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Nearly a month has passed from my first day at UBC. Maybe it’s this MWF/TuTh schedule thing that makes time pass by so much faster. “Time flies when you’re having fun,” as Mr. Picard used to say, but the past month hasn’t been all fun; rather, it has been a lot of textbook reading (obviously), and a lot of note-taking (duh), and a lot of walking between buildings (evil 10 minute break to walk from Dempster Pavilion [computer science lecture] to the Mathematics building [roughly 900m apart + intelligently moving obstacles]).

One month into the start of the year and the midterms are around the corner.  Everything’s so much different than high-school.  Everything is at a much larger scale.  I miss the “exam dividers” when I write quizzes in the lecture rooms.

I guess I better get back to studying.

I found out today that the LCD screen on my digital camera had cracked. Now all that shows up are blobs of black and purple on a white background. *sigh* I’ve learned my lesson: Protect the LCD screen with more than a piece of plastic and carry it in a case. Perhaps one from ‘da Products will work better in the future. I read a thread about people complaining about the delicate nature of the LCD on Canon digital cameras. On the model I have, there is no built-in hard protector between the LCD and the environment. In my opinion, it should come with one as the LCD is fragile and an expensive part to be replaced. Canon probably makes a lot of money replacing screens for people as it seems to be quite a common issue. Anyone have past experience with Canon or cracked LCDs?
As for my provincial exam results…heh…let’s just say I made a stupid choice of exams to write.

O M G  I got an A on my Geo EE.

I attended the last of approximately 3250 classes total from Gr. 8-12 at Churchill yesterday.

This summer is going to be so boring.  No EE, no TOK drafts, no English books (yet)…

Wednesday February 15th: TOK Essay: Done! Completed! Finished! No more drafts! Yay! (Not that much work needed to be done on it, but it just feels good to have finished something else for IB :P)

Argh…geography field study…is stupid (But Geography is still better than History). The good thing is that we’ll have lots to write for the Sources of Error and evaluation of technique, but the data itself…is…weird. Well I guess that’s what we get when we rely on other people gathering data, and consequently have to ‘assume’ the data is ‘correct.’ The word limit is 2500 words. Such a little essay compared to my Geo EE of 4000 words, and I could have went on past 4000 words on my EE >.> But then my EE was on too broad of a topic…which wasn’t good…I guess that’s why I could have went on and on >.>.

TOK presentation next week…no idea what to do…have to write a script soon…