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.

SO TIRED!!!

So the past two week have been really long and tiresome! I keep thinking of Spring Break so it make my days longer and longer but I cannot help it. I feel like I have so much to get done in such a short time, but it is not short it takes for ever!

The past week in class we have been working on Project 3 which is on an issue that we think that is important. I choose Elkhart Indiana and how we are in an economic dilemma. Poor Elkhart! We had to find 4 secondary sources but I found about 13 great sources. This helped me a lot to have all of those sources. I could write a good 10 page paper with all of the sources that I found but my paper had to be half of that so it was easy. The problem that I had with my paper though is that I feel that it is very repetitive but I think that it sounds ok too. What a dilemma! We did our peer review today so we will see what they said that could help me and my teacher is going to look over it too.

I am so tired of school right now! I need this Break that is coming up in two days. I'm not going anywhere special so I am just going to go home and just relax, maybe catch up on some sleep and catch up with some friends and family.