Chemistry Day One

Well, there was a bit of bad news with my Chemistry class but it doesn't really pertain to THAT class.

As I told my family last night, I'm able to see the class lists of who is in my classes, whether its online or on the ground. I can see all my classes on the online area for classes. And looking at my Calculus class I saw that my friend Robert is in there plus 6 other names I recognized from our Pre-Calculus class. There was a group of middle eastern guys in that Precalc class and they were extremely disruptive with their chattiness all throughout the class. Honest to God and Allah, they were chattier than a pack of 13 year old girls on the phone! The instructor was too nice of a guy to them. He actually gave them assigned seats to break them up so they would finally shut it. By the last few weeks of class though they kind of migrated to one another and while the chatter was much more mild, it was still CHATTER. There was a particularly obnoxious guy in that group, just off-the-charts obnoxious. Several times I think he was deliberately trying to rile me up. Since that day I've refered to him as being 'drunk on his own ego'. His name was Mena - and there was a Mina in that class also. I was never sure who was who.

So I saw on my Calc. class roster that Mena is in that class with me. Ughhhh... was it the good Mena or the Bad Mena? I told my family about this question I had last night.

Today was the first day of my Chemistry class - and sure enough there's 3 of those chatty guys from my PreCalc class in there. Ugh. And the Good Mena was there. Well, he must be Mina, the good one. He was quiet and shy, and almost seemed embarassed by his friends. He's young, and probably values HAVING friends more so than having decent good friends. I actually saw them CHEAT on the precalc final - I saw it with my own eyes, instructor left the room and they immediately put their heads together and swapped answers for as much as they dared.

So Mina is in Chemistry with me and that means Mena is in Calculus with me. GREAT. Now all I can hope for is that the instructor, Ms. Jones, can be a REAL BITCH and that he will cross her and she'll throw him out of the class. HA! I would LOVE that.

Otherwise there's 6 other people in that class of 22 that I will already be familiar with - and THEY seem to be great people and I truly look forward to being in class with again.

Chemistry otherwise went fine. The professor, Dr. Anderson is younger than I would have expected - late 30's likely for him. And the way he talks, his diction, everything is just like my husbands cousin who is a physician and I only see him once a year at Christmas while we're up there. They kinda resemble each other as well. Kinda interesting. Hopefully though, Dr. Anderson will open up some and be a bit more personable. Its fine if he's not, I guess we're only spending 3 hours a week with him - but still, it would make the class more fun.