Wednesday, 15 August 2012

The pain of writing a lab report

 It's that time again... where I have to write yet another lab report. After my chemistry one, and my psychology one, I have another... chemistry one. Well, I feel sorry for the kids who take chemistry, physics and psychology... 5 lab reports to write this session. Still, I take 2/3, which is pretty bad already. It's things like lab reports which make me wish I had never taken any of these classes, ever. In fact, I get this feeling every single time I have assessment for psych. Oh my only consolation for this chemistry lab report is that it is the last one I will ever fucking do... at least for the next 2 months. Hey, 2 months of no lab report means a lot...


So lab reports aren't actually so bad, given that I've written a million previously. The only thing which kills me is helping my roommate write his, because he's horrible at English. No matter how many times I tell him to use passive past tense in his method, and to stay away from personal pronouns, there will be some line in his report saying "we add HCl to solution". When I see things like that, I'm struck by momentary confusion.
-"We added the HCl to the solution" No, that's not right, can't use "we"
-"HCl was added to the solution" Yeah, that sounds about right
*3 seconds later*
"Wait a second, but HCl wasn't added..."

"Rainbows. Fucking rainbows. That's the answer to everything"

Then my roommate goes on a tangent about how he carried out his lab report, and I never have any interest in hearing it. I sit there smiling innocently, whilst secretly thinking "fucking kill me now". Oh God, if he wasn't so nice to me, if I'm not holding his massive encyclopedia of maths solutions, I would tell him to GTFO and correct his own lab report. Every time I get the urge to do that... I'm reminded of how he does all these things to me... speaking of which, he's going to make a massive lunch for me tomorrow. Oh how could I resist. I guess it's a fair trade, food for labor.

^seems like a legit expectation

Anyways... I better get started on my own report... But I probably won't start now. Too tired now. I don't even know what I'm going to do. Wasting the rest of the night sounds extremely appealing. I'm just sayin'. Why do I even care about chemistry... the only thing appealing about it is hot guys in lab coats playing with chemicals... Oh dear God that's probably the only reason I took chemistry in the first place. Sorry to say I was severely disappointed.

^fantasy

Life is difficult.

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