Fifth Week: A stressful and irritating week

This week, we had so many requirements to finish; we had two Laboratory Reports, two long assignments, and one project to be submitted almost at the same days (Thursday and Friday). John Ford Castro told me, “This is not normal…” I told him, “We are just first years, and we must adjust to the situations here in college.”

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This week in Electro Technology, we are taught to determine resistances, currents, and voltages across loads in a circuit using the Ohm’s Law. We are also taught about the Voltage Divider and Current Divider formulas. I realized that these divider formulas are just derived formula from the Ohm’s Law, and that I don’t have to memorize them.

In Math, ma’am Bravo gave us another set of trigonometric identities. We also had some review on proving identities and equations. In one of our discussions, I totally disagreed that “sin32 + sin48 = sin90” and that “sin2x = 2sinx.”

Anyway, I did not win the argument that day, and how I hate Nueva’s side comments. It gives me the impression that, “He didn’t listen to his math teacher when he is taught about trigonometry in his high school. Shame, he is a Science student; he should be backing me up.”

The next day, ma’am Bravo told me about it and that she is convinced that you can’t simplify trigonometric functions that way. (Argument finished)

Also that day, we had our part one of our Preliminary Examination from her subject. We are scheduled to take it at 1430H, but we decided to take it at 1400H instead, with section Polaris.

What a bad luck! That test is way too easy and way too meaty to get a zero from it. Ma’am was so angry with us, sections Cylinder and Polaris, because we are too noisy. She made us leave the AVR, the place where we should have our examination.