Procrastinating is When I do My Deepest Thinking...

I feel like so many things have happened since the last time I blogged. Well, technically the last time I almost blogged because I still have a post in progress. Anyway, there are about 5 weeks left in this semester and that freaking freaks me out! My grades are no where near ready for this semester to end. I did extremely poorly Fall 2011 and that has come back to haunt me more ways than I realized it would. And by haunt me, I'm referring to my GPA. That sucker is not something I like to dwell on, yet it seems to be all I can think about these days. I know, your GPA doesn't necessarily determine how good of a student you are, or aren't for that matter, but I've never had a GPA below a certain level. I didn't know that it mattered this much to me until now. 

Bleh. 

This semester I'm taking Genetics, Anatomy and Physiology II, Spanish II, and Biology Seminar. My Seminar class is a joke and a welcomed A, but it's painful. The purpose of the class is to get us comfortable with presenting in front of our peers, only our professor gets to pick the topic. And he is a big, big fan of insects. So guess what we've been presenting! And it's miserable. I don't think that I would mind it as much if I got to discuss something I actually cared about, like humans or disease. THAT I could talk your ear off about because it has meaning and I can relate it to my life  right now. Ironically, I should be finishing my presentation as I type this, but I was in a 'bloggy' mood. You're welcome for that word by the way.

When I first registered for Genetics, I thought we were going to be doing Punnet Squares and tri-hybrid crosses all day...and I was mistaken. We started off the class with the molecular approach to Genetics, which in case you weren't aware, makes you want to stab your eyeballs out. Yes, I understand that mRNA and transport proteins are extremely important to the function and well being of the cell, but I simply couldn't give two shits about that stuff. The things we were talking about are so tiny that it's hard to wrap my brain around the fact that DNA is actually six feet of stuff coiled up thousands upon thousands of times so that it fits into the nucleus of a cell. I mean, what?! And then inside DNA...I'm getting off topic. Basically, it's pretty bland stuff that momentarily has its interesting parts.

Anatomy and Physiology II is the one class that I'm actually doing well in this semester, besides Seminar. It's the only class in which I haven't failed a test, which is awesome news. I keep thinking that I'm not actually doing well because I struggled so much in A&P I last fall, but I guess I've changed a lot, study habits wise, since then. I have one test left in there, the final, and if I start studying now, like I promised to do with a friend in the class, then it should be a breeze! Right?

Spanish II is the bane of my existence. I always knew that I struggled more than the average person when it came to understanding foreign languages, but I have yet to pass a test in that class. That's THREE tests, well I don't really know if it's three yet because I haven't actually gotten the third one back, but I can only imagine that it went just as horribly as the others. I did get an 89 on my speaking test in there, but those only count for 10% of the grade. So, it will help, but so will passing a written test. Oi vey!

On the plus side, I wrote most of this post without looking at my fingers while I was typing! Yay me! Because that's a big deal in my small, boring world. Be happy for me!