paper shredder.

my professor wheeled in a paper shredder as he entered the classroom this morning.
yep.
that was a first.
and just for future reference...
in case a similar situation ever happens to you...
it's not a good thing.
nope.
not good.

he said he looked at the exams and decided not to grade them because they weren't as good as he hoped. [but he didn't exactly say this in such a nice manner.]
grr.
so he gave us the option of turning them back in to be graded, or shredding them and taking a new exam next week.
i knew i definitely had one of the problems correct, but i wasn't sure about the other one.
[yes. the exam was two problems to work out... they generally take me 2-3 hours each, and we have 50 minute exams.]
it sounded like since he was giving us this option, he wasn't going to give much partial credit for wrong answers... so...
i shredded it.

eek. it was pretty impulsive, but everyone else was doing it... so i would have felt kind of foolish being so confident.
part of me definitely wishes he would have just graded them and we could move on. but i just couldn't turn it back in to him. i don't know...

now i'm left with the stress of preparing for another exam next week.
but also the hope of doing really well. i understand the material and how to work the problems... i just have problems with structure elucidation. chemistry is not my strong point by any means, and i don't have a lot of experience with it... so it's just hard to know what structures are plausible.

ah well. head up and move along... that's all i can do for now.
one month until graduation! eeeeek!

p.s. my evolution test this morning was ehh. i'll have to wait and see how i did because i really have no idea what i was writing. i'm officially not a fan of essay exams.