Happy September, everyone! Hope you had a great Labor Day weekend!
I did! My mom came up to the college and spent the weekend with me, and I managed to finish my homework in time to enjoy it. So we partied all weekend, going to a wedding shower Saturday and both Sunday services and breakfast at a friend's house on Monday. =D
Sadly, Mommy had to leave Monday afternoon. Sob.
Another great thing came of her visit too! I wanted some new books for my Kindle by an author I recently discovered is awesome, but my Kindle can't connect wirelessly to my college (at least, not without a password from our campus library, which was closed all weekend). Since I'm a pathetic teen who doesn't have a car or even a license yet, I had to make sure to bring my Kindle so I could use the wireless Internet provided by some kind of food place to get my new books whenever Mommy drove me off-campus.
But eventually, I got the books! Woot! And I just finished the first of four last night, so I'll be starting on the second soon. ^_^
Hopefully the workload will be slightly manageable so that I can read the rest of the books, even if not quite as quickly as I read the others.
Anyways, have a great day, week, month, whichever! ^^ See you soon!
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Friday, August 29, 2014
Second Day Back to Class
Yesterday, I had my last two classes so that I have now had all of my classes once!
The two classes I had? Well, one of them was a writing class, by the same professor as my blogging class last year. This time, instead of a blog, I'll be writing my memoirs. They may or may not be published online; I kind of hope that they are not - or at least that my professor follows Internet safety rules a little in doing so.
The other class I had was the one where I'll be going to the farm as part of my requirement. The class itself is something about social justice and I think gender diversity too maybe. I hope I don't get upset too often concerning this class.
The homework that class assigned was to read a chapter in a certain book. I wasn't even through a third of the chapter before I started talking back to the pages; and by another third of the chapter, I was probably yelling at the pages (though not at the top of my lungs - I am in a dorm with several other girls, after all...).
Maybe I'll tell you about what made me so upset tomorrow. There's not enough room left in this post to cover it, I don't think.
So, yeah. Writing and social justice. Combined with the previous day's classes of two English and a French.
It's gonna be a good year.
The two classes I had? Well, one of them was a writing class, by the same professor as my blogging class last year. This time, instead of a blog, I'll be writing my memoirs. They may or may not be published online; I kind of hope that they are not - or at least that my professor follows Internet safety rules a little in doing so.
The other class I had was the one where I'll be going to the farm as part of my requirement. The class itself is something about social justice and I think gender diversity too maybe. I hope I don't get upset too often concerning this class.
The homework that class assigned was to read a chapter in a certain book. I wasn't even through a third of the chapter before I started talking back to the pages; and by another third of the chapter, I was probably yelling at the pages (though not at the top of my lungs - I am in a dorm with several other girls, after all...).
Maybe I'll tell you about what made me so upset tomorrow. There's not enough room left in this post to cover it, I don't think.
So, yeah. Writing and social justice. Combined with the previous day's classes of two English and a French.
It's gonna be a good year.
Thursday, August 28, 2014
First Day Back in Class
Yesterday, I had my first day of classes, and I had three out of my five classes total (I'll be going to the other two today).
I had my two English classes and my French class, and I already love all of my professors, even if my one English professor is scaring me.
For that particular class, we're looking at psychological stuff. I kind of sort of wondered if that would mean some disturbing study stuff, but apparently I didn't wonder enough to drop the class. Now I've watched a movie that the professor has assigned, and I kind of freaked out really badly over it. And the professor is warning us that more disturbing stuff is ahead.
Sigh. Pray for me. Please.
Other than that, all is well. My French professor is already cracking the whip and assigning lots of homework, but that's normal for her. And it only took me a few hours last night to finish most of it, yay!
As for my other English class, it's sort of a history class - we're going to be learning about how our modern English was developed. Is it weird that I'm actually kind of excited about learning all the difficult, technical side of our language? For homework, I defined terms like morphemes and pejoration; I still don't know what morphemes are, even with the definition, but I'm still excited. xD
Hopefully this enthusiasm will last all semester. Woot, second college year, here I come!
I had my two English classes and my French class, and I already love all of my professors, even if my one English professor is scaring me.
For that particular class, we're looking at psychological stuff. I kind of sort of wondered if that would mean some disturbing study stuff, but apparently I didn't wonder enough to drop the class. Now I've watched a movie that the professor has assigned, and I kind of freaked out really badly over it. And the professor is warning us that more disturbing stuff is ahead.
Sigh. Pray for me. Please.
Other than that, all is well. My French professor is already cracking the whip and assigning lots of homework, but that's normal for her. And it only took me a few hours last night to finish most of it, yay!
As for my other English class, it's sort of a history class - we're going to be learning about how our modern English was developed. Is it weird that I'm actually kind of excited about learning all the difficult, technical side of our language? For homework, I defined terms like morphemes and pejoration; I still don't know what morphemes are, even with the definition, but I'm still excited. xD
Hopefully this enthusiasm will last all semester. Woot, second college year, here I come!
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Farming
Yesterday, I visited a farm with one of my professors and some of my classmates.
The class I visited with is one that is centered around service learning - education via helping the real world survive. My particular class's service learning project is that, this semester, we'll be volunteering at a farm, helping to plant and weed and harvest and whatever else they need.
It'll be hot, really hot, at least for the next month-ish. And it'll be hard.
But I'm cautiously looking forward to it. As long as it doesn't get gross (read: I don't want to touch the glowworms or fish or deal with any of their excretions), hard can be good. It'll be good for me, at least. Getting exercise and sunshine is healthy.
This particular farm deals a lot in veggies and berries and whatever else growable that was mentioned but I forgot. It's all organic, too.
As far as animals go, there are the aforementioned worms and fish. There are also some chickens, I've heard, but I didn't see any on that one trip.
Here's hoping all goes well! =D This post looks somewhat short, but I'mma end it here anyways. Have a great day!
The class I visited with is one that is centered around service learning - education via helping the real world survive. My particular class's service learning project is that, this semester, we'll be volunteering at a farm, helping to plant and weed and harvest and whatever else they need.
It'll be hot, really hot, at least for the next month-ish. And it'll be hard.
But I'm cautiously looking forward to it. As long as it doesn't get gross (read: I don't want to touch the glowworms or fish or deal with any of their excretions), hard can be good. It'll be good for me, at least. Getting exercise and sunshine is healthy.
This particular farm deals a lot in veggies and berries and whatever else growable that was mentioned but I forgot. It's all organic, too.
As far as animals go, there are the aforementioned worms and fish. There are also some chickens, I've heard, but I didn't see any on that one trip.
Here's hoping all goes well! =D This post looks somewhat short, but I'mma end it here anyways. Have a great day!
Back at College
Woah, sorry I forgot about you guys yesterday and this morning! I moved back to college yesterday, so I've been re-acclimating to college life.
I got my room set up after some furniture rearrangement, and and of course my room is basically purple again. I have my two purple beds - one of which is set up like a couch with three purple pillows.
And I picked up my books for my classes, and I'm pretty sure I have all of them. One of my professors has yet to post a syllabus online, so I can't be totally sure. But I have that particular class tomorrow, so hopefully I'll find out then if I'm missing anything.
I discovered in the unpacking process that I forgot a couple of crucial things: pencils and lamps.
I love to use my purple pens that write in purple ink, but there are times when ink just shouldn't be used. So I'll need to get some pencils this weekend.
And I have only one light in my entire room, and it's on the ceiling, and it makes absolutely no difference lighting-wise until after the sun has set. So, yes, I need my lamp that has multiple lamps stemmed from it to aid the sun in its generous-but-not-quite-enough light provision through my window.
Aaaand, I guess tomorrow, I will tell you about my trip to a farm that I took today.
I got my room set up after some furniture rearrangement, and and of course my room is basically purple again. I have my two purple beds - one of which is set up like a couch with three purple pillows.
And I picked up my books for my classes, and I'm pretty sure I have all of them. One of my professors has yet to post a syllabus online, so I can't be totally sure. But I have that particular class tomorrow, so hopefully I'll find out then if I'm missing anything.
I discovered in the unpacking process that I forgot a couple of crucial things: pencils and lamps.
I love to use my purple pens that write in purple ink, but there are times when ink just shouldn't be used. So I'll need to get some pencils this weekend.
And I have only one light in my entire room, and it's on the ceiling, and it makes absolutely no difference lighting-wise until after the sun has set. So, yes, I need my lamp that has multiple lamps stemmed from it to aid the sun in its generous-but-not-quite-enough light provision through my window.
Aaaand, I guess tomorrow, I will tell you about my trip to a farm that I took today.
Friday, August 22, 2014
Neopets Intro + Latest Plot
I don't remember if I've ever told you this or not, but I intermittently play on a site called Neopets.
I started playing when I was a kid, probably about ten or eleven. It has a lot of stuff to do, from caring to up to four pets to finding hidden avatars to playing the games in its arcade to meeting other players.
Usually, I mainly play Neopets for the 'meeting other players' part. I like to be a part of a guild, where I will generally see the same 5-20 people every day. And often, I enjoy being a part of a roleplay guild.
However, sometimes I also like to play the plots that Neopets comes up with. Lately, they've gotten a plot going that only really got good yesterday. The plot is that the ruler of the biggest desert civilization invited a bunch of other world rulers for a diplomatic visit. To her utter horror, each of her guests had something stolen one night when they were all there, and she needs our help to track down the criminals.
So the first few weeks was tracking down witnesses and getting a bunch of vague clues. Now, we have three days to put those clues all together to figure out who stole what, and when and how.
I spent a good solid three hours yesterday morning trying to answer that question, and I actually loved every second of it. A lot of the players are complaining about the puzzle, saying it's not as action-oriented and player-involving as the plots way-back-when; I suppose they have a point.
But still, I enjoyed it. And now I'm logging onto one of my other accounts just to have a reason to solve the puzzle again. I'm kind of hoping to just confirm the answer I gave on my first account, but still.
It's fun. x3
I started playing when I was a kid, probably about ten or eleven. It has a lot of stuff to do, from caring to up to four pets to finding hidden avatars to playing the games in its arcade to meeting other players.
Usually, I mainly play Neopets for the 'meeting other players' part. I like to be a part of a guild, where I will generally see the same 5-20 people every day. And often, I enjoy being a part of a roleplay guild.
However, sometimes I also like to play the plots that Neopets comes up with. Lately, they've gotten a plot going that only really got good yesterday. The plot is that the ruler of the biggest desert civilization invited a bunch of other world rulers for a diplomatic visit. To her utter horror, each of her guests had something stolen one night when they were all there, and she needs our help to track down the criminals.
So the first few weeks was tracking down witnesses and getting a bunch of vague clues. Now, we have three days to put those clues all together to figure out who stole what, and when and how.
I spent a good solid three hours yesterday morning trying to answer that question, and I actually loved every second of it. A lot of the players are complaining about the puzzle, saying it's not as action-oriented and player-involving as the plots way-back-when; I suppose they have a point.
But still, I enjoyed it. And now I'm logging onto one of my other accounts just to have a reason to solve the puzzle again. I'm kind of hoping to just confirm the answer I gave on my first account, but still.
It's fun. x3
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Annoying, Potentially Harmful Downloads
Sometimes over the summer, I think I accidentally downloaded something harmful, though it thankfully has yet to do actual harm.
It's a thing that pops up on my screen some minutes after I sign onto my computer, every time I turn my computer on. Then it starts some scan to see how at-risk my computer is.
I always cancel the scan before it finishes, but it always tells me the final outcome of the scan anyways. And my computer, according to this scan, is always at extremely high risk.
So of course it wants me to let it clear out those "risks."
I was not born yesterday, scanner. I have been deceived by similar things before and it completely destroyed my computer. I will no longer fall for your fake helpfulness. =_=
So after I cancel the scan itself, I have to exit out of the program separately. Thankfully, just having that scan on my computer doesn't seem to do any damage. I guess I'd have to give it permission to do damage before it can.
I will never give that permission, do you hear me, scanner? e_e
I wish I had never gotten it onto my computer in the first place. I don't even remember why I let it download in the first place, or even how. And it seems non-deletable; every time I try and think I've succeeded, it still pops up every morning when I turn my computer on.
Sigh.
It's a thing that pops up on my screen some minutes after I sign onto my computer, every time I turn my computer on. Then it starts some scan to see how at-risk my computer is.
I always cancel the scan before it finishes, but it always tells me the final outcome of the scan anyways. And my computer, according to this scan, is always at extremely high risk.
So of course it wants me to let it clear out those "risks."
I was not born yesterday, scanner. I have been deceived by similar things before and it completely destroyed my computer. I will no longer fall for your fake helpfulness. =_=
So after I cancel the scan itself, I have to exit out of the program separately. Thankfully, just having that scan on my computer doesn't seem to do any damage. I guess I'd have to give it permission to do damage before it can.
I will never give that permission, do you hear me, scanner? e_e
I wish I had never gotten it onto my computer in the first place. I don't even remember why I let it download in the first place, or even how. And it seems non-deletable; every time I try and think I've succeeded, it still pops up every morning when I turn my computer on.
Sigh.
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