Science rules

Just finished my physics midterm and I feel great about it. There were four problems in 50 minutes and it was very much like the practice exam we did in conference: problem 1 was qualitative and in two parts, 2 was purely kinematic, 3 involved forces including friction, and 4 was on circular motion with a little bit of entangled gravity. The first three were pretty straightforward and reminiscent of previous conference problems. 4 was a familiar situation, but it asked to find a quantity I don't think we'd solved for before. I didn't know exactly what to do at a glance, but I worked it out, and my faith in things canceling out came to my aid. If it hadn't worked out correctly, I might have ended up with a dangling theta somewhere in my problem, or even a dangling mass (though masses tend to cancel), but my intuition told me I'd get a tangent in one place that would cancel with the tangent I had in the other place, and I did.

Around junior year my mom told me her theory that I have spatial and linguistic phases. Apparently when I was a kid I would draw OR write for alternating periods, but not generally both at the same time. Considering that in the last couple of years I think it's a pretty good theory. Anyway, I seem to be going back into a spatial phase. I've been taking notes on my reading with concept webs, where placement and size and arrow connections remind me how things are related. And on my midterm to show my train of thought, in quite a few places I would bracket equations I'd written previously and then draw arrows to the place where they explain something new I was writing down. In a linguistic phase I might just get it all straight and then write them down in an order that makes the connection obvious, or write notes explaining what I'm doing.