Christopher A. Wheeler

This exam was over the “Judeo” portion of the course.

Class Average: 69%

My Score: 86%

Grade: A-

29% of overall grade…

90%

A-

OK, maybe not all of them, but the one that Kate and I finished last week, Quest for Human Destiny, certainly did. Three weeks, three hours a day, five days a week. Lots of reading (Genesis 1-9, Jonah, Ecclesiastes from the Bible; The Old Man and the Sea; The Catcher in the Rye; Childhood’s End; The Epic of Gilgamesh; Enuma Elish) plus watching two movies (Tombstone and Blade Runner), all in three weeks. Two multiple choice exams, and an in-class essay about the movie Tombstone.

So on the final exam, I got a 49/50, and Kate and I exactly tied with 108 points for the class. We each got an A-. Three college credits in three weeks!!! Awesome!!!

It’s 2:30am. I have a Social Psychology final exam at 7:30am, so that is just five hours away. I’ll need to get on the bus around 6:30-ish to get there on time and get a good seat. My last exam of the semester is at noon, in Microbiology. I’m not looking forward to that at all. All the name of these microorganisms are giving me headaches and stuff. And I’m starting to not feel so well in the belly, like I normally do when I don’t get enough sleep. At this point I’m getting pretty sleepy too and I’m trying to decide whether I should go to sleep or not. Would it be worth it, to get maybe three hours of sleep? Is it going to be worth it to stay up and keep studying?

UPDATE: It is 8:14am. I am done with Social Psychology. Now I have 3 hours and 45 minutes until Microbiology (it’s now 8:15am).

UPDATE: I finished my semester at 12:26pm today. Thank freaking goodness that is over.

So I have my Aging final exam today, as well as a Microbiology Lab exam. I slept less than two hours last night. I’m not feeling too well now.

OK, I am reading an article for my Basic Aspects of Aging Course and I came across a paragraph that strikes me as odd. I’m not sure what to make of it.

In his letter to the editor of the Los Angeles Times, Hack (1999) reported on a 1993 study by Meecham and Shaw conducted near the Los Angeles International Airport. The results indicated that living near that airport was related to a two-year loss in life expectancy among seniors 74 years of age and older. The negative factors that contributed to a decline in life expectancy were excessive noise levels and air pollution. As worries of the Leisure World residents concerning the noise and pollution associated with the airport grew, so did the success of pro-city activists.

I was not aware that loud noise could decrease life expectancy, unless you go deaf from the loud noise, and then get hit by a car because you couldn’t hear it coming.

This is a prime example of how to not write a lab report. I commented to my wife the other day about how I’m going to be responsible for a whole generation of doctors getting in to medical school. It’s because of papers like this, and my exam scores, bringing down the curve and making everyone else look better.

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