Split decision on the help front

Okay, so after a very anxious night, during which I three times woke up in the middle of the night, here's how the chemistry help has sorted out:
* I actually just heard back from the science department dean.  I found out that anybody who is tutoring for the web equivalent of the course can tutor for mine, too.  But basically as I feared, they're only available at nights and on weekends, there is nothing compatible with the time slots I can safely use.  There is no formal study group so that option is also shot.  So as far as face-to-face help on campus goes, the end result is I'm up the creek.  I was able to contact my classmate this morning but she can't help either...she did, however, make sure I was feeling marginally better at least, so I would consider asking her if I could team up with her for labs.
* Obviously, I'm not very happy about this.  Despite the quirks, it actually has made me very angry because I haven't been able to do the homework without the concept help (please note: I'm not trying to ask people to help me work the problems in the homework, instead I'm asking for alternate explanations of stuff that's been giving me trouble.)  But it doesn't actually have to be in until the day before the exam next Friday, a break I'm going to take advantage of because...
* YouTube is giving me a chance.  I knew for sure I needed help with unit conversions, so I started searching in that direction after my first class of the day.  It was a pain in the (cuckoo) to find a video that actually made the concept understandable and worked around my quirks (because it's asking almost too much to work through them, at the moment, after this).  I had to use virtually the entire break but I eventually stumbled on one, posted from the website YourMathGal (almost ironic that the first hit comes from what is technically a non-chemistry source, don't you think?) that actually put the darn concept into focus in the way I need to see it...slowly, easier examples worked out first, an explanation of how and why it works.  If anybody needs to see the video because they want to or just because, I'd be happy to post the link as a comment to this.
Basically, YouTube is giving me a glimmer of hope.  Am I happy with how this has worked out?  Can't really say that I am, but I'm pretty much at the point where I must make a move because other classes won't stop for this one (nor should they), so I'm basically going to dance with who got me here.
I love you Wyndy for playing comment tag over the last couple of days, I love you Court025 for telling me I'm not alone with struggles, and I love you Summerwind for putting faith in me that I'd find some kind of out eventually.  I probably didn't name everyone who deserves thanks with that -- if you think I missed you please tell me -- but right now I'm just groggy from the bad night under the covers.  Don't need to do too much outside of a Saturday work shift and exam prep after tomorrow's lab, so just maybe this still has a chance.

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Summerwind81
Summerwind81

Yay for YouTube!!! lol so happy you found something friend...and I would go so far as to say go ahead and be HAPPY about it, because, yes, it\'s not exactly how you would have liked things to happen but...you found a way! You\'re in control, as always :D peace to you, and get some rest :)
WyndWytch
WyndWytch

heheh any chance is better than none, so yay for youtube.