Maybe I'm not exactly losing battles today, but I'm certainly not winning any. School started yesterday and I can't believe it's only Tuesday. I feel like this week has lasted a month now.
I'm not a fan of people, and the amount of people on campus now compared to who was there over the summer is absolutely staggering. I've developed a body language that I've discovered not only steers solicitors (campus is overrun with them) away, but also parts the sea of weaker minded students in my way when I'm on a mission. There's construction going on all over campus so most walkways are too narrow for even a modest amount of people, and I'm telling you, it is CROWDED.
Today I was not in the mood.
Yesterday I dealt with trying to crash Calculus, in which I came away with nothing.
I went to Physics where I was informed by the jerk of an instructor that the extra workshop (group study) portion of physics was required, even though it isn't. I spent the remainder of the class so pissed at him that I didn't even want to listen to his lecture. Because of the parking situation the first few weeks of class, I had to get there long before my first class. All in all, I was on campus from 7am to 7pm. Swam, studied for physics, went to calculus, studied, went to physics lab, ran out of food by noon so I ate 2 pop tarts out of the vending machine as I raced off to physics lecture. I came home, ate, and went to bed.
This morning I was up and at 'em before dawn. Again, due to the parking situation, decided to put off my run until the afternoon (bad idea). I got to school early and did a physics assignment. I checked for an add code for calculus and had none. I went to my first class of the day, successfully got an add code. Went to the second class, got an add code, but nothing else. The second class is Scientific Computer Programming or something to that effect. Since I was crashing the class (long story) I didn't have access to the class online (probably not until tomorrow) so I couldn't get the powerpoint. I also didn't have access to the host that the Unix assignment was on. So I looked over the shoulder of the girl next to me. We were doing a computer programming lab without first having a lecture. What in the hell am I expected to do with that?! Excuse my language, but that is bullshit. It's going to be a long semester.
After a very long computer lab, I marched over to the bookstore to purchase books for today's classes. They don't carry them. Geezo. I dodged all sorts of people trying to hand out fliers and cards and have weird discussions about saving our rainforests or something. I was tired. I just wanted to go home.
As I moved across campus in the other direction, I was getting irritated. Nothing seemed to be working out for me. I clenched my jaw, leaned forward and opened my stride, looking straight ahead. The solicitors avoided me. Students moved out of my way. I went straight to the physics department and bought a lab manual and then poked my head into the front office.
I explained to the nice lady that my professor said I'd be dropped from physics if I didn't add the extra workshop.
"You're a grad student right?"
"Yeah and I'm carrying 13 units" I replied (For grad students, 8 units is full time, not 12).
"Oh yeah, you don't have to do that. I don't have any waivers with me, but I'll have them printed out tomorrow if you want to stop by. You can just sign it so he won't drop you."
Works for me. Possibly my only victory of the day.
I circled back towards my office to collect my stuff to go home. I tried to log on to the computer to go to Amazon to buy my books. It wouldn't turn on. I gave up, gathered my stuff and grabbed an extra cookie on the way out.
When I got home, I ordered my books (good god books are expensive) and then looked in the fridge for food to eat that would get me through a cycle and run workout at the gym. I settled on a protein shake, dragged my feet getting out the door, and headed to the gym.
Impatient with the traffic, I ended up turning the wrong way into a one way bank drive through, turned around in the lot and back out on to the street to turn into the gym lot. For crying out loud.
I hopped on the bike first in hopes of my stomach settling down before the run. No such luck. After a half hour on the bike, I jumped on the treadmill, and with hopes of being done sooner, put it at a higher speed than I should have. I let it go for about a mile like that and then slowed it down a little. It was too late. I had a side cramp so bad I had to stop. Whatever. I hopped down and went to stretch.
Now my stomach is all bloated, I do not want to finish all the other stuff I was supposed to do today. I just want to go to bed and start over tomorrow morning. I need to figure out the average acceleration of a space shuttle launch and figure out where exactly it was at 8.5 minutes after launch. I need to shave my legs and shower/bathe. I need to figure out where the hell my dividers are for my binder. There's a lot of other things I need to do, but I don't think they're happening tonight. It's just too much to ask.
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