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High school physics was harder than cal-based physics? o.O |
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I don't know if Foss ever gave y'all what I can only call "the problem straight from the bowels of hell", but I would guess not. It was a real doozy of a problem. You had a block. It slid down an incline, across a rough patch of floor, and into a spring. It was a nasty-looking picture, and the part at the end was worse. There were all sorts of things he could ask you, but the worst was "Where will the block stop?" HOLY COW. I never got the problem right. It was ridiculous. So, when my wonderful physics professor pulls up a slide with a picture that looks eerily similar to one of those hellish problems, I nearly had a heart attack. But the point of that one was to figure out work and kinetic and potential energies. Simple stuff. We had a similar one in the homework that asked about the coefficient of friction on the rough patch, but not where it stopped. Talk about wonderful ^_^
This was a bad weekend to be here alone. It's really stormy outside, and I woke up at 7:30 to an automated alert about a tornado warning. It couldn't be on a weekday, oh no. It had to be early Saturday morning. My mom called me after the 2nd one came out, extending the warning. She actually wanted to ask me about a calculator problem, but she also asked about the warning. *sigh* I actually came up with the idea of driving behind Jaimi in my car, but I dropped it, thinking my parents wouldn't be too thrilled about me driving 5 hours alone (since, you know, I can't drive 7 hours alone) So, of course, when I talk to my mom 3 hours after she left, what does she come up with? SAME THING D< omg. Come on. I can't go home, but I can drive myself to Athens any ol' time if I don't want to be alone? Are you effin' kidding me? That was a facepalm moment, and if I hadn't been driving, I would've. I didn't have to wake up to really close thunder and lightning and weather sirens. I wouldn't have been scared. Caitlyn says everyone usually just rolls over and goes back to sleep after a weather siren, but I take it seriously. I was scared in August, too, when we had all those storms the first few weeks I was here. We had weather sirens at 2 in the morning. Sometimes, I didn't fall back asleep for hours after.
Thomas got me hooked on a story -.- I'm almost done reading it after 2 days though. There's 30-something chapters.
 nepie · Sat Feb 28, 2009 @ 04:01pm · 0 Comments |
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