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.
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P.s. I get to see Leah tomorrow! *excitement*
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Did Your Dad Buy Your Lexus Too?
I had full intention of writing a blog last night but when it came down to it I decided I couldn't be bothered to type since I had been on my laptop for what felt like the whole freaking day. So I VIDEO blogged. Woo! Then I spent 25 minutes attempting to upload it onto my actual blog post because nothing was working. Ultimately, I went through the trouble of getting my YouTube account back up and put it on there...then linked my YouTube link to my blog. So many failures involved. It wasn't loud enough and I don't know how to work YouTube channels and it all just looked stupid. Why can't I just upload my damn video straight on my blog I DO NOT KNOW. I thought I was saving time by making a video last night and I ended up wasting 150% more time by trying to figure out a video on blogger.
The video was a straight up 3 minute rant about this girl I was checking out at the library. Checking her books out, not her bod. A little box on the library computer screen popped up saying "DO NOT LET HER CHECK BOOKS OUT SHE OWES $92 IN FINES". That's not verbatim but more or less it was the situation. I kindly relayed this message to her and said if you owe more than fifty bucks you can't check books out. She's all sassed up and sayin, "I'm pretty sure I've never checked books out at the library so I don't know how those fines have even aquired." WELL HUNNY THEY DID. I went back to get my supervisor and he told her that he can override the issue and she can still check books out she'll just have to pay the fine before she graduates. Because her account was on the screen I could tell she was a senior so I highly doubted she had never checked books out before anyways. Plus, I can see what the fines were for on the screen. She asked my supervisor so politely what the fines were for and he told her it was for some books and movies that she never returned freshman year. Of course, when my somewhat-attractive-for-an-older-man and chiseled and tan supervisor tells her she has fines she laughs and suddenly remembers. But when I, the very responsible yet young looking library assistant, tell her she has fines that she needs to pay to get her new books she thinks I'm full of shit and don't know what I'm talking about. Newsflash Gretchen Weiners wanna be, I DO.
As if I wasn't already annoyed enough, and clearly showing it with my 'If you talk anymore I'll need a pen to gouge my eyes out' look, she proceeded to tell us that she will simply have her dad write a check for the fine and bring it back next week. Your dad?! You're a senior in college! Ok, I understand that we are college students in a time of economic hardship. Most of us rely on our parents for some financial assistance. Some more than others. For example, I only rely on my parents for the small payments, like my apartment rent...and car insurance...and car repairs... ok and food (RARELY) if I end up putting too much in my cart that I can't afford. If I came to my parents to pay for a fine that I aquired on my own over not returning books or movies, they would tell me to figure it out on my own and sell my body if I must. Then my mom would laugh because she knows I wouldn't last a day in that field.
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The video was a straight up 3 minute rant about this girl I was checking out at the library. Checking her books out, not her bod. A little box on the library computer screen popped up saying "DO NOT LET HER CHECK BOOKS OUT SHE OWES $92 IN FINES". That's not verbatim but more or less it was the situation. I kindly relayed this message to her and said if you owe more than fifty bucks you can't check books out. She's all sassed up and sayin, "I'm pretty sure I've never checked books out at the library so I don't know how those fines have even aquired." WELL HUNNY THEY DID. I went back to get my supervisor and he told her that he can override the issue and she can still check books out she'll just have to pay the fine before she graduates. Because her account was on the screen I could tell she was a senior so I highly doubted she had never checked books out before anyways. Plus, I can see what the fines were for on the screen. She asked my supervisor so politely what the fines were for and he told her it was for some books and movies that she never returned freshman year. Of course, when my somewhat-attractive-for-an-older-man and chiseled and tan supervisor tells her she has fines she laughs and suddenly remembers. But when I, the very responsible yet young looking library assistant, tell her she has fines that she needs to pay to get her new books she thinks I'm full of shit and don't know what I'm talking about. Newsflash Gretchen Weiners wanna be, I DO.
As if I wasn't already annoyed enough, and clearly showing it with my 'If you talk anymore I'll need a pen to gouge my eyes out' look, she proceeded to tell us that she will simply have her dad write a check for the fine and bring it back next week. Your dad?! You're a senior in college! Ok, I understand that we are college students in a time of economic hardship. Most of us rely on our parents for some financial assistance. Some more than others. For example, I only rely on my parents for the small payments, like my apartment rent...and car insurance...and car repairs... ok and food (RARELY) if I end up putting too much in my cart that I can't afford. If I came to my parents to pay for a fine that I aquired on my own over not returning books or movies, they would tell me to figure it out on my own and sell my body if I must. Then my mom would laugh because she knows I wouldn't last a day in that field.
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