So another semester is going straight down the drain, it seems ( Read more... )

I'm taking another sociology course this semester, called "Theories of Race & Ethnicity." I was really, really anxious going into this class, because I SO wanted it to be a good class, and not a bunch of white-supremacy-reinforcing bullshit. I was concerned that the only book we're required to buy for the course is Black Like Me. (Not because it's ( Read more... )

Guess who got 99.2% on his Sociology midterm?

OH, YEAH!

I went to school today for a !*!BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!*!, which I've been getting email reminders about for a couple of weeks now.

Turns out I'm no longer attending college.

...No, I'm attending university!'S'right, my college got officially declared a university today. (And boy am I ever glad that I didn't buy a school hoody or anything like that ( Read more... )

*deep breath ( Read more... )

Holy fuck, am I ever tired ( Read more... )

Doing some more Calibrated Peer Reviews.Seriously, I could CRY. On our last round, two out of three essays I marked were terrible. This round (writing a lab report introduction from a provided procedure/materials/results write-up) also seems to be following that pattern - the last one I marked was SO bad I was forced to flunk it. It's the first one ( Read more... )

I'm sitting in a computer lab right now taking notes off a PowerPoint (oh god, horribly behind AGAIN - how does this HAPPEN??!), and I'm listening to the sound of typing happening all around me, and I had to stop to type myself. I don't really have anything TO type as of yet, but I felt the very desperate NEED to type something. So I am ( Read more... )

My biology course this semester is doing this bizarre thing called, "Calibrated Peer Review," or "CPR." (And if THAT isn't a confusing acronym, I don't know what is.) The website describes it thusly:

Calibrated Peer Review (CPR)™ is a Web-based program that enables frequent writing assignments even in large classes with limited instructional ( Read more... )

Bad News: I don't remember chemistry.

I mean, it's been four years since I did any of this stuff, and I quite seriously do not recall ANY of this. I discovered last night that I don't really even remember how to balance equations. *FACEPALM* Although at least THAT's gradually coming back to me as I look over chem help websites.

Ugly News: There' ( Read more... )