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Finally over!
Posted by Amber on January 27th, 2012
Filed under: General,School


This week has been nothing short of shitty. First off, I end up getting a cold again (I usually only get sick once a year, but this year, thanks to my brother, I got sick in September during midterms and now I’ve caught something again). It was a sore throat that was incredibly irritating for a couple days, then a couple days of the normal cold symptoms. Luckily it was very mild so I’m nearly over it. Then Tuesday morning I think I performed a winning act for klutz of the year. Izumi was up to something (she had been bad all morning, getting into things, knocking stuff over, etc.) and so I got up to see what she was doing. I ended up jamming my toe into the wall. This isn’t really all too strange for me. About a month ago I ended running straight into a wall in the apartment (I don’t remember if I wrote about that or not), and banging feet on walls/doors/furniture is nothing strange for me. However, this hurt much more than usual. I was limping around the apartment until I had to go to lab, which luckily was the only class I had that day. That was painful, because I had to wear close toe shoes. When I got back and took my shoes off I noticed that the painful little toe now resembled a large, swollen, purple something. It was badly bruised, twice the size of my other little toe, and still incredibly painful. I had to wrap it for a few days, but it’s now returned to normal size, and is back to normal color with the exception of some bruising still on the inside (which means I hit the inside of my little toe on the wall, which really makes no sense). But it continues!
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No school, no meaning
Posted by Amber on December 19th, 2011
Filed under: General


This has to be fast because Pokemon comes on in less than ten minutes. So the semester is over, and despite how much I hated it, it ended up being my best yet. I got 2 A’s and 3 B’s, and I didn’t fail biostats (I ended up getting a B despite having an average on the tests of a D, go extra credit!). I could have gotten an A in my micro lab had I done better (much better, I quite literally bombed [as literal as you can take that] it) on the final practical, although I’m happy that I got an A on the test final. I studied my ass off for it and it payed off. I was just going for a mid C so that I could get a B in the class, ended up getting on A on it and a high B in the class. This is the first semester (and it’s my…seventh) in college that I haven’t gotten a C or worse. Next semester is going to be oodles of fun. I’m only taking two classes at the university and then have to hurry my ass to one of the community college each day to take physics. Only idiots take physics at the university. Well, idiots and physics majors…and maybe math majors I don’t know. Then it’s official that I’m going to have to stay an extra year. It’s lame, considering that several of my high school friends and even a couple of people who were a year below me in high school graduated this winter. I was hoping to graduate next winter, but that damn biochem. The university just had to change it to two semesters isntead of just one, and the fall is a prereq of the spring. One of my friends told me that biochem is pretty much just like microbial physiology, which I understood fairly well and passed with a B. So why can’t I take the spring biochem and then fall? Why do I have to take two semesters in the first place when I could have only taken one had I taken the class before the university got rid of 460? I have no clue, but that’s how it is. So instead of just doing an extra semester I do an extra year, which may or may not be good. Since I just really have biochem and physics left I can take the next level of Japanese in the fall, and since I’ll just have biochem in the spring I can that microbiology in food course that’s only offered in spring that I wanted to take this upcoming semester but couldn’t fit into my schedule.

I’ve been very bored with no school, thus the title of this post. Tomorrow I’m going home for around a week then coming back. During that off time I need to find a job because I have a hell of a lot better chance of getting into physics down here then up there, so I need money for the summer.

And…basketball goes on. We lost a couple we should have won. The next three should be easy wins.

happy mood!
Posted by Amber on November 7th, 2011
Filed under: General


Football season has sucked all year (except for Bonano, but that’s beside the point) and now it’s basketball time! My favorite time of the year, basketball season! And after a bit of a rocky start last week in the first exhibition match my Cats started their season off with a win! Considering we lost D-Will and MoMo, Parrom is currently out of commission and we have four freshman on the team compared to one last year, I’d say we did pretty well. I think our defense is better this year than it was last year. Rebounding both ways could be better and I’m sure will get better. There isn’t really a standout player like D-Will last year, but hopefully one will emerge soon. To a winning season!

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To Japan!
Posted by Amber on October 28th, 2011
Filed under: School


I need to just move to Japan for a year and be immersed in the language. My Japanese professor has said countless times thus far I know enough Japanese that I’d be able to get around in Japan, and the stuff in the 200 levels and beyond is an extension. Swell. Well, if I know enough to get around then that’s what I really need to do. Going to class and talking in Japanese for less than an hour a day isn’t going to help me learn. You learn by doing, and if I go to Japan then I’ll pretty much be forced to speak, read, write and hear Japanese all the time, so it’ll eventually come more naturally to me. Shame I don’t have the money. I wanted to do at least one semester abroad in Japan but have never had the money. 日本語が上手になるように日本に行きたいよ!! That doesn’t sound quite right, but it does get what I’m trying to say across.

This week has been kind of meh. One a good note I only had biostats once this week because the professor “had an incident” with her horse. But on a lower note I didn’t have my micro lab this week. Yes, I have to get up at 6AM in order to get to my 8AM lab which lasts until nearly noon at the longest, but it’s the one class that I really enjoy what I’m doing. What can I say, I’m a micro nut. Now back to Japanese homework.

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And I’m looking for a job on top of it all
Posted by Amber on October 16th, 2011
Filed under: General,School


I realize it’s been an incredibly long time since I posted anything. Well, this post is probably going to be short, because I have two more midterms this week that I need to study for, then I want to try to get through the rest of my kanji flashcard making, study for my kanji quiz tomorrow, finish my Japanese homework, study for the structure quiz in Japanese tomorrow, try to load Write-n-Cite onto my laptop for one of my classes tomorrow, get a bit more done of my lab report, and do all of this in a hasty fashion so I can get up early tomorrow to make sure I get into the classes I want to.

So in case you hadn’t noticed, this semester has been a rather busy one for me. It’s my senior year, although after looking at everything it looks like I’m going to be staying another full year probably. And for one class, biochem. Why? Because before they had a one semester biochem class for non-majors who needed it. Well, apparently the last time they had it was last spring, so now in order to fill my requirements I don’t get to take a 3 unit biochem course, but two semesters of biochem, each 4 units each. Lucky me. I guess that’s what I get for putting it off. So I’m going to have to most likely come back next year just for that class. But on the plus side if I do come back I can take Japanese 415 in the fall. Hopefully I can, taking a semester break from a foreign language might as well be taking a three year break from speaking it. But also another good thing, if I do have to stay, and if I get the job I’m trying for right now, then I’ll have tons of time to work. And I hope I do get the job. I applied once before but apparently there wasn’t anyone qualified enough or something so the job was posted again. I am qualified for it, and I am determined to get it, so I’m applying again. It’s the perfect job for me and a great chance for me to keep practicing and learning new lab skills. The pay isn’t too bad either, it’s nearly $11/hr, which may not seem like a lot to some people reading this, I don’t know, but minimum wage in Arizona is only $7.35, which I’ve been told is very low compared to other states.

Real quick about classes. I hate my biostats with a passion, and I usually leave early in order to make it on time to my next class because there’s no point in being in class except for possible extra credit. The professor can’t lecture worth shit, it seems like she’s always just babbling. She just pisses me off. My vet sci lab isn’t too bad, it’s actually pretty easy, just takes a bit of work and the main professor who lectures is a bit boring. Japanese is fine, I have the same professor (I don’t know if that’s even what I should call him, he’s a grad student) as I did for some of 101 and 201, which helps because I don’t have to get used to how he speaks. I’m actually doing pretty well in there right now. And my micro lab is enjoyable, although not so much the Monday pre-lab lectures. The professor pretty much just goes over what we’ll be doing in lab that week in fifty minutes, and then the next day the lab TA goes over the same information in about 20 minutes, so I’m not sure why I go but I go. My lab TA is really nice though.

And quick anime! Thus far nothing good this season except Shana. Boku wa Tomodachi isn’t too bad I guess, but nothing else I’m watching stands out. Although from last season Penguindrum is starting to intrigue me. It’s kind of like with Steins;Gate (end AMAZING), where I had no clue what the hell was initially going on, but when it started it started.

And that’s all I have to say for now! Or have time to say! Oh and I’ll put a more relevant icon when photobucket decides it wants to stop being a bitch.

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URGH!!!
Posted by Amber on August 4th, 2011
Filed under: General


First off, I must wish everyone a Happy Shark Week. A glorious week, truly. This and the week March Madness starts are the best of the year.

It’s been forever since I’ve blogged. That has been due to a few reasons. First and the largest, summer classes. Damn physics. This is also most of the reason I’m so pissed off. I busted my ass in that class. I never missed a day, I made sure to take detailed notes, I read the book and did practice problems (even if they took me like two hours a piece), and I did all the homework. Yet I ended up getting a D in the class. I needed a C. I’ve been at this college thing for some time now. I’m going to be a senior. I’ve been taking full loads during the regular school year, and every summer picking up two classes at community college. Oh, I forgot to point that out. Along with having to take stupid physics, it filled up at the community college near me, so I had to take two damn buses, a half hour ride each way, to a community college that was far away from where I live. And the instructor sucked. I went to him a couple times to try and get helped, it was pointless. He didn’t explain any problems worth shit, just did them, didn’t explain the method. Plus whenever he taught he would skip around with problems and half the time didn’t even get the right answer when he was doing a problem on the board. Then when the quizzes and exams came the problems would be ridiculously long and complicated, and often they weren’t even like the problems in the book. The damn quizzes before labs, which were only a couple questions, ended up taking like a half hour to complete. Anyway, my point of all of this was that I now don’t get to graduate on time, after all the work I’ve been putting into school. It seriously pisses me off.

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Seriously?
Posted by Amber on May 12th, 2011
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Urgh!!! This semester had even more potential to be my best in college so far than I thought. I don’t know if they have the official grade up yet, but my Modern Latin America class I know I got a nice solid A in. I just checked my other grades and I am so happy I pushed myself to do that extra credit paper for virology, because it ended up pushing me from a B to an A. And also a good thing I didn’t take the final, because looking at the stats the average was a 44%, and nobody got over an 80 on it. I then checked to see if cell biology was up, and I’m kind of pissed now. I thought I downright blew that class. Well, I didn’t do as badly as I thought. I ended up with a 57%. All I needed was about 15 more points to get a D and pass, and not have to take it over next year. Damn. Then I checked Japanese, which I was so sure I was going to get a C in. I got a C, but just barely. I ended up with a 79.35%. I don’t know if they round up from .5, but either way, I was so damn close to that glorious B that would again help my GPA so very much. I think if I had not been stupid one time with my homework I could have gotten a B. And by stupid I mean that on one of the homework assignments I accidentally did the workbook portion instead of the lab manual portion, which was what we were supposed to do, so I had to turn the right part in the next day for half credit. Those points could have helped me get that B I so badly wanted. The only one I don’t know yet is microbial physiology which I took today, and since he doesn’t use D2L I won’t get to actually know what my grade on the final was, just my overall grade when it’s posted online. I wanted an A in that class, and it was easily possibly had I gotten an A on the last exam, which I felt I had, but ended up getting a B on. So the only way to get an A was to get at least 102 on the exam. The exam is out of 105, so there’s no way I only missed three points. But I feel I did well enough to get a B, and I’ll live with that, considering I thought at the beginning of the semester I’d fail.

Now what’s in store? Packing up all my crap, moving out of the apartment Saturday. Hopefully getting a job over the summer because I’m in desperate need of money, and of course wasting my entire June and most of July taking physics at community college. What ever happened to summer vacation? I haven’t had one since I entered college, I’m always taking classes.

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Realizations
Posted by Amber on April 29th, 2011
Filed under: Anime,General,School


No more basketball stuff, because basketball is over. Okay, one thing. Williams decided to screw Arizona over and declared for the NBA draft. Bye bye top 5 rank pre-season and automatic championship. He should have stayed another year, he could have worked on his defense more. Whatever though, there’s an amazing class coming in, I guess we’ll just have to show him we can do it without him, and when Arizona does clench that championship next year he’ll be sorry he missed it.

Now to as the title says. This is going to be very short, because I have less than a week of class left for the year and have a shitload of stuff to do.

First, I’d like to say a bit about the finally aired last two episodes of Madoka. It took forever, and honestly the ending was a bit confusing (not so much the ending ending as much as the Madoka stuff), but it received a 10 from me, and has bumped Clannad down to my 3rd favorite anime. Also the HOTD OVA, which I’ve been looking so forward to because there isn’t going to be a second season anytime soon with the mangaka only bringing out a chapter every two months with barely any development in it, didn’t impress. I rated it rather low.

Now onto realizations! (more…)

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For another year
Posted by Amber on March 26th, 2011
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I’m pretty sure everyone in Tucson right now is proud. Tonight Arizona fell to UConn, ending our tournament run at the Elite Eight. It was a good run, and the team shouldn’t feel any shame in losing. I personally feel that they should have gone for the two pointer and tied it to go into overtime instead of trying for the three to win it, but what can you do. Tonight was some of the best rebounding I’ve ever seen the team have. It was an odd night and the three pointers weren’t coming, but they made up for it by pushing through and getting points in the paint. We managed to hold up against Memphis and Texas. We kicked the supposedly oh-so-amazing 1 seed Duke’s ass, winning by 16 despite being down by 6 at the half. We just couldn’t pull it off today, but considering that the team only had 15 wins last season and didn’t even qualify for the tournament, and this season they have over 30 and made it to the Elite Eight, pretty damn good. And next year, if D-Will stays for his junior year, with the new recruits we have coming in…next year, that national title belong to Arizona. Bear Down Wildcats, until next year.

PS, as for the icon, I thought their play this year was pretty gangster, thus the icon. That is all.

CHAMPIONS!!
Posted by Amber on March 5th, 2011
Filed under: General


ARIZONAWILDCATS ARE THE PAC-10 CHAMPS!!! After last weekend, when it looks like we had lost ourselves, the Wildcats came back! Thursday was a nice win over Oregon State, with UCLA losing to Washington and giving us back sole position of the top spot in the conference. Then today, the game that would possibly decide either a tie or overall win, we played and defeated Oregon!! It was a BEAUTIFUL start with Kyle Fogg knocking 3 3-pointers right off the bat and then a couple more throughout the game. Then of course Lavender comes in to continue with the 3-pointers, followed nicely by Parrom. And Horne, our sole senior on this senior day, knocking back one as well. Initially some nice defense, forcing the Ducks to shoot from beyond the arc if they wanted to get any points. Williams had foul trouble early, but that didn’t mean anything. We still played through even with him on the bench, and we clenched that title!! Bring on the tournament! Bring on March Madness!! BEAR DOWN ARIZONA!!

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