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Leah made a livejournal! I am so excited! Yay! It is my favorite way to keep in touch with people's lives. These days, really only my sisters and Mariclare ever update, but I still love reading their entries! And now I have Leah's to look forward to as well. =) Plus it will be good when we aren't living together anymore to just be able to see how she is doing.
Tonight a bunch of us (me, leah, jen, grace, tamara, sarah, kristina, cara) all went to the Vagina Monologues. I saw them my freshman year at Tufts actually but it was so great to see them again. Plus Michelle was in it! I liked it even better this time around. Earlier today I also went to a lecture by Rick Bass, an environmental writer and activist from Montana (did I ever mention how I am obsessed with Montana? Hehe).
I am happy because I got a 100 on my first problem set for graduate Ecology. It made me have so much confidence! Especially because it was all math and using this highly confusing computer program called R. So I was proud of myself for figuring everything out (somewhat easily...not to brag!). It just feels good to know that I can do graduate level work and do it well. I felt the same way when I got an A on my term paper for graduate evolution last semester.
I really doubt myself academically. All of my roomies get such high grades and are so studious and that can be frustrating when people start talking about grades (like how Jen will get pissed if she gets a B instead of an A-). I understand that grades mean something different to each person and it's obviously not a bad thing to want to do well. I guess I just have a different perspective on grades because I think the education system and grades is a bunch of bullshit. I HATE that so much emphasis is put on grades (and that grades determine so many things in high school and college). I try to do well in classes that I care about and for teachers that mean something to me. If I am not into the class or the teacher, I can't help but put in only half-assed amounts of work, and I have no qualms about that.
With that being said, I LOVE ALL MY GRADUATE CLASSES. I love them so much. I feel like I have put up with four years of bullshitty stupid classes to get to this point when all my classes are amazing and fulfilling. I am learning so much every single week and it feels so awesome. I am actually nervous about next semester when I will be taking a lot of classes outside of EEB and three undergrad classes as well. I don't want to have to go back to that...For instance, in previous years, I couldn't do more than four classes. That has been pretty standard of me. I just couldn't deal with more than four classes! But this semester I have FIVE graduate classes and one undergrad class and I feel more relaxed and satisfied than I think I ever have in school.
Today was in the 50s and so warm and beautiful. You know that super corny expression "the sun caressed my face"? Well today, the sun LITERALLY caressed my face with it's soft warmth. I never actually got that expression until today. Maybe spring is on the way?
Tonight a bunch of us (me, leah, jen, grace, tamara, sarah, kristina, cara) all went to the Vagina Monologues. I saw them my freshman year at Tufts actually but it was so great to see them again. Plus Michelle was in it! I liked it even better this time around. Earlier today I also went to a lecture by Rick Bass, an environmental writer and activist from Montana (did I ever mention how I am obsessed with Montana? Hehe).
I am happy because I got a 100 on my first problem set for graduate Ecology. It made me have so much confidence! Especially because it was all math and using this highly confusing computer program called R. So I was proud of myself for figuring everything out (somewhat easily...not to brag!). It just feels good to know that I can do graduate level work and do it well. I felt the same way when I got an A on my term paper for graduate evolution last semester.
I really doubt myself academically. All of my roomies get such high grades and are so studious and that can be frustrating when people start talking about grades (like how Jen will get pissed if she gets a B instead of an A-). I understand that grades mean something different to each person and it's obviously not a bad thing to want to do well. I guess I just have a different perspective on grades because I think the education system and grades is a bunch of bullshit. I HATE that so much emphasis is put on grades (and that grades determine so many things in high school and college). I try to do well in classes that I care about and for teachers that mean something to me. If I am not into the class or the teacher, I can't help but put in only half-assed amounts of work, and I have no qualms about that.
With that being said, I LOVE ALL MY GRADUATE CLASSES. I love them so much. I feel like I have put up with four years of bullshitty stupid classes to get to this point when all my classes are amazing and fulfilling. I am learning so much every single week and it feels so awesome. I am actually nervous about next semester when I will be taking a lot of classes outside of EEB and three undergrad classes as well. I don't want to have to go back to that...For instance, in previous years, I couldn't do more than four classes. That has been pretty standard of me. I just couldn't deal with more than four classes! But this semester I have FIVE graduate classes and one undergrad class and I feel more relaxed and satisfied than I think I ever have in school.
Today was in the 50s and so warm and beautiful. You know that super corny expression "the sun caressed my face"? Well today, the sun LITERALLY caressed my face with it's soft warmth. I never actually got that expression until today. Maybe spring is on the way?