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Two new people e-mailed me yesterday asking to be on my notify list!!! I decided I had to update this page to celebrate.
I'm going out of town this weekend- to my Gramma's 80th birthday party. I think it's about an eight hour car ride from here to there.... but it's her 80th birthday. I have to go. Midterm grades came out on Tuesday.... There was a big grade party going on in my room because it's easier to look them up on the internet than to get through on the phone... and I'm one of the only people with a computer. I discovered I basically have the highest grades of anybody in our hall... and that there are a whole lot of people failing half their classes and getting C's in the rest of them. I told you I'm the only one who ever studies around here.... although I haven't been this week... I guess maybe they got the message. I'm having roommate troubles... my roommate never studies, and she never turns the tv off.... I mean, if she's in the room and awake, the tv is on. It drives me crazy. I hate asking her to turn it off, because there's really no place else to watch TV and there are a lot of other places to study... so I usually just go out in the study lounge (which is just two doors down from our room) and study there.... only half the time once I get there there's a "study group" down there that isn't studying anything-- usually they're comparing stories about their high schools. So I go down into the basement study lounge... there is never anybody down there... but that's because it's kinda creepy and really cold. ....when midterms came out people asked me how I did and I didn't see any reason to lie to them so I told them, and I got so many people asking me "how do you do it?" and "can you help me?" and it's really very simple- I actually study. This one girl who lives across the hall from me stated crying when she saw her grades (which really surprised me, because it's not like you don't know how you're doing... I mean, if you get back a test that says "D" you're not going to have an "A" for your midterm.) ...but anyway, she kept asking me and it's really not what I do that gets me good grades, it's what I don't do.... she goes out a lot, has a lot of study groups where they sit and talk about everything but what they're supposed to be studying, and watches a lot of tv.... I hate going out (which is probably to my advantage even though they all think I'm weird.) ...I never go to study groups because I think they're usually a waste of time, and I watch three hours of TV a week when they're not reruns. (Buffy, Felicity, and ER, if you're interested.) My mom tapes some other stuff for me and I watch it when I go home on weekends. ....in other words, I'm a geek. And actually, I like it that way. Anyway it amazes me how bad at writing some of these people are. The same girl I was talking about before, who started crying when she saw her grades... she asked me to proof read this essay she wrote.... and I did, but there wasn't a whole lot I could do to help. It was a page-long essay, with basically five marathon sentences and none of them really answered the question. I helped her break the sentences up... but there really wasn't a whole lot I could do about the content of them. Anyway. I had a panicky day yesterday.... cuz I'm going away today, and I have so much stuff due next week.... I basically got up, went to all my classes, spent the time in between classes either eating or studying, and then spent all evening- from 4:30pm- 1:30am studying. I took a couple breaks, obviously. I took a big one between 9:15 and 10:30 to go to this presentation our floor had to go to. I got quite a bit done.... two foreign governments assignments, my calculus review test, and quite a bit of research for this paper I have to write that's due next week. I still have a lot to do, though... that paper (it's a pro-choice position paper) is due wednesday and we're having a debate in class that day... and it's four pro people and four against people sitting in front of the rest of the class arguing... so I have to know what I'm talking about. And I have a big Spanish assignment due next week, and a calculus test on Thursday that I need to study for and a couple of smallish foreign governments assignments and a group project in political analysis... and of course reading for all those classes and a couple more. Ugh. I gotta go to class. |