Posted by alexandra_k on July 23, 2014, at 0:02:40
In reply to Re: yay..., posted by alexandra_k on July 22, 2014, at 19:30:40
so physics is... well... at the risk of cliche... physics is HARD. my brain hurts, wah! and i'm just... well... i'm just not very good at it. my brain doesn't work like that.
most everything seems surprising and odd to me. thinking of movement in a circle as being continuous changes in direction... going up and going to the left and going down... odd things like that... i guess i just thought... well... you are going forwards, really. different ways of thinking... i find it quirky and fun. but i would never have thought of it like that if i were left to my own devices... and it turns out there are good reasons for thinking of it differently... etc... but my brain just doesn't particularly naturally think that way at all...
i think a large part of it is about instruction. about providing a structured environment... about just naturally growing up in an environment that has that structure... i think... mathematics education is a huge part in providing that structure, yeah. that a lot of that... seems preparatory for science, yeah. amazing how... conceptually... seeing the way they set things up for maths... right from kindy... year 5... year 7... seeing how viewing things that way makes this and that in science seem more... natural. easier, even. easy if you think of it in this way...
i'll stick out the course... but i think at the end of it... i'll be pleased enough to call it a day. for physics. for physical chemistry. i mean, i know aspects may come back in biology... but biologists think fairly differently about such things...
biology is... intimidating. a very large lecture theatre with severely staggered seating. one needs to arrive very early in order to get a good seat. then sit about for a fair while being jostled and listening to the yakkers yakkity yak yak.
the lecturers have been interesting thus far. dynamic. making icky gross things seem pretty and amazing and interesting. really very clear presentation of material... powerpoints in advance... i'm coming around to the whole course book thing... have figured out how to annotate it and personalize it so it will be useful for me... and apparently it has been arranged so i can observe a lab in advance. which i have a huge sigh of relief about... will talk with... my key worker... i guess she is... about what to say to students asking about that... if i can observe... it really will help me so very very very very very much. and the bio people will get to know me a bit...
law is going well. missed today because of court. court is going well... not guilty. next up is about the lawyers trying to get the statement of what i'm accused of changed. because i didn't try and kick her... but i admit i punched her a few times. apparently... the whole thing will take maybe 9 months. and hopefully it'll get chucked out by the judge at that point... anyway... they seem to find it interesting to entertain me so, uh, that's what i guess i'll be doing on wednesdays... and they are even going to get me in in the afternoons so i won't miss class...
i guess i can turn up and watch anytime i want... open court. i guess... i can do that at the high court, too, actually. i actually live just across the road from the high court haha. i just don't think to be... nosy. the old biology building was initially designed (or something like that) as a biology museum... one of the lecturers was saying... we can go wander around and there are all kinds of exhibits... i just don't really think to go exploring like that... but i should... wander around... find nooks and crannies... places to study... things to learn...
the lawyer i've been assigned... she's young. really, very. and timid. i guess that's why we have lots of small group activity things in lectures... to try and encourage the kids to be more socially confident. i guess i just assumed that the kids who wanted to do law would be... drama people. but actually thinking about the kids in the actual class... well... i guess some people gotta do paperwork for tax law etc etc...
i don't think it matters particularly, though. i trust the process i've seen from court room 5 ahaha and looks like you get the same room / judge right the way through... only potentially trouble with needing to send my grading contract off... leaving the 'do you have criminal proceedings underway against you?' question blank... they'll probably just assume i missed a question... i imagine it will be okay. they probably won't even notice (and they've employed me before). fingers crossed, anyway...
exhausted. bit of a shock to the system having 9am class and 4pm class. so grateful indeed i can come home for naps between class. don't know what i'd do otherwise... early starts... good for me. anyway...
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so very glad to be back :)
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