le sigh.
Today was so much better than yesterday, I cannot even describe it. I woke up on time (school started at 8:20 instead of 7:20, so I wanted to be up by 6:45 - and I was) and I'm like, I can't deal with another shitty day. Another shitty day will kill me. Basically, English class sucked, but it always sucks and I didn't expect today to be any different. But other than that, we did very little that was pointless. I've got some extra credit in Engineering because I understand basic trigonometry concepts and have a calculator with sine/cosine/tangent and know how to use it. =) Yes. The major thing that was due tomorrow is now due Friday. We had a pointless global issues class, but I really do think that class is always pointless. There is no hope. If there weren't so many dipshits who don't get the basic concepts, the teacher didn't feel a need to explain things three hundred times, and we actually had the interesting discussions that there are the potential to have... then it would be much better. But that's alright.
I got NO research done in MUN because I was talking and stuff lol, but then again... where am I supposed to find information on the Netherlands' views on "human rights and multinational corporations" and "human rights and terrorism"? Both fascinating topics, really, but the Netherlands is not the best country to be doing this on. Lol. But it's alright, I feel no need to panic yet since MUNUC is two months away. =P
AND I came home and found out that I am co-vice-president of the equestrian club. Yesssssss. The other girl basically can't always make it to meetings, but she has our advisor as her Spanish teacher. So she's the teacher-liaison, and I'm basically the acting VP at meetings. XD
And I've decided that I'm emailing my global issues teacher and letting her know that I'm screwing my group's decisions on our paper. I refuse to go with what they're doing - there is not enough information, it is not realistic, and I can't write a decent paper with it. I apologise that I can't handle doing it in an unrealistic manner. Basically, my group picked five criteria for the countries applying for aid (political stability, health care, wealth/poverty, natural resources, and education) and then wrote maybe six words in each box on their researched country. We ranked the countries' wealth/poverty on terms of GDP *alone*. Not realistic, not acceptable. And the girl who did Kenya basically told us that "all their crops are washed away by heavy rains in the rainy season and then dried up by drought in the dry season". Like, no. Really. Kenya's situation may (key word MAY) be worse than, say, Ethiopia's (random example, know nothing about the country due to the irresponsibility of my group members, etc.). But MOST countries in Africa have a rainy season and a dry season; that situation is fairly common. *sigh* And we don't know what kind of natural resources they have, either. *shakes head*
We did read a horribly fascinating article in global issues yesterday, though. I know not a single other person in the class agrees with me - it was a bit dry and some things were worded awkwardly. But anyways, it was about the different between a nation and a state, and how very few people differentiate between them correctly. A nation is based on a common heritage, a common language, common beliefs, a feeling of belonging, etc. but does not have to have all those characteristics. A state, however, is based on force and government, controlled by a legal system which is considered 'legitimate' by its people. Very interesting.
I got NO research done in MUN because I was talking and stuff lol, but then again... where am I supposed to find information on the Netherlands' views on "human rights and multinational corporations" and "human rights and terrorism"? Both fascinating topics, really, but the Netherlands is not the best country to be doing this on. Lol. But it's alright, I feel no need to panic yet since MUNUC is two months away. =P
AND I came home and found out that I am co-vice-president of the equestrian club. Yesssssss. The other girl basically can't always make it to meetings, but she has our advisor as her Spanish teacher. So she's the teacher-liaison, and I'm basically the acting VP at meetings. XD
And I've decided that I'm emailing my global issues teacher and letting her know that I'm screwing my group's decisions on our paper. I refuse to go with what they're doing - there is not enough information, it is not realistic, and I can't write a decent paper with it. I apologise that I can't handle doing it in an unrealistic manner. Basically, my group picked five criteria for the countries applying for aid (political stability, health care, wealth/poverty, natural resources, and education) and then wrote maybe six words in each box on their researched country. We ranked the countries' wealth/poverty on terms of GDP *alone*. Not realistic, not acceptable. And the girl who did Kenya basically told us that "all their crops are washed away by heavy rains in the rainy season and then dried up by drought in the dry season". Like, no. Really. Kenya's situation may (key word MAY) be worse than, say, Ethiopia's (random example, know nothing about the country due to the irresponsibility of my group members, etc.). But MOST countries in Africa have a rainy season and a dry season; that situation is fairly common. *sigh* And we don't know what kind of natural resources they have, either. *shakes head*
We did read a horribly fascinating article in global issues yesterday, though. I know not a single other person in the class agrees with me - it was a bit dry and some things were worded awkwardly. But anyways, it was about the different between a nation and a state, and how very few people differentiate between them correctly. A nation is based on a common heritage, a common language, common beliefs, a feeling of belonging, etc. but does not have to have all those characteristics. A state, however, is based on force and government, controlled by a legal system which is considered 'legitimate' by its people. Very interesting.