The One With the Musing
Alright, so on Friday I owned my Russian midterm after many hours of studying and flashcard-making. It was pretty empowering. I memorized a list of 20th century Russian authors and their dates of death with a mneumonic so powerful, I think that I'll probably remember most of them for a long time. It involved Tony Blair and religious zebras.
Then, I received my Chaucer paper back, which I was really really, unbelievably scared about because everyone has said that Shoaf is a madman. He went on and on about how about one-third of the class committed some grammar errors and were docked a lot for them and I was pretty much freaking out. He does this thing, where he takes the best paper in the class and makes copies of it and hands it out anonymously for us to read and then give back. This paper was seriously amazing. I'm absolutely in awe that someone in my class wrote it - it was unnervingly brilliant.
So at this point, I was really freaking out, because my paper absolutely did not even deserve to be compared with the paper he'd handed out. But then I got mine back and....B+!!
I'm so excited that I passed this paper. Usually I'd be dissappointed with not-an-A, but this was Shoaf and I'm very well aware that I am not a particularly brilliant writer. However, he wrote "yes" in two places - a comment that I will readily accept. His comments weren't amazingly flattering, just that I did a good job of analyzing single words and that my prose were "intelligable." There were a few important things that I should have at least mentioned, but neglected to. However, I worked very hard on this paper and I got a B+. I'm satisfied.
Lastly, I'm considering the possibility of a double major in English and Russian. Chrissy is going to Moscow this summer, and I think that I'd like to go as well. If I took intro to Russian language classes, I'd absolutely do a minor - but a major is really only another six or eight credits. There's not a huge difference. So...it's a possibility.
However, to go to Russia this summer I would have to get a job. I have an application to Cold Stone open in another window. I want to apply, but argh - I don't know. I feel like I don't have time for a job, but I just sit around a lot. I really do have more than enough time. I could make something like $3000ish if I just put it straight into a Russia account. Hmmmm...what do you guys think, to job or not to job?
Then, I received my Chaucer paper back, which I was really really, unbelievably scared about because everyone has said that Shoaf is a madman. He went on and on about how about one-third of the class committed some grammar errors and were docked a lot for them and I was pretty much freaking out. He does this thing, where he takes the best paper in the class and makes copies of it and hands it out anonymously for us to read and then give back. This paper was seriously amazing. I'm absolutely in awe that someone in my class wrote it - it was unnervingly brilliant.
So at this point, I was really freaking out, because my paper absolutely did not even deserve to be compared with the paper he'd handed out. But then I got mine back and....B+!!
I'm so excited that I passed this paper. Usually I'd be dissappointed with not-an-A, but this was Shoaf and I'm very well aware that I am not a particularly brilliant writer. However, he wrote "yes" in two places - a comment that I will readily accept. His comments weren't amazingly flattering, just that I did a good job of analyzing single words and that my prose were "intelligable." There were a few important things that I should have at least mentioned, but neglected to. However, I worked very hard on this paper and I got a B+. I'm satisfied.
Lastly, I'm considering the possibility of a double major in English and Russian. Chrissy is going to Moscow this summer, and I think that I'd like to go as well. If I took intro to Russian language classes, I'd absolutely do a minor - but a major is really only another six or eight credits. There's not a huge difference. So...it's a possibility.
However, to go to Russia this summer I would have to get a job. I have an application to Cold Stone open in another window. I want to apply, but argh - I don't know. I feel like I don't have time for a job, but I just sit around a lot. I really do have more than enough time. I could make something like $3000ish if I just put it straight into a Russia account. Hmmmm...what do you guys think, to job or not to job?