A Lack of Finals = Happiness

"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
- Douglas Adams

Many of my friends despise me right now for the simple fact that I don't have any more finals to take. In fact, I only had one final to do and that was for my Intro to Drawing class. My Japanese final became optional and I decided against taking it since even if I had a perfect grade on it, my overall grade wouldn't even increase 1 percent. If I was closer to an A I would try it, but I'm at 88% so I won't be bumped up to an A. Oh well. It's not as if these are bad grades to have. I'll most likely have two A's and one B+ this term. Nothing to whine over.

Having no more finals means that after Japanese tomorrow, I have no more classes and can go home. My dad will come over tomorrow night or tonight and take me home the day after. I still need time to clean up my room after all. Next week while I am gone there will be housing people inspecting the rooms. I'm going to leave a note explaining my absence. Also I'm make it obvious which side belongs to me. That remind me, I need to e-mail my new roommate to talk to her about sleeping habits, cleanliness, etc.

In terms of assignments (other than this blog, of course) I only have to polish up today's D&S group work and my final reflective essay for D&S. Thankfully I already have a rough draft of the essay done and I just need to spend some time proofreading, correct my errors, and then turn it in. Then I have to study drills for tomorrow and that's it.

Well, I better take the time to get that work done. I plan to play video games for a little while after that to relax and let my stress ebb away. This week I haven't slept that well.

Crisis Averted, All is Good

“The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.”
- Robert Bloch

I thought for sure when I woke up late (8:27 AM) that I wasn't going to be able to finish my bridge project for Design and Society. Not only did I miss my morning class (Japanese 101) but my alarm didn't go off when it was supposed to. If I wasn't naturally a morning person, I could have very well missed class entirely. I got off my butt and started my oatmeal water, but after that it was crazy. I finished the bridge at about 8:50 AM. It was really close though in my mind. I wasn't sure how much time it would take me to finish the bridge, but even though I slept in I barely got two hours of sleep. The night before when I did a bunch of work on the bridge I was going off of four hours of sleep. I really need to stop doing that.

Hopefully my study group still meets up today even though I wasn't in class. I'm also hoping that they were in class today and can tell me what went down. With the written final tomorrow, I'm cutting it close. Tonight I should study at least an hours worth on grammar and カタカナ. My participation grade isn't as good as it could be. Last I checked it was just under an A, so a high B. Plus they will factor in my quizzes and my finals. I'm nervous about this.

Not to mention I have to put together my art portfolio and finish up my sketchbook for my Intro to Drawing class. Oh, and critic my final in class tomorrow for Art as well. I'm fairly confident I'm getting an A in that class, and an A in Design and Society. I won't be ashamed though if I get less than that. My eldest brother Jimmy has gotten B's before in college and he's always been smarter and better than me.

Well it's almost time for me to head off to my study group. I'm hoping that I can convince them to meet on Friday, Saturday and Sunday as well for final prep studying (our oral exam). Also I need to chose my partner for the final, and I think I'll get stuck with Hannah Hector, who has a bit of a speech problem. I love that girl, but she isn't so great on speaking. She's shy to boot which makes it hard to perform in front of others. I'll help her as best as I can. I want her to do well.