Saturday, October 28, 2006

School shows me the evil face

** I wrote this post Friday night, but I had trouble posting it until now, sat afternoon
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Eid Mubarak everyone ...

I was complaining last lost about engineering. Well, I realized recently that part of the reason to my complaining is the plenty of time that I had to think of useless stuff. How did I come out to tht conclusion? well ... let's see what happened last two weeks ...
The story started two weeks ago. In the weekends as usual, I catch up on what I missed on the week, and have some break. Well, that weekend was a lil different. Cuz of the crazy wave that is coming. I had two tests on tuesday, two tests on thursday. HWs due Tue, and wed. Presentation due friday.
So, I studied a bit for the tue tests over the weekend, plus I got started on the HWs... The Tue hw was !@#$ long. I worked most of the weekend on it. Tho, it was worth it, I perfected the score. On sun nite, I had doubts about whether the wed hw is actually due wed. So I stayed up untill fajer to finish it off. Woke up on Mon morning around 11, went to class, and the hw was actually due wed. So .. it is all good. Studied all Mon for tue tests. The first tue test, fluids, was all right. I made a 90% on it, but I could've easily pulled a hundred if I didnt freak out in the test, or focused a little bit more. In fact, I'm ashamed of my mistakes in tht tests. I thought that I did well on the second test on Tue, Circuits. But when I got the test back yesterday, I was ashamed of myself again. I literally lost 20 points because of calculations. I am serious, pure calculations. I mean, I even had the numbers written right on the paper, but the answer I wrote was completly OFF. Dunno what happened there, but I will blame a brain fart! I think I can talk to the prof. and get some points back.

Tue was over. I started studying for Th tests. I consdired them to be the hardests tests: BioMechanical, structural analysis. The BioMech class has only one test, which weighs about 20%. So, I wanted to do well. Structural analysis class was the most stressful. I literally butchered some hws in tht class so bad that I am risked the A so early in the class. The grades came back this week. In the BioMech test, I made a 96 after the curve. Again, I could've made an easy 100% (with the curve) DUMB mistakes. When I say dumb mistakes, I mean mistakes that are totally unrelated to the test material. Mistakes like plugging in the wrong number or forgetting something while moving from a line to another! Anyways, I thought I did pretty well in the Structural test, but I still don't kno. He passed the papers today, but I had to leave early, and it was taking him forever to read the names and pass the papers. So, I left. I can see my grade online, but I dont wanna do that until tomo nite, when my break is over.

I was done with Struc. test on th. night at 9 pm. I went back, started working on the presentation at 11. The class was at 9 am friday morning. So, I finished the presentation around fajer time, but I knew if I sleep for a sec, I wont wake up for the class. So, I stayed up. Went to all my classes and Juma, then went to sleep. Anyone saw me on Juma could swear that I was about to crash. Then, I woke up later on for Iftar, then went back to sleep. I don't know yet how did I do on my pres.
Do you think it is over? hahaha , funny. The weekend was FULLY dedicated to a lab report. I literally worked on it all sat, and sun. On sun night, I had 2 hrs of sleep. I was done with it, turned it on. I started working on a paper due on wed afternoon. Barely got it done on time. On wed. I started doing a HW due thu. Done with the HW on wed night. On thu. I would've danced out of happiness that I could take a break. I dont know how I did in the paper or the lab report.

During these two weeks, my brother's friend came to TX to his USMLE tests. His test is on Houston, but he wanted to stay with a friend in College Station. I made sure that I help with everything I could, which was not a lot considering the time limitations. He is leaving tomo, so I went today to College Station. (VERY SMALL CITY) I had lunch with them and came back. Funny is that I wore my burnt orange longhoarn polo shirt, and my longhoarns/nike sweatshirt on top of it. So, here I was in College Station walking around with longhoarn all over me, in a group of three Arabs, of which one is called Usama! I think tht constitutes all the reasons to get killed in College Station! Anyways, I was walking around taking pics of me infront of A&M's logos while waving the longhoarn sign, pretty funny, ha! I will post some pics soon.

If you have not noticed, that was all during the last two weeks of Ramadan, and extended over eid. I think this Ramadan was the worst for me so far. I did not feel it. didnt do jack in it, thus I think I didnt deserve an eid. I would not felt it anyways. talking about sad! Eid, I spent in class! I am constantly thinking, over and over again. Dunno where I am going with it, nor where I'm gettin all of it. But the other day I read a line, which sounded really interestin for me. It said: "life is the happenings while busy planning for other things." dunno if it's a famous line or what. but I thought tht it is soo true.

Now, I am taking a break until sat night. I have to get back to work on Sun morning, because I am way behind and cant stand any more.

Tomorrow, inshallah I am planing to fly with friends. I will post updates of the trip. But heck I'm worried like hell. Inshallah goes well.

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