I had my plant anatomy midterm today, both the lab and the lecture one. The lab one is just a little worse because it, unlike the lecture one, is cumulative. And longer. And involves us sitting in front of a microscope for two hours and getting marked off for EVERY SINGLE TIME we write "parenchyma" instead of "parenchyma cells."
Learning can sometimes be mentally painful. Mostly because, I think, of the amount of time we spend afterwards, banging our heads against a wall for that one really stupid mistake that we never would've made if we had five extra seconds. Or maybe this is physical pain that I'm talking about. I always get the two confused.
In any case, I am not superstitious by nature, but sometimes I really do have to wonder. For instance, our lab midterm today covers up to lab 13, someone took my favorite microscope for the exam so I had to put up with this one with weird focus (some of the microscopes have the knobs in different places, some focus differently -- it's a given that everyone has a favorite microscope and it's considered basic courtesy -- usually -- to leave someone their microscope once they've established their preference), my razor chose today of all days to retire, and I cracked a glass cover slip in half while cleaning up.
If I haven't already failed something this year (really, I have to fail ONE test / quiz / whatever per year, starting since high school -- it doesn't matter if I can make my grade up afterwards or not, but I have to FAIL something each year) (and by fail I mean actually not passing) I would've said that this would probably be the lab practical that I'd fail. As it is, I'm reduced to twiddling my thumbs a lot and wondering just... really, what have I gotten myself into this quarter.
I have RNA primers in the lab drawer though. That is cool.
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