crankyoldman | OMG WTF BBQ

So, for reasons I'm still trying to fathom, I somehow managed to get a 94% on my last Thermo exam.

Considering I've failed the class twice, and tried to take it part-way a couple of times, one can imagine my skepticism. I even had the professor double check I wasn't hallucinating. But no, the only parts I got marked off on were the answers on the second problem (it was a mutli-parter, and as I've learned, you get more credit for the work than the answer in these sorts of classes). I was even clever enough to do the thermal efficiency when I realized I was stuck on the internal energy on that one part, and got it right, because hey REVERSIBLE SYSTEMS EFFICIENCIES ARE DEPENDENT ON THE TEMPERATURE ALONE IN A CYCLE LIKE THAT.

...Ok, so maybe I do know what I'm doing.

So I hugged my professor, which seemed to surprise him a little and went running out of the office and called my dad. I would have had the exam on Friday, but that morning I felt sick and determined it was way better to just get to feeling better and email the prof that I was turning in homework late (which he allowed, because this guy is clearly not a soulless bastard, unlike some of my profs).

But serious. I'm still making sure it's not a mistake. A 94%?!! I mean, it did seem like I was making shit up less than I used to, but this means I LEARNED SOMETHING and yeah, I CAN DO PROBLEM SOLVING.

Now if only that would transfer to my math class. *sigh* STILL. FUCKING THERMODYNAMICS IS MY BITCH NOW.

I'll write down weekend stories when my life slows down a bit, I kind of sort of hid from the cold all weekend and now I'm having to make sure I have a lab report done tonight so I can study for my exam on Wednesday... and that's for a class I'm actually rather LOST in. Fucking Aerodynamics. Well, a lot of it is based on Thermo, so maybe I just need to go over all the homeworks again and figure it out.

The moral of the story, kids, is that failure is merely a small setback and eventually you'll be in school long enough that the grades may start reflecting your actual knowledge.

~Cendri