Was it really not almost 80 degrees last week? I mean it's been so cold these past couple of days that it's actually making me upset. I don't mind the cold as long as the winter weather gets me out of a class or closes school. If it doesn't, I have no use for it. For example, the past two days have done nothing but sleet and snow and I didn't even get a measly two hour delay.
Anyway, I got a B on my Intro to Ancient History paper as well as a B on my Literature of the Renaissance paper. I have a ancient history quiz again tomorrow and that's the last of things I have to worry about before Spring Break starts. However I have the choice of skipping the quiz (and the class) tomorrow and choose to take another quiz since we're allowed to skip 2. I haven't decided yet, I feel prepared but I always suck at the map portions of the quizzes and that's what always brings me down a little. Otherwise I'm just waiting to hear back from some internships that I applied for. If I get either one, it'll be a dream come true. Both of them are paid, and they're both about one of my interests as opposed to it being something that will potentially lose my interest in a matter of days. So I'm crossing my fingers on that. Spring Break is in 3 days! Thank God! I have some plans for it, most of them being job searches, but its one of the spring breaks that I've been looking forward to the most. Then when we get back we have the Friday off and then we go back into the swing of things to get to graduate in the next month. I bet it'll fly by, most of my stuff already has. Note to self, buy graduation robes.
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You know what I've hated since I started going to school way back when? And I mean wayyyy back when. Every student cringes when you hear the words 'project' and 'partners'. Not partner, meaning singular. Partners, meaning plural. Yes, I'm talking about group projects.
I hate group projects? You want to know why? It's because I'm the one that always has to do all the work for it. For example, I was doing a group presentation on Queen Elizabeth I. I met up with my group mates, we figured out what we were going to actually present (like, which parts of her life or what we thought needed to be focused on) and I started to find information. A couple of days before hte project is due I sent what I had made of a powerpoint asking what my group mates thought of it so far and if there was anything I needed to add. I got nothing in response. So I just continued to work, the day before and the morning of the presentation I sent another e-mail, still nothing. However, the morning of, I was up since 6 AM for a 10:30 AM class finishing it because no one was communicating with me. Come to find out when I get to my class that one of my group mates made their own presentation for another part of the project but never told me about it!!! They had spent that whole time working on their own thing and couldn't take the time to respond to an e-mail? Bright side is for my Intro to Ancient History class we had to write a 750 word paper (2 pages or so, one sentence on 3 depending on the header) on Oedipus The King. Some people went above and beyond that, doing about 1000+ words for the paper. Today, our professor basically called them out by saying, "I assigned a short paper or about two or three pages and some of you exceeded that...long papers aren't always better than short papers". It made me smile. Especially since mine was exactly 750 pages or so. Now, I'm not saying that he was saying the other papers were bad, I just think they either over analyzed the topic (Why is it a tragedy/what was the audience supposed to take from it) or couldn't figure out how to get to the point of their paper quicker. Either way, I'm happy. I looked at a few more job possibilities as well as some for internships so we'll see how those go. Time for the weekend! So here at school we have a Honors Convocation Awards. For English there are four awards that you can try out for:
The Andrew James Purdy Prize for Short Fiction The Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets The Hollins Fiction Prize Melanie Hook Rice Memorial Awards in Fiction/Creative Non-fiction. The first award is only for graduate students, the second is only for poetry, and the last is for those that would be entering parts of a novel they're working on. I'm not a graudate student, I don't write poetry, and I'm not currently working on a novel, so I entered the Hollins Fiction Prize. The deadline was today, I turned in yesterday, and I'm pretty sure only one other person entered for the Hollins Fiction Prize as well. I'm anxious to know what's going to happen because everything is going to be judged by an outside judge and as far as I know it's only between me and one other person. I really hope I win it, though I will be happy for the other person that wins as well, because I at least took the time to try for it. But I think my idea is really original as it's a urban fiction story about a girl that's a student by day and a gang member by night. But since she's a new gang member (or as they call them, a fringe) she has trouble deciding where her loyalties lie; with her gang or with her family. Especially since she was suddenly inducted into the gang an How many days left until graduation? 76
How many days left until Spring Break? 11 How many days left until Mere's presentation? 5 Time really does fly when you've got stuff to do and have a goal to look forward to. Not to toot my own horn, but I'm doing such a good job when it comes to getting work done early so that I don't have to worry about getting them all done before graduation. (Did I forget to mention I got a B- on my Intro to Ancient History quiz?). And because of that, I only have one presentation and one quiz keeping me from going on Spring Break. A presentation that's this Thursday and a quiz next Wednesday, otherwise I have all of my homework done. So that puts me in a good mood. But what puts me in a better mood is knowing how much warmer it's supposed to get over the next couple of days. (Ignore the fact it's gonna go shooting back down to the 30s on Thursday. That's what I'm gonna do). And I feel that my presentation is gonna go well on Thursday, we divided it so we know who is doing what part and the fact that we're not going until Thursday when I can see how they go with other groups on Tuesday being a guinea pig. And as usual I'm thinking of what's going to go on post college (as I should because the English Department survey reminded me to say this) and I've found a couple of prospects that seem interesting. Some I've applied for, others I haven't as I'm looking to see how they differentiate from each other, and I'm making connections as much as I can. (Ask me about our commencement speaker, *wink wink*). So far things are going well for me and I expect them to get better. Of course this is before final exam stress inevitably gets to me. So here's a recap of my week
Monday was good. Tuesday was good. Wednesday was OK. Thursday sucked. And today (Friday) is great. I also have high hopes for the weekend considering it's going to...GET UP TO 70 DEGREES THROUGH THE NEXT FOUR DAYS!!!! Whoooo! It's almost spring, daylight's savings is Sunday and I have a good outlook for the rest of my semester. Anyway, Monday was good because it's a Monday. For the first time in the four years I've been to this school, Monday is a good day of the week for me. I only have one class, I only work for three hours, and then I have the rest of the day to relax and get some homework done. Tuesday is essentially the same, only that my class is a hour and a half and I don't particularly enjoy it at all. Wednesday was when things started to go downhill. My glasses broke (in all actuality, the lens popped out because the screw popped out) and that left me blind for most of the day because I couldn't get back to the apartment to get my contacts. And Thursday SUCKED all because of my glasses, the class I hate, the homework and presentation for the class I hate, the people in my group not helping me out, and it was a dreary day all together so I was unhappy about that. (Plus I'm stuck on what I want to do for my next turn-in for my creative writing class but whatever). But today was great because I fixed my glasses, I have some inspiration for my turn-in (though I still can't decide between the three I want to do as they all have intense scenes), I got the books that I ordered, and I realized that 9 out of 10 e-mails I'm getting from school now don't apply to me because I'm graduating this may. Our next book title is revealed tomorrow and it's about two weeks until Spring Break. It's the little things that matter. So I had my first quiz of the semester today. First of the only two that I have for any of my classes and I think I did well. Most of the quiz was about essays and I knew what documents and what IDs I was talking about for the essays. I think I especially did well on the longer ones about the documents we had to read.
The kicker, however, was the map portion. I mean, who gives a map with absolutely nothing on it. I don't mind doing map portions of quizzes, I'm usually good at them, but with NOTHING ON IT? No borders for different counties, no rivers, no nothing. How am I supposed to figure out where a river is specifically supposed to start and end if I draw it myself. And, how am I supposed to mark a specific city without any country borders? Really? That aside, I think I did a pretty good job and considering the fact this is the first time I'm taking any classes about Ancient History and I think my increased participation in class has really helped me become prepared for it, especially. Now I just have to wait until Friday to see how well I do. Thankfully, I have a bass lesson tomorrow that'll take my mind off it. Wooohooo!! Yeah, we had classes again today. But I'm so excited because I had a really good into to ancient history class today. Like, really good. I understood what was going on and I got a lot of good notes for the quiz next week. I participate a lot to try and understand how things are going and for the past few classes that we've had it didn't seem to help until now.
There was a community standards meeting today which is what we always do whenever we're back from a break and it was a normal meeting. What I'm bummed about though is the fact that there's an even they're doing which is based off the game of life where you write down your dream job or what you want to be doing in the future (married with kids, single with [insert salary here]) and then you stop at different tables with different scenarios and you'll see how well your life would be by the end. I really wanted to do it, but I have World Music the same day and time it's happening. I was really excited about that idea. Hmm. What else? Oh! My sisters and I (Mack and I know first hand) realize that the Physical Plant/Maintenance don't get a lot of recognition when it comes to cleaning up snow and ice and a lot of students complain and don't realize the work they do to clear things out. This past snow days the maintenance department stayed overnight twice to make sure things were clear for us students and all I've heard is other students continue to complain about things maintenance haven't gotten to yet. So, because Mack and I work in Physical Plant and Mere and Steph know from us how badly they're treated, we bought and signed a card thanking them all for the work they did. It's not much but we think it'll be appreciated, our supervisor liked the idea. I won't be there when Mack gives it to them to see how they react, but I hope it'll bring a smile to their faces and they realize just how much we at least appreciate the things they do for us. They really don't have to do everything they do for us and they usually do it without a thank you from students so it's the least we could do. My four day weekend is over...I didn't do much. That's what you're supposed to do on a four day weekend, absolutely nothing. I didn't have to shovel (I bet Mom wasn't too pleased with that, if we were home we would have helped) I didn't have a lot of homework to do, and now because of that I don't have any homework to do this weekend, and I got a lot of writing done. That's the fun part, getting a lot of writing done.
Unfortunately, when I got a lot of writing done, it came at the expense that I 'messed up' a lot and had to re-do stuff over and over and over again. That's the only thing that bugs me about writing in pen sometimes. And it shows that the hardest part of being a writer is accurately getting your thoughts to the page the way you see them in your head. I can almost guarantee no one is excited to go back to classes tomorrow but look on the bright side, I only have one class tomorrow and it's only one month left until Spring Break. Man, these 100 days are flying by. We celebrated 100th night tonight. At our school it marks when you have 100 days left until gradation. 100. DAYS. This includes weekends and breaks. Exactly. 100 days. If you think about it that ways, adding in the last week of march when we have spring break and the fact that we don't have all of May for classes (more like the first week and a half) and that's all the time that we have left.
It's actually a lot easier to count down that way, not so daunting as thinking how many weeks and how many classes we have left. Anyway, like I said, we were celebrating it tonight. So the senior class (or whoever of the senior class is on campus) went to the reading room and ate cake and watched a slideshow of pictures of the class from 2010 to this past to this recent semester. It was really cool seeing how we all changed from our first year. Some more than others. It'll be a good 100 days left until we graduate. (Below is a picture of the bag my ring night bottle came in). Obligatory comment about the snow: Where I am we're expected to get about sixteen inches of snow...I'll be a bit upset if none of my classes are cancelled or if the school doesn't close down. I'm thinking about the commuters, here. Really. I am.
Today was a great day, actually. I only had one class I got to sleep in. Hallelujah!! My class for today was Literature of the Renaissance and we were going over the topic of the Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Iron Ages and how they differed from each other as well as what those different time periods meant for life for those that lived during those time periods. What really interested me was when we got onto the topic about Gods and Goddesses. I love mythology, Roman or Greek, and always find it so interesting how their stories differed from each other as well as the Roman or Greek influences changed things about them. I usually can't remember who is who or what specifically each God's or Goddess's back story was, but I always like to learn about it. If our class could consist of only that, I'd be a happy camper. It was my only class for today so I went to work afterwards which was good as well. Then at the dining hall tonight we had a dinner with Cuban and Jamaican influences with jerk chicken and some specialties. My personal favorite from tonight was the Cuban Beef Steak with Black Bean Salsa. It's probably my favorite thing in moody (apart from some of my usual favorites) and I wish we weren't just having it this month. And, I just finished my turn-in for my advanced creative writing class. My idea for the class this time is to do a series of short stories. That way I can work on getting things done in a quicker time frame/page limit and focus on how to tell the story in that frame. This time the main character is a twenty-six year old male. I want to try and write a guy because I'm not used to doing it, and I'm doing an older character because I want to try someone that would be at the age where he can be mature and immature at the same time so it'll give me a lot of leeway for specific things I want to happen. I finished the first one and I'm really excited to see what I come up with for my other turn-ins based around that character. I have a lot of inspiration for it so I hope it doesn't let me down. Haha. I hope everyone had a great day. |
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