Can you tell that I’m stalling on writing a paper? LOL And who called my mom- that sounds like something she would say to me. I loathe writing papers! I usually do really well on them(I made a 100 on the last paper for this class), depending on how picky that particular teacher is, but I really hate the actual paper writing process. Some people do all that fancy business with outlines, thesis statements, editing, and whatnot but I just can’t get on board with all of that. I just like to sit down and write the paper. Then go back through it and do corrections, take out things that don’t make sense, rearrange things, etc… Now that I think about it I don’t know how I do so well on my papers because there are no organizational skills involved with the writing of the paper. I guess I just have mad skills? Hah! Just kidding!!
So it’s been pretty hard to post pictures of cool foods and snackies that I’m eating and things that I’m up to because I still have no camera. My poor little camera is just looking so sad and broken. I’m debating weather I should keep trying to find a place to get it fixed or if I should just go ahead and get a new one. I mean if the camera was old I would buy a new one in a heartbeat. But this camera is almost brand new. And if I were to get a new one, it would be the same exact camera that I would get. I’m thinking I’ll at least try to fix it first. Then if it’s not fixable I’ll get a new one. Guess I just needed to talk that one out, lol.
So how’s life? I haven’t been around my blog as much as I would like lately, especially since my camera broke. I’m still chugging along here. I made a few career choices for when I get done with my R.D., but I’m keeping those plans a secret for the time being. I’m super psyched though!! Last semester I thoroughly enjoyed my classes, but this semester not so much. I really like Organic Chem, my Food and Culture class is okay but it’s all online and mostly paper writing so I’m not really enjoying it too much, and I HATE my quantity foods class.
Why do I hate this class? Why I’m glad you asked! It’s STUPID! I don’t have a problem with the actual lecture part. It’s a little boring- the teacher we have hasn’t ever taught a class before so she kind of just reads off of her notes and it’s a little dry. She has a lot of experience in the area and her stories are pretty interesting, it’s just the content isn’t very interesting. It’s the lab part that’s god awful! We had to clear SEVEN hours of our schedule for this class, but most of what we have to do falls outside of those 7 hours. And I’m not talking about studying for the class or writing lab reports- I would be fine with that because that’s part of every class. We have to do extra labs outside of our lab hours. Seriously. We have to do a catering event and pretty much all of them fall during the times that I have other classes. So I get to give up a Sunday to do that one. And it’s not like I can just give up an hour or two to do it and then go about my day. Since I live so far away from school I pretty much have to give up my whole day to do this. Then there’s another event that we have to split into groups and do a catered event for an organization on campus. And we have to plan the whole thing. And my group always seems to want to meet on days or times that I am either not able to get to Denton or have class. And I feel like I’m not participating because of this. And for some reason the teacher gave the Chairperson of our group the power to take points off of our lab grade for this- what the HELL? So now the chairperson of my group tried to take points off of my grade because I missed a meeting. Someone in the group who knows me and my situation stood up for me though, thank God and she didn’t take off any points, but that is SO incredibly stupid that one person who is NOT the teacher has the power to do that. So infuriating! And we only get two credits for the class for ALL of that work! Not right. And it’s a required class, no way to get around taking it. Apparently it’s the dreaded class though, and you hear all kinds of stories about it that you don’t believe are true until you actually get in the class and discover the awfulness.
Okay I’m done complaining now, haha. I just needed to rant about it a little. I feel better now!
I need to stop procrastinating and get cracking on that paper- it’s due by midnight and I have about a paragraph written. Blah.
Adios!!
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That class sounds like it sucks. I bet you will be glad when it is over!