Sunday, April 27, 2008
Completed my first ever Psych experiment. An experiment designed and executed by my group. May have cost three to four years of my life but it was worth it. I've come to realise that I really like using genjutsu on people and making them do stuff they don't even know. Precious few legit ways to use such jutsus now. Want to know what it's about? Lemme know. I'll send you the instruction sheet. See if you fall prey to my genjutsu.
I must admit the first half of this week I've been feeling rather moody and edgy. Assignment due dates draw closer and with it my sanity edges closer to it's limits. Had an exam on Tuesday. Ridiculous thing it was. The Doc (he is not a prof... obviously for a good reason) gave us some rather impossible questions that he didn't teach in the lectures.
Okay, it wouldn't be fair to say that he didn't say anything about it, he did provide the 2 concepts just that no one could have known that they would ask us math questions about it?!?!? In general the test was just really bad. The minute I walked out of that room 10 answers for the questions in the exam stuffed themselves into my mind and confirmed my suspicions that the answers I just gave were wrong sending me frantically burrowing into my bag for notes. Which as it turns out proved that I was wrong . Naturally this ruins my average and got me rather upset about the whole event.
The only thing that could possibly make this any better would be waking up late and missing my cognitive psych tutorial the next morning. Which I did. A rather big thing with me considering that I have an assignment due next week AND I had never ever ever ever missed a tutorial in my entire Uni life. Come hell or high water, I would be there relatively on time and on most occasions almost conscious.
Things only improved in the evening when I had had too full a dinner and went for care group thinking what could they possibly serve there tat would interest me only to realise when I got there that Shu Ling had made onigiri... TUNA onigiri. That and before the care group lesson started Rachel miss used a verse and also tried to enforce a personal conviction on me. To my credit, I merely told her quite firmly (and coldly) that I didn't agree. It may have been my bad mood and some day she may turn out to be right. But I do not foresee changing my mind for the next 244 decades or when the north and south poles switch and invert which ever comes first.
Things worked out better for today at least. I was up relatively early, got to my neuro-psych tutorial at 8 AM, managed to understand most of it. Went for chem lab and finished my flash chromatography column faster than anyone else that was doing the same practical, albeit with a little of the tutor's help. Went for lunch with a friend spent $8.50 on chicken chippies (chicken chips) and a rather revolting creamy chicken and basil;that contained neither chicken or basil, served over a minuscule portion of undercooked rice. In general it was a meal only marginally preferable to hunger.
Went to a make up tutorial for the cognitive psych class i missed. The tutor was so nice in explaining everything and answering questions that I had but couldn't ask because of my lapse yesterday. Also I got to feel superior when I was answered several questions by the students in my group, have them doubt me only to be proven right by the tutor and in one case both of them (the tutor and student) didn't know the answer. A question that I managed to answer (given that it had nothing to do with psycho but still and ego point is an ego point) I only wish I would be there when that slightly full of himself student looks up the word "Diurnal" in the dictionary and find out that I was right. The was a nice rub on the ego muscle.
Also in that same tutorial I overheard that THAT test had been marked and the results had been released online. Which I checked and found to my utter delight and horror and I got X%, a good mark but not by the standards I had set myself. Still it wasn't as bad as I imagined it to be.
6 mins to lecture, shan't edit or include Jonathan's Gem ... Maybe later.
That is all
Jon.P™
I must admit the first half of this week I've been feeling rather moody and edgy. Assignment due dates draw closer and with it my sanity edges closer to it's limits. Had an exam on Tuesday. Ridiculous thing it was. The Doc (he is not a prof... obviously for a good reason) gave us some rather impossible questions that he didn't teach in the lectures.
Okay, it wouldn't be fair to say that he didn't say anything about it, he did provide the 2 concepts just that no one could have known that they would ask us math questions about it?!?!? In general the test was just really bad. The minute I walked out of that room 10 answers for the questions in the exam stuffed themselves into my mind and confirmed my suspicions that the answers I just gave were wrong sending me frantically burrowing into my bag for notes. Which as it turns out proved that I was wrong . Naturally this ruins my average and got me rather upset about the whole event.
The only thing that could possibly make this any better would be waking up late and missing my cognitive psych tutorial the next morning. Which I did. A rather big thing with me considering that I have an assignment due next week AND I had never ever ever ever missed a tutorial in my entire Uni life. Come hell or high water, I would be there relatively on time and on most occasions almost conscious.
Things only improved in the evening when I had had too full a dinner and went for care group thinking what could they possibly serve there tat would interest me only to realise when I got there that Shu Ling had made onigiri... TUNA onigiri. That and before the care group lesson started Rachel miss used a verse and also tried to enforce a personal conviction on me. To my credit, I merely told her quite firmly (and coldly) that I didn't agree. It may have been my bad mood and some day she may turn out to be right. But I do not foresee changing my mind for the next 244 decades or when the north and south poles switch and invert which ever comes first.
Things worked out better for today at least. I was up relatively early, got to my neuro-psych tutorial at 8 AM, managed to understand most of it. Went for chem lab and finished my flash chromatography column faster than anyone else that was doing the same practical, albeit with a little of the tutor's help. Went for lunch with a friend spent $8.50 on chicken chippies (chicken chips) and a rather revolting creamy chicken and basil;that contained neither chicken or basil, served over a minuscule portion of undercooked rice. In general it was a meal only marginally preferable to hunger.
Went to a make up tutorial for the cognitive psych class i missed. The tutor was so nice in explaining everything and answering questions that I had but couldn't ask because of my lapse yesterday. Also I got to feel superior when I was answered several questions by the students in my group, have them doubt me only to be proven right by the tutor and in one case both of them (the tutor and student) didn't know the answer. A question that I managed to answer (given that it had nothing to do with psycho but still and ego point is an ego point) I only wish I would be there when that slightly full of himself student looks up the word "Diurnal" in the dictionary and find out that I was right. The was a nice rub on the ego muscle.
Also in that same tutorial I overheard that THAT test had been marked and the results had been released online. Which I checked and found to my utter delight and horror and I got X%, a good mark but not by the standards I had set myself. Still it wasn't as bad as I imagined it to be.
6 mins to lecture, shan't edit or include Jonathan's Gem ... Maybe later.
That is all
Jon.P™
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Whew,
School today is a 12 hour ordeal for me. I've got a tut followed by a lab then another lab then meeting my prof for advise then another two hour lecture.
On a bright note, after spending 6 hours in the lab. My cute little flask of Flavone ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavone )has finally taken on the texture, colour and crystal structure I want. Given that I didn't have time to finish the last recrystallization, leaving it over the weekend to form slowly would be even better for my fluffy crystals.
Spoke with the social psych prof today. The one with ALOT of awards. Slightly nerve wrecking to be in the presence of someone that well connected and well versed in social psych. Got most of my questions answered though. As it turns out the absolute brilliant thing about the UQ system is that my honours for psych can be taken any time after I graduate, that is I don't have to do it straight away. Which is excellent cause it gives me time to work for the money to pay for it. There is a limiting factor though, that is whether I can meet the gpa for it. Apparently there's a special formula for that the is complex, intimidating and a little mystical. That and the gpa changes year to year.
A phD may not be as good an idea for me unless I intend to do research for the rest of my life. Something I'm not too sure about it, though as it turns out my choice of neuro/social psych maybe quite a good choice, it's supposed to be the IN thing for both social and neuro psych.
Got my second racial incident since I got here last week. It's more hilarious than it is scary. There was a pair of high and/or drunk and/or sub-intelligent Aussies in the back of a truck. While I was walking along the road heading to my friend's house. The slightly drunker ( I assume as much cause he wasn't the one driving) started shouting from the cross junction " HELLO HONGKEE!!!" A couple of times before the truck drove up right beside me where he again shouted " HELLO HONGKEE!!!" I smiled at them. They seemed satisfied with my forced extension of good will and drove off. But really never have I been so insulted before. Didn't my slightly communistic stiff, forlorn,"downtrodden by the government " manner of walking betray my Singaporean heritage? My gosh not all Asians here are from Hong kong or China.....
Also I had fried chicken today.
That is all
Jon.P™
School today is a 12 hour ordeal for me. I've got a tut followed by a lab then another lab then meeting my prof for advise then another two hour lecture.
On a bright note, after spending 6 hours in the lab. My cute little flask of Flavone ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavone )has finally taken on the texture, colour and crystal structure I want. Given that I didn't have time to finish the last recrystallization, leaving it over the weekend to form slowly would be even better for my fluffy crystals.
Spoke with the social psych prof today. The one with ALOT of awards. Slightly nerve wrecking to be in the presence of someone that well connected and well versed in social psych. Got most of my questions answered though. As it turns out the absolute brilliant thing about the UQ system is that my honours for psych can be taken any time after I graduate, that is I don't have to do it straight away. Which is excellent cause it gives me time to work for the money to pay for it. There is a limiting factor though, that is whether I can meet the gpa for it. Apparently there's a special formula for that the is complex, intimidating and a little mystical. That and the gpa changes year to year.
A phD may not be as good an idea for me unless I intend to do research for the rest of my life. Something I'm not too sure about it, though as it turns out my choice of neuro/social psych maybe quite a good choice, it's supposed to be the IN thing for both social and neuro psych.
Got my second racial incident since I got here last week. It's more hilarious than it is scary. There was a pair of high and/or drunk and/or sub-intelligent Aussies in the back of a truck. While I was walking along the road heading to my friend's house. The slightly drunker ( I assume as much cause he wasn't the one driving) started shouting from the cross junction " HELLO HONGKEE!!!" A couple of times before the truck drove up right beside me where he again shouted " HELLO HONGKEE!!!" I smiled at them. They seemed satisfied with my forced extension of good will and drove off. But really never have I been so insulted before. Didn't my slightly communistic stiff, forlorn,"downtrodden by the government " manner of walking betray my Singaporean heritage? My gosh not all Asians here are from Hong kong or China.....
Also I had fried chicken today.
That is all
Jon.P™
Sunday, April 06, 2008
No time.
Rush Assignments.
Review articles.
Startling new research.
Women just as shallow as, if not more so than Men.
Especially for short term relationships.
Men really looking for same emotional things as Women.
Intellect not as important to Women than previously thought.
Warm fuzzies more important.
Shockingly, Women less willing to comprise on physical attractiveness than Men.
Going to run,do push ups and read children's books from tomorrow onwards.
Jonathan's Gem
Now let me leave you with this thought.
Did you get it? Good.
That is all
Jon.P™
Rush Assignments.
Review articles.
Startling new research.
Women just as shallow as, if not more so than Men.
Especially for short term relationships.
Men really looking for same emotional things as Women.
Intellect not as important to Women than previously thought.
Warm fuzzies more important.
Shockingly, Women less willing to comprise on physical attractiveness than Men.
Going to run,do push ups and read children's books from tomorrow onwards.
Jonathan's Gem
Now let me leave you with this thought.
Did you get it? Good.
That is all
Jon.P™
