FINALS WEEK!

Okay so the week of finals is normally called Hell Week. But this semester finals so far have been really really easy. I have gotten four out of my seven finals done. Those finals were my Kinesiology, Math 125, Swimming, and English. All I have left are History 150, LGT, and Computer science.

The Only finals that I really have to study for is History 150 and Computer Science. Other then that everything has be flying colors. My easiest final was Swimming. Here was my test.

1. Name?
2. What would you like to see more of in this class?
3. Have a Great Summer!

Yep the third question was not even a question!

During finals week at work I have to work two different shifts. I worked Monday 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. and I work the same time today. Working on campus has it's advantages and its disadvantages. But it is work so I really can not complain.

Moving On Up

Today my teacher asked out class if we thought that we were ready to move on to English 104. after she asked this question I really got to thinking if I really was or not. This started to scare me a little bit. I automatically started to think about the writing competency exam next year. Now I am nervous.

After class I had a meeting with my teacher to see where I am at in my writing and how I am feeling about my writing. throughout the meeting see told me that I was a pretty good writer. The fact that I am not stuck on my words meaning that I am open for change make me somewhat unique. She says thins but in my head, I am thinking that I am more narrow mind when it comes to writing. But her tell me these, make me feel a little more self confident. Towards the end of the meeting I had to ask my teacher if she thought that if I were to take the writing competency now if I would pass. she told me that I would do pass. Then she gave me some advise on what to do to ready myself for the test next year.


After the meeting with my teacher I was ready to answer the question on if I am ready to move on to English 104. My answer is YES, I am ready to move on up to 104. I feel that I am confident enough to do well in that class. I now cannot wait for next year to come around and start a new adventure in English.

Another Week In Class

So class this week has been a real battle for me. When you do the same thing over and over again it starts to get really boring. What am I to do in this situation?

I walk into class every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday with an Ice Moca coffee in my hand so get some energy for the rest of my day. Normally this does not kick in till after my English class.

In class this week we are doing the same thing that we did last week, Workshopping. This is boring when you are not the one reading or being the discussion leader. All I have to do is sit there listen and follow along with the person who gets to read their paper that day. Then I give them my feedback on what I thought of the paper and what they could do to improve that paper. when I do this my other class mates look at me as if I don't really know what I am talking about. This just makes me not want to help them out.

On Wednesday we talked about how to write sentences and the different kinds of sentences. This made me feel like I was in middle school again. I mean yeah it is helpful to be reminded of what we are doing wrong with them. I don;t know anymore. I think that my brain is just ready for a nice long break, aka SUMMER!!!

Over all this week I have just been really really bored out of my mind. My brain needs something fun to do. Lets play a game or something to get out brains having fun and not so bored.

Workshopping

So this week in English, our class had print off 15 copies of a paper that we wanted to read in front of class that we thought that we would have the most trouble on. We do this so that we can hear what our own papers sound like and so that our classmates can gives us some really good feedback. This method of revision is called "Workshopping".

When I read my paper out load it sounded really choppy. It sounded even worse because I stuttered quit a bit when reading it. Even thought this was an extremely horrific experience, it helped me no how to really improve my paper. I got a lot of feed back from everyone. After I got back all the feed back, I went to work on improving my paper.I think that this will be one of my best papers that I have ever written. I am pretty happy with my success.

Next week I am going to go to the Writing Center to do this workshopping thing on my other papers. We will see how that goes next week. I hope that it will go well. I really hate doing revisions so workshopping is the best way for me to understand what I did wrong and how I should fix it.

Another Relaxing Week

This week in English class has so far been another really relaxing week. This week and last week, I would have to say have been my favorite times in and out of class. To bad class is not going to stay like this for long. It is back to work next week.:(

Monday in class all but one team presented their Facebook fan pages. Everyone did a very good job on their fan pages. Almost everyone had pictures of their place. Some groups had some videos, like ours did. Everyone that presented had a good amount of fans but our Atrium page had the most of 345 fans. The pages had some good and bad comments on them too. Over all so far this group project has been a good experience.

Wednesday all I can really say is that we did not have class do to the fact that our teacher Karen had to grade our timed writing with a bunch of other teachers. Not having class is awesome! I got so much done with in the time that I would of had class. I really did not have too much to do though. :)

In class on Friday the last group will present their fan page. Our two page paper over what we thought about this project and the people in the groups, is due today via email. Then we will start talking about our portfolios. I have not yet picked the three papers that I want to revise and put into my portfolio. Decisions, decisions. I think that doing our portfolios will not be too terribly bad. They will be annoying as hell but somewhat easy.

So this week has totally been a relaxation week. I LOVE IT! It was just what I needed. I think that is what most of the people in the class needed. To bad that we will most likely never have this again before the end of this semester. What a bummer.

This Week In Class

This past week in class we got a lot done but it was pretty laid back. Having a week that is pretty laid back takes a lot of stress of my chest. I love it!

On Monday, March 22nd our class met up in the library in the the map room. The map room has about every map you can think of. and if they do not have the kind of map that you need you can also make your own map. The Ladies that work in the map room can help you with anything that you need help on. You can print large maps and laminate them at a very low price. We learned how to locate maps and how to use them on the computer. This is suppose to help a little bit with our group project.

On Wednesday, March 24 our class met up in the normal classroom. We talked a little bit what we will do on Friday and then about what we are going to have to do on Monday. After our teacher talked, the class got into there groups and worked on our fan pages and talked about how we are going to present our fan pages. Our group this weekend is going to the Atrium to take pictures and do so interviews. Our fan pages is going to be great. I am so proud of how our page is turning out so far.

The today Friday, March 26 we had to do a time writing in class, which is required. This timed writing sucks! I hate only having 45 mins to think of what to do then get write. It takes me about so mins to just think up on how to write the paper then it take me how ever long to actually write the paper well. So when I am rushed the paper will turn out like crap. So good thing that we are not really getting a grade on how well we wrote the paper.

All in all i think that it was a pretty good week. Now I am ready to sit back and relax for the rest of my weekend.

Group Project on the Ball State Atrium

I did some observing on Wednesday the 17th at 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Atrium. It was around breakfast and lunch and is was very busy. The Atrium is one of the biggest hangout spots here along with Bracken Library and the Irving Gym. The Atrium is beautiful inside and out.

Many people like to meet up here to talk and have fun with friends, family and teachers. Students like to do there homework in this environment because it is somewhat peaceful with all of the plants and music around you. Teacher come to the Atrium to enjoy lunch with other teachers and sometimes they meet up with student to help them with class stuff.

While I was eating my breakfast and observing my surroundings a girl came over and sat next to me and she interduced herself. We sat there and talked for a while about classes and stuff that has been going around on campus. She was a very pleasant person. But I think that she thought that I was all lonely sitting by myself eating. If so it was very nice of her. This just tells me that some of the people that come here are not afraid to meet new people. When I looked around I saw some people that were kind of to themselves too. This inspired me. I went up to the first person that I saw and I asked them what did they like about the Atrium. This person told me that they like the people and some of the activities that they have here like the post-sales and the bake-sales.

This was an over all good observation for me. It was interesting to here what people thought about the Atrium and to see what all can go down there. I will do some more observing this week to see if anything new happen.