A New Year, a New Quarter

Well, my second quarter in college began this past week, and it felt a lot more in control than the start of last quarter! First of all, I now know where the buildings are located, where my parking lot is relative to them, and that I do have two A&P lectures weekly - not one. Now, for those of you who haven't been with me since the beginning, I must go back and share how Mr. Murphy danced and pranced all over me during the A&P I course that started my college experience off. You know...Mr. Murphy? The one with the Law???

I signed up for class rather late last quarter because I did not get the official word that I had been accepted into the nursing school until very late in August, 2009. At the same time I started a new job and prepared to set out on vacation. I finally got to enroll, bought my text books, and printed out my courses...A&P-I Lab, meeting on "M" (Monday) and the lecture meeting on "TH" (Thursday.) No problem. I can handle a new 40 hour job and a couple days of class. Not so fast, Sherlock!

Five weeks into the quarter, our lecture professor scheduled his first Exam, worth about 15% of the grade for the entire course. As I left lab the Monday prior, one of my lab partners said "I'll see you tomorrow!" I blinked...and corrected him. "You mean, you'll see me Thursday for our test." Oh no. He explained that the test was in fact on Tuesday. I quickly pulled out my class schedule, and pointed out that our lecture was on "TH"...so the test was on "TH", not "TU". Well, guess what? At this college, a class that meets on "TH" means "T" for Tuesday, and "H" for Thursday! I had managed to miss half of my first ten lectures!!! And, worse than that, I discovered that I had not three days to prepare for the exam, but about 15 hours.

Now, maybe it's me, but doesn't "TH" stand for Thursday in the rest of the world? What a bad way to start my class. I did poorly on tat test but I pulled up the grades before the end of the quarter, and am now comfortably positioned to get an "A" this term. After all, I'll be at all of my lectures this time!

Until later....Cheers!
Ima