So today I planned to go to the writing center to get help professionalizing and fancy-ing up my english101 paper, right? That was to be at 1pm. Then I would go to tutoring for chem at 3pm until I finished. But the day before, My mom said she wanted me to watch this new house we bought so that I could welcome in the plumber at 9am. Ok, so I stressed for an hour the night before planning what to do what to bring and how to do everything. I ake at 7:30am to leave at 8am to get at the house at 8:45am to be ready for the guy at 9am, and be done with by 10 am ish. Then I'd go to school around 12pm so I can edit up my paper or review it, do some other homework for the day, then go to english help at 1pm and that was to be over at 1:30pm so that I could go walk over to the chem tutor center and wait for them until 3pm when I'd FINALLY start learning the last 3 chapters of chem.
None of that happened. I my alarm rang at 7:30am, but I was used to waking up after snoozing a bit. But I turned off my alarm instead of snoozing so I slept until 8am. Then I woke and rushed around, gathered my things and left at 8:15am. I got to the house at 8:50, and waited....and wait....sang a bit and waited....then finally I called my mom to ask what's up and she said she called the guys and they were finishing another job before coming over, then they'd be here in a few minutes. This was at 9:15. At 10:10am, I called and said I quit, I'd rather go to school. At least there people are prompt.
Oh, that plumber was GLAD he did not meet me that day. I went back and forth in and out of my car waiting for him, taking in food, calculator, this and that and pencils as I needed them. I didn't want to bring my backpack in, but I might as well have and I realized this was just stupid. SO I left. I packed up at 10am and called my mom and told her I'm leaving and THEN - then I realized I left my clicker at home!! For those of you not in college or have never used a clicker, it's this thing they use in math/sciencey classes to count your answers to powerpoint questions. It's half participation grade, half classwork grade. So I nearly failed chem for the day because today we were reviewing for a final and he was going to post 2986 clicker questions and I already have a low grade in thata class -- any little points he can spare me is good enough for me. So I had to go home (waste my gas) got back the way I came (waste more gas) and finally arrive at school. I wasn't late, thank god. I got there at 12, did homework stuff until my appointment and then WHOO! Do I have a sstory for YOU!
So in my paper, I'm researching suicide, why it's right, why it's wrong, and what to do to make it a win win situation instead of now where it's a lose lose situation. My tutor....god, my tutor was soooo concerned with me and what I was writing about suicide. He kept saying "your writing's good, you know what you're doing" but do I? I have a C in that class and a C in every other paper, so OBVIOUSLY I don't know what I'm doing. This is why I need help. My professor Ms Elliot doesn't come to school except for the two hours of class she has on two days of the week, and she never offers to help with editing papers. She helps us AFTER she grades the paper and tells us how to fix the next paper, but by then, it's not even the same topic!! So I was depending on my tutor. However, he said, in his words, "I'm not in a position to judge, since I'm only your tutor, but if a friend of mmine were writing this, I'd be concerned and try and help. I'd worry about the author of the paper, though I'm not saying you're the one that needs help. But here's the number for the campus hotline if you need it" and he wrote it on my paper for me. He never changed anything on my paper and sent me away. I'd gone to the writing center before and my last two tutors actually worked on my english and my writing.
Well that was a total waste of my time, and now I was storming over to chem tutoring, thinking, "Well, atleast this will be better." New tutor, fresh start, new hope, all that stuff right? Actually, this was going to be my only hope for chem. The others suck, I hate talking to professors since they know I'm doing bad in class, they'll be thinking I don't know anything and try to baby me through each problem.
Ok, so I go and wait. I text my 3:30 professor telling her I'll be late because the chem tutor starts at 3pm. So much for that, the stinkin' little tutor... I waited until 3:15 and he wasn't here, so I went ahead to class and she responded saying, it's fine, be late, when I was already outside class. -___-
Thne I went to chem class and our last lecture left me somewhat confused, somewhat confident. It looked easy enough. I mean, it was logical, nothing was out of the blue, so I figured ok, I got this. Then the clickers came on and he started reviewing the quiz we got back and.. and.. and all hell broke loose!
I don't know, I'm supposed to be doing chem for the next 3 years, then another 4 years or something in Pharmacy school...Can I do it?
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