Give me back my marker

I got the results from my Biochem exam back today and they weren't as fabulous as I was praying for. I thought about publicly flogging myself as punishment, but I realize that it wouldn't do much good. I've come to the humble admittance that there are just some things I'm really good at, like biology, and some things that I have to work my ass off just to get through, like Biochemistry. It's not even that I don't understand the subject--I take good notes in class, attend study groups, read the chapters, hell I even like the topics--but I have a feeling that I'm suddenly being held to a much higher standard than I ever was (in any class) at WMU. As they say, I'm a "doctorial-candidate"--I guess it's time to work on my A Game.

All is not lost. I improved more than ten percent from my last exam, and I fell into the class average this time. One of the two professors teaching the class (the crappy one) won't be teaching anymore, so I find that very encouraging. We're also getting into material that I'm much more familiar and comfortable with. I'm not going to sweat bullets over it for very long--the grades I'm pulling in my other classes are no less than a C and in the majority of them much higher than that.

In other news, some jerk-face stole the marker off my dry-erase board which I keep outside my dormroom doorway. Several people on my floor have these boards, including my friend Beth across the hall, and every person is suddenly lacking in their marker. *ANGER* So since then I've been going outside with one of my many spare markers to write something not-so-nice about the marker theif--like how immature he is or just that he's a jerk and should bring the markers back. So far I haven't managed to wound his ego enough to scare him back into replacing my marker, but I'll try harder.

I also attempted to use a new feature of my Blogger Beta thing last night and OMG it was so stressful. You can change your Blog template now in a different way than the typical Html coding of yesteryear, so I thought I'd try it out (me of all people, who knows remarkably little about Html anyway). The results were terrifying, and I panicked for a while that I may've lost my o-so-beloved Blogger layout which you're enjoying now. But alas, Blogger saved me a backup and I was able to revert back to my comfortable, sulty-black template with my beloved photo above my title (which you could NOT DO in Beta). Oh man, was I scared there for a little while though.

oh, and my pharmacy t-shirt came in today :D *SQUEE*