I know it's not what anyone wants to hear, but it's the truth. I feel it's my right to express what I felt.
Honestly though, I think I was mostly disappointed by the boat races, and Science Fair the week before. Our boat didn't do so well and neither did my project, so I suppose that may have set an exaggerated theme for this week. I'm having some difficulty recalling the beginning of the week, but I can't recall anything very significant. It's all been the same thing...practice and practice.
I thought I had a good idea of what to do, but when the day of assessment came, I felt pretty lost. One of the questions referred to a topic I was absent for, so I guess that's my fault for not asking. But then there was the hypothesis question. I didn't really understand that so much, because before and after our ideas were always changing as we learned more about the material. The ionic bond naming system is extremely easy. Maybe too easy...and often that's what really throws me off in assessments or other class quizzes/tests. The actual bonding and balancing charges wasn't so bad either. In particular on one problem however, I was extremely confused when I was confronted by a ionic compound with neutral and negative elements involved. How does that work?? Was this the material I missed? Well, it looks like I will make good use of the next re-assessment.
To sum things up, I wanted to point out that I'm not disappointed in the class or the instructor. I really feel disappointed in myself. Last weeks' project, which took hundreds of sleepless hours and mind-frying headaches which transpired into nothing. The boat which was so concretely designed ended up collapsing to nothing more than soaked leftovers destined for the town dump. And to finish I really didn't put the effort I was planning to put foreword. Hopefully things will look up after my next research project and some upcoming trips.
This adequately displays the material I though I knew well enough.
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