The Pnebleu Blog

I don’t think this week could have gone much worse. Well, ok it could have.

All Week: The weather is unseasonably sweltering. It is so hot and humid!

Monday: I had to turn in two projects for different classes. I found out how bad I did on my exams. I thought I would do pretty well, but I’m in the mid-80s range. Not good for me. I also found out that I had an exam this week, that I had forgotten about.

Tuesday: I had PSYC 107 class. That’s bad enough to ruin anyone’s day. The power then proceeded to go out with an explosion at a sub-station near College Station. The power was out for up to 5 hours. Several people got stuck in elevators on campus. That might be fun if you were stuck with someone to talk to.

Wednesday: I wasn’t able to get into a study that I need for psychology class. On the way home my air conditioner in my car decided that the switch would break. Now, I can’t switch it off of defrost. The cold air still comes in, but in window and not the front vents. I don’t have the money to fix this right now!!

Thursday: I had an exam in Management 211 (my business law class) which turned out to be not so horrible; we’ll have to see how the grades describe the difficulty. Fortunately, I’m having dinner tonight with two friends from calculus class later year. Hopefully everything will work out right.

I have a question that somewhat bothers me, but not really. Is it sadistic for me to enjoy stepping on acorns and cracking and smashing them into the ground. I also like the sound it makes.

Ok, so it’s been four weeks since my last post. I do apologize. This semester is going to swamp me constantly. I’ve had three exams in 6 days with one more exam on Friday. I feel like I did okay; we’ll have to see. I’ve got two projects due on Monday and several chapters to read in all of my classes. But, I’m trying to, and for the most part succeeding, in staying on top of everything.

I do believe this culture of ours is overly stimulated and hyperactive. We always have something to fill in every last minute of our days. I’m guilty of this for sure. I have podcasts that fill up my “free” time. We all need to step back and just think; not about anything in particular or specific, just mentally float.

Something you may already know if you know me personally is that I’m a hopeless romantic. I’m the one who wants the guy to get the girl. Lately, I’ve just had a strong concern or desire to find a woman to complete my life. I want to find a soul mate to share everything with. I don’t know why I’ve been thinking about marriage lately; maybe it’s because I’ve been too busy to do anything social, but getting married has always been a strong desire of mine. Yes, I know, this is really deep so I’ll be moving on now.

I’ve had a pretty continuous argument with my dad about Wikipedia for the past couple of years. He says that it can’t be used for anything, because it is unreliable. I don’t believe that to be true. There have been many, many times that Wikipedia trumps any other place to find info for my college homework or studies. You have to take the info with a grain of salt, yes, but you have to do the same thing with college textbooks which are written by individually biased, intentionally or not, professors. Every time you go to a lecture or read a page out of a textbook, you are taking the word of the author that the information is accurate. With Wikipedia, you are taking the word of groups of people who have edited and are re-editing the page. Along with that, I believe that the history of the edits is available so viewers can go back and compare the different entries for false information or back and forth changes of a controversial issue. So, to sum all of this up, where ever you get your information, you must look at the source to verify accuracy.

Well it’s halfway through the second week of class and I definitely feel overwhelmed. I had to talk to Brook before I refocused and took on the challenge. I don’t know how I’m going to manage everything. But! But, I will! If there is anything I know about my life, it’s that God has given me the ability, so far, to excel in school. So, I will proceed with all of my wits about me to focus hard on the goal of continuing my 4.0!

Also, I still am in pain with my teeth, gums, and cheeks. I am stilling eating really soft foods. It hurts to smile. I don’t handle swallowing pills very well. (My subconscience keeps my mouth and throat from allowing the pill down.) Hopefully, it’s healing correctly and as fast as it can. I want to be done with it all!

Ok, so today is the third day of classes for me. Everything looks as though it’s going to be a challenging semester. I have 15 hours which is 5 classes. Management and Accounting look to be the hardest ones, meaning they will just have a lot of work and effort put into them. Information Management is going to awesome! That is what I’m probably going to change my major to. Economics and Psychology look to be just your regular read the chapter and take the exam classes.

One thing that hasn’t been so great is that I can only work 2 hours a day at my current job, because of the travel. I may have to get a different job sooner that I thought.

Tomorrow, I am going in for oral surgery to remove all four of my wisdom teeth. Two are coming in sideways and the other two are twisted really badly. Because of this I will be missing Thursday and Friday’s classes. Fortunately, I’ve talked with all of my professors and I shouldn’t miss much. I’ll just have to get notes from a classmate when I return on Monday. Now is better than later when they might really hurt badly in the middle of finals.

It’s that time of year again. School is starting up and I’m just about to finish summer school and start the fall semester. I’ll finally be a sophomore at Texas A&M!

Update: I’m officially a sophomore with a 4.0!

Exam II was on Monday and we got our grades back today. I made another 104. I’m really tired of the class right now. We’re doing probability and it’s not super fun or easy. Better get back to my homework.

I had my first exam in Business Math yesterday. I’ll find out my grade before the weekend is over if everything goes as it is supposed to. I’ll update this with the grade when it comes.

It seems like this is going to continue to be a pretty easy class after having calculus. If it gets hard, I’ll let you know.

Update: I made a 95, missing only one problem, but there was a 9 point curve so I made 104.