Thursday, April 14, 2011

My Past 48 Hours

TUESDAY evening:
I pulled an all-nighter for my Fluids lab report on pipe flow. (first true one all semester, I think. Several times I got just a few hours of sleep. Once I went to bed at 4 after working on a homework due at 8 and ended up sleeping through my alarm)

WEDNESDAY:
Put myself in a really bad position time-wise and I barely make it to the lab on time. I was 5 minutes late, which was probably near the end of the grace period- the rule is that late people have to leave after they turn in their assignments and come back next week to do the lab themselves (we get 2 weeks in between labs).
The lab experiment was pretty interesting- it was about drag on car models and drifting/slipstreaming, using two different wind tunnels. I get out about half an hour early.
I do my Matrices homework and pass some time in the computer lab in an attempt to relax.
Go to Matrices class and turn in my homework and start nodding off near the end of the boring lecture.
Bike back to my apartment and take a nap that lasted about an hour and a half. When I get up I'm extremely disoriented and confused for a while.
I bike to campus for my Mechanics of Solids (AKA Strength of Materials) discussion section. The quiz takes me way too long to do because I missed a stupid minus sign when copying over an equation.
Bike back to my apartment and relax for a while. I consider studying for my test the next morning but I decide first to get in bed to take a nap. I set my alarm for 9:30 PM, which would give me about half an hour.

TODAY:
My roommate's alarm goes of at 7am. I immediately sit up in bed, confused. Then I see what time it is and everything clicks. My Engineering Computational Methods test is in an hour and I have to ubercram for it. I do what I can and bike to the test room.
I do not so well on the test, as expected, but I don't completely bomb it. Afterwards I talk to one of my friends for a while and then bike back to the apartment and take a nice two-hour nap. Even after 10 hours of sleep, and a 2 hour nap, apparently I'm still sleep-deprived because it was pretty hard to get up from that nap.
I go to my Fluids lecture and realize that I had completely forgotten about the homework. Luckily I sit by my buddies from the lab and they help me out.
After that is my Solids lecture, and I started to go insane after over an hour of some stupid derivation for one simple concept. Luckily, after that we got some hints for the test that is on Tuesday.
After that I force myself to go to the gym even though I don't feel like it because I hadn't worked out since Monday, and, after all, I had gotten lots of sleep recently. I cut it short because it just wasn't going well.
I don't feel like walking back (didn't take my roommate's bike to campus this time because I only use it when I really need it) so I sit and wait for the bus.
Once I get on the bus, I start doing the sudoku in today's campus paper. They usually take me ~1.5 hours to do, but somehow I was able to crank this one out before I got off- took like 20 minutes from start to finish. So that was probably the best thing that happened all day. Either I'm getting really good at doing sudokus (recognizing new logical theorems/assumptions) or this one was much easier than usual.
After I got back to the apartment I realized that I left a bottle in the gym but I was able to text my roommate and he got it for me, so it worked out for me in the end.
Right now I'm finally in the clear- all I have to do is go to one class tomorrow at 2, so I'm happy now.

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