Posts tagged School
The Drought
26 years ago
by Erin
Now that Mike has started this quarter of class, we aren’t able to see each other on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. So after church on Sunday the next time I am able to see him is Thursday. 
I don’t like this arrangement. But with both of us having work and school, there isn’t time to see each other in between. This week it works out really well because I have a TON of stuff to do for school. But other weeks it sucks, especially if I’m feeling lazy.
Any of you have this kind of situation?
Overwhelmed much?
06 years ago
by Erin
Bah, this past week and the upcoming weeks are getting a bit crazy. Today I had to recite a 25 line prose/poetry from memory (I chose Viola’s soliloquy at the end of Act II Scene 2 when, disguised as Cesario, she figures out that Olivia is in love with her from Twelfth Night) for my 211 class. I screwed up on “now, alas the day;” I said, “alas, now the day” lol. And then I had to be prompted for the next line because I blanked after my screw up.
Next week I have an essay due in my Advanced Writing class, and a portfolio due in my Bible Lit class (the last portfolio took me about 6 hours to complete, just to give you an idea).
In my Contemporary Novels class the students are teaching the next three books on our syllabus, The Moor’s Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie (by the way, have you seen his smokin’ hot wife, Padma Lakshmi? I guess she’s not the first chick that’s married a fugly dude). American Pastoral by Philip Roth, and Underworld by Don Delillo (which I don’t even plan on reading — I’ve heard it’s really good but, sweet lord, 1000 pages? I just don’t have time to read that much with four other English classes! Plus, I don’t really enjoy Delillo’s style so much. I read White Noise and getting through that was like running a triathalon). My group, American Pastoral goes on the 18th and apparently we’re expected to be able to fill up at least three class days? Help! That’s 3 hours and 45 minutes ugh. We just found this out today, by the way. We thought that we would only have to present for like 15 minutes, haha. OH WE WERE WRONG. Also, there are no Sparknotes, Cliff’s Notes, Pink Monkey Notes, NOTHING for it. I’m not saying that I’m a lazy student… well maybe. Also, the same day my group has to present we have an essay due. Thanks!
THEN that Thursday I have to do a presentation for my 211 class (again) on “epic features of Paradise Lost.” So if you know any good articles on that, send them this way haha.
So hopefully by the night of the 20th I’ll be able to breathe again 
OH APRIL! YOU ARE OUT TO KILL ME!
Stupid Jury Duty
06 years ago
by Erin
The professor for the only class I like this semester (Contemporary Novels) told us on Tues she was called in for Jury Duty the next day, and if she was picked then she would not be in class for the next 10 days. I sincerely hoped they wouldn’t pick her. She was going to post on BlackBoard whether or not she was picked last night.
She was.
So now not only do I NOT have the only class I actually like for the next 2 weeks (because after 10 days is our Spring Break) I still have to get to school at the same time, thanks to traffic and parking. If I leave even 10 minutes later it takes twice the time to get to Fullerton and the parking is full up to the top floor of the parking structure. So then I’ll have to do nothing for 2 hours just so I can go to classes I really dislike. Where is the justice??
In good news, I’m slightly ahead in my classes so the last few nights I have rejoined my Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker game. I don’t know if I’m almost done with it but I think so… according to the walkthrough I’m halfway through (at the part where you rescue Aryll at the forbidden fortress). So Mike plays WoW while I play Zelda haha. I can’t wait until the next one comes out.
Hope y’all are doing well!
