We get our Writing 50 papers back today, so hopefully I didn't do too badly. I was always pretty high up on the curve in high school, but everyone here is a good writer.
My Core paper is going pretty well. I've got 3 pages so far, and all I have left to do is to write my introduction and conclusion. It's not due until Thursday, so I'm feeling pretty good about it. I might finish it and take it to the writing center tomorrow night so I can get some help revising and editing it.
Tonight I'm getting together with my lab group to work on revising our lab write up from last week. I have to skip pilates to do it though, which is a huge bummer.
I haven't been taking very many pictures lately. Carrying around my camera hasn't been terribly practical. I'm going to a meeting for "Voice: the Scripps college newspaper" tonight, and may decide to take pictures for them. I never heard back from "The Student Life," the 5-college newspaper.
Monday, September 29, 2008
Saturday, September 27, 2008
One Paper Down
My writing 50 paper was due last night at midnight and I got mine turned in online at exactly 11:59pm. I liked the paper over all, but I didn't have 4 full pages of stuff to write about. It turned out to be 3.5 pages, which hopefully will be close enough. Dinah and I finished at the same time and then went to the Muddhole at Harvey Mudd to get late night snacks. Then we stayed up reading magazines until 3 in the morning. At least some part of my Friday night was salvageable.
I worked last night during the Obama/McCain debate, and since not many people come in on friday nights, we watched the debate live on the computer. So many of the things McCain says are just downright frustrating. His strategy was to make Obama look unintelligent by starting all his rebuttals with "The thing I don't think Obama understands is..." and then he'd say completely unintelligent things himself. Apparently the way to convince Iran to be submissive to our will is to create a coalition of like-minded democratic states to stonewall everyone else? I just don't see that going well for us. In fact, that sounds like a great way to start a third world war.
Yesterday I also got swabbed to be entered into the national bone marrow database. Giving bone marrow used to be one of the most painful donations, because they had to physically go into your bone, but now with new technology it's apparently much more like giving blood.
Thursday I had a lab for my marine biology. We made little clay planktons and dropped them in corn syrup to see how fast they'd fall. And that night was a speech by Patricia Williams ,who is absolutely brilliant. She talked about the state of race relations in the country, today.
A lot of people are getting sick, but I haven't caught it yet. *knock on wood*
I worked last night during the Obama/McCain debate, and since not many people come in on friday nights, we watched the debate live on the computer. So many of the things McCain says are just downright frustrating. His strategy was to make Obama look unintelligent by starting all his rebuttals with "The thing I don't think Obama understands is..." and then he'd say completely unintelligent things himself. Apparently the way to convince Iran to be submissive to our will is to create a coalition of like-minded democratic states to stonewall everyone else? I just don't see that going well for us. In fact, that sounds like a great way to start a third world war.
Yesterday I also got swabbed to be entered into the national bone marrow database. Giving bone marrow used to be one of the most painful donations, because they had to physically go into your bone, but now with new technology it's apparently much more like giving blood.
Thursday I had a lab for my marine biology. We made little clay planktons and dropped them in corn syrup to see how fast they'd fall. And that night was a speech by Patricia Williams ,who is absolutely brilliant. She talked about the state of race relations in the country, today.
A lot of people are getting sick, but I haven't caught it yet. *knock on wood*
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
College Stress
My work load has been pretty manageable up till this week. I now have two essays to be writing at the same time, which is not as thrilling as it sounds. I'm sure in the end I'll manage it find, but right now it's pretty stressful. I'm looking forward to going to work tonight because it's 2 hours to read instead of 2 hours sitting in front of a blank word document trying to wring ideas out of my brain and onto the page.
For Writing 50, I'm comparing Charlotte Perkins Gilman's piece Women and Economics to Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I'm just finally getting a hold on that paper. I wrote my first body paragraph, which I think turned out pretty well. I found out that Whedon studied Gender and Feminist Theory at Welseyan University, which explains so much.
For my Cor
e class in the Humanities we've been assigned a compare and contrast essay using the works of these people:
Needless to say... I'm not terribly excited.
On the bright side, I had a yummy warm chocolate chocolate chip muffin for breakfast. Yum! :)
For Writing 50, I'm comparing Charlotte Perkins Gilman's piece Women and Economics to Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I'm just finally getting a hold on that paper. I wrote my first body paragraph, which I think turned out pretty well. I found out that Whedon studied Gender and Feminist Theory at Welseyan University, which explains so much.
For my Cor
e class in the Humanities we've been assigned a compare and contrast essay using the works of these people:
Needless to say... I'm not terribly excited.
On the bright side, I had a yummy warm chocolate chocolate chip muffin for breakfast. Yum! :)
Monday, September 22, 2008
Monday Morning
Monday mornings and Friday mornings are the best. Everything in between is really difficult. Monday mornings I have to wake up early to work from 8am-10am, but it's the beginning of the week so I'm fresh and it's ok. Plus, the Field House director brought me coffee and a muffin this morning. Friday mornings I only have one class- Italian. That means I go back to sleep at 11 when it gets out. But Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings are brutal. The days here feel so long, but the weeks go by so quickly. It's a time warp.
I would like to digress so that I may show you how creepy our basement/laundry room is:
I was talking about laundry with Rachel the other night on the phone, though, and she claims that hers is much creepier because strange guys from their dorm hang out in the laundry room. At least, we don't have that problem.
This weekend was good. Taylor and I hung out and went shopping at an obscenely large mall. I pumped my own gas for the first time. It was a pretty stressful ordeal though, because I was running out of gas in an area I didn't know very well and the first two gas stations I stopped at were closed. Finally, a friendly guy on rollerskates playing a plastic recorder pointed me in the right direction. I started watching a new show called "True Blood" about, what else, vampires. I think I got my roommate, Julia, and my neighbors addicted to it too.
Friday night, a group of us went to Harvey Mudd's gym/rec center and played foosball, scrabble, and air hockey. Turns out they also have a tandem bike to rent, and a couple people tried that. I really enjoy Harvey Mudd's campus. One of their dorms is always having a bonfire outside, and other dorms have couches, hammocks and coffee tables in the areas outside.
Last night, when we all should have been doing homework, we had an apples to apples party. It wasn't really a "party" but the guide to student life qualifies having more than 8 people in your room a "party." Apples to apples is a great game, but it's hard to play with 11 people, and it really relies on having some idea of what people find funny. It's a really good "getting to know you" type game though.
I just finished reading "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" and found it really interesting. Probably the best of my core reading that I've done so far. I'd recommend for anyone, but think that Grandma would especially appreciate it.
I would like to digress so that I may show you how creepy our basement/laundry room is:
I was talking about laundry with Rachel the other night on the phone, though, and she claims that hers is much creepier because strange guys from their dorm hang out in the laundry room. At least, we don't have that problem.This weekend was good. Taylor and I hung out and went shopping at an obscenely large mall. I pumped my own gas for the first time. It was a pretty stressful ordeal though, because I was running out of gas in an area I didn't know very well and the first two gas stations I stopped at were closed. Finally, a friendly guy on rollerskates playing a plastic recorder pointed me in the right direction. I started watching a new show called "True Blood" about, what else, vampires. I think I got my roommate, Julia, and my neighbors addicted to it too.
Friday night, a group of us went to Harvey Mudd's gym/rec center and played foosball, scrabble, and air hockey. Turns out they also have a tandem bike to rent, and a couple people tried that. I really enjoy Harvey Mudd's campus. One of their dorms is always having a bonfire outside, and other dorms have couches, hammocks and coffee tables in the areas outside.
Last night, when we all should have been doing homework, we had an apples to apples party. It wasn't really a "party" but the guide to student life qualifies having more than 8 people in your room a "party." Apples to apples is a great game, but it's hard to play with 11 people, and it really relies on having some idea of what people find funny. It's a really good "getting to know you" type game though.I just finished reading "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" and found it really interesting. Probably the best of my core reading that I've done so far. I'd recommend for anyone, but think that Grandma would especially appreciate it.
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