Happy Halloween!!!

This week went by so fast I didn't even see it. Even the worst day of the week- Friday- wasn't that bad this week. I wonder what happened? Maybe I'm just so accustomed to the chaos of Fridays that they don't even phase me anymore.
My chemistry teacher is really making his exams trick and I'm not liking it one bit. There is no reason to make tests tricky, unless he enjoys seeing his students average a C- in his class. I took exam 4 this week with my study group and we got an 80. What? We go through all that trouble of studying together and making sure we take the test together so we get a good score, and the best we can do is an 80... psh! It doesn't help that the test was only 12 questions long, so missing one question makes a huge difference. Sign me up for long tests only, please!
The trig professor decided to have pity on us - remember the class average was a 58%, I pulled an equivalent to an A if it wasn't for a genius that got a 98% on it- so he let us re-work all the problems we got wrong on the test and reward us with half of our original test score. According to my calculations and after I'm awarded the other half, I'll be at a 108.7%. Not too shabby!
I also found out that I'm getting an A in Chem lab. Wahoo! So excited. I thought I was doing poorly on the lab reports but apparently not. It helped I brough a roll of paper towels to the second day of class as extra credit to help my score go up. You can never go wrong with an extra roll of toilet paper.
Speaking of extra credit, given my husband gets home early from work on thursday, I have the opportunity to go grade teachers on their teaching skills. They're trying to hire a Physiology professor for the college I'm going to, and one of the things they have to do is to have students grade their teaching methods. Because my biol professor is the head of the Biology dept, he's giving us up to 10 extra credit points if we attend 2 sessions of it. Should be interesting. Once again, I volunteered for it (because obviously I have nothing else to do with my life at this point...). But I want an A in the class, dang it!
This week was an interesting week because regardless of the fact my plate is so full I can't eat fast enough, I also signed up for volunteering. Sounds like a really bad move, especially for now, but I figured I've been BSing on Facebook too much still and needed to use that time wisely. And volunteering is all done online, and I only need to do it one hour per week. It's through icouldbe.org and I get to be a mentor and a support to underpriviledged teenagers who would otherwise drop out of high school and never go on to college, which is SOOOOO important, I can't stress it enough! So far I haven't had any mentees choose me as their mentor, but I'm sure it'll happen soon. I'll worry if two weeks pass by and nothing happens, though.
For Halloween, I did a good job at blowing it this year! I told my husband he has to plan it next year because apparently I don't seem to be able to handle it. I forgot to plan ahead and buy my son's Halloween costume on time, which resulted in him wearing the same thing he wore last year. I was bummed because I was hoping to see him in something besides a pumpkin costume, nonetheless he looked adorable, and he doesn't remember wearing it last year, which is a plus. My husband took him trick-or-treating at the mall and at first he didn't know why people were willingly placing candy in his bucket, but towards the end he figured out the deal and he'd point to the candy to make sure he got what he was worth. Haha Good thing they got video of it and I was able to watch it before I came to work tonight. It sucks to work the night before and the night of Halloween because I felt like I couldn't get anything done on time without having to hurry through it all. What a nightmare! And to top things off, daylight savings time ends tonight which means I have to stay at work for an extra hour. Swell. I'm happy though that I'm working with a great crew tonight and so it'll be very bearable!
I hope everyone had a great Halloween!