hi pals! coming at you on a brilliantly sunny spring afternoon, very much enjoying being off work today after working open-close saturday-monday. I’ve got vanilla blood orange pancakes and green tea, so here we go.
feeling so good about work currently. I worked a lot of solo hours and the sun has been out, so things have been busier than normal. so many good customer interactions/conversations over the past three days. I have so much appreciation for all the nice humans who walk through our doors.
got my grades. A- in bio! my first A-anything overall in university! the midterm was rough, so I knew I really needed to kill it on the final to make up for it, and I did.
the stats final was... not good. I knew it was rocky, but I thought I scraped together at least a 60%, and long story short, 40%. ouch. especially because I had solid A going into the final.
lots of factors went into that: ran out of steam studying for it for a few days, and the practice problems we were given were all multiple choice, which was nowhere in the exam. the wording was also very different than what was on the final.
I take full responsibility for not studying enough, though. I’m going to look over the exam, and try to pinpoint exactly where things went wrong, because I thought my understanding was pretty solid.
been actively trying to get less screen time, now that I have evenings free for the next two weeks. I’m doing all the things I put aside during the school year, like reading, knitting, and writing.
last but not least, I’ve been doing pretty well at not picking at my cuticles. they’re almost all healed up, except one tiny hangnail. I’m really proud of myself for mostly managing to leave things alone while visiting my parents, because generally when my nail polish is starting to really chip, picking won’t make it noticeably worse, and I end up kind of justifying it that way. generally I can resist the urge to ‘fix’ things when there’s nothing to fix.