So yesterday with my day off Posted 12/22/2008 6:33:40 AM So yesterday with my day off, I took a ride to Fitchburg to see where my test is being held tomorrow at 8:30am. I found it no problem which was good. my love is... . (The bad thing was that I got NO cell phone service, so even if I wanted to call you, Meg, I couldn't...) So I found it, I found the building, I found the room, we're good to go. I can sleep easy tonight. Then I came back and Cassie (0) Comments

The Friday Five Posted 12/17/2008 9:40:57 PM THE FRIDAY FIVE 11/12/04Realistically, where do you think you'll be five years from now? What job will you be working, will you have family/friends/pets, where will you be living and how?In 5 years I will be 28. (Which is the scariest thing I have ever heard, by the way). I will probably be teaching in a high school somewhere around here, still living with Steve somewhere, possibly with a weiner dog. Unrealistically, given a perfect life, where do you want to be five years from now?If things were perfect, Steve (0) Comments

"'Cause it's all in my head / I think about it over and over again..." Posted 12/15/2008 6:21:01 PM Im sorry. I need a moment. The midterm was fucking ridiculous. In a That was the easiest thing Ive ever done kind of way. The class is Philosophies of Education. Its a requirement for the Masters of Education in English. For this midterm, the professor gave us a list of 30 questions about idealism, realism, pragmatism and existentialism that if we could answer those questions, we would pass the final. I spent all of Saturday answering those questions and making a 15 page review sheet with all the answers on it with all the information from my notes and the book. I missed Cheeras birthday party in Boston because I really believed I needed to buckle down and learn this stuff for the midterm.At the end of the review sheet was a note that the midterm would be 111 multiple choice questions of which we would have to answer 100. That right there made me go well, how hard could that be? But I thought, There must be a trick, I must study. So I did. The midterm turned out to be 136 questions (but 25 were in the advanced section so we didnt have to do them) from some textbook. It was labeled in the textbook as Review Test so you know theyre not throwing you any curveballs. It was broken into sections like Values Classroom Methods Morals and Curriculum. Through the first section, I realized all I had to know was keywords for each of the 4 philosophies. If the question had to do with idealism I looked for the answer that had to do with tradition or dialectic. If it was realism, science or scientific method. Pragmatism, society and existentialism, individualism. That was it. It just followed those patterns. And it wasnt like the professor wrote it so you had to factor in Well, maybe he means this.. it was straight out of a textbook, theyre not trying to trick you, its not the GRE. So I finished in 20 minutes. Then I looked around and saw that no one else even looked close to done. And that made me think, wow, maybe I really missed something. So I took that time and did the 25 advanced questions and looked at some of the others to make sure that I was set. Then I decided there was no reason for me to pretend not to be done when I was obviously not changing any of my answers. I checked my notes when I got to the car, I got all the keywords right, I didnt switch any of them, like confuse realism for pragmatism so theres no way I could possibly have done badly on this exam. As a matter of fact, theres really no way I couldve gotten anything less then a 100 (+the extra credit questions) What makes me the most pissed is that I missed an awesome weekend out with the girls for NOTHING. Oh, and that Im spending $700 for this shit and its useless. Not even challenging. Which I guess is fine, but seriouslythe man said that if we do a posterboard describing all the different philosophies then we dont have to take THE FINAL!?! Thats all well and good, but Im a grad student in a philosophy class. ARTS AND CRAFTS instead of THE FINAL?? It just seems stupid. I was talking to my dad about it and he goes Well, why dont you just take the final? Well Dad, because I dont want to be the only asshole in the class that goes Id really like to write some essays instead please I know its stupid to bitch about an easy Abut really (0) Comments

"'Cause it's all in my head / I think about it over and over again..." Posted 12/15/2008 6:20:07 PM Im sorry. I need a moment. The midterm was fucking ridiculous. In a That was the easiest thing Ive ever done kind of way. The class is Philosophies of Education. Its a requirement for the Masters of Education in English. For this midterm, the professor gave us a list of 30 questions about idealism, realism, pragmatism and existentialism that if we could answer those questions, we would pass the final. I spent all of Saturday answering those questions and making a 15 page review sheet with all the answers on it with all the information from my notes and the book. I missed Cheeras birthday party in Boston because I really believed I needed to buckle down and learn this stuff for the midterm.At the end of the review sheet was a note that the midterm would be 111 multiple choice questions of which we would have to answer 100. That right there made me go well, how hard could that be? But I thought, There must be a trick, I must study. So I did. The midterm turned out to be 136 questions (but 25 were in the advanced section so we didnt have to do them) from some textbook. It was labeled in the textbook as Review Test so you know theyre not throwing you any curveballs. It was broken into sections like Values Classroom Methods Morals and Curriculum. Through the first section, I realized all I had to know was keywords for each of the 4 philosophies. If the question had to do with idealism I looked for the answer that had to do with tradition or dialectic. If it was realism, science or scientific method. Pragmatism, society and existentialism, individualism. That was it. It just followed those patterns. And it wasnt like the professor wrote it so you had to factor in Well, maybe he means this.. it was straight out of a textbook, theyre not trying to trick you, its not the GRE. So I finished in 20 minutes. Then I looked around and saw that no one else even looked close to done. And that made me think, wow, maybe I really missed something. So I took that time and did the 25 advanced questions and looked at some of the others to make sure that I was set. Then I decided there was no reason for me to pretend not to be done when I was obviously not changing any of my answers. I checked my notes when I got to the car, I got all the keywords right, I didnt switch any of them, like confuse realism for pragmatism so theres no way I could possibly have done badly on this exam. As a matter of fact, theres really no way I couldve gotten anything less then a 100 (+the extra credit questions) What makes me the most pissed is that I missed an awesome weekend out with the girls for NOTHING. Oh, and that Im spending $700 for this shit and its useless. Not even challenging. Which I guess is fine, but seriouslythe man said that if we do a posterboard describing all the different philosophies then we dont have to take THE FINAL!?! Thats all well and good, but Im a grad student in a philosophy class. ARTS AND CRAFTS instead of THE FINAL?? It just seems stupid. I was talking to my dad about it and he goes Well, why dont you just take the final? Well Dad, because I dont want to be the only asshole in the class that goes Id really like to write some essays instead please I know its stupid to bitch about an easy Abut really (0) Comments

"My sound we come to take over" Posted 12/10/2008 1:16:36 PM I cant say that this weekend was very incredible. Friday night, Steve (0) Comments

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