Edumacation
It’s official…
…I’m freaking out.
Two weeks are left before final exams and I’m trying to decide how to manage my time. A 2000 word essay, two 1000 word essays, a group project, two novels, study for four final exams, and a partridge in a pear tree.
When I was coming home from class, I could feel myself trying [...]
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Linguistic Static
Last night I attended a presentation at Waubonsee College with Tina which was about the effect Hurricane Katrina had (and continues to have) on New Orleans and the rebuilding efforts that have been made to the city. The experts who presented were highly accredited including a representative from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, [...]
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Gaping mouth, shaking head
“…the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history…”
-Yahoo News
Early this morning, a gunman entered Virginia Tech and massacred 32 people while 26 others were injured.
He entered a dormitory where he killed two and then proceeded to a more populated classroom building, chained the door behind him, and started shooting.
I’m shocked and disgusted that educational institutions [...]
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Secret thoughts in the back of an Eliot novel
Some of the novels we have to read for class shrink my attention span to the size of a pea. After a few pages I tend to randomly flip through the pages or repetitively count how much further I have to go till the end of the chapter.
I’m trudging through George Eliot’s The Mill [...]
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Gracias Toda Danke Arigato Merci
I have been horribly lazy. I’ve been spending my time writing about useless things and not enough of my school work. (A.K.A Massive amounts of pre-1900 literature… gah.) Sparknotes is my savior this week.
And today I ditched school. I ditched school and went to the museum. I’m that kind of [...]
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