WHEW!

I had fluids class yesterday, and the professor had planned on handing our exams back so I was fairly anxious.  We have 60+ students in our class, and mine was one of the last ones that he handed back.  It drove me crazy, and the longer I waited, the more anxious I got.  He finally called my name, handed it back, and said, "Nice job, Ms. Griffith."

Whaaaaa...?

I got a 92!  Holy hell.  I knew I didn't do well on one (out of three) of the problems, and I guess I just kept focusing on that one problem, thinking I did horribly on the entire exam.  However, the professor had a typo on that problem, so he gave credit for it.  So as it turns out, I had points taken off on only one problem.  As we went over the exam, I closely followed it to see where I had points taken off, and realized he had taken points off for something I did correctly.  I spoke to him about it, and he gave back 6 points.

So, yeah.  I got a 98%.  HA!

(Still waiting on all my other exam grades... argh.)

Blaaaahhhhhh

My classes aren't going so well.  I feel like I'm busting my ass this semester, and don't have much to show for it.  I've taken four exams in the last two weeks, and although I don't have my grades for any of them (side note: I hate professors that take forever to return exams), I feel I didn't do well on two of them (fluid mechanics and water/wastewater).  I probably did okay on my environmental history exam--what a joke that class is--and I think I did pretty well on my economics class.  Thing is, I need to keep my GPA above 3.4 in order to do the 5-year BS/MS.  I only have to achieve a 3.1 this semester to keep my GPA above 3.4, but I'd rather have as much breathing room as possible.  I'm taking difficult classes this semester, and the way my exams have gone, I'm beginning to feel I'm pushing the GPA limit.  I have my heart set on the 5-year program, and I just know that if I can't keep my GPA above the limit, I'll feel like a failure.  I hate this feeling.

My water/wastewater engineering professor isn't all that great.  He screws up a lot in class and doesn't explain things very well.  I'm mostly enjoying this class, but I'm not getting as much out of it as I expected.  However, my favorite professor teaches the second half of the class, so I'm looking forward to that.  Fluid mechanics is kind of interesting, but difficult.  Economics has been mostly easy.

My environmental history professor is SUCH A FREAKING BORE.  He's the kind of guy who loves to hear himself talk.  I was expecting to enjoy this class much more than I do.  It's really just history with some environmental disasters thrown in.  And the authors of the books that we're reading are even more long-winded than my professor.  Our exam consisted of four short essays and two long essays.  I've ALWAYS dreaded essay exams.  I despise them.  The way I studied for my exam was to memorize, memorize, memorize.  I hate memorization.  Did I say I hate essay exams yet?

Aaaaggggghhhh.  Sorry for the debbie-downer post, but I just had my water/wastewater exam tonight, and I'm feeling particularly incompetent and crappy.

The kind of day I'm having...

I decided to color my hair this morning.  I've done this on numerous occasions, and only once did it not quite come out so well (I ended up with a patch of hair in the back of my head that didn't get as dark as the rest).  So, I know what I'm doing, mostly.  Last time I did this, I decided to go with semi-permanent, and chose to do the same this time.  (Just as a forewarning, this story doesn't end as bad as you're probably thinking.  When I called Eric, he said he was mentally preparing himself to hear that I went bald or something.  I told him if that had happened, he'd be hearing a woman in hysterics.)

I got everything ready, and squeezed the color into the activator bottle (or whatever it's called).  (I promise, I do know what I'm doing.)  So, I start putting it into my hair, noticing how good it smells and how thick the stuff seems.  Oh well, I've only used it once before, and I can't really remember what it smelled like.  Due to the thickness of the stuff, it took a while, but I finally got it all through my hair.  I put my shower cap on, waited 10 minutes, and hopped in the shower.  As I was rinsing, I noticed the lack of color going down the drain.  Strange.  Still, I figured since it was semi-permanent, maybe there wasn't really much color?  Again, I can't remember from last time I did it.

Got everything rinsed out, and started to spread the conditioner they provided through my hair... which didn't smell so good.  In fact, it smelled a little bit like the color cream... LIGHT BULB!  After inspecting the tube, I realized I switched the conditioner and color.  Thankfully, my hair was didn't seem much different (I think maybe I stripped it a little of color), and in fact was pretty soft, after having conditioner sitting in it for a good 10-20 minutes. ;)  I had to run out to the store to get another box though.

Sigh.