The Thread For Those Who Feel The Need To Share All of Their Banal Details — Page 163

I'm sort of counting the studying I did last week for the IB test as my AP studying. All I really have to do now is learn photosynthesis and cell respiration, but if I couldn't figure it out then, I don't think it's going to have magically improved.

Elphie, good job. Do you feel ready?

Amber, you have curly hair too? That's nifty/I pity you. What kind of curls?

Wow, nia, you looked beautiful! Gorgeous dress, and I love the way you did your hair -- simple, yet elegant. It sounds like a successful prom night.

That's impressive, Elphie... I was just sitting here looking over my notes and dreading my genetics final tomorrow.

Ugh, I know. I haven't used a brush in months, which weirds people out, but if I brush, my hair poofs. And while the wavy/curliness gets on my nerves, it looks much better than the pulled-out poof. It's like reverse teasing, but with the same result.

It smells like baking bread in my room. Which would normally be a good thing, but I'm more weirded out by the fact that there are no ovens to bake bread in my building, so I'm wondering what is really causing the smell.

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I tried to straighten it once. I may as well have just stuck my finger in a light socket; would've been faster. I know what you mean about control. I have to try really hard not to touch it while it's wet, which is nearly impossible for a compulsive fiddle-r like me. But if I can do it, the good hair day is worth it.

skittles, we understand. Non-curly people often don't get why we can't brush, but it's a fact of life.

Better baking bread than what my school cafeteria smells like. (Rotten boiled eggs)

Thanks, siren.

Elphie, you'll be fine and after a certain point, studying isn't productive anyway. No need to kill yourself.

Updated On: 5/7/06 at 07:52 PM

My house smells really good right now. Like French toast. mmmmm.

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Tiffy, honey, they're on the previous page. I look way better than you do in your avatar.

There's an essay section on the AP bio test.

You've got naturally curly brown hair AND you're skinny?

God, I detest you.

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My friends have all had straight hair, so they don't understand. I mean, I own a brush...somewhere. Maybe it's at home?

I switched out of AP Bio into honors physics because the double-period scheduling interferred with my other AP classes. I'm really glad I did. I took Bio 121 my freshman year (which would have been the credit that the AP exam covered) and it was so much easier than the hell my friends put themselves through back in high school- and that isn't even counting the exam.

My social psych exam is tomorrow night, but it's not cumulative.

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Updated On: 5/7/06 at 08:06 PM

Oh! Interesting. I took the English/history AP exams, which obviously involve essays, and calculus and computer science, which had free response problem solving. Bio seemed like it could sort of go either way.

Application problems/things that make you think are part of what I like about biology. I took and then later was a TA for a rather unusual freshman biology class where everything was discussion-based involving "what if..." kind of problems that required you to synthesize knowledge of concepts. The students were graded on essays and projects that required a lot of imagination, which I thought was great. Some of them hated it just because they were so, so used to the typical format of studying the material and taking a multiple choice test.

Updated On: 5/7/06 at 08:17 PM

I'm still convinced Som is a 47-year-old man and those are just pictures of his neighbour's daughter.

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Blearghh.

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I'm really tired, and I don't like when people can't make up their minds/ can't come right out and say what they mean.

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