Adjusting

I've decided to come to the Library today since our internet has run out. This means that between 5 people we went through 20 gig's of internet in the past 3 weeks. I am not sure how this happened since last month we didn't even go over 18, but none the less, we no longer have internet access. I think it will be refilled or whatever on the 3rd of October, but for a facebook and e-mail addict like myself it is torture to have to sit at my desk and do actual work without distractions. 

Some people come to the Library and use the computers to do work, or print things out, but I have been here for the past hour and I have yet to accomplish anything beyond talking to some friends and downloading my assignment for Media.

This past weekend was LEAP back at SMC and I am very sad to have missed it, but I heard good things about the weekend. I managed to make my presence known even from so far away and I am thankful to those who helped me. I am extremely vague with all of this but if you are a fellow LEAP-er then you will know why. I got an email back from someone who went on the weekend and it put the biggest smile across my face possible. The other people in the library must have wondered how I went from being really bored and staring off into space to so very happy in under one minute, but I'll let that remain a mystery, unless of course they happen to read this blog. Which is very unlikely. And that would be weird.

The library is pretty nice here, but it could use more computers. I brought my own and linked onto the network and wireless just fine, but there is a line against the wall of people waiting for an open computer so they can work. I have heard of people waiting an hour just to have access to a computer. They put a couch against the wall where the line is, which seems to just exemplify the fact that they need more computers and are aware of the bad situation. I think that Saint Mike's has just about the same number of computers on campus as this library which is saying something because Victoria University has 10 times  as many students as Saint Mike's.

I think that I will head home soon and finish writing my lab report for physics. I wrote half of it yesterday, which consisted of my copying and pasting a bunch of graphs and tables, and now I have to fill in the gaps and describe what all the tables are for. It is different having to write scientific papers for class, but I think I have finally got it down. We'll see when I get this back graded.

I got a 71 on a paper the other day and I was quite disappointed with myself. I thought that I worked hard and deserved better, but then I noticed that next to the 71 was an A-. I am not sure how it works, but the grades here are scaled so oddly. Over a 50% is a C and over 60% is a B, leaving 70% or higher as the A range. A D is considered failing, so you have to watch out for that, but outside of physics I can't imagine not getting an A or at least a B+ on work. It would be almost impossible to fail any of my general courses here, which is great news for me. The bad news is that in physics I am the one who doesn't get it and the professor has no intention of helping me to 'get it.' I e-mailed him to ask if there was anything  I could do to improve my grade and that I know that I need to get a C- for this class to count for me. He wrote back to me saying that if I study and review the notes I should do just fine. That is not what I was looking for. I even stated that I am not looking for a hand out, but I would like to do work to improve my grade and all he has to say to me is to study. I knew that before I even came here. Studying is one of those things that I thought was obvious, apparently in NZ it is not.

I have now wasted a bit more time, so I suppose I should go do real work. Not that blogging isn't work, because it is.