.1o6 x finals & junk
12/12/07 13:31![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
karriezaiSo today is the day of rest before finals begin. I have a final at 8am tomorrow... government. And then at 8am Monday for history, and from 10:30 to 12:30 after that I have to go to my honors seminar final slot -- not for an actual final, but for a final workshop and to read our manifestos. Then at 10:30 on Tuesday I have my comm final. It's rough because we didn't get our grades back for our paper in gov or our paper OR final speech in comm, so in both those classes us students are sweating a little because we don't know how well we're doing at the moment. I really hope I'm doing well. I need at least one A in a three-credit course, and my second government exam was only a high B. The first was an A, so if I did well on the paper and get an A on the final, I'll get an A. I'm praying a little.
Anyway, I'm a comm major now. I just can't do journalism, I hate it too much. For my later classes, getting news clips published will be a course requirement... and one grammatical/spelling/factual error can make me fail an assignment. I really hate the news. Writing for a magazine -- like realms of fantasy or something else that interests me -- could be great, but going through a news-oriented journalism program to get there would be horrible for me. So I transferred to communications, and I may add psych as a double major later on. I actually really like my comm class despite the teacher being mildly scary, so I think it'll work out. Plus there are lots of career options for comm and for psych. It's not quite finalized -- I have to take this paper by the arts and humanities department, and I didn't have time yesterday -- but it'll be all settled tomorrow after my gov final.
Back to finals... I really need to study. For gov, I missed a lecture, so I have to find anything I missed in the reading. Luckily she gives us a review sheet, and there's very, very little on the test that isn't on the review sheet... so as long as I make sure I know everything on it, I'll be fine. I want to do some hardcore studying. I really want to ace that test. Blah. Same for all my finals, really, of course. I really hope I'm doing better than I think. I don't expect to make lower than a B in any class... but I really need at least one A, like I said. And that has to be in a three-credit. I'm almost positive I'll be making an A in HONR100, but it's only one-credit. There's a possibility I'll make an A in JOUR100, but I doubt it; probably more like a high B. In history I probably could have made an A if not for getting a C on my first big paper... I made an A on the midterm, a B on the smaller paper, and I'll probably get an A for participation (I hope).
But enough pondering my grades. Stupid college. Haha.
My schedule for next semester is looking pretty good. I should have Wednesday and Friday off. Monday I'll have two classes -- a two-hour lab at nine in the morning, and then a discussion later on, but I should be out of school early enough. Tuesday and Thursday I'll have class pretty much straight from 9:30 to 3:15 with 15 minute breaks between, which is like highschool but without a real lunch. I guess I'll pack a lunch or bring a poptart or something. Thursday I may have a class from 3:30 to 6:30 as well... I'm waitlisted. I'm on the holdfile for another class, but I'm 21st on the list... and I forget what time that class is. I should go look. Yeah... so my exact Monday schedule is lab from 9 to 11 and then discussion from 1 to 1:50. The class I'm on holdfile for is Thursday 3:30 to 4:20 and Monday from 12 to 12:50. It's criminology 100, and I'd much rather get that one than the other I'm waitlisted for, but we'll see. I already went down from 21st to 20th... haha.
Well. I need to move some laundry, brush my hair, and go to Safeway. I'm hungry. I'm so broke, but Danny left me 20 bucks. He has to work 6 days a week right now for the holiday season... with extended hours, too. It sucks, especially since they haven't even promoted him yet. He's running a store but he's still just a manager in training, $14.50 an hour. We think they'll wait until after the holidays to promote him, probably because they didn't want to have to give him a Christmas bonus or anything. But they'd better give him a fucking good pay raise. He's driving 28 miles to work. 30 miles and they'd give him a gas bonus, but it's two miles shy so they won't, despite sitting in traffic for two hours any time he opens instead of closes. It sucks horribly. And he's been so broke lately. Dennis' mom, his 'landlady' so to speak, waited until the day before the next month's rent was due to cash the check for rent from the month before. Danny overdrew a lot, of course, and didn't have money to pay rent... I paid his rent for him from my savings. I practically live here anyway so it wouldn't hurt me to pay rent once in a while, but he's gonna want to pay me back. (Whether that's in sexual favors or money... time will tell.) Anyway, that wouldn't be a problem if they'd promote him the way they should.
But enough ranting. I really do need to get moving.
Anyway, I'm a comm major now. I just can't do journalism, I hate it too much. For my later classes, getting news clips published will be a course requirement... and one grammatical/spelling/factual error can make me fail an assignment. I really hate the news. Writing for a magazine -- like realms of fantasy or something else that interests me -- could be great, but going through a news-oriented journalism program to get there would be horrible for me. So I transferred to communications, and I may add psych as a double major later on. I actually really like my comm class despite the teacher being mildly scary, so I think it'll work out. Plus there are lots of career options for comm and for psych. It's not quite finalized -- I have to take this paper by the arts and humanities department, and I didn't have time yesterday -- but it'll be all settled tomorrow after my gov final.
Back to finals... I really need to study. For gov, I missed a lecture, so I have to find anything I missed in the reading. Luckily she gives us a review sheet, and there's very, very little on the test that isn't on the review sheet... so as long as I make sure I know everything on it, I'll be fine. I want to do some hardcore studying. I really want to ace that test. Blah. Same for all my finals, really, of course. I really hope I'm doing better than I think. I don't expect to make lower than a B in any class... but I really need at least one A, like I said. And that has to be in a three-credit. I'm almost positive I'll be making an A in HONR100, but it's only one-credit. There's a possibility I'll make an A in JOUR100, but I doubt it; probably more like a high B. In history I probably could have made an A if not for getting a C on my first big paper... I made an A on the midterm, a B on the smaller paper, and I'll probably get an A for participation (I hope).
But enough pondering my grades. Stupid college. Haha.
My schedule for next semester is looking pretty good. I should have Wednesday and Friday off. Monday I'll have two classes -- a two-hour lab at nine in the morning, and then a discussion later on, but I should be out of school early enough. Tuesday and Thursday I'll have class pretty much straight from 9:30 to 3:15 with 15 minute breaks between, which is like highschool but without a real lunch. I guess I'll pack a lunch or bring a poptart or something. Thursday I may have a class from 3:30 to 6:30 as well... I'm waitlisted. I'm on the holdfile for another class, but I'm 21st on the list... and I forget what time that class is. I should go look. Yeah... so my exact Monday schedule is lab from 9 to 11 and then discussion from 1 to 1:50. The class I'm on holdfile for is Thursday 3:30 to 4:20 and Monday from 12 to 12:50. It's criminology 100, and I'd much rather get that one than the other I'm waitlisted for, but we'll see. I already went down from 21st to 20th... haha.
Well. I need to move some laundry, brush my hair, and go to Safeway. I'm hungry. I'm so broke, but Danny left me 20 bucks. He has to work 6 days a week right now for the holiday season... with extended hours, too. It sucks, especially since they haven't even promoted him yet. He's running a store but he's still just a manager in training, $14.50 an hour. We think they'll wait until after the holidays to promote him, probably because they didn't want to have to give him a Christmas bonus or anything. But they'd better give him a fucking good pay raise. He's driving 28 miles to work. 30 miles and they'd give him a gas bonus, but it's two miles shy so they won't, despite sitting in traffic for two hours any time he opens instead of closes. It sucks horribly. And he's been so broke lately. Dennis' mom, his 'landlady' so to speak, waited until the day before the next month's rent was due to cash the check for rent from the month before. Danny overdrew a lot, of course, and didn't have money to pay rent... I paid his rent for him from my savings. I practically live here anyway so it wouldn't hurt me to pay rent once in a while, but he's gonna want to pay me back. (Whether that's in sexual favors or money... time will tell.) Anyway, that wouldn't be a problem if they'd promote him the way they should.
But enough ranting. I really do need to get moving.