Friday! Actually, I’m not that excited about this weekend. I have to do battle at the supermarket tomorrow. I hate going there on weekends, it’s sooo busy.
I’ve had a sore knee for a while now. I hurt it at karate. I wasn’t even doing karate, I was just warming up. Yvonne says I probably have a torn meniscus, which is a bummer because they don’t really heal. My leg doesn’t straighten as much as the other one does and my knee is usually quite stiff when I get up from a chair. It’s not a big problem now, I just hope it doesn’t get worse. It make me feel like such a granny being stiff when I get out of a chair.
This morning, after lab, one of the guys in my group was asking our tutor (who is also the course co-ordinator) about a test he did last week and why he missed out on marks. He had assumed that something was 1mL when everyone else had assumed that it was 100uL and had actually written their assumption down. He still got marks for the rest of the working, as you should when doing a math problem and you start with something incorrect – if the answer is correct for what you started with then you get something. He wasn’t happy with that though and when the tutor wouldn’t budge and the conversation was nearly over he said “I’m not an idiot! I know what I’m talking about.” So the tutor had to say “This is over, we’re not talking about it anymore.” That had been talking about it for some time, while we waited for our friends and I waited to ask the tutor something.
I thought it was poor form on the part of the student. We keep things fairly casual in class, there’s humour and learning and everyone is called by their first or nick name. However, our tutor is an accomplished scientist, an acknowledged expert in his field, and that should demand some respect. There should be a point when you accept it, even if you don’t agree, and that point should be before you yell at your superior.
I asked my tutor if he’d give me a project next semester if Mike lets me do the Biochem Lab Project. Basically you do a project in a lab instead of taking a class with lectures and written labs. He said he would! I’m not sure if Mike will let me do the project because he likes you to have a distinction average in the school’s courses, I’m about 1.5 marks below that. I’m hoping that having a supervisor on board will help me chances of getting permission. Sadly Mike is extremely busy and possibly away at the moment so I have no idea when I’ll get to talk to him about it. I sent him an email to organise a meeting, it could be a while before a reply.
