Monday, December 11, 2006

What to write? Nothing, you say? Where's the fun in that? Every Monday we have Chemistry practicals. I fear them as much as HP fears Potions. No matter what we do, it's always wrong. Frankly, I have a feeling that last week's exercises were no good and since we had a good and very good, we can only get worse. You try your hardest to be precise, but when you have some one next to you who wants to finish quickly and instead of waiting for the correct values starts writing fake ones in, how are you supposed to be precise? I mean not only that, but also how are you supposed to take temperature measurements when the thermometer has a bubble inside it? When the assistant came to replace it, he dropped and smashed it, so we had to wait for 20 minutes before he brought another one. We had to start again 'cos our potion had started to cool down again. There also is a good side whilst working with someone who wants to finish as quickly as possible: you learn to work fast.
We have maximum 36 hours and 45 minutes of lessons a week (if you take 4 hours to do the practicals). Since we tend to finish a bit earlier we have an average of about 34 hours 30 a week (if you do the practicals in about 2hrs 30) and an unachievable minimum of 25 hours 30 (if you took a speedy 1 hour per practical, which is impossible). Why in tarnation do we have to start at 08:15? One hour would suffice largely to eat. We could start an hour later and still finish at the same time. The people doing Chemistry only have one hour for lunch and finish at 5. They don't even do the same practicals as we do and they don't have them the same day, so we're not ''clogging up the space''.
Aaargh help, we start in 39 minutes!!!

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