Midterm Week!

Thankfully, unlike others, I have had a pretty simple midterm week. I have one more left that I take on Monday and I am dreading it. The other ones I have taken were relatively simple but I did only get B's on them. I was disappointed that after all that studying I only managed to get a B. I mean I know I could have gotten a MUCH lower score, but still. I emailed one of my teachers after one of my finals though and he said I had the second highest grade on it and that it was a huge accomplishment especially since I am a freshman! That did make me pretty happy. The last midterm I have to take is my Comm midterm and I heard it was full of tricky questions. This bothers me and worries me because those are the hardest tests to take. Plus it is like 70 questions long and on inqsit! That is going to be awful. UGH! But nonetheless I have survived Midterm week and am happy to say so!

Lil' Wayne

Since I wrote my open letter on Lil' Wayne's lyrics, I was inspired to blog about it this week. Considering this is a more open domain then my formal open letter, I feel more open to say the things that bother me about these lyrics. While writing my blog the specific lyrics "open her legs then fillet Mignon" were in my head. This is utterly disgusting to me. It is such a nasty phrase. The song goes on to say "i'm gonna own that p***y". EW! Who is Lil' Wayne to say these things about a woman. Those things are private and should not be said out loud let alone in a song for the world to hear. I find it very inappropriate, and even though I have many friends that "respect" his work, I am still confused as to why anyone would. What is there to respect about those lyrics? They most definitely are not very poetic. I thought the point of music was to write poetry in song form. As far as I'm concerned that is no where near poetry.

Writing English Papers

Even though this blog is for my English class, I am going to write about my English class frustration anyway. The other day we got our memoir papers back. I got an 85. I do not blame anyone but myself. I know that it is a fair grade, I am just frustrated at myself for not realizing it was not an A. Although it was a full story, it was not full of good enough detail. I realized after writing this paper that I need to improve my detail writing ability. For some reason it was difficult for me to go back to the moment and describe it in accurate and vivid details. During this next assignment I am going to strive for an A. I want an A on this paper to confirm my writing ability because I am naturally an O.K writer, which may be why I have not improved in the past because my ability has never been challenged. I am going to try and put my hardest work into this next paper and challenge myself. We will see how it works out...

Paul

I decided to write about Paul this week on my blog! I sit next to Paul Sommers in English 103! Everyday we come in I hope Paul is here so I have someone to talk to during class. It is nice having someone to talk to in class because you feel like you are more awake and attentive if you have someone to keep you awake! The one time Paul was not in class I was sad because there was no one sitting next to me! I think it is important to have people you like in your classes because then you are more willing to participate during discussions, group projects, and peer editing. Thanks to Paul I thoroughly enjoy coming to English class!

The Sorority Life

Okay, I know what you're thinking, just another dumb girl that joined a sorority and is obsessed. Well, yes I am those things, but I was on the other end of it too. I was anti-sorority life all throughout high school and even coming into college. I was so confused as to why anyone would pay for friends and live a life that sounds so shallow, but my roommate rushed so I decided it was worth the experience. Here I am a week later and I cannot believe how much my views have changed. Being in a sorority is not like I had expected in most aspects. On Saturday I'm doing community service with the sorority and tye-dying tonight. There's so many events to get involved in and I love how busy it keeps me! All the girls are nice and completely not the sorority girls you see in movies and on TV. I am so happy that I joined a sorority and it's been an amazing experience already. I totally recommend the greek life to anyone who is hesitant about it. It is such a rewarding experience and it is a completely well-rounded organization to join. Go Alpha Phi :)

Moving Forward

Today I am writing to you from a good place. This week has been a very productive one for me, one in which I feel like I am learning interesting things in my classes and finishing assignments on time. I am doing good in all of my classes and have managed to get A's and B's on all my tests. I've learned time management quite well so far and that is something that I was never able to grasp before now. I have always been a procrastinator, so to be able to say I am finally staying on top of things is a really good feeling. Tonight starts rush, and although I am not certain I want to be in a sorority, I am certain that I do want to go through rush to have that experience. I feel as if there are things I want to take away from college and memories I want to acquire. Being part of the Greek Life may interest me and it may not but I do want to see what all the fuss is about. I am in only one club for my major which is the Student Council for Exceptional Children, which is a club that focuses on people who want to deal with children with special needs. Both the SCEC and Greek Life are organizations that I will take so much from. I guess we will just have to see..

FRUSTRATED!

Since this is my first blog and I am not quite sure what to write about I think I will share how extremely frustrated I am with school. I know that it could be worse and that it probably will get worse but for now I just do not know what I am going to do! I just realized that I need to do a ton of stuff by September 7th and I am not ready for it all! With labor day weekend just around the corner I feel as if I do not want to do homework during the weekend that I'm spending with my family, but it seems as if I have no choice. Although this blog is not very long, I obviously need to get started on more studying and other homework and will hopefully have something more substantial to blog about later!