Monday and Tuesday were Physics (PM), Chem (AM) and Psych (PM).
Physics is the one test I have in the afternoon. Well, actually it’s two tests, but they’re smaller than regulation AP tests.
Only when I got up to the room and instructions were being read that I realized I was wearing my newer -7.0 diopter lenses. I knew that if I used them, my eyes would start to hurt after the first test section. So I had to swap then on and off. For the first half-hour, I was sitting up straight in my chair. Then, I was nose-to-desk for the rest of it. Toward the end, I began furiously writing equations. My face was so close to the pencil, that I actually hit myself in the eye and had to do the last problem “pirate-style”.
I felt good on Mechanics. It helped that it wasn’t in the early morning hours. By the second test, I was beginning to feel the burn in my eyes, brain and lower spine. By the time I got my other glasses (-5.5 m-1), I was fading out glucose-wise. Electricity and Magnetism didn’t go so well.
Tuesday’s chem exam didn’t start out well, when I missed the turn on Goebbert and kept going. The chem exam was said by many to be easy. I did not find it as such. There were whole letters I left blank for lack of time or suitable BS. And I couldn’t concentrate because of either JY finishing early and glaring at me for the last half-hour or Nicole’s loud sleeping. We got out at 11:40. Joe convinced me to drive him to a Korean supermarket for lunch. Pocky, knockoff Korean corn chips and some sort of bread thing. We then raced back for the Psych exam. Multiple choice? Easy. Had to guess on some of the statistics stuff. But if they standardized with college freshmen, standards are going to be pretty high for a five this year.
After dropping Joe off, I went home, rolled up the windows, ate my Korean chips and joyously screamed my lungs out.
Chem was, really, not that hard. I’m sorry that you had to guess. But those words, your words, are coming from people who aced the finals. At least I got your attention. I felt alone and lonely from sitting there for almost fourty minutes. You should really become one of us who gets to slack off for the last half.
But if I did intimidate you, I apologize.
I did not like the multiple choice, I really hate math. It took me forever to decide what .25/.1 was. Turns out it was 2.5, good for me. But I was so stressed out by the math I think I got the sig fig question wrong, I swear I put 5 instead of 4, and I don’t know why I feel really stupid.
However, I dominated the free response, those equations were a joke, please.
I hope the AP board does not kill me:
3OH- + Al(OH)3 –> Al(OH)6 3-
4HCL + O2 –> 2H2O + 2Cl2
what was the last one?
K2O + H2O –> 2OH- + 2K+