So, I have a midterm on thursday that I have a very good chance of failing--like seriously failing, due to sheer ignorance-- and over the past week I'm trying to get off my self-righteous soapbox and actually learn quantum chemistry. It's a very difficult subject. I dislike my professors pedagogy because it doesnt' really help me learn, but the truth is that there are a lot of approximation methods with their plusses and minuses, and as graduate students in physical chemistry we should know about them. I have an enormous amount of respect for my TA, not least because he gives me no credit for my half-assed homework assignments and also because he's actually quite good at answering questions.
So what's the point of this entry? That I'm looking for that balance between my self-righteous approach to my own educations (i.e. what are these fucktards doing not explaining anything to me?!? They can't teach worth shit!) and acknowledging that sometimes new things are hard and sometimes I just need to work a little harder than I maybe want to. I don't really know where that balance lies.
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