A Week of Ups and Downs

The Bad
This week has been kind of chaotic.  It started off reasonably well except that my alarm clock/phone did not wake me up for tennis tuesday morning so i missed a practice.  The crazy part started on tuesday.  In that E&M (electricity and magnetism) class there are two homework assignments a week one due tuesday and the other thursday.  The first week he put both online at the same time so it was easy to do them in advance.  This week he forgot though and did not post the second assignment until Tuesday evening.  My problem is that i'm busy all tuesday evenings and i had class and some other homework to do on wed.  I didn't end up starting the homework assignment until around 9:00 pm wed night and i worked on it until 3 am.  At 3am i hadn't finished but i called it quits so i could get some sleep (before waking up for tennis at 6am) and then i spent another hour and a half before class finishing it up.  Part of the reason the homework took me that long was that i ended up helping three students with one of the problems.  I was really glad i got to do that because they were some of the students who saved me in the first week by helping me learn the math i was missing but it ended up taking a long time.  I ended up explaining it to them at different times and places (instead of all at once) and it always took a long time to explain.  It was kind of frustrating that it made me stay up so late but i'm really glad i got to return the favor and help them out.  During class the teacher apologized for posting the homework late and said he would try to post it earlier in the future.  There were a lot of tired people in that class, one of the guys who sits near me apparently didn't sleep at all that night.  Anyway i'm just glad thats over for this week and i have resolved to get the majority of the homework done a long time before the night before. 

At the beginning of the semester i signed up for a free tennis class.  I figured that if i couldn't make it on the tennis team it would be good to have as a backup.  Now though i am starting to think that i will be able to practice with the team and even if i can't i think the people i have met would be willing to play with me so i want to drop the class.  I found out though that i can get charged to drop it.  Apparently dropping a sports class costs somewhere around $50.  Tomorrow i am going to the office where i drop the class and ask if that's true ect. but i have been assured by a multitude of people that it is.  I'm still going to drop it, i don't have energy to take a tennis class after tennis practice but i feel a little robbed.

The only other pseudo bad thing is that my other classes are starting to get warmed up and are giving work now.  The society and latin american culture class i am in just recently assigned a bunch of projects for the semester.  In a group i am going to be making 3 presentations in the next two months each between 20 and 40 min.  That same class also has three exams that are going to be scattered throughout and just started assigning papers (though i have hope that won't become consistent).  We have also just started to learn about thermodynamics in thermodynamics.  The course got a really slow start, and although i am sure it will not be nearly as hard as E&M it looks like it is going to start demanding some time investment pretty soon.  I don't think i'm going to have to worry about any of those classes for another week, but i'm a little concerned that their additions to the workload will be more significant than expected.

The Good
First and foremost, for two days this week the heat let up and it was GLORIOUS!!  On wed and thursday the highs were in the low 90's and the forecast is that we won't get back up to 100 until after the weekend.  Today was the first day since coming to mexico that i did not sweat (not counting tennis practice) which i'm pretty happy about.  My walk to school is a lot more enjoyable when it is not really hot.  Now i am really really looking forward to the cool season :)

I thought that tennis today (the day after i got 3 hours of sleep) was going to be terrible, but it was amazing.  Every once in a long while in tennis there are days when it seems like you can do no wrong.  I had one of those today :)  I was just playing normal for most of the day but then at the end for an hour of a doubles set i played amazing.  It is easily the best doubles i have ever played.  My team still lost (in a tiebreak) but i had a blast.  It was a great way to start the day and it really offset the tiredness. 

Anyway thats it.  Looking back at this my bad section is a lot longer than my good section.  I think that might be because i'm getting more and more tired as i write this and i'm about to get into bed.  Just realize that quantity of comments does not indicate the total balance of quality.  The weather cooling down outweighs pretty much everything else mentioned above :)  Overall the week has been good i just need to make sure i never do homework to 3am again.  Now that the homework is all going to be posted so soon i think i'm just going to try to get in the habit of doing it all on the friday before the week it is due in (i don't have class friday).  I think if i just go and spend the day in the library i could get E&M totally out of the way for the week.  I'm hoping i can start that policy tomorrow :)

Thanks for reading