I just had my midterm in chemistry today. The covered units pretty much consisted of stuff that I learned in high school physics, but it was all of the nasty gas and thermodynamics stuff with billions of equations all derived from this and that. So, like any good student, I crammed at the last minute and tried to memorize all of the equations in ten seconds. I found it useful to convert the number values into 1337 speak and then make catchy phrases or names, like The Green Onion for 760 torr per atm, and ob to og for .08206 atm Liters per moles Kelvin. And then, lo and behold, just as I finish memorizing them I find that pages five and six of the test have all of the equations on them. Go me.

I think I did okay on the test. There were a couple of problems that I was certain I had no clue on, and then somehow managed to work out a more or less reasonable answer from. I sure hope that work is equal to the negative pressure times the change in volume. Something that starts with a w does at least. I guess I might have known the answer if I actually opened my textbook for once.

But chemistry wasn't the only class I had a test in. No, I had a calculus test too, just half an hour afterward. Of course, no cramming is necessary for math. You can't cram concepts, kids. So I get the test and it's like, What is the maximum area of a rectangle with a parameter of 100? Obviously it's a square with side lengths 100/4=25, but no, we have to show our work. So I solve for y, set up my equation in terms of x, take the derivative, set it equal to zero, solve for x, and plug it back into my equation for y. Guess what? It's a square with side lengths of 25. Oh glorius calculus, whatever would I do without you?

The next problem was the exact same thing.

So anyway, I think I did well on it. I was the first to finish, and I don't think the second person finished for another ten minutes, which kind of worries me. Watch as I come back next week and find out there was a second part to the test.