dirty spanish and my GPA
I got my final grades for this semester:
Emerging Trends in Technology A
Capstone (web portfolio - view it here) Pass
Seminar in Indexing and Abstracting A-
Cumulative GPA for your little graduate - 3.89.
I am a little peeved about being 1/100th of a point away from 3.9, but I am lucky to have received an A- in Indexing and Abstracting considering that I did almost none of the required reading for that class and that it was even more boring than it sounds.
Still, oh my god, it feels so good to be done with school. I have had one year off of school since I was five. Hallelujah! I plan on taking at least a year off (and get residency) before I go back for anything else (Masters in Public Administration, Masters in Public Health, undergraduate in Biology, Masters in Technical Writing). Am I the most boring person you know?
In my downtime (between working every day for 10 days up unto my last day on Thursday, graduating, my birthday and getting ready to move across the country) I have been playing this game on my Nintendo DS called My Spanish Coach which I am completely obsessed with. It teaches you Spanish vocabulary, conjugations and grammar through a series of interactive games that make it really easy and fun and kind of addictive. There is a lot of pronunciation so I feel like I get a solid idea of how a word sounds, is spelled, is used, etc. The current chapter that I am working on involves words for bag, pot (though I don't think that they mean the drug), wine, beer, glass, can and sack. In addition, this follows proceeding chapters where your scantily clad tutor teaches you the verbs querer and necesitar (to want and to need, respectively) alongside way more meat terms than you would ever need.
Depravity aside, this game fits in with my mission for 2008 which is to become far more fluent in Spanish and become more roundly informed in history and linguistics. I received this book as a gift, which should cover the history part, and I put this book on hold, which should cover the linguistics part.
Emerging Trends in Technology A
Capstone (web portfolio - view it here) Pass
Seminar in Indexing and Abstracting A-
Cumulative GPA for your little graduate - 3.89.
I am a little peeved about being 1/100th of a point away from 3.9, but I am lucky to have received an A- in Indexing and Abstracting considering that I did almost none of the required reading for that class and that it was even more boring than it sounds.
Still, oh my god, it feels so good to be done with school. I have had one year off of school since I was five. Hallelujah! I plan on taking at least a year off (and get residency) before I go back for anything else (Masters in Public Administration, Masters in Public Health, undergraduate in Biology, Masters in Technical Writing). Am I the most boring person you know?
In my downtime (between working every day for 10 days up unto my last day on Thursday, graduating, my birthday and getting ready to move across the country) I have been playing this game on my Nintendo DS called My Spanish Coach which I am completely obsessed with. It teaches you Spanish vocabulary, conjugations and grammar through a series of interactive games that make it really easy and fun and kind of addictive. There is a lot of pronunciation so I feel like I get a solid idea of how a word sounds, is spelled, is used, etc. The current chapter that I am working on involves words for bag, pot (though I don't think that they mean the drug), wine, beer, glass, can and sack. In addition, this follows proceeding chapters where your scantily clad tutor teaches you the verbs querer and necesitar (to want and to need, respectively) alongside way more meat terms than you would ever need.
Depravity aside, this game fits in with my mission for 2008 which is to become far more fluent in Spanish and become more roundly informed in history and linguistics. I received this book as a gift, which should cover the history part, and I put this book on hold, which should cover the linguistics part.