How much stuff can teachers cram into the last month of school?!?

First I would like to make a statement, I am totally confused in English about how many random blog posts we are supposed to have and comments we are supposed to write.

With that said on to my topic. I feel a little burnt out right now and it's only the second week back from spring break. I am finally starting to see the light at the end of this school tunnel(SUMMER) but it is just a twinkle because there are so many things to do between now and that glorious day when school gets out. It seems like every teacher I have, excluding Mr. Wermers, has decided to leave every project until the very end of the semester and to have exams and quizzes like crazy in this last month. My chemistry class has two exams and the dreaded crazy hard final left! That seems extreme to me and my other classes have, of course finals, but also projects and proposals and write-ups. I don't want to sound like a complainer, but I would have much rather done all of these projects and write ups towards the beginning or middle of the semester that way students could focus on just the final in the last portion of the semester. Am I making any sense here?

Lastly, I would like to comment on my Bio lecture class. It is taught by 3 different professors in roughly 6 week sessions. I think this is utterly ridiculous because we the students never get time to adjust to how each professor teaches and writes his exams, they are all different. I think it is a little strange how for one class there are 3 different professors and 3 different teaching styles all in one semester.

Lord have mercy on the college kids. We need it in this final month.

Journal about Writing Errors

I read the whole list of errors on the Wisconsin site and depressingly I have fallen victim to all of the 12 common errors. In fact, during this post I will most likely make a common error somewhere. A few errors that I did not even realize to be errors were the dangling modifier, faulty parallelism, and the sentence sprawl. I had no clue how many technical errors I was making. I think this is due to the difference in the way I talk and the way that I write. Because I write how I talk it is hard to think about all of the technical mistakes that are occurring. I am also prone to not capitalizing my "I" because I am so used to word which capitalizes I for you automatically.

While I do find these common errors helpful, sometimes I think that a writing style is more important in getting the author's message across than by using the 100% correct technical styles. Just a thought.

Journal about Arguments

So I am at Sunrise the local ski resort working at the coffee shop for my former boss. I don't mind at all because I am able to watch all the beginning skiers/snowboarders eat it all from the comfort of my own little heated hut. When I was in high school I used to work at the coffee shop every weekend and peoples stupidity and rudeness never ceases to amaze me. On one particular occasion a woman came to the window and demanded the price of our hot chocolate. After telling her our prices she proceeded to stick the entire top half of her body into the window and complain that it is too expensive and that at the top of the mountain in the lodge the hot chocolate was only $1.50. I felt no pity for her, anyone who can afford to drive up for a ski weekend and pay $49 a day to ski can afford a large 3 dollar cup of hot chocolate. I reminded her that the reason the hot chocolate that the lodge sells is so cheap is because it is made with water and powder and because Cup o Joe(my coffee hut) does not compromise with the quality of our products we make our hot chocolate with 2 types of real chocolate and whole milk topped with homemade whipped cream. In short our hot chocolate tastes like it's strait from the teet of a chocolate cow. After politely explaining this to the lady she ordered a small hot chocolate and hesitantly paid and left no tip.

This was a brief but to the point argument with the complainer. I feel like I was the victor because I was able to make my point to the lady and I also sold her the hot chocolate. The rhetorical device that I used is the "common sense" technique. but as a wise man once said" common sense is not that common"

B.T.W. It is always polite to tip your barista especially if you have a complicated order or if you are demanding or a complainer.

F.E.A.R- False Evidence Appearing Real

"Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom" Psalm 90: 12

"But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." Philippines 3:13-14

I would just like to let everyone know that I have set a goal/ wish for myself that I will be accomplishing in the very near future...

I have always been a very cautious person. I never did any crazy things when I was young, such as jumping off swings, eating bugs, sticking random things up my nose(that was my sister Alex and it was a bead- btw beads are harder than you think to get out of one's nose due to the fact that they have a hole in them). I never had the desire to jump anything on skis or a snowboard, I am even a relatively slow driver. During the latter part of my sophomore year I met my mentor who exposed this major flaw that I have, my fear was a great strength because it kept me safe from harm but also it kept me from doing things that would get me out of my comfort zone and into new experiences.

Many conversations later Brent(mentor) got into the inner workings of fear which led me to conclude that fear was keeping me from some major things in my life. This fear was like a detour on my walk with Christ. I also came to the conclusion that fear is from Satan. Nothing good comes out of fear and because someone is fearful it is like they are doubting the awesome power and knowledge of God. If something is not of God then it is of Satan. With that said, I am by no means condemning people that are fear or saying everyone is going to Hell for being fearful, but fear is just like any other emotion that is sinfully controlling i.e. lust, greed, jealousy and should be handled in a similar matter.

I have decided to set a few short term and long term goals for myself one of the short term being RIDE A HORSE FAST! I am not talking trotting or maybe galloping, I am talking on the borderline of out of control,hair flying back, eyes watering, heart palpitating speed. I have ridden horses many times before and my dad is a farrier(puts shoes on horses) so I've been around horses all my life, but being the cautious person that I am, never have I ridden at extreme speeds. So over spring break I will be suiting up and jumping on a very fast horse. I will be sure to take pictures and post them. Please pray for me as my anxiety level is at an all time high.

Trust God,

Erica