I'm mad

Actually, I'm kind of scared. So this year, I decided to be motivated (and by motivated I mean stupid and sleep-deprived) and take accelerated chem when I knew I was going to take accelerated calc and physics. Kids, don't try this at home. It's dangerous. It's the first week of school, right, and we have a chem test less than a week from today. Last year, no one in the accelerated chem class passed the first test. He didn't throw it out or anything, he was just like, ok everybody you get the next 50 minutes to revise your test. Annnd.. GO. I'm guessing that was about enough time to get a B (or maybe if you're lucky an A). But I'm Asian. So that's not good enough.

However, he does give out plenty of extra credit. If you're willing to write a 2-3 page essay every week. On top of all the calc hw (which I've heard is, like, 10 hours a week for the smartest guy in the class) and other stuff. Yes, I'm one of those people who will probably end up staying up until some ungodly hour just to get that EC. Because I need that A.

In a nutshell, we read a chapter a week ('bout 40-ish pages), do 30 or so problems (which usually include parts a, b, c, d for each problem) then take a test or do a project. Oh, right, can't forget about the extra credit. As Rebecca Black would say, fun fun fun fun :)



No, I was being sarcastic.

And the best part is, I can't even drop this class if I wanted to. I know for sure I'm going to end up in a math/science field. I am soo not a humanities person. I can't write (well) or recall significant events in history to save my life. Basically anything I want to do in the future will most likely involve chemistry to some extent. I guess I just have to learn to live with it.

P.S. No, accelerated chem is not AP chem. All the classes at our school are already supposed to be AP. So I suppose accelerated chem is like AP AP chem? O.o

The Last of the Mohicans

I can't stand this book. If it wasn't for the fact that we have a test on it the second day of school I wouldn't spend my last week of summer freedom reading this. First of all, why would you give a guy two names? And never obviously point out that they're the same guy? I mean, I can kind of see that when he's called Major Heyward he seems more military-like and when he's called Duncan he's more normal or whatever, but why complicate things? Just call him Major Duncan. Then you get both connotations. And drop the "major" when you want him to seem less harsh. Also, it annoys the crap out of me that characters just pop out of nowhere. So this group of men are canoeing down a river for a chapter, then all of a sudden the colonel appears in the boat the chapter after. There was absolutely no mention of the colonel anywhere in the previous chapter. And then the word "colonel" just shows up on the page. I mean WTF. Entonces, his name virtually disappears from the chapter. Does that make any sense? Why mention him in the scene if he only says like one line, and of little significance??

Last thing, DESCRIPTIONS. It's like all novels before the 21st century are half story, half unnecessary, unrelated descriptions. For example, one scene in Last of the Mohicans includes a third of a page describing a guy who's dozing off, hears his friend making "shushing" sounds, mistakes it for the sound of a snake, wakes up, then realizes it isn't, and falls back asleep. Then following that passage, there's a small passage describing how his nostrils flare when he's sleeping or something.

I wish the author was still alive so I can ask him why he put in all this random stuff. It's like making a perfectly good BLT sandwich, then adding peanut butter and kimchi. It doesn't make sense and it probably isn't very enjoyable.

Jerry berry

Look what I bought today! Jelly Bellies yumm. Although I'm not sure how great root beer and Dr. Pepper will taste.

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Hungry

And there wasn't much in the house. So I made lemon cookies covered in crushed cereal. Fresh out of the oven! Could've used a little more lemon rind. But they're still good. ^^

Btw isn't Super Junior's new song strange? "Mr. Simple". Yeah right SuJu is not simple. If they were they wouldn't be as amazing as they are today. And the whole "naughty naughty" thing was kind of random.

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Bubble tea

Mocha flave. Nuff said.

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