Two-and-a-half down...

The history review is OVER! Less than 24 hours until the exam and then I'll be almost free! FREEEEEE! *maniacal laughter*

So right now I'm sitting at a restaurant on University Blvd. while I eat lunch/early-early dinner and write my history exam essays. I will stay here until they kick me out! Heh-heh-heh... Or until it's about to get dark. One of the two.

Ooof, belly... SO... FULL! SO FULL! It is going to pop! Now I shall sit and relax? Maybe... :o) NO! There's history to do! *judo-chop!*

Why I hate American schooling.

Some teachers are great. Some schools are great. Generally, most are not. In the case of America's schooling, we students are typically force-fed a ton of information and expected to process it at the same rate as our classmates. This is usually not a good idea; students struggle more than professors know. You know those times when one kid is brave enough to ask the professor a question and you find yourself thinking, "Thankfully someone else asked because I really have no idea what the crap I'm doing,"? Yeah... those kids don't always ask.

But in the case of assumption, it's even more frustrating. It is really frustrating going into my structures course and hearing the professor say, "I'm assuming you all learned how to use the Law of Sines in your trigonometry classes, so here's what you plug in and here's the answer." They do that and skip virtually every helpful step in between that is critical to knowing how to do the problem. Then you have me, who is way too shy to say, "I don't get it," in the middle of a class. I've never been comfortable with saying that - especially when you're in a class of kids that will scoff at you for doing so. Not to mention it sets the class back. I worry too much.

But still the point remains that we're all expected to learn at the same rate and, last time I checked, everyone learns differently.

The Law of Sines is now on my hit list. You've been warned Law of Sines, you've been warned.

Proximity matters.

You're in town, I'm so excited! I'm also so saddened! You're eight miles away and yet you feel so far. How is this possible? I can't wait until the eight miles become zero after a long day's work today. Holy Crap it's 1am! Where did the time go?

I ran into Jeff on campus today - during my minor freak-out session where I decided I needed coffee, STAT! Jeff and I met in a summer class last year. We mocked it good. Oh, how we did. It was sweet. He recently left the engineering college - good for you for screwing them over! They're too nerdy for the real world. :o)

One of my college colleagues chews gum with her mouth open. Slow. Like a cow chewing its cud. The sounds aren't loud, but loud enough to make you wish she'd stop. Rarg. She also says "Hi" in this two-syllabled fashion: "Hi-i" where the "hi" is high pitched and the "-i" is lightly lower... Kind of like Princess Toadstool in Mario Kart 64. "Peachie's got it!" DooDoo, Leeser, you know what I'm talkin' about - and how annoying that is. UGH.

Okay, my bed is SO calling me... and seeing that I didn't get nearly as much done as I wanted to today and my brain just can't stand to think anymore, yeah. I'm out, yos.

Listening to: Phunk Junkeez - JOIN IN