Archive for July, 2008
The Burn
Well, I’m not dead, but I am burnt out. I just have 6 days of class: two speeches, two exams, and two essays left. I just wanted to updated the blog with a new post. I updated to Wordpress 2.6, we’ll see what’s new.
Two by Two should have been One by One
So, this is the second week of English and Speech at Blinn. I only have until August 4th, then the semester is over! These two classes are probably the hardest one’s I’ve ever taken. Not just because they are writing intensive, but also because they are condensed into one month, I am working 20 hours/week, and Blinn has challenging classes to keep their standards up. I have a total of 5 major speeches to give and 4 major essays to write within the month. But along with those assignments I have also had a lot of reading, smaller writing assignments, weekly quizzes in English, and other speaking activities in Speech. Each class has a midterm and a final. I’m not really sure why they are trying to fit every single assignment from the full semesters into the one month summer semesters, but it hasn’t been much fun so far.
Tomorrow, I will present my first major speech. It is about how my jobs have influenced my dream to become big in the corporate world. Working where I have, I now want to own a small company, not work in a large corporation. Well, I had better practice the speech again. Each one has to be 7-10 minutes in length, yikes!
Hopefully, you will hear from me again, if you don’t you know what killed me: summer school at Blinn.
About to Get Busy
On Monday, I will be starting summer school at Blinn. I’m taking English Composition (freshman English that I skipped for 3 years) and Intro to Speech. I will buy the books on Monday after class is over. My first class starts at 9:35 AM and the second class ends at 1:35 PM. I’ll grab lunch then go to work from 3 to 7 PM. I have the feeling that I’m going to be really busy writing papers and speeches; we’ll see.
Tonight, I’m planning to go see Hancock with a friend, but if I don’t get a call soon, I’m going to go see it on my own at 9:45 PM. Lately I’ve been watching a lot of movies, either online, via Netflix, or in the theaters. I’m trying to work my way through a list of movies I’ve wanted to see before school gets started and I don’t have time. (The previous is an example of a poorly structured, mostly likely, run-on sentence.)
