Sore Throats and chemistry honors

Well, apparently my prediction that I was getting a cold was spot on. I have a sore throat, stuffed up nose, general blah feeling and lots of homework. Though, thankfully today is thursday so really the only thing I have to do today is calc. and a little chemistry.

Today I completed my first round of exams. I had chemistry and calc. last week and I finished up today with a 67 multiple-choice question psych exam. It went very well, considering I was using a bubble sheet (scantron). I am the type of person that almost failed the SATs by not knowing how to correctly fill in my name on those sheets, so any test that uses one is not a good test for me. However, I finished with plenty of time only to have to sit there for another 10 minutes because I had stupidly chosen a seat in the middle of a row and was completely boxed in on both sides. Everyone needs to remind me next time I have a psych exam to sit on the end of a row. But now I am done until the week before spring break which really is only two weeks away, but I am choosing to enjoy those two weeks that are exam free to my highest ability. (There is something wrong with that last sentence, but I seem to have lost the ability to think gramatically, at least when I am sick).

I have been a bit lazy today about homework. I haven't done any yet. But I do have two very good excuses. 1: I am sick (I find this almost always takes care of most insignificant things that I am responsible for) and 2: the people who own my little valley are doing construction and clean-up down there. They are being very distracting, and entertaining for me. Either they are working on their basketball area or they are cleaning up the mess the flooding made. But all of it beats homework. (I guess I could just close my blinds, but where is the fun in that?).

In honor of completing my last exam (for two weeks) I will forgo the chemistry fact of the day. However, since I didn't write one yesterday I will make up for that in today's post. But remember that this is for yesterday not today.

For fun I will give you one of the problems on my chemistry exam last week. See if you chemistry buffs (ok, so maybe I am the only one here) can tell me what the answer is.

A 25mL sample of 0.1996 M V2+ solution requires 48.97mL of 0.3000 M Ce4+ to titrate to equivalence. The Ce4+ is converted to Ce3+ in the reaction; what is the oxidation number of the vanadium ion at equivalence?


Cheers!

Your Literary Junkophile.

Amendment 1: I really need to figure out my grammatical problems when I am sick.

Amendment 2: My mom finally mowed out lawn.

Amendment 3: As I'm sure you guessed the oxidation number on vanadium is +5.

Amendment 4: Remember that chemistry fact counted for yesterday not today. Today is: honor the end of exams (for two weeks) day.

Amendment 5: I actually posted this without a title but I went back and added one. Forgetful me. (but I am sick, remember)