#which is why i prefer algebra and chemistry. i find biology difficult because there’s just so much memorization involved and you can’t

[gayvampyr]

ok so i think i’ve noticed a trend between preferences for types of math and science while talking to other people so i want to try and test out a hypothesis

obviously there are more types of science and math but i want to test the correlation between these specifically

[theladhatter]

Catching You Up

Hey everyone,

Sorry, it’s been awhile. I’ll do my best to get you up to speed.

Week One

The first week was pretty stressful. The first day of classes, Aug. 26th, was pretty stressful for me. I had five classes that day: Biology Lecture, College Algebra, Chemistry Recitation, Chemistry Lecture, and Chemistry Lab. There were only ten minute intervals to be used for getting between classes, so I never even got a chance to eat between classes.

(Note: I did end up dropping all my Chem classes. I’ll talk more about that later.)

I filed a name-change form that Wednesday with the school. It’s not a legal name change, but it changes the name associated with my email and the name on the class rosters to my preferred name. My name had successfully changed on my email and class roster so I thought I was in the clear — I wasn’t.

The thing is, I have a learning disability and am registered with the people in change of Disability Services. Apparently their records are separate from the rest of the schools system, so my professors had a student on their class roster under one name, my preferred name, and a request for accommodations under another.

This caused a slight hiccup on Thursday afternoon that was a bit upsetting. It was in Biology Lab, the last class of the day, and everything was going fairly well. The TA for the lab hadn’t posted anything as due before class so many of my peers, including myself, hadn’t known how to prepare for class ahead of time. However, we were just supposed to read over the lab, and we were instructed step-by-step anyways. Eventually we finish up the lab and needed to take a test which under normal circumstances would have been taken at the beginning of class, but fortunately we were still under first-week-grace-period.

I receive the test and begin working diligently. The questions are difficult if you hadn’t read the book, but not impossible. After all, we had just gone over everything in class. The problem is, part of my learning disability is that I taken longer than the average person to comprehend things. There may have only be around four questions, but a few had multiple parts.

I was only five minutes in, working on the second-to-last question, when the TA began coming around collecting any tests that were still out.

“If you haven’t gotten it by now, you won’t be able to.”

I began panicking. I’m allowed to have 1.5x the regular amount of time on tests, but she was already to me and trying to pick up the test I was still working on. Only one problem left. I didn’t even know what the question was because I had just barely finished the second-to-last question. At first though I was at least trying to discreetly talk to her about my learning disability without telling the whole class but I began panicking — my anxiety had been acting up all week — so I probably started raising my voice a bit.

Me: “Wait, please, I’m not finished yet.”

TA: “Well why aren’t you finished?”

Me: “You haven’t given me time to try yet!”

TA: “ You've had five minutes! What have you been doing?”

Me: “I have a learning disability!”

At this point her entire face changed to something akin to shock/worry.

TA: “Oh, that's okay. Here, go ahead and finish. You really need to tell your professors next time.”

She quickly left me, and I was able to finish the test. I checked my grades later and found I had gotten 100% on it.

That’s about it for Week One! In the future I might end up only talking about important events for me as they happened instead of a week-by-week update. In any case I hope this finds you all well!