What the hell. I think college professors have this backwards. I just spent three hours on a take home test. This is the second take home exam for the class and the first test took just as long. I learned more from doing these exams than I have all semester long and I actually had to learn it myself by reading, comprehending and applying it to these never ending multiple choice possibilities that differ by one word each. It's ironic because this class is the biggest "in-class" blowoff. People skip class with no immediate or recognizable repercussion, and even when we're in class some students are doing schoolwork for other classes. I'm guilty of this. I often bring reading material I need to do from my other classes because simply half the time what the professor is lecturing on isn't even relevant to the material. He goes off on tangents and tries to relate to us by talking about sex and how horny we probably are. Um, this is a research methods class. Not exactly the most orgasmic subject. Regardless, my final grade will still be good because I worked my ass off on these take home exams. The real question is, why don't all my teachers do this?! I'm much more likely to read the material if I have it in front of me when taking my exam. If I'm told to study for the in class exam, I find it a lot harder to self-discipline myself into reading. If teachers claim students will skip classes if they allow take home exams than make your lectures worthwhile and noteworthy. Plus, I was never taught how to study.
Thank God I'm a decent writer and most soc classes have more paper requirements than exams because I would be failing out, hard core. Example: the bio class I'm required to take this semester only has exams, one being this morning. Not only did I fail to dedicate a proper amount of time studying for it last night, I also forgot my calculator. I honestly did try preparing last night but I was too distracted by the election. Lies. I started watching season 3 of The Office. Which makes less sense than if I was being distracted by the election because I just finished watching season 6 of The Office. I'm skipping around quite a bit and it's making the characters persona's all jumbled. AND I DIDN'T KNOW RASHIDA JONES WAS IN THAT SHOW. However, it's slightly easier than skipping around seasons like I tried doing with LOST the second time through.
I'm counting down the days for Thanksgiving break, as I'm sure most students are. It's funny though because my classes were cancelled tomorrow and Friday. I thought I was getting a little pre-Thanksgiving vacation as of last weekend, but as the week went on I slowly realized not having class isn't changing much of my work load. I still have to work tomorrow night, baby sit all night Friday, write a paper, and seriously begin reading two long books for classes. Plus, a teacher who is going out of town for over a week whom I have for two classes with on MWF's is actually making us go to class on Friday just to watch a movie. This is college, woman. If you're not there, we shouldn't be expected to be there either. I love ranting to a computer screen because it can't tell me to stop whining.
The only thing keeping me motivated right now is the fact that is my last fall semester as a college student. Unless I fail. Choose to dropout. Or contract an illness that postpones my graduation for another year. Just bein' real.
xxxx
A
P.s. I get to see Leah tomorrow! *excitement*
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