about 4-7 reading tests of between 5-10 questions each and if they feel extra mean they'll do a couple of conceptual tests & we do that for each friggen topic! You know I haven't actually written an actual assignment yet? All we get is SDLs. I'm not sure if thats exactly a bad thing. Air New Zealand had $35 flights from Christchurch to Wellington and I wish I had the m... Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:04:58 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/?showid=15959#15959 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/entry/15959 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/entry/15952 OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!! I'M GOING TO COSTA RICA FOR THE SUMMER WITH ISV! holy shit man! I'm so excited! I can't even contain myself!! I haven't even been out of NZ. I don't even have a passport... I don't even speak Spanish! Oh well they do offer a 5 day intensive spanish class. Omg this is like the best thing that has ever happened to be. Ever. I shall need to write letters for sponsorship as it costs about $4,000 NZD. Not to mention the flights and the cost of changing my name so that I can have my proper name on my passport. When I was born my mum spelt my name Taina instead of Tania on my birth cert. so I'm going to change it, and I'm also going to add another middle name. I'm so glad mum is ringing me tonight. Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:16:49 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/?showid=15952#15952 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/entry/15952 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/entry/15936 I was planning to relax and do nothing at all but when I realised that my final exams are in early June I decided that it might be adventageous to study. Especially after the train wreck that was my physics exam. I must have guessed about 3/4 of it. I only worked out about 2 questions. I had 5 questions to go at 5mins T_T. Anywho what I need to get done next week is: Write 3 sets of lecture notes for HUBSSTUDY STUDY STUDY for my CHEM exam on May 5Find some questions in Urone to do with pressure and flow rate (I knew this would happen but the one thing I'm COMPLETELY lost with in physics is what most of our terms test was on)Summarise this terms lectures onto 1 bit of paper for all lectures.Find relevant questions in textbooks to do with concepts. It sucks because the professor who look our last module only had references to the textbook they used last year and not to the one that was essential this year.Finish the first half of my CELS self-directed learning bookletComplete the first 1/3 of my HUBS self-direc... Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:47:04 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/?showid=15936#15936 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/entry/15936 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/entry/15928 So... my cells exam went wonderfully shit. So my dreams seem to be doomed to die. Ah well, there is other things I'm interested in doing. I finished my first aid course last weekend and loved it. So I think I'm going to love being a (territorial) medic in the army. And if everything does indeed turn to shit, well then I can just do that for a living. Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:11:38 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/?showid=15928#15928 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/entry/15928 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/entry/15925 I got 64% (16/25) and I'm really annoyed with myself. Thats only about a C+. I'm aiming to do WAY better on my CELS test this weekend. Class average? 74% And now this from Catherine Tate, just for shits and giggles! "... she gets that he's an alien. She knows she has 2 hearts. Don't want to know what else he's doubled up on... anywhere else" ~ On speaking about her new part on Dr. Who her character will fall for the doctor Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:50:19 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/?showid=15925#15925 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/entry/15925 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/entry/15923 Because I am a good student, I am in my favourite C.A.L studying chemistry of all gods-forsaken things on this earth. There is something that I'm have a bit of issues with (when am I not when it comes to chemistry?!) so I'm only wileyPLUS doing some exercises and seeing if I can try to get my head around this thing they call rate law. I'm getting quite serious about studyng and I found this interesting method of studing, which I am going to try out. In other news, I passed the HSFY english diagnostic which means I don't have to do ENGL126 and I am instead going to take RELS101 a rather interesting paper I think. I was thinking about doing a Politics one, but, I just so happen to be interested in the history of religion and how those belifes came about. I really should go to my 8am HUBS lectures on a thurs/friday... it's getting really interesting now! Last week we were learning about the nervous system and how an electrial impulse is transmitted down an axon and how the neurotransmitters work in a synapse. ... Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:54:22 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/?showid=15923#15923 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/entry/15923 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/entry/15917 I've just finished my first aid course this weekend. Phase 1 of the application to medical school is complete. Cost? $160. The next phase is regeristering for the UMAT (undergraduate medical admissions test) = $160AUD. Phase 3 involves needles, hence why it is stage 3 it involves a serilogical test. Cost? approx. $100. Total cost before I even know if I'm accepted? $340. Somehow that sounds like an ad for mastercard... I'm so mega tired. CELS191 exam next weekend and physics next wedensday... I might ring my mum today. Was Joshua's 5th birthday on Thursday. Stolen from jevon (^_^) You can only use ONE word. The first word that comes to your mind. Don't think this through. Just do it! 1- Where is your cell phone? bag 2- Your hair? soft 3- Work? never 4- Your father? drunk 5- your favourite thing? hugs 6- your dream last night? noexistant 7- your favourite drink? sweet 8- your dream car? black 9- The room you are in? Richardson 10- your fears? real 11- What do you want to be in 10 years... Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:55:43 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/?showid=15917#15917 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/entry/15917 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/entry/15891 There is just so much stuff going on at the moment, some of it I can't even get my head past. Today I was sitting in phsi191 (bored as hell btw) and I didn't hear most of that lecture because I was so preoccupied. My life is just so... complicated! I was also thinking today about how my mum laughted when I told her I wanted to be a doctor. Honestly, LAUGHED down the phone at me. She said I'd make a terriable doctor because I hate people and that I don't have the empathy. Sometimes I wish that she'd just take a really good look at me and see me for who I know I am, instead of what she wants/thinks. She also said that she'd rather see me a scientist *sigh* anyways I was thinking about that today and how she was wrong, I just expect high standards from the people that I know/love and I get annoyed when they don't meet them. My first offical university test was on Saturday and it was good! Not as hard as I'm used to. I'm expecting at least a pass. However, the HUBS questions are all really odd! Like, the first ... Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:32:32 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/?showid=15891#15891 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/entry/15891 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/entry/15857 Now as I sit here in Richardson CAL I feel as if my dreams of being a doctor are slowly but surely running away. I can see it now several meters in front of me, laughing. I say this because I had my physics lab last week and what a fucking pain in the ass that was. At the end of our "experiment" we were given a sheet of questions to answer. I couldn't even answer the first one and I am just getting so frustrated because I'm just not getting it! The same is true of Chemistry and the labs in that class. The stupid fucking test that we have to sit and the end of our labs is worth 15% of our final mark. And of course if you don't really get it (like I don't really get it) you don't really have a chance to cement it in your mind. Last lab, I got 2 out of 6 questions. Thats not even a bloody pass!!! It's just annoying. I feel like it's going in one ear and out the other and I'm not exactly sure what to do about it. I study most nights for 4 hours, I read the textbook and do the questions but it still dos... Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:17:03 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/?showid=15857#15857 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/entry/15857 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/entry/15795 I am trying my damnest to get into Medical School. Last night I spent from approximately 8pm till 1.30am studying. This includes readings before lectures (damn does HUBS today have a lot of small and very spread out PARAGRAPHS to read) anyways. NOT MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE HOW DEDICATED I AM!!!!! If I just lax off and in the end I don't get into medical school I will always be wonder what would I have done if I had spent all that (wasted) time studying like I am now. My flatmates all leave me alone when I'm sitting at the table with my (4) textbooks out furiously re-writing notes and doing questions and saying random stuff they won't understand out loud. I'm inherenitly a kinthestic leaner followed by auditory and I was thinking for HUBS that maybe I should make myself a small model of the skeleton so that I can put all the bones together while saying them out loud. But don't worry I do take small breaks every 20mins or so. I think... sometimes 2hours goes by so quick when you're having fun :P In the end when I ... Wed, 05 Mar 2008 06:59:59 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/?showid=15795#15795 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/entry/15795 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/entry/15779 I've joined karate. Okinawan Goju-Ryu Karate-do to be presice. I've just started learning the first kata called Gekisai Dai Ichi which is needed for my first belt (yay white hehe) it so much fun I'm really enjoying it. I had my first lab on Wedensday it was awesome. They devided the class in half, so our half first went to these machines which measured the electrical signal in your muscles when you moved them. After we had done that we then went to study the bones and anatomical directions and anatomical movements. One of the most evil things in the world. At this moment, I'm listning to a lecture I heard on friday that I had from an interested fellow in CELS191. He didn't realise he was being podcasted so there is a little bit of "wooops I'm being podcasted" ahaha yeah it was quite funny. Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:58:27 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/?showid=15779#15779 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/entry/15779 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/entry/15748 Lectures start on monday and I couldn't be more excited! The only thing that sucks about my timetable is that I have PHYSICS lab from 5-8pm on a Wednesday. I need to attend every lab in order to get enough terms to sit my final exams or something like that. I'm not actually sure what a term is... I shall check it out. One thing that I'm annoyed about is having to buy my own labcoat. $35 thank you very much, and before my first HUBS lab on Weds. I suppose at least no one else is going to use the only size 4 lab coat (like what happened at UCOL) and I get stuck with a giant size 12 which came down to my feet and I had to roll the sleeves about 8times just so I could use my hands... So my timetable is thus: Monday 11am-Midday CELS191 1pm-2pm PHYS191 5pm-6pm HUBS191 2pm-5pm every 2nd Monday CHEM191 lab Tuesday 11am - Midday CELS191 1pm-2pm PHYS191 5pm-6pm CHEM191 2pm-5pm every 2nd tuesday CELS191 lab Wednesday 9am-10pm CHEM191 1pm-2pm HUBS191 2pm-5pm every 2nd Wednesday HUBS191 lab 5pm-8pm every other Wednesd... Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:24:25 +0800 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/?showid=15748#15748 http://journals.jevon.org/users/MyAddiction/entry/15748