Posts Tagged ‘College’
That’s what I keep reminding myself of…next week is finals week and then the semester is over! I want to be done so badly. But I’ve decided that it’s probably in my best interest to skip summer school and go next Spring. But I really really don’t want to be there another semester. It’s just that if I do that, I won’t be overloaded with too many classes once, and as an added bonus to that, I will be able to spend far more time at an internship…which would hopefully make it more likely for me to be able to find gainful employment with whatever company I intern for once I’ve graduated. I haven’t fully decided yet, I’ve been weighing the pros and cons of summer session vs. spring, and I have to make a definitive decision really soon. At least I am almost done with these classes though!
The semester is finally over! Yay! I’m still waiting on my grade for Physics of Music (which is the class I was most concerned about.) I got an A in Global Environmental Health and an A- in History of Broadcasting (which is slightly better than what I expected, but then, I hounded the professor for a month for my midterm grade and still never found out what it was. Apparently it was good.) I decided to just finish my degree at CSUN, which will hopefully only take another year. I hate going there, but I think being practically guaranteed a job after graduation outweighs the frustration and inconvenience of going to a school that I despise.
So, I obviously lost NaBloPoMo. Lost HARD. Anyway, I haven’t posted lately, as I’ve been busy with school and whatnot.
I’m not really sure what I’m doing about school next semester. I applied to transfer to CSUB AV, as it’s about 5 minutes from my house, whereas CSUN is like an hour and fifteen minute bus ride each way, and I have to get up at 5 for a 2 pm class. Anyway, CSUB wants me to take more general ed and have a minor, so it’s 5 extra classes, and I wouldn’t have as many classes in my actual major. It would save me a lot of travel and aggravation though. I’m thinking about sticking with CSUN though, due to the reasons just listed, plus there’s a very good chance of getting a job right out of school, because a lot of major media corporations have connections with CSUN and recruit recent grads. I spoke to an advisor, who talked me into declaring the Electronic Media Management option (I had to pick something, because I couldn’t register for any more classes until I switched from Pre-CTVA to an actual option.) So if I finish up my degree there, I have a great chance of getting a steady job with benefits, doing media research or something.
I am a terrible procrastinator. I always manage to find something to do other than what I’m supposed to be doing. So, I’m writing here instead of writing a 2500 word paper on careers in Environmental Health, which I have no interest in, but am required to do because it is worth 1/3 of my grade. I’ve found my entry-level position, but not the managerial one. Of course, I could just get started by writing about the job I did find, but I’m just…far too lazy.
Today was my mom’s birthday. I know exactly when her birthday is, however, I hadn’t been keeping track of the calendar and what the actual date was, so I was kind of surprised when I looked at the calendar late last night and thought, “Oh crap!” Luckily, there is a Rite Aid on the way from the bus stop to the campus, so I stopped in and got her a card from the cats, a card from me and Zack, and a $25 gift card for JCPenney, whose sales she has been raving about lately anyway. She seemed happy with everything, but maybe a bit surprised? What? Like I could forget her birthday!
Today was the one day a week that I have to spend at CSUN (my other 2 classes are online). I might not hate going there as much if I lived closer or possibly if I drove there - but I have a phobia of driving on the freeway. I’ve only done it twice: the first time, I got yelled at by my parents because apparently I was about to get in a wreck and didn’t know it. The second time, I tried to change lanes, didn’t notice someone in my blind spot, figured out that they were there, and tried to get back into the lane I was in…I say “tried” because I lost control and ended up in a ditch on the side of the road. I’m not that bad a driver in town, I swear! I think I just start out too nervous and freaked out before I even get on the freeway because I’m so scared. I know it’s dumb and irrational, but I can’t seem to overcome it. I need to try, I know.
So anyway, since I don’t drive on the freeway, I take the bus to school. The last bus leaves here at 6:20. The first bus leaves CSUN after 3. So, I have to get up at 5 to make it to the bus stop, and since (this semester anyway) my class starts at 2:00, I end up getting home around 6. I don’t know about you, but for me that is one heck of a long day. Last semester, I did this 4 days a week, although I sometimes got home as early as 4:30! Awesome!
One good thing happened at school today, which is, I got 8/10 on the quiz we took last week! I know it’s only a B and thus not very impressive, but I’m really happy with it because I thought that I completely bombed it, and it’s worth 20% of our overall grade! There are only 2 other tests in the class, and that’s it. So, if you don’t do well on something, it kind of screws you. My Environmental Health class is set up kind of like that too: there are only 3 things graded. Speaking of which, I need to finish up some reading and take the online test. I’ve got my midterm in Physics of Music due this week, too, so I need to get crackin’.
I need to be working on my Physics lab for today. I’ll have to get that done in a minute. Doing this one is probably going to suck since I did so terribly on the last one. I should have set up that web conference with the professor, but, well, I didn’t. My brother and his fiancee came down to visit for the weekend, and…come to think of it, we didn’t even really hang out. But Zack and I went out drinking a couple times, which eats up far too much time and money and doesn’t make me feel like doing homework.
My History of Broadcasting class was cancelled today, which is awesome because I hate going down there. Also, it gives me more time to read and study for the test, which was supposed to be today, but is now postponed until next week. And speaking of tests, I did far better than I expected on my Environmental Health test last week - 94%! I only missed two, although I don’t know which two. In a way, I really can’t wait to be done with school, but it also makes me kind of nervous because then I’m going to have to get a full-time job, nay, a career. That scares me a little bit.
My new external hard drive is really starting to aggravate me. I was a little wary of the brand, because I’ve never heard of SimpleTech before, but it was 500GB for $130, so I went for it, because that’s more space than I even need. The software that it came with sucks though - it’s actually great on the Mac, for which I already had backup software anyway, but the PC version is horrible. I’m trying to back my stuff up/delete some of it from the PC’s hard drive, but this software makes some kind of funky .exe file that has to be opened with the software to “restore from backup” (the Mac versions doesn’t do that; it actually copies the files in such a manner that they can be accessed simply by opening them from the drive). Also, I let it run for like 3 hours last night trying to back up about 80GB worth of data (before I knew about the funky format of the backups), eventually went to bed, and it backed up nothing. Zack said that it was done when he shut it off, but that piece of crap doesn’t even know that I ever tried to use it (”last backup: never”)! So, when I figured out that going through the software is a waste of time, I decided to just start dragging and dropping files. It acts like that is working, but then it keeps giving me errors on certain files, which would be fine, except that it seems to skip a whole lot of files other than the ones that are actually giving the errors. Maybe I should have just gotten the little portable 120GB Maxtor or Western Digital, both of which were on sale for $75 at Best Buy.
