what nerds do!

I am a science nerd at heart. I particularly like chemistry. I've always had great luck with it.

"Added after: Cut to the end if you want the point of this"

During high school there was a year period where my whole family up and moved to Manitoba. I didn't do well there. I just did not fit in.

I can use the square peg in a round hole analogy here. In Ontario if you had a round peg you would put it in the round hole, square peg square hole. In Manitoba they had no concept of this. If the peg didn't fit they would just mash it up and poor the remains of the ill fitting peg into whatever hole they wanted.

I did well enough in physics/chemistry/biology before we left the province. Once we got to Manitoba I found out that I was literally almost a grade ahead in all three subjects. The courses were so easy, for me anyhow. I would get really bored and fall asleep most classes. Wake up for tests and ace them. This didn't make me a lot of friends. lol :)

There was new stuff learned near the end of the year in each class and it was interesting but most of the rest of the people in the class were a bit slow on the uptake.

There were a few very smart people at the school as well so it wasn't all bad.

Once we got back to Ontario it was another story. Almost every class I signed up for here was ahead of where I would have been in Manitoba by a text book or two. Essentially I lacked an entire year of learning for most of the classes. OAC classes were mostly out of the question :/ I tried physics, chemistry and biology.

It was just not doable. Every assignment required me to read chapter upon chapter of information from the previous grade text book in order to understand it. This was on top of the new things I needed to learn from that grades text. I had similar problems with math and english as well. English though is a whole other story.

The only excpetion was chemistry. We came back about a week late. This caused me to miss the review from the previous year. This covered how to setup and conduct experiments in a way I was unfamiliar with. I fudged my way through it. Then it came time for final exams. Two weeks before the final exam I was sick with something. I managed to miss the review of how to properly setup/conduct the experiments once again along with new information on it.

So I get back, it's time for the exam..... the vast majority of the exam(3/4 or so) is setting up a rough layout for an experiment on paper. It said to use a matrix, lay out measurements, calculations, control experiments. I'm thinking, I'm totally screwed. I have no clue what it means by matrix. But it all just clicks, its common sense, it just flows out of my brain. Somehow I do amazing on the exam. yay me!

As for physics, the teacher tried to help me catch up. In the end we both agreed that it was pretty much a lost cause being so far behind. Biology was a similar situation. It didn't matter how much effort I put into the assignments and tests the best I could managed was 7oish percent. This was unnacceptable to me and the cause of much stress.

So from a straight A student in Ontario to an A+ in Manitoba to screwed-over back in Ontario. I dropped physics/biology. Took up yearbook/comm tech. (both classes had same teacher and it was about 3 weeks into the year, another interesting story). I stuck it out through english but ended up failing. I learned a lot about the Canterbury Tales though. I just could not write the tests or assignments to the teachers liking. To this day I have no clue what she wanted. She was a terrible terrible teacher.

Took general English, aced it. Comm tech, I won an award and aced it. Totally rocked year book class. It was kind of refreshing to not take stressful classes but it really didn't help me with my education goals.

Anyways, do I ever get of topic eh?

THE POINT!!!!!!

I like chemistry, found some chemistry videos with this neat puffy haired chemistry professor. This led me to the following site, which I find fascinating and hilarious. :) I have been watching them for the last few days when I get bored.

www.periodicvideos.com