Films of 2009 and Week 10
Ghostbusters*
What the Bleep Do We Know?*
Waking Life*
Lost in Translation*
Save the Last Dance#
Let the Right One In*
The Wrestler*
Friday the 13th (1980)*
Watchmen
*on DVD
#on TV
Watchmen? Excellent. We had a feeling it might sell out, so we bought our tix online for Marcus. :D Love Marcus. It was showing on their SuperScreen, this huuuuuge screen with an amazing, flawless picture. The only trouble was that the place where we sat gave me a bit of a headache. Damn kids taking all the good back seats.
So... Week 10 begins tomorrow. I still have quite a bit of work to do... ugh. In econometrics, we need to finish up our final, completed report and present it. And we have to evaluate our team. I honestly don't know what to do there. Everyone in the group did his or her part (Yev not so much on time, but he got it done and we got all 30 points, so I shouldn't dock him anything for that). The problem is that as a team, we utterly failed. We never got together outside class, and whenever we did meet it was in the five minutes before class started or two minutes after she dismissed us from class. The fun part is that we actually want to meet to figure out what we're going to do for the presentation... too bad Christine works when we have time to meet on Wednesday. Eh, no problem. We'll just meet on Tuesday when I work! Perfect! So what am I supposed to do? Oh, they're just going to email me what they're going to do. Great. So I have... no fucking say. Whatsoever. So I'm not sure what to do with the evaluation. Jess and I tried to get everybody to meet up multiple times, but it didn't matter, because the two of us never even met outside class. Whatever. So there's that and the final exam, half take-home and half in-class. Not concerned about the take-home, since I aced the last take-home portion. And that's the remainder of ECN 445.
Philosophy shouldn't be too bad. It would be badass if I can pull off a B+ on this final, because that would place me at a nice, solid B, which I would not complain about. It's interesting how I'm very gradually improving in that class. First paper: C+, midterm: B-, and second paper: B. So just a final exam.
Public Finance: This one I need to spend a bit of time on. Not because I'm doing badly, but because I want to keep up where I'm at now. I'm right at the A/B border, and I need to push myself over that hump. We've got a term paper due Wednesday (got a page and a half down, and it needs to be 5-8 pages. Annoying page requirements). Anstine isn't a huge grammar freak and is very lenient on writing. Just as long as you say what you need to say. And then the final, which is supposedly cumulative. Ugh.
Lastly, money and banking. There's a spreadsheet assignment due Monday worth 25% of the total grade. Stupid. Nobody else is having as much trouble with their computer as I am. There's a good 18 years worth of daily data in this spreadsheet, and the MacBook is just like, "Fuck you! I'm going to take a minute to process every change you make. HaHA!" Annoying. And then our final exam is this Friday. I'll need to utilize those notecards.
And that's the rest of my term in a nutshell. And then I'm on Spring Break! Hopefully with an interview lined up... if not, then oh well. I'll find something else. Soooo don't want retail again. But if I must, I must.
And for the record, my boyfriend is extraordinary. :D
What the Bleep Do We Know?*
Waking Life*
Lost in Translation*
Save the Last Dance#
Let the Right One In*
The Wrestler*
Friday the 13th (1980)*
Watchmen
*on DVD
#on TV
Watchmen? Excellent. We had a feeling it might sell out, so we bought our tix online for Marcus. :D Love Marcus. It was showing on their SuperScreen, this huuuuuge screen with an amazing, flawless picture. The only trouble was that the place where we sat gave me a bit of a headache. Damn kids taking all the good back seats.
So... Week 10 begins tomorrow. I still have quite a bit of work to do... ugh. In econometrics, we need to finish up our final, completed report and present it. And we have to evaluate our team. I honestly don't know what to do there. Everyone in the group did his or her part (Yev not so much on time, but he got it done and we got all 30 points, so I shouldn't dock him anything for that). The problem is that as a team, we utterly failed. We never got together outside class, and whenever we did meet it was in the five minutes before class started or two minutes after she dismissed us from class. The fun part is that we actually want to meet to figure out what we're going to do for the presentation... too bad Christine works when we have time to meet on Wednesday. Eh, no problem. We'll just meet on Tuesday when I work! Perfect! So what am I supposed to do? Oh, they're just going to email me what they're going to do. Great. So I have... no fucking say. Whatsoever. So I'm not sure what to do with the evaluation. Jess and I tried to get everybody to meet up multiple times, but it didn't matter, because the two of us never even met outside class. Whatever. So there's that and the final exam, half take-home and half in-class. Not concerned about the take-home, since I aced the last take-home portion. And that's the remainder of ECN 445.
Philosophy shouldn't be too bad. It would be badass if I can pull off a B+ on this final, because that would place me at a nice, solid B, which I would not complain about. It's interesting how I'm very gradually improving in that class. First paper: C+, midterm: B-, and second paper: B. So just a final exam.
Public Finance: This one I need to spend a bit of time on. Not because I'm doing badly, but because I want to keep up where I'm at now. I'm right at the A/B border, and I need to push myself over that hump. We've got a term paper due Wednesday (got a page and a half down, and it needs to be 5-8 pages. Annoying page requirements). Anstine isn't a huge grammar freak and is very lenient on writing. Just as long as you say what you need to say. And then the final, which is supposedly cumulative. Ugh.
Lastly, money and banking. There's a spreadsheet assignment due Monday worth 25% of the total grade. Stupid. Nobody else is having as much trouble with their computer as I am. There's a good 18 years worth of daily data in this spreadsheet, and the MacBook is just like, "Fuck you! I'm going to take a minute to process every change you make. HaHA!" Annoying. And then our final exam is this Friday. I'll need to utilize those notecards.
And that's the rest of my term in a nutshell. And then I'm on Spring Break! Hopefully with an interview lined up... if not, then oh well. I'll find something else. Soooo don't want retail again. But if I must, I must.
And for the record, my boyfriend is extraordinary. :D