Fencing! Academics! Squee!

[eponymous_rose]

Hoo, still dementedly hot out, and it looks like people are settling in for the heat wave in much the same way they settled in for the cold snaps a few weeks back.  That is to say: they don't really care.  We're adaptable, we are.  *wince*  I first noticed the dry heat when my hair air-dried in ten minutes this morning.  Um.  Creepy.

Fencing was great fun as always last night - the "good try" sarcasm came back, as did my bloodlust and the ongoing jokes about a certain fencer's Mom and army boots.  I swear, though, this one kid's got a sharpened tip on his weapon - how the heck do you poke holes in thick sweatpants with a flat tip?  Also: why am I destroying all my pants this week?  It makes me sad.

Ooh, I got my Officialesque Statemente of Resultsimundo!  Um.  Or something like that.

Huzzah!  Results, for those of you keeping score at home/stalking me:

CHEM 101 (Introductory Inorganic Chemistry): A (4.0)
STAT 151 (Introductory Applied Statistics): A+ (4.0, with, um, a cherry on top or something.  I don't know why they're both a four)
MATH 214 (Intermediate Calculus I): A (4.0)
MATH 215 (Intermediate Calculus II): A (4.0)
EAS 221 (Introduction to Geographic Information Systems): A+ (4.0 and cherry)
PHYS 244 (Mechanics): B+ (3.3)
EAS 270 (The Atmosphere): A+ (4.0 and cherry)
PHYS 281 (Electricity and Magnetism): B (3.0)
EAS 294 (Natural Resources and the Environment): A+ (4.0 and cherry)
EAS 327 (Environmental Instrumentation): A+ (4.0 and cherry - my first third-year course!).

Which gives me a second-year GPA of... *calculator drumroll* 3.83!  Woohoo!  Considering this was my most brutal term (note the presence of Physics and Calculus and lack of any real atmospheric science courses apart from 270), I'm thrilled to have only gone down 0.03 from my first year.  In fact, I'm dancing around the room just thinking about it.  Good year, all around.

I was also excited to get five A-pluses.  Sure, an A and an A+ are both a four, but the A+ means I was in the top one percent of my class (as opposed to the top five percent for an A).  Which is really weird, but kind of awesome for my self-esteem.  Heehee.

Next year - no Physics!  (Take the Physics courses out of the above list and see what happens...)

Zee plan for next year is as follows (will probably change, because I'll be preparing for my big internship and will want to look good on a resume):

First term!
CHEM 102 (Introductory Inorganic Chemistry II - Yes, I'm enough of a Chemistry geek to waste my last first-year elective on this course.  *pets Chemistry*)
MATH 334 (Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations!  I was terrified of Calculus in my first year, but I seem to have made peace with it.  Enough to take an advanced post-calculus course as an elective.  We'll see how this goes.  *backs away slowly*)
EAS 370 (Applied Atmospheric Physics!  Yes, my first real atmospheric science course, after two years of study and four months of hail-related number-crunching.  Will I rise to the challenge?  Find out next time on As The Blog Turns.  Or, uh, whatever.)
EAS 371 (Atmospheric Fluid Dynamics!  Oh, man.  I'm starting to get nervous - this is crazy stuff.  This is big.  I'm also geeking out in advance and reading up on fluid dynamics in my spare time.  :D)
EAS 394 (Issues In Human Geography!  My Arts elective for the term!  *beams proudly*  If it's anything like the prerequisite, it'll be a terrible mishmash of sociology, politics, psychology, economics, geography and geology.  And by terrible, I do mean wonderful.  I love this sort of course - something for everyone!)

Second term! (If I survive the first one, that is!)

EAS 212 (The Oceans! Really, this is just something I have to take to survive my fourth-year dynamics class - apart from the title, I don't know anything about it.  Exciting!)
EAS 295 (Human Dimensions of Environmental Hazards!  Yes, another weird Arts-type option.  Looking forward to it - disaster management and all that, very interesting stuff.)
MATH 337 (Introduction to Partial Differential Equations!  Um.  Yes.  Still more math.  For fun.  *flees*)
EAS 372 (Weather Analysis and Forecasting!  Oh, geez.  I'm gonna die of happy when I get to this course.  Except for the fact that, y'know, it requires five Calculus prerequisities.  *flees again*)
EAS 373 (The Climate System!  Sounds very dramatic and all that - really looking forward to this one as well!)

Okay, done with the squeeage.

Nah, just kidding.  I'm never done with the squeeage.

I think I've found a new favourite coffee shop - the guy running it insists on speaking French to me (which is weird, because this province is about as Anglophone as it's possible to be in Canada).  He also has a little letter posted at the till explaining, politely, that he's an alien from the 27th century and is plotting world domination - something to do with manipulating the world's caffeine obsession.  It could work!

Campus is a weird place over the summer.

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[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

That sounds an AWESOME coffee shop. And I don't even drink coffee!