caterpillar sunrise
so, not too much has changed since last update. i cleared the security checks for the consulate internship, but the guy i'm working for is taking some course, then going on vacation, so i won't be starting until after easter. i got hired at the peachtree battle publix, which will be right down the street from where casi and i are moving at the end of may. i wish wish wish i could move down there now, to get away from all the residents here, and so i don't have to wake up 3 hours before i have to be at class.
school is going well. obviously, i have a project due next week, or i wouldn't be taking the time to write up a post. economic impact of property rights on transitional economies. it really isn't that difficult, it's just there's so much information about it that i can't decide what to do with it, or where to go with it. it's just tough figuring out how to narrow it down, but still have enough for a 10 page paper and 15 minute presentation. and although it's a group project, i have no idea how to divide it up among group members. the next week i have a report due on the political situation in Ukraine. it's interesting, i just have to make myself sit down and do it... something i'm not good at. macro- and microeconomics are going great. well, all classes are going well.
i'm spending a lot of time in class screaming in my head at all the dumbasses around me, boohooing about not understanding questions that are easy enough if you read them. "when i looked at the question, and it asked me about something i read, i wasn't sure if 'read' was supposed to be present tense or past tense. you didn't clarify. it also could have been a misspelling of 'reed' or 'bread', neither of which make any sense, so i should get credit for this question." take it like a man. on my comparative politics class, there were 20 questions on the multiple choice section of the test. by professorial accident, two of them were the same question. as a genius, i got both wrong. so after class i went to the teacher, and admitted that if i had gotten it right, i'd have no problem with the duplicate question. but since i got it wrong, maybe i could ask to only be penalized for getting it wrong once. no? okay, well it was worth a shot. oh no my test score remains two points lower, my college career is ruined. had i studied better i wouldn't have this problem. take responsibility for your own shitty studying, and stop trying to pass it off as some abstruse mindgame the professor is playing on everyone. i had a professor with an awesome approach to the situation: if the whole class agreed not to ask him any [stupid] questions about the test and its grading, he would give everyone 5 bonus points. but if a single person gave him shit, everyone would get nothing. it was great.
well, that quickly turned from an update to a rant. in other news, i've been spending a lot of time thinking about the future, having my own business. i don't even know what the business would be, or what i would do. i just have all these ideas of hiring people like me, and all the requirements i'd have, and all the crap i'd have to go through to not get crap for those requirements. it's interesting to me at least.
in other awesome news, casi's family is moving back to georgia. it'll be cool to get to hang around them more often. maybe cori will come back, too?
okay well i guess i better get back to [not so obviously] avoiding my project.
the end.
school is going well. obviously, i have a project due next week, or i wouldn't be taking the time to write up a post. economic impact of property rights on transitional economies. it really isn't that difficult, it's just there's so much information about it that i can't decide what to do with it, or where to go with it. it's just tough figuring out how to narrow it down, but still have enough for a 10 page paper and 15 minute presentation. and although it's a group project, i have no idea how to divide it up among group members. the next week i have a report due on the political situation in Ukraine. it's interesting, i just have to make myself sit down and do it... something i'm not good at. macro- and microeconomics are going great. well, all classes are going well.
i'm spending a lot of time in class screaming in my head at all the dumbasses around me, boohooing about not understanding questions that are easy enough if you read them. "when i looked at the question, and it asked me about something i read, i wasn't sure if 'read' was supposed to be present tense or past tense. you didn't clarify. it also could have been a misspelling of 'reed' or 'bread', neither of which make any sense, so i should get credit for this question." take it like a man. on my comparative politics class, there were 20 questions on the multiple choice section of the test. by professorial accident, two of them were the same question. as a genius, i got both wrong. so after class i went to the teacher, and admitted that if i had gotten it right, i'd have no problem with the duplicate question. but since i got it wrong, maybe i could ask to only be penalized for getting it wrong once. no? okay, well it was worth a shot. oh no my test score remains two points lower, my college career is ruined. had i studied better i wouldn't have this problem. take responsibility for your own shitty studying, and stop trying to pass it off as some abstruse mindgame the professor is playing on everyone. i had a professor with an awesome approach to the situation: if the whole class agreed not to ask him any [stupid] questions about the test and its grading, he would give everyone 5 bonus points. but if a single person gave him shit, everyone would get nothing. it was great.
well, that quickly turned from an update to a rant. in other news, i've been spending a lot of time thinking about the future, having my own business. i don't even know what the business would be, or what i would do. i just have all these ideas of hiring people like me, and all the requirements i'd have, and all the crap i'd have to go through to not get crap for those requirements. it's interesting to me at least.
in other awesome news, casi's family is moving back to georgia. it'll be cool to get to hang around them more often. maybe cori will come back, too?
okay well i guess i better get back to [not so obviously] avoiding my project.
the end.