Over the past week, we basically did lecture quizzes online and were given a handful of equilibrium worksheets that we had to work on. Yes, like Dr. J said, equilibrium is probably the most difficult unit for students. Personally, I am still a little fuzzy on some problems. Dr. J told us that we'll have to make an activity packet this unit like from ACIS II. In one hand, I really think that this will help me do better on the test by making me finish the worksheets. On the other hand, ACIS II is just a little bit irrelevant to me anymore.
However, at the beginning of class each day, we went through lots of "concept quizzes" with the class. It was very helpful for me because Dr. J basically went through each problem step by step. It was also great that other students were with me together to solve the problem, because what they were confused on, I am confused on the same type of problems as well. Our test is somewhere towards the end of next week. I am about 75% ready for the test, but I am still confused on some problem set ups. I think I'll have to go to Dr. J after school sessions to go over some study materials. One of my favorite part about chemistry class is that Dr. J would also do a small "simulation" as we go over the concept slides, which is help to me because I am a very visual learner. There are many formulas we have to memorize for this test. The basic concepts behind these formulas are fairly simple,but there are just so many of them that sometimes I don't know which one to use. Although this is somehow difficult, but I really like the moodle website for this unit. It has basically all the key information we need to know for the test, as well as listing out all of the formulas for the test.
Lastly, something that I did interesting over the past week was I donated blood in the Skyline blood drive. It was really awkward because that was my first time giving blood. Although the word, blood, is just uncomfortable for the most of us, but the blood drive really wasn't that bad. Other than that, I had a fantastic week and I still have the equilibrium worksheets to work on over the weekend, so I better get back to that!
