The School Year So Far...

Math: Quiz 1, Test 1 - 25/25 and 32/30 respectively. I get Quiz 2 back today, and it's likely to be the same. Each Quiz/test combo is a quarter of the mark, but there are 5 of these combos, which, yes, adds up to 125% - he drops the lowest Test and lowest quiz (and presumably all those bonus marks it's so fun to get). Things go on this way, I could skip the class for the last four or five weeks next term and still get an A+. Not that I intend to, but it is something I find amusing.

Biology: Midterm (Also 25% of the grade) 50.5/54, or roughly 93%. The paper due next week, the next 25%, is already partly written. (This is a single-term course.)

English: First Paper, roughly 23 1/3% of the total grade, A- . I suspect the "-" was due to my lack of time to really edit and trim it down to size.

History: First Quiz, 10% of the total grade: 70%, or B. HOWEVER, Bowler did say that the class did unusually badly as a whole (And he's used to his classes doing badly and getting a shock on the first quiz), and he may grade that oen on a curve. One of my classmates told me she, having got A+ in high school and A in last year's history, got 54%.

What really worries me is whether or not I'll get the history paper done on time. His class is hard, but not as hard as that; it shouldn't be wallowing that far behind the others.

(What most annoys me is that the first paper is on anything from 300-1100, so I meant to deal with the culture clash after the Battle of Hastings. We've dealt with the Crusades, the battle between the Hohenstaufen and the papacy on reforms, the battle for succession that splinters the Holy Roman Empire, and chunks of stuff to do with Richard 1, John of England, Eleanor of Aquitaine.... but haven't touched 1066. I think this is unfair, as almost everyone else is liable to have had their topic at least touched upon in class. He says there's a reason he means to go back to it in roundabout and out-of-order order, but...)

Not that much creative writing lately; I did get another two scenes through Bird of Dusk (One a cut and paste then link up of three dialogues from the earlier draft, one, where Finno gets to burn up somebody's manuscript by accident, afresh prose), but that was mostly end of October, or after my biology notes hit "If I read any more of this, I'll hit meltdown!"

The nice thing about reading the Faerie Queen along the way, especially after all those sonnets; I'm also working on transmuting another piece of prose work into mostly-iambics and mostly-pentameter (A la Shakespeare, which, as Keir Cutler describes it, is usually "Da-Dum Da-Dum Da-Dum Da-Dum Da-Dum", but occasionally "Da-Dum Da-Dum Da-Dum Da-Dum Da-Dum Deee...". and I have pentameter and hexameter pretty thoroughly grilled into my head, will I or nay.

Anyhow, must go look some stuff up for the Biology paper. If I finish it in the next couple of days, I can really hammer my head against the history one all next week. Then meltdown.


ETA: 23/26 on the latest math quiz. Only 88%. Darn! I managed to mess up a basic multiplication. On a question I checked and rechecked because there *was* something mildly fishy about the answer, but I didn't check back quite far enough.

The School Year So Far...

Math: Quiz 1, Test 1 - 25/25 and 32/30 respectively. I get Quiz 2 back today, and it's likely to be the same. Each Quiz/test combo is a quarter of the mark, but there are 5 of these combos, which, yes, adds up to 125% - he drops the lowest Test and lowest quiz (and presumably all those bonus marks it's so fun to get). Things go on this way, I could skip the class for the last four or five weeks next term and still get an A+. Not that I intend to, but it is something I find amusing.

Biology: Midterm (Also 25% of the grade) 50.5/54, or roughly 93%. The paper due next week, the next 25%, is already partly written. (This is a single-term course.)

English: First Paper, roughly 23 1/3% of the total grade, A- . I suspect the "-" was due to my lack of time to really edit and trim it down to size.

History: First Quiz, 10% of the total grade: 70%, or B. HOWEVER, Bowler did say that the class did unusually badly as a whole (And he's used to his classes doing badly and getting a shock on the first quiz), and he may grade that oen on a curve. One of my classmates told me she, having got A+ in high school and A in last year's history, got 54%.

What really worries me is whether or not I'll get the history paper done on time. His class is hard, but not as hard as that; it shouldn't be wallowing that far behind the others.

(What most annoys me is that the first paper is on anything from 300-1100, so I meant to deal with the culture clash after the Battle of Hastings. We've dealt with the Crusades, the battle between the Hohenstaufen and the papacy on reforms, the battle for succession that splinters the Holy Roman Empire, and chunks of stuff to do with Richard 1, John of England, Eleanor of Aquitaine.... but haven't touched 1066. I think this is unfair, as almost everyone else is liable to have had their topic at least touched upon in class. He says there's a reason he means to go back to it in roundabout and out-of-order order, but...)

Not that much creative writing lately; I did get another two scenes through Bird of Dusk (One a cut and paste then link up of three dialogues from the earlier draft, one, where Finno gets to burn up somebody's manuscript by accident, afresh prose), but that was mostly end of October, or after my biology notes hit "If I read any more of this, I'll hit meltdown!"

The nice thing about reading the Faerie Queen along the way, especially after all those sonnets; I'm also working on transmuting another piece of prose work into mostly-iambics and mostly-pentameter (A la Shakespeare, which, as Keir Cutler describes it, is usually "Da-Dum Da-Dum Da-Dum Da-Dum Da-Dum", but occasionally "Da-Dum Da-Dum Da-Dum Da-Dum Da-Dum Deee...". and I have pentameter and hexameter pretty thoroughly grilled into my head, will I or nay.

Anyhow, must go look some stuff up for the Biology paper. If I finish it in the next couple of days, I can really hammer my head against the history one all next week. Then meltdown.


ETA: 23/26 on the latest math quiz. Only 88%. Darn! I managed to mess up a basic multiplication. On a question I checked and rechecked because there *was* something mildly fishy about the answer, but I didn't check back quite far enough.