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karriezaiI hate my AM honors teacher. As a teacher, I mean... as always hesitant to say I actually hate a person. But she's like... some kindergarten teacher who decided to come try teaching university, but never escaped the kindergarten mindset. She asks the dumb, "Did you bring enough for everyone?" question when you bring food to class -- I haven't had a single other teacher who gives a crap if you eat in class. I've even eaten genuine meals in class before, meaning I brought Panda Express to discussion twice. Once this semester, once last semester. I can't nod if in class or she'll have me stand up... today I was falling asleep so I leaned my head against my hand so that she couldn't see my eyes, but it just looked like I was looking down at the literature we were discussing. I totally caught a few winks like that, too, until Mike nudged my foot and whispered that she was staring at me.
I understand not wanting people to fall asleep in your class. But I don't fall asleep in my other two honors seminars. It's not my fault she's boring and has no idea what she's doing as a teacher. Once in a while I'll nod off in lecture, but of course they don't give a crap there. It's ridiculous, this happened last semester too. The class I thought I'd like best turned out to be my least favorite. All because of the teacher, too. This semester I'm definitely filling out the survey about my teacher for testudo so I can look at what other students said about the teachers I'm looking at having next semester.
Segue is a funny looking word. I had to look it up to convince myself I was spelling it right, and I'm still not sure.
I can't register for classes until May. Kids started registering at the beginning of this month. ;_; It's because I'm a freshman and my last name starts with a W. I'm at the very end of the list, especially since I had no college credits to transfer in with. Kids with more credits get first pick of classes. Next semester I have to take COMM250... well I guess it isn't as bad as I thought, actually. By the semester in which I complete 45 credits, if I want to double in PSYC I have to have taken PSYC100 (taking this semester), one of several math/stat classes my SAT scores exempted me out of taking, and either BSCI 105 or BSCI 106 or PHYS 121 or CHEM 131/132. Ah, I knew I had to take PSYC200 next semester -- that one's for COMM. So I'll hit 45 credits next semester, which means I'll have to take COMM250, one of those science courses required for PSYC, and PSYC200. I want to take French, but I'll consider putting it off if it stresses my schedule too much. I need to look at CORE, see how I'm doing with that -- I also need to have at least 50% of CORE done by the end of next semester. I think I'm on track with that, though.
Maybe I'll set up advising appointments with the PSYC and COMM departments. I'm still not entirely positive I want to double in PSYC, just pretty sure. I don't want to have to do a shitload of the research and stuff, but I think there's quite a bit required even for BA majors. I can ask, though.
I'm doing extra credit this semester. Not like next semester. A tiny bit of extra credit would have gotten me an A in JOUR100. I was really close. So far I've gotten 5.5 credits in research studies for PSYC100, which translates to 5.5% added onto my final grade. I can get an 84.5 and still make an A! Not that I'm slacking, believe me. I want to make an A before the extra credit, too. Anyway, I can make up to 8% extra credit in that class. And my GEOG prof just announced that we can get extra credit for participating in Earth Day and writing one to two pages about it, I'm totally going to do that. It's a Tuesday, I'll just do something in the three hours between my 2PM honors seminar and my night honors seminar.
I'm making an A- in my night honors seminar according to my mid-semester grade advisory notice... none of the other classes posted my grades yet. I think I'm doing well in my 2PM honors seminar, I made an A on my midterm so I'm hopeful about having an A. I'm making an A in my GEOG lab, that's for sure, I just need to keep it up. Lecture I'm not sure about. We should get our second midterm grades back next class, and that will give me some clue. Before extra credit but after the curve I made a low to mid B on the first midterm in that class. My AM honors seminar I have no clue about. I'm really just hoping to make a B. I may be wrong, but my vague impression is that as long as I put effort into my final project and paper -- basically as long as I do my assignments -- she won't give me lower than a B- despite the fact that she doesn't like me very much. If she gave me a C I'd die. Even if I get an A in everything else I wouldn't be very happy. I'd still make my GPA -- and even better than last semester, I'd make Dean's List -- but I hate the idea of making a C. Especially since I can't guarantee that I'll make an A in everything else. I'd really love to make the Dean's List.
I'm worried George will try to schedule me on the Wednesdays I requested off for the next two weeks. I think he lost another opener this week. (I promise this relates eventually:) Saturday night I got totally wasted, as evidenced by the private post I made (that's why entries skip from 125 to 127). Surprisingly it's written with perfect grammar, spelling, etc... but I can still tell by reading it that I was quite drunk. Anyway, I was really drunk, went to bed at 3, and had to get up at 7:30 for work. I would have recovered fine if I'd had more than four hours of sleep, but I didn't, so I felt like total shit at work all morning. I even threw up in the back sink, though I didn't tell anyone but Ibrahim. I told everyone but Ibrahim I was sick -- I told him the truth, and he was amused. Anyway, I worked with George. Initially I told him I'd make it to the meeting that night, but I called back later to say I'd gotten worse and I wasn't going to come. Which was a lie... I was at DuClaw in Arundel Mills finally freaking eating something after having only half a blueberry scone all day.
No one questioned me though, not even Ibrahim, and he's the one I told that I'd gotten worse (because to him I described it as I waited too long to eat and now I can't get anything down without throwing up). However, when I woke up for school the next morning, I found that George had called me four times since 5:30AM. I called him back and he said he needed me to pick up a shift, it was kind of an emergency. I told him I had school (brain screaming: come on moron you should know my schedule by now) and I couldn't (brain also screaming: i was sick yesterday why were you trying to call me at 5:30 in the morning?). He called me again later to ask me to pick up an opening shift on Wednesday. I said no, but I could work later on Wednesday (say 8 or 9) if he needed me to (brain crying: i actually wasn't scheduled to open this week, you think i'm going to volunteer -- and on a wednesday at that?). He hasn't called me back, so I'm assuming he worked it out.
Anyway, a month or more ago I put up a sticky requesting off for the next two Wednesdays. The first is for room selection for Writer's House, and technically I could open at work, but I don't want my whole day consumed between the two of them. The second is for applying to work at the gym, and I could work, but I want to get there for the beginning of open interviews at 1. So if he tries to make me work, I'm just going to say, "I requested these days off. I can open, but I do need to be off by 10AM." And explain that I have school stuff to work out for next semester on those days. He'd better let me off then, too. For some reason he never schedules short opening shifts. It's a pain in the ass and the main reason I hate opening.
I'm really excited about looking into jobs for the summer and next semester to get me away from working at Starbucks. I love the company (as a company to work for, maybe not to buy from), but I have such bad luck with getting a good manager there. I'm going to see about working full time at the gym over the summer, but if they won't let me I'll either have to get another part time job, perhaps manning the desk at Dorchester if possible to get a leg in for next semester, or try to work out doing full time during orientation and also part time at the gym. That would ease my mom's mind, at least. She's really worried about where I'll stay over the summer. She's still concerned that I could break up with Danny at any time, but I just don't see that happening. We've never even come close.
All this assuming I get hired for these positions, and god I hope so. I'm really hoping full time at the gym is possible during the summer... I mean, wouldn't they lose a lot of their employees over the summer because they go home to visit family?
I've babbled long enough for today.
I understand not wanting people to fall asleep in your class. But I don't fall asleep in my other two honors seminars. It's not my fault she's boring and has no idea what she's doing as a teacher. Once in a while I'll nod off in lecture, but of course they don't give a crap there. It's ridiculous, this happened last semester too. The class I thought I'd like best turned out to be my least favorite. All because of the teacher, too. This semester I'm definitely filling out the survey about my teacher for testudo so I can look at what other students said about the teachers I'm looking at having next semester.
Segue is a funny looking word. I had to look it up to convince myself I was spelling it right, and I'm still not sure.
I can't register for classes until May. Kids started registering at the beginning of this month. ;_; It's because I'm a freshman and my last name starts with a W. I'm at the very end of the list, especially since I had no college credits to transfer in with. Kids with more credits get first pick of classes. Next semester I have to take COMM250... well I guess it isn't as bad as I thought, actually. By the semester in which I complete 45 credits, if I want to double in PSYC I have to have taken PSYC100 (taking this semester), one of several math/stat classes my SAT scores exempted me out of taking, and either BSCI 105 or BSCI 106 or PHYS 121 or CHEM 131/132. Ah, I knew I had to take PSYC200 next semester -- that one's for COMM. So I'll hit 45 credits next semester, which means I'll have to take COMM250, one of those science courses required for PSYC, and PSYC200. I want to take French, but I'll consider putting it off if it stresses my schedule too much. I need to look at CORE, see how I'm doing with that -- I also need to have at least 50% of CORE done by the end of next semester. I think I'm on track with that, though.
Maybe I'll set up advising appointments with the PSYC and COMM departments. I'm still not entirely positive I want to double in PSYC, just pretty sure. I don't want to have to do a shitload of the research and stuff, but I think there's quite a bit required even for BA majors. I can ask, though.
I'm doing extra credit this semester. Not like next semester. A tiny bit of extra credit would have gotten me an A in JOUR100. I was really close. So far I've gotten 5.5 credits in research studies for PSYC100, which translates to 5.5% added onto my final grade. I can get an 84.5 and still make an A! Not that I'm slacking, believe me. I want to make an A before the extra credit, too. Anyway, I can make up to 8% extra credit in that class. And my GEOG prof just announced that we can get extra credit for participating in Earth Day and writing one to two pages about it, I'm totally going to do that. It's a Tuesday, I'll just do something in the three hours between my 2PM honors seminar and my night honors seminar.
I'm making an A- in my night honors seminar according to my mid-semester grade advisory notice... none of the other classes posted my grades yet. I think I'm doing well in my 2PM honors seminar, I made an A on my midterm so I'm hopeful about having an A. I'm making an A in my GEOG lab, that's for sure, I just need to keep it up. Lecture I'm not sure about. We should get our second midterm grades back next class, and that will give me some clue. Before extra credit but after the curve I made a low to mid B on the first midterm in that class. My AM honors seminar I have no clue about. I'm really just hoping to make a B. I may be wrong, but my vague impression is that as long as I put effort into my final project and paper -- basically as long as I do my assignments -- she won't give me lower than a B- despite the fact that she doesn't like me very much. If she gave me a C I'd die. Even if I get an A in everything else I wouldn't be very happy. I'd still make my GPA -- and even better than last semester, I'd make Dean's List -- but I hate the idea of making a C. Especially since I can't guarantee that I'll make an A in everything else. I'd really love to make the Dean's List.
I'm worried George will try to schedule me on the Wednesdays I requested off for the next two weeks. I think he lost another opener this week. (I promise this relates eventually:) Saturday night I got totally wasted, as evidenced by the private post I made (that's why entries skip from 125 to 127). Surprisingly it's written with perfect grammar, spelling, etc... but I can still tell by reading it that I was quite drunk. Anyway, I was really drunk, went to bed at 3, and had to get up at 7:30 for work. I would have recovered fine if I'd had more than four hours of sleep, but I didn't, so I felt like total shit at work all morning. I even threw up in the back sink, though I didn't tell anyone but Ibrahim. I told everyone but Ibrahim I was sick -- I told him the truth, and he was amused. Anyway, I worked with George. Initially I told him I'd make it to the meeting that night, but I called back later to say I'd gotten worse and I wasn't going to come. Which was a lie... I was at DuClaw in Arundel Mills finally freaking eating something after having only half a blueberry scone all day.
No one questioned me though, not even Ibrahim, and he's the one I told that I'd gotten worse (because to him I described it as I waited too long to eat and now I can't get anything down without throwing up). However, when I woke up for school the next morning, I found that George had called me four times since 5:30AM. I called him back and he said he needed me to pick up a shift, it was kind of an emergency. I told him I had school (brain screaming: come on moron you should know my schedule by now) and I couldn't (brain also screaming: i was sick yesterday why were you trying to call me at 5:30 in the morning?). He called me again later to ask me to pick up an opening shift on Wednesday. I said no, but I could work later on Wednesday (say 8 or 9) if he needed me to (brain crying: i actually wasn't scheduled to open this week, you think i'm going to volunteer -- and on a wednesday at that?). He hasn't called me back, so I'm assuming he worked it out.
Anyway, a month or more ago I put up a sticky requesting off for the next two Wednesdays. The first is for room selection for Writer's House, and technically I could open at work, but I don't want my whole day consumed between the two of them. The second is for applying to work at the gym, and I could work, but I want to get there for the beginning of open interviews at 1. So if he tries to make me work, I'm just going to say, "I requested these days off. I can open, but I do need to be off by 10AM." And explain that I have school stuff to work out for next semester on those days. He'd better let me off then, too. For some reason he never schedules short opening shifts. It's a pain in the ass and the main reason I hate opening.
I'm really excited about looking into jobs for the summer and next semester to get me away from working at Starbucks. I love the company (as a company to work for, maybe not to buy from), but I have such bad luck with getting a good manager there. I'm going to see about working full time at the gym over the summer, but if they won't let me I'll either have to get another part time job, perhaps manning the desk at Dorchester if possible to get a leg in for next semester, or try to work out doing full time during orientation and also part time at the gym. That would ease my mom's mind, at least. She's really worried about where I'll stay over the summer. She's still concerned that I could break up with Danny at any time, but I just don't see that happening. We've never even come close.
All this assuming I get hired for these positions, and god I hope so. I'm really hoping full time at the gym is possible during the summer... I mean, wouldn't they lose a lot of their employees over the summer because they go home to visit family?
I've babbled long enough for today.