**An earthquake has struck Chile of 8.8 magnitude. The earthquake has caused tsunamis. A tsunami is due to strick Hawaii, Japan and other Asian coastline along with Austrailia and New Zealand. Thankfully, people have been warned and are seeking safety inland and to higher ground. Keep the people of the sticken areas and soon to be stricken areas in your thoughts and prayers.**
***Update: Only a mild wave hit Hawaii-Chile is the only place that really suffered***
I haven't posted in quite awhile, but no one appears to read the blog anyway, so it's just for me. College started and because I'm clearly intelligent *cough* I decided to take 17 credit hours or 6 classes instead of my usual 5 classes/15 credit hours. I question my sanity in doing such a thing. It's wearing me out and it's almost 6 weeks in. I have about 8-9 more weeks to go. I just recieved my placement letter last Thursday. Of the 30 people in the class, I was one of the last to recieve it, again. I say again because I was among the last to recieve my placement letter last semester. Once again, I get to observe a 5th grade classroom. I'm a little disappointed because I personally perfer younger children and would rather not teach children past 3rd grade when I become a teacher. I need to take a preprofessional test before next fall, but have not signed up for it. I am still studying for it. The math portion is all but dumb and the writing portion barely gives any time. I have got to sign up sometime in the next week to schedule a time for the test. The place is a little out of the way because they can't, for some reason, give you the test at the University.
I turned another year older since I lasted posted. Yeah for being 21! I just got over a very bad cold. It took me an entire week to feel better and another two weeks to lose my gross cough and stop hacking up mucus. Not fun at all. My sister brought it home, gave it to my grandmother who gave it to my brother who in turn gave it me. Lucky me!
Anyway, I stopped doing wordless wednesday. I don't have time to take pictures for one and forget about for another. It may be a few weeks before I can post again. My classes this semester are almost like torture. This is the first semester since I started college that I actually feel like I have to force myself to go to class every Tuesday and Thursday. My classes are terrible. My afternoon classes are the worst and they shouldn't be considering one is a major core class, education. He (the professor) seems to enjoy what he does, I guess. But no one ever seems to have the answer he's looking for yet he wants people to participate. Why talk when no matter what I say it's going to be wrong? It's like being back in public school again. He talks and talks about his perception of the problems in public school and with teachers, but seems to be doing the very things he doesn't like. 2012, the year I am pushing to be finished with University can't seem to get here fast enough and I don't like to wish time away, but I know my professor next semester won't be any better, I met her and she's the only one who teaches the class. She thinks you don't have a job, you don't have other classes, you don't have children/a family (many people at the University do indeed have children, I do not so that doesn't apply to me.), only her class and observations. Ugh. Next semester, I'm only taking 15 hours, I do well with that many and won't push my luck again. Lesson learned.
My other classes are either subjects I don't actually care for and/or are just boring. I don't care for math, but my math class bores me to tears, almost literally. My math notebook isn't full of problems, it's full of doodles. On the plus side, I am improving my art skills. My english class is apparently a speech class as well and I do not like it, at all. So many papers and essays, my fingers are going to fall off from typing. I do not care for speaking in front of a large crowd of adults but it's much easier to speak to college students than to high schoolers in high school. No one laughs at you in college for mistakes. And everyone is just as nervous as you are. No one's going to make fun because they are just as nervous. The group speech though was dumb. 2 to 1, they win on a dumb idea to demonstrate in front of everyone. Thanks a lot professor *grumbles a little* Okay, complaining down.
A question: Why would a historically black college turned university that is half non-traditional students, meaning many live off campus and have families of their own, with students from all over the country and even from other countries and about half of the student body not full-blooded caucausian need a class about life and about race and gender?
Answer: You don't, they just want your money so they require it anyway. They rip you off as it is. It is now banned to sell books outside of the campus store, so they can give you less than half what it's worth and resell it for a much higher price. RIP-OFF!!!
Rant over. I'm better now. It will end eventually. "This too shall pass." Waiting for Spring of 2011. I have a few non-rant posts I plan on posting sometime later, maybe during my Spring Break in late March, sooner if I get some time.
Shalom,
Nelli
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