Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Haha. Today 2nd day of school. My retardation continues. I have absolutely no idea whats wrong with me. I purposely rushed to school, thinking i was late...only to find out i was early. BY 1.5HR...
First lesson of the day: Engineering Maths. Basically a recap of SIMPLE amath stuff. Keyword: Simple. But, i cldnt solve a simple quadratic eqn. I took almost 20 minutes to solve x^2-2x+2=0. Its smtg my amaths tcher wld have died laughing of..that after all his hardwork, begging and pushing me to just freaking do well for any test, it was all wasted. Then came others like 'Find the descriminant','Find the real roots','Prove there are no real roots' etc kind of qns..I had no idea wat the tcher was talking abt. The only eqn i rmb was the eqn where it mathematically proved i am a genius(refer to my post on 13th April 2008..hey its almost a yr since then)..how ironic. Anyway, I flipped the next few pages and say the word 'TRIGONOMETRY'. I felt like fainting on the spot. The only Trigo thing i rmb was the acronym 'All Science Teachers are Crazy' which is used to memorise the quadrants..though i have no idea how to use it any longer.
Okay, nxt lesson: Fundamentals of Aeronautical Science, in short, FASC(no idea wat the C stands for). At first i thought it wld a fun class, coz the tcher was a White Indian (truthfully, i am not racist, but its the first White Indian i saw in my life). Then there smtg bulging in his pocket..smtg long and thick. Alot of ppl were laughing at it, then when i looked closer, i noticed wires coming out of his pocket. Being in a course largely dominated by guys, our minds ran wild and came up with lots of assumptions. Then he opened his mouth.. WHOA!!! HEAVY DEEP ACCENT. So i happily flipped thru the booklet. First page, a whole big bunch of crap abt wat do u call numbers that are to the power of 24 to -24. Eg:10^24 = YOTTA, 10^-24 = yocto..inbetween got many other alien names. I was starting to get shocked. Then below the page, was 'The Greek Alphabets'. I saw another table of wierd sounding names with strange awkward symbols. I closed the book, with no intention of opening it again, and tried to decipher wat he said..but cnt make out anything, so i went to slp. Scary subject...i have to learn how to convert unfriendly quantities of pounds, to grams, from litres to gallons, from kilometres to yards, to inches, to foot, to nautical miles...etc etc at the tip of my fingers. There goes my assumption of it being a 'fun' class. Ohya, passing mark is like 75% for this subject.
Next was digital fundamentals. I kind of liked it coz its the easiest so far. Its quite difficult to explain, but all i have to do is to say the numbers 1 or 0. Ever..easy rite?
Writing and oral practise was slack. Teacher was easy to bully. Anyway, thats nt the main point. We waited abt 20 min for the tcher, who wanted to change classroom. So we spent abt another 15 min looking for one. then we took abt 20 min to settle down. Just as she was abt to start, another class came and said they had priority over the classroom, so we had to shift. When we finally got started, 1hr was gone from a 2hr lesson. SHIOK? ..shiok.
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