Race-based admissions for public institutions.

I hate this rears its stupid head every year, but I still feel the same about it. For this issue, I take the opinion far less liked: I think it's perfectly fine to have race-based admissions for public institutions. If it's public, shouldn't it be offered to a more diverse and open crowd?

It's not a ( Read more... )

i've never thought school was hard.

i believe i'm a naturally intelligent person: i like to learn, experiment, connect what i've learned--and maybe that is what makes school easy for me. i mean, i may not always get As, but for the most part, i can pass a class with a little elbow grease and effort if that's what it comes down to.

i mean, how hard is ( Read more... )

I love my university.

Since I was nine years old, I knew in some capacity that I was meant to go to the University of Wisconsin-Madison while standing outside of the Kohl Center with my father and promising him I would do my best to get accepted.

I've been going here for a year now and for undergraduate, I couldn't imagine going anywhere else.

Today ( Read more... )

Time to be uninteresting and boring.

My semester is done and I managed to pull my GPA to a 3.65 (with a major GPA of 3.66) for that semester and my overall GPA at a 3.21--considering the fact that I had a 2.4 the first semester I was here, I think is pretty impressive. Regardless, here's hoping I'll be able to survive this next one and pull just as ( Read more... )

For the past three weeks, I've been battling it out with the English department on two fronts:  my American Lit. discussion section change and English 633: American Lit. Since 1914.

The discussion section change in the scheduling system right now is supposedly under review from the Registrar, meaning that my TA asked them how I can switch into her ( Read more... )

Right now, I have nothing but frustration and irritation towards UW-Madison's English department; moreover, my ENGL 217 (American Literature) professor and TA ( Read more... )

I managed to get a 4.0 for the summer semester. Granted, it was only two classes at 6 credits total so I won't get Dean's List or anything like that, but it's still an accomplishment for me since I haven't been able to do that since 8th grade.

I really, really love the Anthropology program here. I love the TAs, the professors, the content--it's all ( Read more... )

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I've been looking a lot at grad schools lately, and I think I've ( Read more... )

I've decided to declare Anthropology after all. I've decided I really like the class that I'm in right now and whether or not it's Medical Anthropology or Primatology I decide to learn more about--I'll enjoy it.

On top of this, I think I'd like to go to grad. school. And I'm considering doing an internship in Australia next summer where I'd get to ( Read more... )

I envy a lot of things:  people who have what "everyone" wants, people who are normal, people who can afford nicer things--and while I think this is normal and somewhat acceptable because other than saying, "Well, gee, that would be nice if I could do that/have that," I don't do anything about it other than use it as fodder to get myself motivated ( Read more... )