So I am in finals mode finally, but am finding it really hard to concentrate on studying. I have a final on Friday and another one on the next Tuesday along with a take home final. I am pretty nervous about my Administrative Law final since it is my first closed book exam. Plus I haven’t checked out my ExamSoft to make sure it works. That is software that you use to complete your exams if you don’t want to use the bluebooks. I used it last semester and had no problems, but some people have lost their entire exams. So I am worried about losing my exam one of these days. Well wish me luck!
Archive for April, 2008
Today we had our end-of-semester shindig. With a chocolate fountain. Chocolate fountains are always worthy of a mention. As is the sight of Dean J. dancing with a little girl. Dean J. is my hero. She rules.
Today we turned in our final assignment in our research and writing class. I hope ours seems adequately cohesive… not like totally separate things written by three different people and then lumped together. *Sigh*
Classes are over and I have no exams, but I’m not done yet. Still gotta write a paper for ADR. Ugh. Just shoot me now. See, the thing about ADR is, see, I don’t really know how to please the professor. We’ve turned in two short papers already and both times I got, shall I say, less than perfect grades, but not much of an idea of how to do better. On the last one, all the feedback I got was that I should have used a certain word instead of the word I chose for the purpose (although according to the dictionary my word wasn’t totally wrong, even if it wasn’t the best choice). That’s it. (Oh, and use 12 pt. font.) Not to mention that everyone in the class is terrified of being an unwitting plagiarist. Sometimes you have to put quote marks around a single word. Yes, really.
*Sigh* I would have preferred an exam….
This is my final week of spring semester classes. Needless to say, this semester has flown by and I am not sure where it went. Since last Friday, it has been in the mid-70s, the moon is shining bright, and the frogs are out all night. It is finally spring and I can feel summer is coming. This makes it hard to sit in a classroom or library all day reading, studying and outlining for finals. I know I will get though this week and finals, but it is so hard with all the outside weather temptations.
Okay so I’m a little behind on my blogging. And I meant to keep up this semester.
Spring break caused me to get behind. Or, should I say, further behind. I lost all my momentum when I had a break! Aurgh!
For spring break I took a trip, and when I returned to the airport in Manchester (”Manchvegas” as some call it) around –what– 10 or 11pm on the night before classes resumed, I discovered I had a flat tire. *sigh* So I pulled over and began rummaging through my trunk for my spare and jack, and started jacking up the car. It had been a long day and I just wanted to go to bed, but was still a couple hours away from home (assuming I could actually drive). A line from Robert Frost’s poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening kept running through my thoughts: “And miles to go before I sleep.”
That line haunts me still, as the end of the semester looms mere days away and yet I must complete some pretty major assignments before I am done.
Spring is in full swing in VT. The bird are chripping, the rivers banks are full to the brim, and students are studying 24/7. Since I live a little out of town, I get to see how the river has been progressively filling. Last night driving home, the road was shut down to one lane becuase the other lane was covered with water! I couldn’t believe it. I have never seen so much water in my life, and the all the snow isn’t even gone yet. So there is more flooding to come I am pretty sure. I think this is why they call it “Mud Season,” but I haven’t had to bring out my mud boots just yet.
apparently it really has been a long time since i’ve written. is it april already? i had an epiphany in administrative law today that there is exactly a month (!!!!!) until that final. eek! there is still ice on the ground and it snowed a bunch the other day. this semester has been a bit crazy, and it’s already getting down to crunch time. it doesn’t feel like it because of the weather but the locals i’ve run into at the soro market have assured me that this is the longest winter they’ve had in a while. however, the big black bunnies that frequent campus have been hopping around and munching on the now exposed grass. the really huge mounds of snow/ice are gone but now we have tons of mud. therefore, i am escaping back to atlanta for part of the summer and then returning back to exile here in soro. soro is really gorgeous during the summer though and it got really hot in august. it’s weird to already be thinking about summer when i am still wearing my coat and boots around though. i feel like i have a million and a half papers to write and my administrative law final to worry about and my take home energy final…just one more month! that’s all for a quick update…for now : )
