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Why don't I post more often? Because I have absolutely nothing going on that's of any interest -- which you're about to discover for yourself. I'm going to post hourly updates this morning, chronicling my day of study. This might very well be the most boring entry I've ever done. Well... since that posting about writing my personal statement. That was pretty unreadable as well. It's completely selfish; I just need something to shame me out of surfing the internet and watching The View.
Here we go.
10:00 -- TASK: Finish reviewing the physics subject test I took last night (on which I answered 21 out of 40 questions correctly. Which is why I have to spend the day studying physics).
11:00 -- PREVIOUS TASK UPDATE: That went all right. I still have five left, but I have to move on. Clearly I don't understand projectile motion like I should. FYI, the time a projectile spends in the air depends only on the initial velocity in the vertical direction. Not the horizontal. What else... I need to draw free-body diagrams. I always think I can skip that part. When a block is sliding down an incline, there are two components: the force of gravity pulling the block along the plane of the incline and the force of friction pulling it in the other direction: m(a) = mg(sin of the angle) - (coefficient of kinetic friction)mg(cos of the angle). I just need to jump right to that point.
Here's a sample question (which I got wrong): A rifle bullet is fired horizontally off the top of an ocean based drill site. If air resistance is negligible and the vertical distsance to the water below is 100 feet, what additional information is needed to determine the time required for the bullet to hit the water? (g=32 ft/s^2).
A horizontal distance the bullet travels
B initial velocity of the bullet
C mass of the bullet
D no additional information
E none of the above
If anyone is actually reading this, I can give you the answer in the comments section.
NEW TASK: Read the next chapter for general chemistry. General chemistry is the other part of the physical sciences section (along with physics)... so hopefully I'll do better in g-chem and that'll take the pressure off of physics. Because physics isn't going so well....
1:00 -- PREVIOUS TASK UPDATE: Sadly, it took me two hours to do one hour of work. The other sixty minutes were filled with multiple phone calls (Katie, Jana, my mom) and lunch. General chemistry seems to be going fine, if a little too slowly. I have to speed things up if I'm going to finish all this prep work for tomorrow morning's class.
Unfortunately, I now have to leave for the lab so I can attempt to dazzle The Challenger. After that I'll go to the med school library and study until 7:00. That should at least bring me up to my bare minimum requirement for dailly study (4 hours)... although I'd really like to get that up to the 6-8 hour range.
NEW TASK: Finish reviewing last night's physics subject test. Go through the physics flashcards. Read the next three chapters of inorganic chemistry.
9:17 PREVIOUS TASK UPDATE: That went surprisingly well. The lab was, of course, a complete waste of time. The tears of frustration tried to make an appearance. Luckily I was able to stave them off. I'm sure it had more to do with MCAT pressure than anything. But I actually studied for three hours in the medical school library so I'm feeling okay. I still have a couple hours left to go, but for now I'm watching television and relaxing with Drew.
NEW TASK: Finish the last two chapters of inorganic chemistry. Finish reviewing last night's physics subject test (I didn't manage to get to that yet). Sleep?
11:22 PREVIOUS TASK UPDATE: One more chapter left to read, but I've gotta go do it in bed. I'm doing that thing now where I just read and reread and reread the same sentence -- so that doesn't really help things.
But I got another hour in, which is something to be proud of. So now I've done six good hours of studying today. That means six hours of actually working... not just fucking around. I feel like I'm not really retaining anything, and the more time I spend on content the more worried I get that my timing will be off; maybe I need more test-taking practice. But I've got time for that. Right now I need to try to re-soak my brain in all these laws and trends and all this jargon. I'm starting to feel overloaded, though. Hess's Law. 6.022x10^23. F=GMem/r^2. Anode/cathode. Epididymis.
Bedtime.
Here we go.
10:00 -- TASK: Finish reviewing the physics subject test I took last night (on which I answered 21 out of 40 questions correctly. Which is why I have to spend the day studying physics).
11:00 -- PREVIOUS TASK UPDATE: That went all right. I still have five left, but I have to move on. Clearly I don't understand projectile motion like I should. FYI, the time a projectile spends in the air depends only on the initial velocity in the vertical direction. Not the horizontal. What else... I need to draw free-body diagrams. I always think I can skip that part. When a block is sliding down an incline, there are two components: the force of gravity pulling the block along the plane of the incline and the force of friction pulling it in the other direction: m(a) = mg(sin of the angle) - (coefficient of kinetic friction)mg(cos of the angle). I just need to jump right to that point.
Here's a sample question (which I got wrong): A rifle bullet is fired horizontally off the top of an ocean based drill site. If air resistance is negligible and the vertical distsance to the water below is 100 feet, what additional information is needed to determine the time required for the bullet to hit the water? (g=32 ft/s^2).
A horizontal distance the bullet travels
B initial velocity of the bullet
C mass of the bullet
D no additional information
E none of the above
If anyone is actually reading this, I can give you the answer in the comments section.
NEW TASK: Read the next chapter for general chemistry. General chemistry is the other part of the physical sciences section (along with physics)... so hopefully I'll do better in g-chem and that'll take the pressure off of physics. Because physics isn't going so well....
1:00 -- PREVIOUS TASK UPDATE: Sadly, it took me two hours to do one hour of work. The other sixty minutes were filled with multiple phone calls (Katie, Jana, my mom) and lunch. General chemistry seems to be going fine, if a little too slowly. I have to speed things up if I'm going to finish all this prep work for tomorrow morning's class.
Unfortunately, I now have to leave for the lab so I can attempt to dazzle The Challenger. After that I'll go to the med school library and study until 7:00. That should at least bring me up to my bare minimum requirement for dailly study (4 hours)... although I'd really like to get that up to the 6-8 hour range.
NEW TASK: Finish reviewing last night's physics subject test. Go through the physics flashcards. Read the next three chapters of inorganic chemistry.
9:17 PREVIOUS TASK UPDATE: That went surprisingly well. The lab was, of course, a complete waste of time. The tears of frustration tried to make an appearance. Luckily I was able to stave them off. I'm sure it had more to do with MCAT pressure than anything. But I actually studied for three hours in the medical school library so I'm feeling okay. I still have a couple hours left to go, but for now I'm watching television and relaxing with Drew.
NEW TASK: Finish the last two chapters of inorganic chemistry. Finish reviewing last night's physics subject test (I didn't manage to get to that yet). Sleep?
11:22 PREVIOUS TASK UPDATE: One more chapter left to read, but I've gotta go do it in bed. I'm doing that thing now where I just read and reread and reread the same sentence -- so that doesn't really help things.
But I got another hour in, which is something to be proud of. So now I've done six good hours of studying today. That means six hours of actually working... not just fucking around. I feel like I'm not really retaining anything, and the more time I spend on content the more worried I get that my timing will be off; maybe I need more test-taking practice. But I've got time for that. Right now I need to try to re-soak my brain in all these laws and trends and all this jargon. I'm starting to feel overloaded, though. Hess's Law. 6.022x10^23. F=GMem/r^2. Anode/cathode. Epididymis.
Bedtime.
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