CH302 Random Musings, March 30, 2006 1. The average score on the last quiz was a solid 78%. For the first time ever there were no complaints about the question types and the scores will stand. 2. I have tossed out the question from quiz 4 in which you had to interpolate a graph to find a pK value. One of the wrong answers was too close to the correct answer for the size diagram provided. Alexis will kill the question and give credit for it—this raises the average to a 77%. 3. Exam 2 is on Tuesday. It is of the standard format—30 multiple choice questions listed below. Please read the handout on procedure and policies to know where to take the exam. Also be aware that I will be STRICTLY enforcing the time limit. Very simply, if we see you write ANYTHING after you are told to put down your pencils, you will be given a 0 for the exam and referred to Judicial Services. 4. Speaking of Judicial Services, don’t be so dumb as to think that we are not aware of people who cheat on tests and quizzes. We may not always catch you, but you will get caught. We caught another one on the most recent quiz and his life is going to be far harder because of his lapse of ethics. Don’t cheat. 5. The question types for the exam are listed below. As mentioned, I made a few changes that are noted in red. Only question #30 on complexation has been changed from the original list 6. Additional help for the exam. a. Worksheet 11, a practice exam based on the 30 question types is being generated by Minhtran. I will pot it this weekend. b. I will hold my traditional review session on Sunday night in Jester auditorium at 6:30 pm in lieu of Alexis’ review session. At this session I will go over the question types one by one, expounding on what I want you to know. c. The TAs will have a review session on Monday night from 6 to 8 pm in Burdine 106 (the large lecture room.) They will go over the practice exam and answer other questions. 7. Extra credit updates: a. Extra credit 1, worth 1% of your grade, was due on Tuesday. Some of you had trouble with the submission and notified me. Others worried that maybe you had not gotten credit. Let’s wait until after the exam to deal with it, but I assure you that if you make the effort to get the assignment in, I will give you the credit. Please don’t sweat the details right now. b. Extra credit 2 will be formally assigned next Thursday. But as I mentioned last week, you can earn another 1% of your grade by going to the poster session for a few minutes on April 7 between 11 and 3 pm, reading a poster, talking to a nervous undergrad presenter, and then writing a little but about what you learned. This is an opportunity to see how easy it is to be one of the hundreds of undergrads, just like you, who are doing research on the frontiers of science. More next Thursday. c. Extra credit 3. For another 1% of your grade, go to a scholarly lecture at UT. One of the ways you can do that is to go to one of the student presentations at the research forum on Friday the 7th (consequently earning points for extra credit 2 and 3 at about the same time!!) More next Thursday, but remember not to worry if you can’t go next Friday, there are other ways to earn the credit. Public Service Announcements.• On the nights of March 31st AND April 1st at 8pm, the UT Longhorn Singers show choir will be putting on their huge semi-annual show under the theme "Rhythm & Rhyme"! The show contains a little bit of everything---Rock, Broadway, you name it! Tickets are $10 at the door, and well worth it! Running time is about 2 hours. We sold out one of the shows last semester (approximately 400 seats available per show), so come early! You won't wanna miss out! • Alpha Phi Sigma Pre-Med is putting on a BIG week-long event next week. Here is the day by day list of events. Monday April 3 Kick Off: Global Health Fair FAC Porch 10am-3pm Keynote Speaker: Dr. Mark Kline, MD UTC 2.102A 7pm Tuesday April 4 Interested in Medicine? UT Southwestern Medical School Dr. Wagner, Dean of Admissions ART 1.102 6pm (in place of normal meeting) Wednesday April 5 Become a Disease Detective: Discover Public Health Conference featuring several key speakers hosted by the College of Natural Sciences Keynote Speaker: C.J. Peters of The Hot Zone and author of Virus Hunter Texas Union 12-8pm Thursday April 6 “Come Out and Kick It” Benefit Party 6th and Lavaca @ Exodus 10pm Friday April 7 Global Health Day 2006 Festivites in the West Mall ALL DAY “Laughter is the Best Medicine” Comedy Night Celebrity comedian Tony Woods, hosted by KISS FM Free Admission Texas Union Ballroom 7pm Saturday April 8 Dodgeball Tournament Form a team with your friends online now Anna Hiss Gym 12pm www.texasaps.org/global Poetry Corner. One of your classmates has provided an original contribution, clearly a bad spring break experience. Reminded me of other poems about being trapped, like the Rabbit Catcher by Sylvia Plath. Here they are, for your reading discomfort. And The Waves Crush Me (anonymous class mate) I wandered on to the shore today The air was cool The breeze still I felt lost though I knew my way I closed my eyes and listened to the waves sing Like the Sirens’ seraphic tones The waves beckoned me Their song lingered with an eternal ring I waded up to my waist The cold water brushing my stomach Like a seductress cajoling me to her pallet I fell into the ocean’s bed with such haste I realized my mistake as I was thrown down I thrashed in the ocean’s web My struggles only tightened the ocean’s grip Dying to breathe and fighting not to drown I saw the ocean’s intent with the movement of the tides Like a hangman with his noose With every retreat of the water I saw hope Only to be blotted out, the water surrounding me on all sides And the waves crush meThe Rabbit catcher Sylvia Plath, It was a place of force - The wind gagging my mouth with my own blown hair, Tearing off my voice, and the sea Blinding me with its lights, the lives of the dead Unreeling in it, spreading like oil. 5 I tasted the malignity of the gorse, Its black spikes, The extreme unction of its yellow candle-flowers. They had an efficiency, a great beauty, And were extravagant, like torture. 10 There was only one place to get to. Simmering, perfumed, The paths narrowed into the hollow. And the snares almost effaced themselves - Zeroes, shutting
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