NOT happy with mastering physics!!!

Oh this physics homework has my head only wrecked...IT'S IMPOSSIBLE!!! and having to do it online is making matters even worse...ive just tried this weeks homework and I was only able to answer 2 out of about 7 questions!what a disaster...this has been the worst so far! and its so frustrating because I do the calculations and im 100% sure they are right and when I go to submit the answer it either doesnt go through or else it just says incorrect..incorrect???well thats a great help..how are you supposed to find out how its done if alls it says ia incorrect?? I never thought id say this but I wish I could go back to doing written homework!!!

CIT and UCC march..

Aidan here.. So I went to the student march yesterday from CIT to UCC and then to the city! it was good craic now...me and a few of my friends went into CIT around quarter past 11 and the students union were giving out free t shirts and whistles!there was a good crowd around the canteen and the nexus centre and there was a right buzz around the place...we set off marching at half 11 accompanied by the entire garda of cork!ha literally ive never seen so many guards for a crowd this size! They must of thought we were going to wreck the place!! so we marched up past dehennys cross making as much noise as possible and then into UCC (which was the best part of the day for the chants and singing!!haha) the two crowds joined and we left for the city...it was all very organised and 'peacefullish' enough. There was lots of members of the students union keeping everything in order. I didnt see any shocking incidents or anything like the scenes in Dublin except for somebody throwing a pigs head outside AIB bank which was hilarious!!! I also heard today that there was a clash between the guards and students at some part of the day...theres a pic above

Online Homework??uurrggh

Aidan here... so things in physics are getting tougher. it was fairly basic in class so far and some of the stuff we are doing is fairly interesting to honest!but unfortunetly that only applys to a small part of the material we have covered! The online homework is by far the hardest part..there was only one week so far that i have completed it so you can tell thats its a bit difficult!!ha last weeks was a pure disaster..ill be honest and say i left it too late to do it but when i got help on what formulas to use i figured out how to get the answers!this was on friday so i said id give it another go during my break but of course the whole mastering physics website was not working all day on friday due to updates being installed or something like that...so im gonna have to do it a bit earlier this week.

I also got my second hep B vaccine yesterday...it was alot worse then the last time!!my arm was kind of dead all day and i was wrecked tired after it but im grand again today thank god!!the final one ill be getting in april and then i think were fully protected against the virus which is a big plus because some of the stuff we have been working with lately sounds a bit dangerous...with E.coli and  that stuff being passed around I was being very cautious.

On a more positive note I got a text last night saying my brother had won the local lotto...im delighted for him (but only if he gives me some!!haha) so maybe it is true about the myth of the bird dropping on you bringing you luck...it just brought it to the wrong brother!!haha

off the fags!!!

Aidan here..its half 11 on a monday morning and im glad to say i had a great lie in this morning!!which is very hard to come by when you have a timetable like ours!!anyways your probally wondering what the title of this blog is about...I decided to give up smoking!iv a few reasons why Im doing it...firstly i just cant afford it anymore...secondly i suppose theyre bad for you!!ha...and thirdly,this year ive been plagued with chest infections,sore throats etc.,so ive started to realise maybe smoking has something to do with it!!!ha ive been smoking for the past 3 or 4 years so im not gonna go on the patches or anything like that...its all down to shear will power anyway if you ask me!!i really think i can do it...the hardest part will be going out with my friends because the majority of them smoke but im gonna give it a go!  oh no all this talk about smoking has given me a serious craving!!:(:( and its chemistry next...ahh no!!!!!

An over-enjoyed weekend...

Aidan here, so remember I was telling you all about the party me and my brother were having??Well heres a slide show of pics from the night me and my uncle made up... and yes there are some messy ones in there!!  but the celebrations were a bit over extended as the party continued for nearly the whole weekend! I am seriously regretting it now as it was not the best idea when I had two important tests this week...needless to say I got no study done whatsoever!!and ya i suppose i got what i deserved in cell biology-a fail!!oh by the way negative marking, i hate you!!i also had an intro to biomed test today which didnt go down well either but i think i may have scrapped a pass...hopefully anyway!! im off now to decide weither im gonna dress up or not tonight!!I think once a year is enough!!haha

Chemistry??HELP!!!

Aidan here..so weve got our first chemistry assessment coming up this thursday and i must say feeling under pressure is a major understatement for me!I am one of the few less fortunate ones in the class who havent studied chemistry since junior cert and its safe to say im not the only one who is struggling!! its the same for physics but at least the majority of us didnt do it for the leaving so thats moving alot slower then chemistry which is absolutely flying past me by the way!!  im putting most of my effort into studying chemistry this week...the notes i have are just a jumble of words to me now so if youre in the same situation as me i would recommend buying the revise wise chem book for the leaving cert...its much clearer and better laid out but the woman in the shop said they are flying off the shelves so hurry up if youre looking for one!:)  on a more positive note ive got my brothers 21st/my 18th birthday party/fancy dress this weekend so im looking forward to that!!im still looking for a costume though so if ye ave any ideas let me know!!! oh ya i would also recommend this ingenius equipment below for dealing with exam stress!!!!

First Impressions of Being 18!!

Aidan here.. so it was my 18th birthday last thursday and to be honest i dont feel any different!ive bin passing as an 18 year old for ages now so nothing much has changed!!!ha this didnt change the fact that there still had to be some serious celebrating done!so thursday night when i walked into my flat i was welcomed by all my friends giving a brillant rendition of happy birthday with the epic mark fitzgearld on guiter!!ha we had a few drinks in the flat (few 2 many!ha) and headed into town on the bus. as we queued for havanas in the puring rain we were informed that most of the niteclubs on thursdays were over 20s!!!!i was gutted!as soon as i turn legal the nite club age is higher???so unfair! we ended up spending the night in the bailey which was actually great crack anyway!! as you can tell my biology on friday morning were a struggle but i suffered through two hours of looking through a microscope!! The celebrations didnt stop there as me and the lads decided to go out saturday night too...back to good old hayes hotel in thurles!!we had another brillant night but it made me realise how much more expensive it is back home...As i waited at the bar,who did i notice was serving behind the bar only my mentor Esther!!haha and if by any chance youre reading this Esther,I can remember you saying you would buy me a drink in Cork some night for my birthday seems i didnt get a discount on saturday night!!ha thanks for reading..

I think its time to get a bike!!

So this is my first blog and id like to begin by apologising to my team members for being so late posting it!!!sorry lads things have just been hectic recently!
Its the beggining of my third week in college and im finally getting used to the place but this morning was just a disaster! First of all I had a bit of a late one last night so i wasnt feeling very energitic this morning but I still managed to get up for my bus to UCC at half 8...or should i say the 'anytime between 8 and half 9 bus to UCC'. You see i am living close to CIT but the majority of my morning classes are in UCC so i have to be up earlier to catch the no.5 bus. It supposedly passes every 15 minutes but I have yet to see this happening!! Iv been late 3 times already this year because of it! Anyway this morning it was no different as i arrived into the kane building at 20 past 9 for my 9 o clock physics lecture.I was dreading facing the lecturer 20 minutes late. But I was delighted when i saw the sign on the door informing me the class had been cancelled!!! All that panicing for nothing and most importantly I could of had a lie in!!But the worst was yet to come... I was waiting for my bus back to CIT when a pisky crow decided to perch right above me, and thats when it happened...SSPLAT!!! Right on my head!!:(:(:(  some say this is a sign of good luck so hopefully things might change for me!!haha bloody crows!! Thanks for reading!! Aidan...