August 17

This morning I quickly reviewed some notes before walking up to class with Sarah to take our exam. The exam was in Intro to Exercise Science and was a 50-question, multiple choice test. It also counts as 33% of our final grade. I thought I knew everything pretty well but it turns out the lecturer is very tricky with his questions, unreasonably so in my, and other peoples' opinions. One question was what ACOG stands for, with five choices. I knew that ACOG was the organization that published guidelines for exercise for pregnant women, but I didn't bother memorizing whether or not ACOG stood for American College of Gyneaology, American Council of Gynecology, Australian College of Gynecology, Australian Council of Gynecology, or American Council of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Who cares? How does that benefit me? I knew all about what types of exercises pregnant women should do, what they should avoid doing, precautions they should take, the benefits of exercise during pregnancy, etc. This is just one example of many "tricky" questions that, in my opinion, did not test the knowledge that we should have learned thus far in the class. I'm reasonably confident that I passed the exam, but I have no clue what my grade will be as there were many questions I was unsure of. We'll have to wait and see to find out how I did, and how the class did. If everyone failed maybe the teacher will realize that he needs to do something different. Apparently this is only his second semester as a teacher.

This afternoon I went down the mall and bought a couple yards of a wine-red fabric from the craft shop. Friday we are having a trivia night and there are prizes for the "best dressed" table. My table is going to all wear togas. It should be a good time.

Later this afternoon I met with a girl from my Data Analysis class about our group project. Our other group member couldn't get to the meeting, so we discussed our topic, then presented our proposal to the professor for approval, and finally worked on our methods and project outline. We're going to research whether or not there is a relationship between student exercise and academic achievement. It will be interesting to see what our results reveal in the coming weeks.