Last Blog Post

So...this is the LAST BLOG POST FOR ENGLISH 103!!!!!!!!!! As you can probably tell, I'm quite excited. I always forget to do these things, which has taken its toll on my grade. I am really excited for next semester...I'm taking two history classes, my speech class, math, and word origins...I love word origins. I find the subject absolutely fascinating. There are so many random words that I can tell you the origins of. So...I just got a magic eight ball from the girl down the hall. I have been asking it questions ever since I got it.  It has totally changed my life...I am going to have three children and a husband...the guy that I've been with for almost a year and a half :-) Oh...and it let me know that there weren't going to be any good movies on tonight, but there would be a good T.V. show.  So, I started flipping through the channels and found Monk!!!! I don't normally believe these kinds of things, but this is just pretty amazing right now...

Stress

So this past week has been really stressful.  I decided that I wanted to start reading a book, which probably wasn't the best idea.  I love this book and have the hardest time stopping, so of course, I haven't been doing my homework until the very last minute.  I had to study for a test for seven hours last night because I have been reading this book all week long. I really need to stop procrastinating. It would really help me manage my stress...but at the same time, I feel like I do my best work when I procrastinate. It's a really complicated situation. Overall this semester hasn't been too bad, which I'm very thankful for. I'm really looking forward to next semester...no chemistry...fewer early morning classes...psychology classes :-) I'm pretty excited.

Random

So...I don't know if we were supposed to post this week, but I figured I would because first of all, I don't want to take the chance of not getting the points, and second of all, I have nothing better to do. This hasn't been the best of weeks.  I had food poisoning on Monday.  On Tuesday, one of my roommates had some boyfriend issues. On Wednesday, I got a little frustrated with my room situation.  I almost yelled at one of my roommates, which under most circumstances I don't normally do.  I don't really like yelling.  It makes me feel like a bad person.  If I ever yell at someone, regardless of what the person has done, I have to stop myself from breaking into tears.  It breaks my heart to see someone upset because of something I did or said. I don't know...maybe I'm just weird.

Research Paper

So I found the rough draft of my research paper fairly easy to write.  Going through and finding information to use in the paper was harder.  I had to figure out how to incorporate it into the paper and be able to expand upon each idea.  I started out with an outline.  I always find it much easier to write a paper if I have an outline to work with.  I know where I'm putting information and can add things without completely messing up my paper.  It took me forever to figure out how to do a bibliography in APA style.  I've never done it before.  I think that my final draft will be pretty good.  I have some things to fix, but for the most part it looks decent.

By the way, when I was driving home, I saw a kid's shoe on the side of the road. It was a little strange.

Research Paper

I feel like the group research paper is going well. We all work together and get along. I'm excited about the topic we chose. I believe that we have good information to make a valid argument for and against college degrees. There is a lot of information on the internet and in magazines and newspapers that talk about the economy.  There are many biases about college degrees, so we have different extremist opinions, which will hopefully provide good arguments. I feel like this topic will make a good research paper. The economy is a huge topic, and as college students, we need to know what is going to be a good career.  We need to understand what could be potentially harmful and helpful when searching for jobs.

Cereal

I have never really eaten much for breakfast. Sometimes I drink some juice or milk and maybe I'll eat a granola bar. As of late, though, I have become slightly addicted to sugary cereals. Before I came to college,my mom took me out to get food to have in my dorm. I got an assortment of cereals...I think there were around thirty small boxes. There are healthy cereals and the not so healthy cereals. I enjoy the healthy ones. I do like raisin bran and mini wheats and corn flakes, but I LOVE fruit loops and...well, that's the one that I really love. I wish there were cocoa puffs, because that would be even better. Nothing is better than chocolate cereal :-)

Grades

It is a well-known fact that I am too hard on myself.  When it comes to grades, I always think that I should be doing better...even if I get an A.  It's really ridiculous to put all of that stress on myself, but that's just how I am.  Teachers have been announcing the class averages on different exams, and at times, I am absolutely appalled. When an average is 79% and teachers say that everyone did a good job, I get kind of mad.  To me, anything below an 85% is unacceptable...even if I don't study.  There are times when I know I did poorly on a test, and I expect it.  Even when I know that a test was difficult and half of the questions didn't make sense, I still should have done better.  There used to be a time when I didn't care about grades so much...I used to throw away my homework and not pay attention in class. Now, I think I take school too seriously.