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HSB2U

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You heard me, silly! Happy spring break to you, and you, and you!

Well… I’m home after enjoying a spring break introductory Starbucks and Boggle tradition with mah mom, and a nice visit with the peers at Haggen. It was quite nice and a very welcomed change to the Valley Library ritual I have become so accustomed to over the past 11 weeks.

Anyway, I’m very, very ready to chill… So I’ll let you go back to studying for finals or whatnot.

Peace out!

– P.S. Enjoy Italy, Kevo. Don’t elope with some Euro chick over there. :)

F1: October 20, 2009

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  • Yesterday was jBlog’s 100th post on its 1st birthday!
  • Sunday evening I had to interview random people regarding an event I was required to cover for Writing for Media (WR-201). I was so nervous! I ended up attending the premier of Not Evil Just Wrong, a documentary on Global Warming. I’m glad that the people I interviewed had mixed opinions – it will help when I write up my assignment. But I have that still to do, plus my beat journal. Urgh…
  • Math 245 midterm tomorrow… That class is still quite strange. My professor was hired the week prior to school starting, so his methods of teaching haven’t had years of OSU student conditioning, if you know what I mean. He doesn’t even know what actually goes on in recitations – he thinks we have our “study groups”, when in fact we don’t. He makes his midterm so that we will take the exam during our 50-minute class, but he assures us that we won’t be able to finish all the problems. But we should feel comforted because he grades on a curve. See… this could be a good thing when it comes to grades, but it could also be bad because there is no actual fixed form of grading – essentially it becomes based on how he believes you did, not whether the machine graded your answer right or wrong. So, what I’m thinking is that if you go through all the problems and show some work on each one of them, and then go back through and complete the easiest ones and whatever the rest you can complete, then you have a much greater chance of scoring higher because he gives credit for showing your steps and procedures for more problems than anyone else, technically. But what if the majority of the class does perform the “trick” I just mentioned and I don’t? Will I get marked down because I didn’t use the same method for testing as others? In my mind, it doesn’t seem to come out all that fair, unless he actually does use a bias to essentially offset this issue. We shall see…
  • Going home this weekend – was supposed to be last weekend, but then I realized that I had two midterms this school week and two papers due Friday, so it’d be best if I hit home this Friday such that my work load will be much less, and stress be much lighter. I will be heading home the first time since I moved down here to Corvallis. It will be nice to play Boggle at Starbucks in the aura of this autumn weather. I need to also go to Haggen to see if they still have my final paycheck (yeah… from 4 weeks ago) and also to say hello to some people I miss. I will also be going shopping for new clothes!… It’s a procedure I usually whine and cry about, but I’m actually eager. This dieting is going well, except all the clothes I have here at the apartment are fairly large and baggy now. I have to put my hands in my pockets in order to keep my jeans up, and unzip my sweatshirt because it curls all up without a stomach there to keep it straight (confusing to explain, I know). All the belts I have are too big as well. So… I suppose this is a good thing. I can’t wait to see what pant size I can fit into! The only thing I’m a bit iffy about going home is my loss of traction on this diet, and the fact that even though I will be enjoying home, I’ll also be missing great times here in Corvallis. Though, Halloween weekend will be a new experience.

Drift Away

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Transitioning from summer to autumn is absolutely brutal.

It is difficult to be inspired by the change to fall while just coming off of the thrill of summer. One goes from thriving in the daily sunshine and upper-seventy degree warmth to a groan-worthy chill in the air and a stack of homework. I read so many peoples’ comments on how much they love fall or Halloween or just bearing a coat to there whereabouts. But I am trapped in a seasonal depression where the thriving life of summer collides instantaneously with the wrath of cold trends and hard work. Rain is surprisingly my utter weakness. Perchance I could come to embrace the enjoyable side of bundling up for the brisk daily temperatures, but weighing out the annoying decision between a raincoat or umbrella and walking to class or biking really shoots down my sense of fun in autumn or winter. Rain puts a dampener on everything for me.

Look at the life during summer. Day-by-day passes and the routine of t-shirts and shorts becomes so natural, and the trips to Starbucks for an iced drink and some Boggle seemed so perfect. Going to work on a regular basis was the tough of the time, but glancing back it was rather a joy. There are so many aspects of summer that sulk in their own rhythm of happiness, but autumn and winter, in my opinion, beg to be loved.

I suppose it’s the whole stigma of going back to school that sends these seasons into a bitter spin. But beyond that, I truly do have a desire to enjoy these times, but coming off of the high known as summertime, these days of earlier sunsets and dramatically cooler days accompanied by classes, homework, and the other miscellaneous difficulties in life leave me in this longing for past times where all I want to do is drift away.

Goodbye summer; Until next time.