6 posts tagged “class”

So I did not blog yesterday because fell asleep as soon as I got some grub and took some cold medication. It's only been day one of my cold, but I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.These are the highlights of yesterday:

• Woke up at the butt crack of dawn to finish my Photoshop project and chapter response for Mass Media Law.
  
• Got 97/100 on my analyzing artwork paper. My Photoshop prof. is a really hard grader, so I was so stoked.
• Found out that my Mass Media Law midterm exam was pushed up to this Thursday (Bad times), and also discovered that it is an open note test (Good times!)
• Talked to my rhetoric prof for nearly an hour about sources for my research paper, and told me that I should think about becoming a professor. I told him I'll think about it, but honestly I don't see it as the career for me.
• Mom wanted me to go grocery shopping with her so she picked me up from uni. I felt like I was going to faint during the whole time we were there because I did not bother to get any food while on campus. I just didn't have an appetite nor did I want to spend almost $6 on a very cold ham sandwich.

So that was pretty much my entire day. I'm going to classes today, but I'm not going to work. I don't want the kids to catch my bug.

I should be sleep now, but oh well...I don't have class until 1 pm so I can sleep in.

Interpersonal comm. class is going pretty well. I took my first exam on Friday. I didn't study much, but I think I did pretty well. I good amount of the material was stuff that I already knew. I can't say I aced it, but I'm confident I didn't bomb.

In other news, my aunt and her boyfriend are saying with my family and I for a few months. My aunt is dealing with gambling addiction and other issues in her life and she went on a gambling binge. They're getting evicted so they needed a place to stay. I just hope that for the short time they are here that my mom and her will get along and I won't have to hear all of the bickering that they are capable off.

I'm back at work, and I'm pretty happy. I got tons of hugs from the kids and they were all kind of upset that I was not able to be at the computer lab during December. One of the kids, a little girl seven years of age, went on this three minute rant about how they shoveled the streets and yet I still could not make to work. It was hilarious. To make it up to them, I brought them a game called Topple. They really liked that a lot. I want to try to get them Guess Who because I think it's one of the best games ever, and none of them had ever heard of the game!  I have a travel set, but since It's really precious to me I'll keep it at home. Maybe next month I'll buy it for them. They don't have that many games and toys at the computer lab for them to play and they like games. So I figure I am doing my part and giving to charity.

Well, I'm going to either watch more videos on YouTube or go to bed now...maybe I'll go to bed...

On monday I head back to class. It's Jan term so I'm taking just one class for four hours (Yay!...not really). I'm taking interpersonal communication, which most people I've talked to seemed to like. When I visited campus I sat got to sit in the interpersonal communication class with the same professor I'm having this time. I've hard that it's a relatively easy class, but there is a lot to remember.

What I don't look forward to is buying textbooks. Now I have to scrape up $72 which I don't really have since I couldn't work for most of December (DAMN SNOW!!!).

And it feels good. Last week, I took my finals and now I'm just waiting on my grades. From five classes I think I got 2 A's (Design I and Yoga) and the rest are B's (Television Broadcasting, Theories in Human Communication, and Acts of the Apostles). I have realized that I thoroughly am done with the idea of doing cable news or any form of broadcast journalism (unless they give me a good damn salary and benefits). I loved doing some of the projects in TV Broadcasting, but I think we just were not allowed to be creative enough and there were to many projects to give adequate enough attention to. Editing takes a really long time, and we were practically flying by the seat of our pants be cause our professor did not know how to operate Adobe Elements. However, I have not given up on communication at all.

I've also learned that I cannot afford to do an internship during the summer, since one has to pay a summer tuition fee to get the credits. So now I have the dilemma of trying to find internships for either fall or spring, but I still want to work in the computer lab because I don't want to leave the kids. They get pretty sad when workers leave, so I would like to stay there as long as I can.

Enough about uni. It's the holiday season, and so one tends to think about gifts and purchasing things. Unfortunately, I cannot afford to buy any of my folks gifts because the money that I've earned is going to go towards my books which happens to be more expensive than the previous years :(  I was going to go on a rant about how shitty it is that we have to pay a ton of money for a new edition of a book when they only change a small portion of the book from the last edition, but I decided not to. If you were in college, you understand my frustration. Also what I don't get is that one's best chance to get used books is if they pre-order with a credit card at the bookstore. My thing is, those who want the used books are the ones most likely to not have a credit card, and who is scrambling at the last minute to get cash to buy the books, i.e. ME!  So, I sort of ranted anyways...*shrugs*

Well, I better go grab breakfast. My stomach is beginning to gurggle a little to loudly.

So I'm waiting around trying to pass the time before I go off to class. I start work today, which reminds me I need to stop by the career center and get that paper for my work study since I f-ed up the first one. I'm looking forward to going to work, but at the same time I hope I don't have bad ass kids to deal with. If I didn't mention it before, I'm working as a tutor/daycare computer lab assistant. I think this week I'm just going to get a feel of things and then, if need be, see if I can come up with some projects they can do and bring in things that can help them out with the school work they are doing. When I was a senior, I did a year of Teaching Academy and had a really cool experience working with fifth graders, so I hope this will be just as good of an experience.

I'm looking around my room, and I realize that it's a f-ing mess. I need to tidy up, on the serious tip.

Anyways, I'm going to go grab some grub before I head out.

Every time I think about my time based media class the song Time (Clock of the Heart) pops into my head.

Anyways, I've started to work on my time-based art project that's due at the end of the month, finally. I had a ton of ideas, but I didn't have the money to get materials. Then I found my collection of movie ticket stubs dating back to 2004, and I figured I'll do something with that. I think I'm going to make a sort of collage or something about the movies and use my ticket stubs. That way, I'll be time based in the sense that I had went to the movies at these times on these days. And the funny thing is, that although I might remember going, the only way I can remember the day and time I went to them is if I look at the stubs. A lot of people throw them away, but I think it's cool to have a document of that moment in time.

I said it before and I'll say it again, intro to time based media is not what I thought it would be. Honestly, it isn't helping me too much with what I want to do. It's too late for me to switch out of it, so now I'm stuck with it. It's not that hard of a class, but I feel like I'm wasting my time...well, whenever I go to campus I feel like I'm wasting time. I only have two more years to go, so I guess I can make it.

A while back I did a rant on how my friends (with the exception of a few) never take the initiative to call me or keep in touch. Well, here's similar rant, but with a different subject. My grandpa and my dad always tell me to feel free to call them to let them know how I'm doing. Well, I do, but every time I do they are doing something and they say that they'll call me back later. Hours pass, days pass, weeks pass, until I have to call them again and then the cycle starts over again. Then when I tell them about it, they say, "don't be mad," and give me a ton of excuses. Then when I don't call them for a long time and they finally decided to call me , they are like "you can call me anytime." NO, I CAN'T!!!! When you say that you are going to call me back, call me back!!! I don't care if we just talk 5 minutes, just keep your word. And they should want to stay on my good side, since they hadn't been in my life for the first 17 years.