Finals Countdown....
This week (the last post until today) has been a vanilla-yogurt, weetabix, bland mix of nothing and less-than-nothing.... I managed to read 5 or 6 books, watch a bunch of movies, play Risk for the first time since pre-Disney world flight last year, and visit a few new pubs....
Basically, i've been avoiding the unavoidable... At the end of next week, I'll be done with first semester and excited for my TV Cultures class, but at this point I'm scared out of my mind.
Geology is possibly the most difficult and rediculous class i've ever taken. Imagine a middle schooler sitting in on a college science class. I have no clue what the prof says or what i'm supposed to study. Our final (worth 75%) consists of an essay and 50ish multiple choice questions. After some very dificult equations (yup, still an English major at heart) I realize that each multiple choice question is worth roughly 1-2% of my final grade. That's DISGUSTING. It's helpful taking these crazy classes, as i can use this info for my future teaching. Never will i trick my students, make multiple choice tests worth so much, or teach Geology...
American Novel is slightly less scary.... the prof said (and this is verbatum) "The more you write, the better off you'll be..." That is to say, the more info you can jam into 2 hrs of essay writing, the better. I'm not sure if i agree with this, but considering the books we've read are covered in most 8th grade American classrooms, i think i'll be ok.... Huck Finn, some Melville, etc... the only thing that scares me is that so far we've had no other projects to grade... how UN-Luther...
In other news, there is no other news. Friends from home continue to be amazing, supportive, family continues to be awesome- be it through phone calls, emails, or packages containing awesome Asics Tiger shoes, and the the flatmates seem to have bonded/congealed/molded/adapted/grown together in ways that i really could not have imagined before leaving for break...
Phil Juggins warned us of the impending doom that was THE RETURN FROM CHRISTMAS BREAK - supposedly the time when tempers flare and patience boils over, but from what i can tell, we've only gotten closer....
With all of the stresses involved with finals, i hope it stays this way- time will tell.
THE TO DO LIST:
-study
-buy ticket home
-plan gram and gramps' trip on Feb 16th
-get a job
-keep running
oh, and before anyone starts to worry, we did get a new washing machine. crisis averted. now if only the shower worked....
posted by Kevin @ 10:32 AM
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