Ugh.

I am so ready to be done with chem lab!!! Which sucks to say because I really enjoy labs. I just really do not enjoy working with two of the three people I'm stuck with. The girl is nice and is always the one to write a procedure but when it comes time to do/measure/experiment it seems like common sense goes out the window. For instance, we had to remake standard solutions for an equilibrium experiment and I told her the grams per acid volume twice. And for some reason she started measuring water with an eyedropper... I'm like, "umm what is that for?" I tried to correct her but she hastily said, "I know what I'm doing," so I'm like "alright then," and proceed to do what I was doing with the other solution. 10 minutes later she looks up and is like, "wait, what am I doing this for?" Lmfao "I tried to tell you.."

Then there's MrMeanMath... ughhh. So he evaluated my initial lab report and beforehand he looks at me and says, "Just so you know I am really critical on evals," but then proceeds to snap a pic of my stoichiometric equation for the whole reaction... then proceeded to nit-pick my english!!! It was seriously just reversing sentences, and crossing stuff out because I called out his data-gathering as a source of error. Granted, he did help with a missing formula and explained his numbers, but I emailed him asking about the data.. to which he never responded. Oh but here's the kicker: our school's email system is essentially gmail with the chat option for contacts. His name was 'online and active' according to the chat prior to me writing this email... yea well because I was still logged in while finishing my report, HE WAS ONLINE FOR 2 HOURS AND DIDN'T RESPOND. So, I let his peer eval have it.

Quickie

Alright, my chem group is getting much better :)  makes me very happy. Our next experiment is going to be ridiculous so we seriously need to know what we're all doing. I'm sure we'll get it done and kickass at it! 

On another note, I just took my first biology quiz and A+ on the first go-round. Score!

I've also come to the realization that I waste entirely too much time... so I will be scheduling out my days so I productively use my time. I seriously think that's the military-ness in me (if that makes any sense) because all you have to do is follow a schedule... they give you a schedule of where to be and when, and all you do is just show up ready to work. So ya, I'm going to try this and see how it goes.

Lastly it has come to my attention that the education credits for this year's taxes will be on hold until February 15th... sucks, right? I read that they (the IRS) are "updating their systems to process the 8863" ... I thiiiiiink they're accepting the 8917 or whatever the other form is.. the itemized deduction one. Google it to be sure.

Ooh! Did I mention that I am now an officer with the Chemistry Society? =)

Have a great week everyone! Any bets on the Superbowl? I won't be able to watch it tomorrow.... there is wayyyy too much stuff for me to catch up on to watch two teams I'm not very fond of. Now if the Falcons would have made it, YES I would totally watch. [Gotta represent the ATL!]