Icey wrote:Gah, I really need some motivation to study for finals. I'm doing really well in all my classes (my math class, I already completed - grades came out today, and I got an A 😊), but each of my finals is between 40-50% of my overall grade so I need to ace them as well.I am super lazy right now and just don't feel like studying; when I try, I half ass it. I've got one final Monday morning and two Thursday and I just can't bring myself to work; it should be summer, damn it.
Suggestions?
Just know that studying will not prevent you from making stupid mistakes. I lost 10-20 points because I accidentally doubled the amount of carbons than the formula actually implied because I thought that 8.2 actually meant 8x2 subconsciously. I didn't realize it until after the test.
Amaster42 wrote:Woooh, geez, bad weather around here. Been off and on Tornado warnings like the last three days, and off and on rain just all the time.
Wow. I can't say I've ever had that problem. Washington state has only had two tornadoes since the 1960's, and one was a water spout that did absolutly no damage. Although I do know about the rain. We get that a lot up here. 😞
phattonez wrote:Just know that studying will not prevent you from making stupid mistakes. I lost 10-20 points because I accidentally doubled the amount of carbons than the formula actually implied because I thought that 8.2 actually meant 8x2 subconsciously. I didn't realize it until after the test.
Every math test I've ever taken, I usually get stuck on some stupid detail. I stay in the class for maybe 20 minutes just focusing on that one detail (because I'm done with the rest of the test) then turn it in. I walk outside, take a deep breath, and three seconds later figure out what I missed - then realize what I should have done and that I've lost ~10 points. Without failure that happens.
But I still have a 3.977, so I guess those mistakes haven't really hurt me too badly 😉
I don't mind the rain much, but when the weather reports say you're in a Tornado Watch until midnight, that pisses me off because my sleep gets interupted by false alarms.
Also, I hate math. Did I say that earlier? I forgot. :kitty:
Oh, new news in. Apparently it was a Tornado Warning and a Flood Waring.
:shrug: All I knew was that it was storming and thundering and winding all night.
And yeah, almost every test I take, theres the one question that I don't get, and then ten minutes after I turn it in I'm like "wait...oooooooh, crap!"
And over here it was as beautiful as ever. Southern California, no place with better weather.
Amaster42 wrote:And yeah, almost every test I take, theres the one question that I don't get, and then ten minutes after I turn it in I'm like "wait...oooooooh, crap!"
Et tu, Amaster? 😊 Ya, that happens to me all the time. Teachers need to give you a chance to correct mistakes like that.
phattonez wrote:And over here it was as beautiful as ever. Southern California, no place with better weather.
Lucky you. Up here, it's the first sunny day we've had in a while. And it's hardly even sunny. 😞
phattonez wrote:And over here it was as beautiful as ever. Southern California, no place with better weather.
Don't get me riled up on this again. 😊
AGN seems... inactive.... It's been like this for about 2 weeks. I blame flood control, or summer vacation. Or Michael Moore.
I'm excited! I just bought a bass guitar, and signed up for bass lessons and piano lessons!
Pineconn wrote:AGN seems... inactive.... It's been like this for about 2 weeks. I blame flood control, or summer vacation. Or Michael Moore.
How about just warm weather? It's been nice here so I have been out and about doing more myself. Also I have been feeling a bit stressed (end of year crap) so I have been trying to stay busy to keep my mind off things.
Pineconn wrote:AGN seems... inactive.... It's been like this for about 2 weeks. I blame flood control, or summer vacation. Or Michael Moore.
I'm sure not inactive. I'm done with school, but it's raining, and everyone else is still in school, so I check the site almost every hour.
Eh, I noticed it a tad as well, but I'm not worried. I'm sure that by the time I get back we'll be as close to bustling as we ever get again.
And congrats on the guitar Russ!
As I usually only pop up in here once a day, I hardly notice a difference unless it's a specific time of day. :kitty:
Bass lesson number 1 completed. Wow, playing bass makes your fingers hurt more than you'ld expect.
I played it once, I wasn't interested. Too much going on. I'll stay with simpler instruments.
phattonez wrote: I'll stay with simpler instruments.
Simpler than bass? Like what? The triangle?
I still say the best instrument would be the eletric triangle. Would be very fun to watch someone play. 😃
Amaster and I had a little Trumpet v. Violin debate going on a few months ago. I'm not sure who won.
The easiest instrument that actually takes some skill is probably the cymbals. I know there are some different playing techniques going on with them... or something.
How about the rubber band? Just stretch and pluck. That's pretty simple.
I wouldn't really consider that to be a musical instrument.
Alright, after years of sitting on the fence, I've decided to actually embrace an official stance on global warming. Global warming is man-made, but there's not a damn thing we can do to stop it. It's guaranteed to piss of believers and deniers alike, which is precisely why I chose it. See, I'm sick to death of the fact that apparently it's not acceptable to have anything short of a dogmatic stance on global warming, which is ridiculous, because global warming is science, and dogma has no place in science. Why can't we just accept the fact that we don't know, and just wait and see?
because some people can make a fortune off the fears of others.
Now there is evidence that global warming may be good for the earth.
Rock_nog, if that's true, there is a way to stop it: if we all die. No man, then no man-made problems.
*reads* Uh....ok. That was rather interesting..... :eyebrow:
Guys, you do know that right now, Earth is cooling, don't you? Temperatures on Earth rise and fall. When they fell last time, scientists predicted an ice age. When they rose, global warming ideas started. Now it's cooling again. No need for panic.
No need to panic? You do understand that the last time the Earth cooled, lots of people died, right? It was called the Little Ice Age. It sucked. Very small changes in climate can have disasterous effects on us, whether we're responsible or not. But who knows, maybe the temperature offset created by greenhouse gases will prevent the next Ice Age and our pollution will end up saving us.
And what I meant was, there's nothing practical we could do to stop global warming. I mean, what, just everybody tomorrow stop using gasoline? Stop burning coal? The real exploitation, I think, is not people like Al Gore stirring up fear and whatnot, but rather, that these people make it sound like it's such an easy thing to fix the problem. They're selling false hope. They can't even fix gas prices, why assume they can fix the climate? I think it's a damn shame that they sit there, convincing everyone that there's some easy, magic solution, and that we're going to stop putting out tons of CO2 and global warming will just disappear. If we had alternatives to coal and oil, we would've started using them long ago. The pollution created by burning fossil fuels has killed thousands of people.
rock_nog wrote:No need to panic? You do understand that the last time the Earth cooled, lots of people died, right? It was called the Little Ice Age. It sucked. Very small changes in climate can have disasterous effects on us, whether we're responsible or not. But who knows, maybe the temperature offset created by greenhouse gases will prevent the next Ice Age and our pollution will end up saving us. And what I meant was, there's nothing practical we could do to stop global warming. I mean, what, just everybody tomorrow stop using gasoline? Stop burning coal? The real exploitation, I think, is not people like Al Gore stirring up fear and whatnot, but rather, that these people make it sound like it's such an easy thing to fix the problem. They're selling false hope. They can't even fix gas prices, why assume they can fix the climate? I think it's a damn shame that they sit there, convincing everyone that there's some easy, magic solution, and that we're going to stop putting out tons of CO2 and global warming will just disappear. If we had alternatives to coal and oil, we would've started using them long ago. The pollution created by burning fossil fuels has killed thousands of people.
Negative, negative, negative.
There's more CO2 in the air, hooray. We're allllll going to diiiiiie. On the opposite end of your spectrum, we've been advancing greatly in technology (Roadrunner supercomputer, for instance), medicine, space exploration, etc. I only wish people would stop
1) talking about politics 24/7,
2) saying that a barrel of oil rose another penny every couple of hours, and
3) being so negative.
Okay, there's a possibility that the Earth is warming up. Who cares? You'll be dead by the time it would cause a problem (assuming the Earth's temperature really is rising 1�F every century). We, as humans, need to learn how to adapt to a changing climate (I think I stole that sentiment from another AGNer, sorry). By no means should we halt the development of modern society just for some fish and weeds.
In conclusion, I have none. I just felt like spitting some opinions out.
Pineconn wrote:I only wish people would stop
1) talking about politics 24/7,
Pineconn, I'm four years youunger than you are, and yet I understand something you don't. Politics is life. Elect the wrong leader, and you're life becomes much worse than it has to be.
