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December 12, 2006
nearly done
My new blog description comes from the wonderful wikiquote page, where you can find, among other gems, pirate proverbs and TV comedy one-liners.
In the past couple weeks, I have completed a paper on blogs and social identity, another paper comparing Christian missionaries in the Middle East (19th century) to Christian Zionists (20th century) and their influence on American foreign policy, and several charts and analyses for a group project on Vitaminwater. That final project is due at the end of this week, and then I have three finals, two on Friday, one on Monday. Finals are the bane of my existence, for one simple reason: why should several high-stress exams in a row, at a stressful time of year, have such bearing on your final grade? For example, in my sophomore year of college, I worked like a dog to make A's in two of my more difficult classes, and I succeeded - until finals week. One final landed at 3:30 on a Monday afternoon, and the other at 7:30 the next morning (finals should NEVER happen at 7:30 in the morning!). Preparing for the 3:30 final proved to be more difficult, and I studied for hours and hours, and when all was said and done, I found it nearly impossible to regroup enough for the next crack-of-dawn test. Sure enough, I got an A on the first final and a C+ on the second, reducing my grade in that class from an A to a B+. I rested assured that injustice still prevails in America. Not that a B+ is bad, but you can see for yourself the unnecessary dramatic change.
Hopefully I will not meet the same fate this year. My hardest final consists of 10 fill-in-the-blank questions and 4 essays, 2 pages each. Though writing that many essays tires the hand, it's more my style. One of the essays will address the recent Baker-Hamilton report.
Anna is arriving from Brussels next week to drive home (in a rental - not the Scion!) with us to Chattanooga for Christmas. The night she comes, we're going caroling with our Bible study group to "advertise" (with lovely voices and candy canes) our new church. So far, a few visitors have come, some even responding to Heidi's and my marketing schemes. We'll see how it goes.
Finally, next semester I will probably work an internship at a music production company and a part-time job with a literacy program on campus, in addition to taking classes on Islam, guerrilla warfare, and non-profit organizations. I love what I study. I hadn't realized it until now.
P.S. I've added my Amazon wishlist to the links down on the right. Check it out.
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which music production company?
Posted by: funke at December 12, 2006 12:35 PM
so I see you have become a covblogs whore, too . . . I'll probably be doing that sometime over the break. Now I am too tired to think about such things. Your papers sound super cool.
Posted by: linnea at December 12, 2006 02:39 PM
