Thursday, February 22, 2007

i hate OWL homework!

I never really had a problem with chemistry until I had to take it this semester. I did absolutely fine with high school chemistry and passed with an A. However, when I went to class this semester, my teacher told us we would be doing online homework known as OWL. Well, at first I didn't think it would be too bad...i just figured I'd be working normal chemistry problems on paper and just typing in answers on the computer. But after a couple of weeks I soon realized how much of a pain OWL actually is. I always find myself sitting at the computer working the same problem for what feels like hours and then finally being so frustrated that I have the urge to throw my laptop out of the window...thank goodness i haven't actually done that yet. It's not that I don't understand how to work the problems. The issue is typing in the answers. The answers have to be perfectly entered with the right subscripts and postscripts, and sometimes that in itself just becomes confusing. Another thing I hate about it is that we only have a couple of days to work on each section rather than all of the time up until the test. It's very difficult to find time to finish OWL homework before the deadlines while still trying to do homework for other subjects. Oh and from my past experiences I have figured out that it's literally impossible to finish all of the OWL sections of work the night before it's due. That's deffinatley not a good idea. So basically I think OWL is the dumbest and most annpying thing ever created and no college student should be tortured with it.

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