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 Posted January 21st, 2006 at 12:42AM
I need to update the blog more often. I must make better posts, with more politics. I need to change the design to something prettier, more colorful, more “hip”.
First week of classes through, and it’s looking pretty good. I’m taking twelve credits: three writing classes and macroeconomics. I only have class on Tuesdays and Thursdays, which really makes everything manageable. Because the workload is going to be pretty hefty. A lot of writing, to be expected.
I did not place into German 202. I didn’t even make it into 201. After two semesters of 102, I still can not place out of it into a higher class. Ultimately this doesn’t matter, since next fall I can take 201 (which is only offered in the fall – I was trying to skip it, take 202 this spring semester, and be done with that “awful German language”). But it’s damn exasperating nonetheless. The politics major requires a foreign language taken up to the intermediate level. I’m reminded of when one of my advisors said that the only way around this, was if I had some sort of learning disability which precluded doing this.
I wish. I’m just damn lazy, and – in languages – you can’t just sail through. Or at least I can’t. Maybe I should bone up on the symptoms of a disability.
No. That’d be too much work.
I’m going to work on the design of the site, since it’s pretty drab right now. And I really need to get back into the swing of writing politics. I did not intend this to be a personal blog. I hate personal blogs.
Posted October 27th, 2005 at 3:30PM
This week and next we have midterm exams. It seems so early, but yes. Apparently we’re half-way through the semester. I’ve been here almost two months. I’m entirely adjusted. It’ll be odd going back to the states and actually being able to talk to people.
A lot of people are stressing out about the tests. I’m a bit more laid back. Understatement? Yes. I’m beginning to seriously question some of the schools that the other Americans go to. So far this semester has been a complete breeze for me. I did not expect this. I’m taking four fucking politics classes and German, afterall. But so far it’s been mostly reading. I’ve had one midterm at this point, and it did not seem bad. In another month our term papers are due. And nearly a month after that, are the finals.
Our papers aren’t due at the end of the semester. This means that I won’t be able to put off writing the papers until finals week. This means that my workload is spread out more, that I won’t be so stressed out, and that I’ll probably put more effort into my work.
This means a GPA raising semester. Just as I intended.
Life is good. Again.
Monday was scary.
Posted May 2nd, 2005 at 10:40AM
Here I am, banging out the rough draft for one of my final papers. I should have had a full rough draft last Thursday, but I re-scheduled the conference. The final is due on Friday. It should be good. It’s a satirical piece arguing for why we should jettison nuclear waste into space (or the sun, haven’t decided yet). I’ve just been having a terrible time concentrating on it. Like right now, how I find myself magically posting instead of working on it. Interesting, huh? I guess it’s coming along alright. Slowly but surely. A sneak peak:
So where exactly are we going to put our nuclear waste? Storing it domestically is costly and dangerous. Paying third world nations to take it also might have repercussions for America down the line. And ocean dumping is frowned upon today, as a result of environmental lobbyists. However, I think it’s safe to say that there one prospective avenue that we have yet to discuss. And that is jettisoning the waste into space.
This semester in terms of finals, I have three tests and two papers. This is a 180 from every semester before, where I had a lot of papers and only one or two tests. I think it will be a nice change of pace actually. I can go and quickly rip through a test faster than it takes to write a decent paper.
I have no idea what my grades are going to be like this semester.
Interesting fog today. Cornell looks cool.
I think the cleaning staff have given up on our floor altogether. We have more toilet paper, but nothing has been cleaned. Probably for the best. Someone broke one of the shower handles a few days ago, so now we are limited to the worse shower, which is too low and changes temperatures frequently. Although this doesn’t quite stop people from trying to use the broken shower – everyday now I wake up and go into the bathroom to find it pouring out water because some real genius could turn it on but not off.
I’m tired of this shit.
Posted April 10th, 2005 at 12:19AM
I like these new short titles I’m making. Quick and to the pointless.
I’m tired. Tomorrow will be Sunday and it’ll be another week. More work. Although schools almost over, then I’ll just be heading on home. Nothing to do over the summer. Need to get a job.
I have yet to hear back about my application to go abroad next fall (applied to a program based in Freiburg that studies the European Union). I received an e-mail a week or two ago saying they were missing some paperwork, although I had already sent it. So I filled it out again. They should have gotten it by now. I’ll be pretty dissapointed if somehow I don’t end up going abroad. Big understatement: I’ll be royally pissed. Especially since my job in Alaska this summer fell through. If I don’t go abroad next fall, then I’ve missed my opportunity. There is no other time to go, because from then on I have required classes that are only given in fall/spring semesters.
I don’t know.
Posted March 13th, 2005 at 7:04PM
The past week was spring break, so I was home on a dial-up connection. I was also fairly busy the entire time, thus the dry spell. I’m now back at school, and will probably be writing more often.
My Mother and I bought three fish last Friday, and I brought one to school. Paul Reuben. He’s a beautiful little chap.
Will write more later, hopefully. The previous post was a midterm essay for my politics class, leave comments. I didn’t fully flesh it out – working on a time constraint and all, but it came out alright in my opinion.
Oh, and if my Google AdSense ads don’t start showing ‘relevant’ ads, I’m just going to remove them. It’s sort of obvious by this point that I’m not going to make enough revenue to make them worthwhile anyways.
Posted February 8th, 2005 at 4:18PM
We took a quiz in my Race in US Politics class last Thursday. On the previous Tuesday, he told us we were having it, layed out what it would be on (the reading for that day). I made sure to do the reading. However I misread the syllabus, and only read one of the two readings. I realized this just before class, and spent five minutes scanning a thirty or forty page paper. I get to the class, there are four questions, only one on the second reading. Great.
I had no idea how he would grade them. I was pretty careful with the questions I knew, and I did an OK job bullshitting the question on the reading I only scanned. At the end of class today, he handed back the papers. I got a 99, scale of 100.
Each question was worth fifteen points, and if you got at least ten points total, he added fourty points (if you couldn’t pick up ten points, you obviously didn’t read (and don’t have the ability to write anything remotely connected to the class, apparently)).
Totally blows my mind. I got full credit on the last question, missed a point elsewhere. It put me into my first good mood in several days. Wild.
Bad Religion — Materialist
You’re obsesssed and distressed
Cause you can’t make any sense of the ludicrous nonsense
And incipient senescence
That will deem your common sense useless
This ain’t no recess!
Posted February 2nd, 2005 at 6:19PM
I have to do the reading for my politics class tomorrow, the professor told us Tuesday that we were having a quiz on the material. He then layed out exactly what it was on, to the question. He then said, in so many words, that the people who weren’t there at that point (half a dozen students) were screwed.
It’ll be the first time I’ve read all of the reading since the first assignment. It’s really dry, drawn-out discussion about race, ethnicity, “primordialism.” A lot of it so far has been talking about obscure groups living in present-day Nigeria, or the Pacific Islands.
I got my last shipment of books from Amazon. Most of them were books for the politics class, hopefully the books will be a bit more entertaining.
I have a fair amount of stuff to do for my other class. And I really should at least draw up a rough proposal for my article in the alt. college rag. It’ll be an opinion piece on the recent elections in Iraq. Hint: inconsequential, largely symbolic.
But otherwise, I’m still sort of just going through the motions. The weather is still nice, but I think it’s suppose to be cloudy tomorrow. Which will mean a drop in temperatures.
Modest Mouse — The Stars are Projectors
In the last second of life, they’re gonna show you how
How they run this show, sure, run it into the ground
The stars are projectors, yeah
Projectin’ our lives down to this planet Earth
The stars are projectors, yeah
Projectin’ our minds down to this planet Earth
Everyone wants a double feature
They wanna be their own damn teacher, and how
All the stars are projectors, yeah
Projectin’ our lives down to this planet Earth
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