Tuesday, 18 March 2014

deadline, forgetfulness, crying!


Omg, this Monday I was in central library,  all by my self, getting work done. I got there quite early. went for lunch after 3. Took a nice relaxed lunch hour. walked in the nice weather etc etc. then at 16.55 I got a call from my friend "where are you" this baffled me, then it dawned on me. I had a practical at 5.15 remember i'm in B'ham yh. doesn't matter how fast I go i'd still miss the practical because I was late. I emailed the teacher ASAP telling him what happened. And I was truthful, I said that it completely slipped my mind that I had a practical and that I was sorry. I also asked if I could join the last group. He answered me with a straight no saying it wasn't good enough that i'd have forgotten about an important practical. I couldn't help but think, i should've lied. Told him i had a migraine or something. However, According to Islam, lying is not permitted except in specific cases which do not lead to loss of rights, bloodshed or slander of people’s honor, etc., but which concern saving lives, reconciling between people, or creating love between husband and wife.  These practicals are compulsory and you cant pass without attendance to all of them. I honestly felt like crying. you know when you get a massive lump in your throat? that. In all honesty i'm not that type of student, I've never forgotten anything important before. So I phoned the teacher and begged him, he finally agreed to let me join the last group under one condition, that there is space for me. Alhamdulilah!!! (Thank God) and I really hope, wish and pray that there is. That's one drama down

Today I handed in a practical report at 3 something and then had a norovirus poster to submit by midnight. Around 4 oclock I'd finished most of the work for it, only needed to reference a figure and look up where I got the symptoms from. So I left uni came home, internet was playing up for a while till I finally fixed it. Finished referencing and wanted to submit at 9. it just wouldn't let me submit. After 40 mins I felt like crying again, especially since it says online "if you have trouble uploading your work let a member of staff know in good  time" I then went through random files I had saved seeing which ones the webpage would allow me to submit. turns out it was Word. I copied and pasted all my work onto word. I just couldn't get the hang of making my work look poster like on word since I've never done it before. Powerpoint is my number 1 go to in all cases. it hit 10 and i was- put honestly- shitting my self. i then called 2 friends to see if they could help me out and they saved my life. I'm not one to communicate feelings but Z and A I loveee you dudes. I repeat they saved my life. The poster is finally submitted and looks great. I feel so exhausted. No rest for me though :/ I've got that practical in the morning.

I'm still shocked at the fact that at 4pm i only needed to add one or two sentences, never could i have imaged what would happen 6 hours later.

Deadlines over! exam revision to go...

Non stop, norovirus, practical reports


Today im just going to rant. No time or effort for a well organised post. Why are lecturers so vague man. I'm doing an enzyme assay report and idk what to do! its not even a case of you can go home and figure it out, theres literally no way of getting it right unless you were told what in this case "the true volume" is or even how to work it out. Drawing graphs is another thing, I drew 5 graphs, finally perfected them and did all calculations I needed to work out from them. AND THEN I realise that my first graph was wrong, and because the other 6 graphs were depended on the gradient of the first, all of them are wrong too. Basically I was almost finishing a report I've been working on for a week and now I need to start again.... or so I thought lol. Good thing I didn't upload this the day I wrote it. thankfully I didn't need to start again, because where I was dividing by 4 I should've multiplied by 0.25 giving me the same answer really. so I just tweaked where I write how I calculated things.

I also have a norovirus poster due, which I can only use 150 words, I've used a 100 now and I've still got quite a bit to do. Who on earth thought that you can cover a whole bloody disease in 150 words!
Omg, it's satuday night and both deadlines are on Tuesday!!!!! looks like tonight is going to continue into the early hours of the morning.


And I missed marvel agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. this week :/ that was the highlight of my Fridays last semester. incase you haven't heard of it, if you like spiderman and ironman I think you'll love this too
containing a mixture of spying, computer hacking and there's a biochemist too! agent simmons.