4.0!!! Holy fuck, am I glad this semester is over. First 4.0 in grad school, too, due to Syntax my first semester, and Statistics last fall.

WHY is it so hard to write for school? Like, all I have left is the Discussion + Conclusion of this mini-casestudy I'm doing, and I've gone completely blank. *headdesk*

So, I have two papers due as final projects for two of my classes, both around 12 pages long. One is about Beauty and the Beast; I'm comparing various children's picture books, trying to analyze how the illustrations affect the perception of the story. I've chosen 8 versions. The problem is that I've only analyzed 4 of the books so far and what I ( Read more... )

Could someone please explain to me how I wrote 3000+ words in two hours, and it was pretty damn complete yet with SO MUCH room for expansion, but I've been working on this other thing for like three weeks, and I just broke 2000 words today ( Read more... )

For the record, I am so tired of winter. It's weird that we're even having a winter. On Sunday, it stayed around 60F all day and it was so lovely. I actually couldn't wear a jacket because I started sweating! Then the cold moved back in and I am tired of it. It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have to go to class; I could just curl up in my ( Read more... )

So, I read somewhere on tumblr that the weather is acting drunk - we're having our second snow day in two weeks, and might have a third tomorrow. Yes, the weather has imbibed too much. A lot of roads are closed because people down here have no idea how to drive when the temperature won't rise above freezing all day, and the sky keeps dropping ( Read more... )

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Sometimes, I worry that I’m not as good a writer as I think I am. Maybe I’m arrogant; maybe I’m confused. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe I’m like those people let through American Idol because they’re horrible singers ( Read more... )

I have a mini-research project to do for my statistics class, so could someone out there answer the following questions ( Read more... )

So, my jaw was getting better, I finally wasn't miserable all the time, life was looking up - and then I get a fucking cold, and I'm right back to being miserable. I've spent three days unable to concentrate on the schoolwork I need to do. Which is a lot ( Read more... )