This past Sunday, Mom, Dad, and Andrew came to Montgomery so that we could spend some time together. I hadn't seen Dad and Andrew for a really long time! We got to go shopping and we went out to eat for lunch. I miss my crazy little family, and it just makes me more and more ready to come home for Thanksgiving! Mom told me that she had a surprise for me in the car... it turns out that it was a cooler full of homemade food! Best present ever. So this week I've been living off of "real" food. I have peas, carrots, pasta salad, broccoli cheddar soup, and last but definitely not least... chicken casserole :) I've already finished all of the chicken casserole! Thanks Mom.
For the last two weeks, I've been thriving on the fact that if I can just get through with today, the monster of all days, that freedom would taste so sweet. Today I had both a chemistry and biology test... I've studied the most I've ever studied, and sadly it still wasn't enough. It's not that my chemistry teacher is horrible, I just had a terrible experience with chemistry in high school and so I barely have a background in it. Though don't get me wrong, I think I did better on this test than on the others (knock on wood) I was just disappointed that I studied for a while and still didn't do as well as I had hoped. Though I will say this... if you are going to take biology at Auburn, do not I repeat do NOT take Professor Singh. I have always loved biology. I loved it because I could apply it and I've always liked to know why and how things work. All of you Andalusia High School studnets, be so thankful for Mrs. Sasser. She's one of the best teachers I've ever had. She was interesting, clear, helpful, and explained things to where they made perfect sense. My professor does not explain how anything works, he only reads off of a slide. Earlier in the year after I made a poor grade on my first test, I stopped coming to class and told myself that I could teach myself out of the book and read over his notes and make a better grade. So for the second test, I made 2 points higher than I had made on my first test- and I didn't even go to class. For the third test, I decided to come back to his class, and then I decided that I wanted to talk to him on ways that I could improve my grade. He asked me, "Do you come to class?" and I replied, "Well not lately." and he said, "well, why not" I replied, "Because I've noticed that by coming to class my grades don't improve"... which really I shouldn't have said that, but I was just so mad but I said it calmly. He replied angrily, "Oh, that is not the case!". which, if he ever took attendance (which if he did I would have been coming to class everyday) he would have noticed that I was telling the truth. But ever since I talked to him in his office, I've been coming to class every day to prove to him that I'm there. He's been telling us this week that nothing from chapter 15 would be on the test, but he had several questions from that chapter on there. I confronted him about it (not in a bratty manner) and he looked at me like I was the smallest dumbest piece of dirt and said, "I covered it in class". So I just kind of teared up, and walked out of the room. Basic genetics are actually really interesting to me, so I've payed good attention. He didn't cover those things. Briana (a band friend) and I went to study at the library last night, and thankfully a band kid that marches behind Briana in the halftime show was able to help us study photosynthesis. He drew it out on a board, and told us the function of all of it and it helped so so much! We ended up staying until after midnight. I now understand alot more. It's just sad that I never feel like I understand anything in my biology class.
So now that both of these tests are over, I will finally be able to move on. Clean up, go to the grocery store, wash clothes, pick up my band uniform from the cleaners, and everything else that I put to the side so that I could finish studying. I'm free for now... but in the back of my mind all I can think about are my finals... which are the only tests that I have left for the remainder of this semester. Sorry for all of the whining, I've just really needed to vent. Thanks for listening :)
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