Just finished my math final. It was bearable. Actually, it was a lot easier than I expected, which I guess is good. Hopefully I’ll get an A there.

The biology final yesterday was a lot harder than I expected, albeit I didn’t study at all. It’s ok, because I only needed 68% (34/50) to get an A in the class. I was quite demoralized at the beginning when I had to guess on something like 8 of the first 10 questions. It was all about terminology for embryo development. Who cares!. The stuff on Evolution/Natural Selection was better except when they started asking questions about the various Eras and such.

Chemistry Peer Review Sessions & Physics Review Sessions: Why being a science major sucks
Goddamnit. I’ve got the shaft leading THREE peer review session in chemistry in the next 5 days. Hmf. Well I guess it gets me out the final. But I’d almost rather take a 2-3 hour final than get stuck listening to dumb people feebly attempt to do chemistry for three hours. Thank god the days are spread out.

Maybe I’m just in a bitchy mood right now.

Oh, and my physics research blows. At least the semester is done so I can finally just give up and admit defeat. The experiment was screwed from the beginning. It’s using antiquated technology. It’s a pain in the ass to setup. To run the thousands of trials I’d need to do to get any sort of meaningful result would take weeks. Anyway, I ran 20 trials the other day (took maybe 30 minutes or so) and spent a few hours today analyzing the data. Nothing worked. I thought I had this really nice histogram plot that showed what I wanted (good peaks at the desired places), but then I realized I had the equation wrong so now the peaks are in the wrong places. Which is bad. Anyway, maybe I’ll go dick around with it some more tomorrow, but probably not.

Well I need 67% on my biology final to get an A. What a dumb class.

I just found out that I don’t have to take the Organic Chemistry final. Yippee!

Oh, and my neck hurts really bad because I think I’ve slept on it funny the past couple of nights. Free massages/neck rubs would be very appreciated at the moment.

OMG I took the worst math test ever today. It’s called the Putnam. It’s 6 hours, and 12 questions. A brief peek at former tests reveals the difficulty level. The median score is low —- in the single digits —- for a test that is out of 120 points. Oh well. I’d be happy with a score somewhere in the 20’s, however we won’t find out until March.

My performance left some to be desired. I goofed on some easy problems and missed easy proofs to other ones. Oh well. I’ve got 3 more years to take it still. And there’s always room for improvement.

Math is hard. Let H be a subgroup of G of index p. Suppose that p is the smallest integer which divides the order of G. Prove that H is normal in G.

Bah.