Wednesday, December 10, 2008

I am so thankful that I know how to write and pull a paper out of my head quickly. We've always been told not to procrastinate and I know I shouldn't but sometimes it just works out. I absolutely cannot believe that Professor Stein gave me 110 points on a 100 point essay that I emailed to him the day after it was due! I've always been very panicky, but maybe I work best in a state of panic, either that or someone watching over me knew that I needed a confidence boost during finals week.


I am so happy I did well on my psych paper, but I am so stressed about my English class. I really want to do well on my career research paper because I've really put my heart into it, but a comment from a classmate that read my paper keeps nagging at me. She said, "I don't think that it was what the professor is looking for". What kind of crappy comment is that! Just because this girl wants to be a book editor, doesn't mean she can walk all over my paper. Uggghhh.... so much for constructive criticism!

Thursday, December 4, 2008

I absolutely hate when teachers call their students lazy! I agree that sometimes we are and deserve to be called lazy. But, they have know idea what is going through our minds and what other things we have to deal with. I hate the teachers accuse their students of being lazy when they are toooo! Hypocrites! Most of the time I really enjoy my English class because I get really helpful feedback from professor Knudson and we have class discussions that actually enhance the class and make the work easier. However, one assignment has been eating at me for months (or maybe just a month). Instead of just grading our in-class midterm essays Dr. Knudson thought it would be a dandy idea if she didn't and returned them to us without being graded! What the heck is up with that? She also decided that we should each write an essay that grades, analyzes, and essentially picks apart our midterm essays! How freakin' ridiculous is that? Personally, I think that this assignment stems from her inner laziness! Maybe, she decided that she doesn't have to be productive any more just because she has a BA, 2 MAs, and a PhD! Well Excuse Me! It's not my fault she decided to get way too much education and become Pretty Heavily in Debt, instead of having a real life! I think that she didn't want to have to read our midterm essays and another essay on a different topic entirely and then grade them all; so, she decided that she would make us write an extra essay about our midterms. Its not like I don't have enough to do! I had a psychology paper due on Tuesday, finals are in like a week and a half, I have to write an essay for my philosophy class, i have to write for 1 page essays for my psych class, i had a math test on Wednesday, and the 2nd rough draft of our 11-15 page research papers (also in Knudson's class) is due tomorrow with the essay analyzing my midterm essay! uggghhh!

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Do you know what two good things about fairy tales are ? A: Fairytale princesses never seem to need to go to college (except in Amanda Byne's version of Snow White, "Sydney White") and they never seem tired. I hate that in college even when you have time to sleep, its never good sleep. Even after finishing my psychology paper that I procrastinated for weeks I still couldn't get a good night's rest. I hated high school, but at least I didn't care enough about my work then that I was able to get some sleep! Does that even make sense? Of course it doesn't.....I hardly slept last night! I tossed and turned all night, then I woke up at 4am yelling "OK!" It was directed towards my mom because I thought I'd heard her say "Get UP!". Apparently it was just a dream, because it was only 4am and she was sound asleep! uggghh! I'm so tired!