phil & acts
I think I'm honestly losing my taste for philosophy. I just did a word count on my take home exam essays. 15K. That's 1.5K apiece. And I am sick of editing the damn things.
I think if I am ever asked to write 15K on the subject of death and dying again, I am just going to melt into a little puddle on the floor.
For that matter, if I am asked to *edit* 15K on the subject of death and dying again - for diction, not for concepts - I am going to melt into a little puddle on the floor and get sponged into the sink and join the general nastiness that is our local, so-esteemed watershed system and kill a few more fish for the tods to pick at on the beach and get told off by mother-dearest.
*cries*
In other news, I got a 34 in ACT. I'm not quite sure how. Math & Reading, 36, English, 35, Science, 34, Writing, 12. Doesn't that work out to at least a 35? I'm not sure how they weight scores, but... still. :P And I have no idea how the hell I got a 34 in science, considering 1) that's my best subject and 2) I thought that was the easiest of the tests. Current theory is that I somehow got some of my bubbles mixed up. Somehow. Or... I don't know. But I don't really have a chance to retake them, and a 34 is enough to get me into Reed, or most anywhere (though not necessarily with the scholarships I'd need, in places like Columbia or Whitman. *pets Reed* ) SATs haven't come in yet. Nor Merit. Even though I took them around the same time. Odd...
And... in still more news, the uni I dual enroll at is going bedlam. For... obvious reasons. There's talk of background checks on students now... and getting the police to run beats there. Mite scary, from my standpoint. Well, one, because I can hazily picture myself doing something absolutely psychotic like that. Not so much now, since things are... quieter. But stress does stuff to you. Just look at my last lj entry. And... urgh. I don't know.
Oh, and we had a prayer service at our school today for them... helloooooooooo, separation of church and state, why are you calling an assembly and having us hold hands and say psalms? Oh, right. Because you know, the admin just want to see Gumbutt's face go scarlet.
Feeling a mite better now. *turns down volume on Very Loud Nightwish Album and wanders off to get some water so she doesn't turn into a prune*
I think if I am ever asked to write 15K on the subject of death and dying again, I am just going to melt into a little puddle on the floor.
For that matter, if I am asked to *edit* 15K on the subject of death and dying again - for diction, not for concepts - I am going to melt into a little puddle on the floor and get sponged into the sink and join the general nastiness that is our local, so-esteemed watershed system and kill a few more fish for the tods to pick at on the beach and get told off by mother-dearest.
*cries*
In other news, I got a 34 in ACT. I'm not quite sure how. Math & Reading, 36, English, 35, Science, 34, Writing, 12. Doesn't that work out to at least a 35? I'm not sure how they weight scores, but... still. :P And I have no idea how the hell I got a 34 in science, considering 1) that's my best subject and 2) I thought that was the easiest of the tests. Current theory is that I somehow got some of my bubbles mixed up. Somehow. Or... I don't know. But I don't really have a chance to retake them, and a 34 is enough to get me into Reed, or most anywhere (though not necessarily with the scholarships I'd need, in places like Columbia or Whitman. *pets Reed* ) SATs haven't come in yet. Nor Merit. Even though I took them around the same time. Odd...
And... in still more news, the uni I dual enroll at is going bedlam. For... obvious reasons. There's talk of background checks on students now... and getting the police to run beats there. Mite scary, from my standpoint. Well, one, because I can hazily picture myself doing something absolutely psychotic like that. Not so much now, since things are... quieter. But stress does stuff to you. Just look at my last lj entry. And... urgh. I don't know.
Oh, and we had a prayer service at our school today for them... helloooooooooo, separation of church and state, why are you calling an assembly and having us hold hands and say psalms? Oh, right. Because you know, the admin just want to see Gumbutt's face go scarlet.
Feeling a mite better now. *turns down volume on Very Loud Nightwish Album and wanders off to get some water so she doesn't turn into a prune*