This semester became much easier when I dropped Organismal Biology. It’s kinda funny, my workstudy boss advised me to drop the class when she saw our study guide for our first test. It was 10 pages long! Um… hello, a single test shouldn’t have a study guide that long unless it’s the final! I think I figured it out though. You see back last year when we signed up for classes I signed up with Dr. Hancock for General Biology. Well over the summer Dr. Hancock retired and everyone who had signed up for his classes was juggled around. I think somewhere in that juggling I was switched from General Biology to Organismal. I still have to take General Biology… which I do not look forward to… but it has to be done.
Back at the beginning of this semester I went to my Drawing II professor and talked to him about some issues I have with being in studio Art classes. I have a really hard time paying attention and doing the same thing for two and a half hours. Most of the time I’m done with whatever we’re doing in an hour and then I just pretend to be doing whatever for the next hour and a half. I get so BORED T_T. As nice as my professor can be he said that without a doctor’s note I couldn’t take the class as an independent study, especially when the class was being offered. -sigh-
Remember that class I told you that was going to give me trouble? Well it’s actually really easy, it’s a bunch of busy work… which. I. HATE. I’ve finished more of the books I’ve been reading for fun in that class than is seriously possible. This is the class I use to write and beta fanfiction. I can’t understand a word my professor says and well… I’ll stop there cause I’m really gonna rant about him at the end of this entry.
My gran has been sick since last November. She’s been to doctor after doctor and finally about a month ago they told her that pneumonia had settled in her lungs. They put a port into her arm and my mom and uncle had to come to her house twice a day to give her the antibiotics cause there weren’t enough nurses in the company to come do it. She seems be finally be getting better. I can only hope that getting better continues.
Gran needing these shots twice a day was about a week before mom went to Hawaii for two weeks with her girlfriends and without me. They were going on a cruise and although I’m not big on cruises I really want to go back to Hawaii. Yeah… I was in school but I totally wouldn’t have minded skipping class for Hawaii. That’s a lie, if you actually believed that… go back to Go, do not collect $200. What really pissed me off was that mom was gone over my fall break. I don’t really go home all that often and I hadn’t seen my mom since my b-day… I missed my Mommy.
Fall break was pretty fun. My friend Linda came home with me so she wouldn’t be stuck on campus alone over break. I mainly caught up on sleep and played with our puppy Sammy. Linda and I went out and hung out with Hallie, so much fun! I love my bestie just about more than anything.
I had the easiest midterm this semester. For Survey it was 8 multiple choice questions and 3 essays we had to do outside of class and bring them in. Def. the best class we’ve had to date. I was done in just around a minute and left. Oh and a week later I found out that I got a 100 on it. Yaaaay me.
For Halloween this year I decided to be a gypsy. After much searching and deliberating I decided to use a skirt I already had that looked like it had just been patched together and a brown shirt with a few sparkly things on it. One of the lady’s at the library did my hair and it looked… 1920’s. It was awesome! I also found the best earrings and this chain of gold coins to wrap around my skirt. They are so much fun I put them on my jeans now and then and wear them to class.
I said before that I don’t go home a lot after and move into school and mostly that’s true… this year however has been different. I think a lot of it is because I didn’t get the time I normally do with my mom over my break. Since fall break I have been home twice and would have gone this weekend if I didn’t have a huge test I had to stay on campus to take this past Saturday. I would prolly go this coming weekend too but that would be a waste seeing as we leave for Thanksgiving break the following Tuesday.
I want to go home.
Nov. 15th 2008 I had to take the PPST in hopes of getting high enough scores to take the last Education classes I need to do Student Teaching Fall 2010. I have to get a 173 in Reading and Writing and a 172 in Math. I studied for this test, did practice tests, everything that one should do to prepare for such a test I suppose. Friday night I was tired and since I had to be up at 6 to get ready and be at the testing center by 7 I decided to go to bed early, early meaning 10pm. Just my luck that my suitemates decide to basically throw a party that night. I knew they were trying to be quiet but when you have a big group of people trying to be quiet… it doesn’t really work.
After finally falling asleep about 12am I got up with my alarm at 6am and went to get ready. I was about to turn on the light in the suite when I heard something. Taking a closer look in the darkness I saw two of my suitemates asleep in the floor. Words cannot describe how pissed I was. I guess I’m to nice to just flip on the lights and make the noise it was going to take to eat breakfast, etc… because instead I got ready in the bathroom with the door closed as to not disturb them and then left without eating breakfast. By the time my test was over at 12:30pm I was starving. I walked into the suite to get my ID and just stopped. There was a mattress out in our suite and the suite is a complete disaster. I left as quickly as possible. I’m a messy person but I can only take so much and this is too much. I stayed down in my friend Jess’s room last night and have been here most of today too. I did go back to take a shower and while I was there I bagged up TWO full bags of trash. RIDICULOUS. >.<
I’m ready for spring semester to be here. I’m hoping to be in 18 hours worth of class but right now I’m only in 15. I have to get my scores back from the PPST to sign up for the other. I hope I kicked ass on that test so I can take that class. I’m going to be really busy on MWF and not so much on TTH. On the plus side one of my MWF classes only meets on MW so I’m done on Friday by one… yaaaaay. Here’s my classes next semester:
-Descriptive Linguistics
-Spanish II
-American Lit
-Computer Imaging II
-Sculpture
*And hopefully Studies in Education
Alright time for the promised rant about Dr. Eskay. Let me start with his background… he was born in Nigeria, raised in England and went to school in Canada; somehow he still has a huge super strong Nigerian accent. He has taught at 5 other intuitions other than my school. His favorite expressions are “Oh really?” and “Do you get what I’m saying?” Recently he has become fond of “What is good for the goose is good for the gander.” Although… when he says it… it comes out more like “What is good for the goose is good for the gender.” Honestly, I can’t understand a word the man says… but since I have an A in the class I guess it doesn’t really matter. My biggest problem with him is that he knows when our assignments are due, he’s the professor after all, but he doesn’t send us the stuff we need to complete said assignments until the day before. I didn’t do one of the big assignments because he waited until 5pm the day before it was due to send us the directions on how to do it. I’m not gonna stress myself out over something like that.
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