Sooo... Bored... And Caffeinated...
It's been awhile since I've written in this thing, which is usually the case with any sort of journal that I start... I can remember spending the better part of an afternoon a few months ago shopping for a proper book and pen to start a new journal when I decided to go back to college. Much like this blog, it has about four entries in it, the last being several months ago.
I suppose the reason I don't keep up with them all that much is that I'm a little afraid someone is going to find them and read something I don't want read, though this whole blog thing kinda shatters any notion of privacy that one might hope for. I guess that's the appeal of it, for me. Oddly enough, I don't mind if strangers know personal crap about me, though I don't particularly want my loved ones to ever read this shit. I guess I don't need them to know how insane I am.
I'm killing time until my African History class begins so I can see the probably failing grade I got on my midterm... I was worried this was going to happen with this class, and my fears were realized when I got the test. The professor seems a decent enough guy, but I'm having a lot of trouble making sense of his teaching style. He tends to jump topics a lot, and things that seem inconsequential are the things that appeared on the test. I spent a few hours learning the entire map of the African continent, only to be asked to identify ten random countries. The part that killed me was the 25 short answer questions... I knew a ton of stuff that wasn't on the test, but those short answers pretty well fucked me, I think. Hopefully the map and the essay will save my ass, but we'll see pretty soon, I guess. I'm fairly confident that I should be able to get A's in my other classes, with the possible exception of Botany, though I should get a high B at the very least in there... But this History, I'm pretty worried about it.
I'd really like to make Dean's List and all that. I want to have a decent GPA I can be proud of so I can use it when the time comes to look for a real job. I can only hope that I don't do too much damage with stupid shit like this African History class... Right now, I think my cumulative GPA is a fairly shitty 3.04... I'm gunning for at least a 3.5, though I hope to do better in the long run.
Anyway, time to go see the horror that will be my History grade...
I suppose the reason I don't keep up with them all that much is that I'm a little afraid someone is going to find them and read something I don't want read, though this whole blog thing kinda shatters any notion of privacy that one might hope for. I guess that's the appeal of it, for me. Oddly enough, I don't mind if strangers know personal crap about me, though I don't particularly want my loved ones to ever read this shit. I guess I don't need them to know how insane I am.
I'm killing time until my African History class begins so I can see the probably failing grade I got on my midterm... I was worried this was going to happen with this class, and my fears were realized when I got the test. The professor seems a decent enough guy, but I'm having a lot of trouble making sense of his teaching style. He tends to jump topics a lot, and things that seem inconsequential are the things that appeared on the test. I spent a few hours learning the entire map of the African continent, only to be asked to identify ten random countries. The part that killed me was the 25 short answer questions... I knew a ton of stuff that wasn't on the test, but those short answers pretty well fucked me, I think. Hopefully the map and the essay will save my ass, but we'll see pretty soon, I guess. I'm fairly confident that I should be able to get A's in my other classes, with the possible exception of Botany, though I should get a high B at the very least in there... But this History, I'm pretty worried about it.
I'd really like to make Dean's List and all that. I want to have a decent GPA I can be proud of so I can use it when the time comes to look for a real job. I can only hope that I don't do too much damage with stupid shit like this African History class... Right now, I think my cumulative GPA is a fairly shitty 3.04... I'm gunning for at least a 3.5, though I hope to do better in the long run.
Anyway, time to go see the horror that will be my History grade...