Done!

I just sent in my final ePortfolio and with that, I'm done for this semester of college.  I had a few bumps in the road this semester, but I believe that God has a plan for me and I'm going to end up doing what I'm supposed to be.  It's my first day of winter break and, thanks to me ugly crying over grades last night, I have no voice. I'm meeting my boyfriend's aunt, uncle, and two cousins tomorrow when we go to Seattle and they're going to think that my voice sounds like a dying pig.  What an awesome first impression. 
I hope everyone has an amazing winter break! Who knows, you might get to see more of what I'm doing if I keep blogging on here.

-Geena

Eight Days.

Eight days and then I'm done with this semester.  It's crazy how fast these years are going by.  This year I don't feel as stressed as last year.  I want to be sure that I do well on all of my finals and I'm sure I can do it.  The only test I'm worried about is my Ethics class because I don't understand anything in that class.  I'm looking forward to making out e-folios tomorrow during class.  I might include the Informative/Surprising paper in it because I'm in love with how it turned out. It isn't my longest paper that I've written, but I feel like my voice is in it.  Papers where I can really show my voice are ones I love to write. I really enjoyed this paper because I was able to pick the entirety of the topic and what went into it.  Finding the sources, even the surprising ones, wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be.  I definitely thought that I wasn't going to be able to find sources on my opposing views, but I'm really glad that I did.

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As you can tell by my fantastic post title, my brain is working super well today... Only not really. I feel that whenever we're on break, something bad happens.  Over fall break, I got a sinus infection and was out of class for an entire week and now, over Thanksgiving break, one of my wisdom teeth is coming in and is giving me the worst headache ever.  The pain is almost unbearable.  I was hurting so much last night that I almost asked my mom to call an oral surgeon right then and there to get my wisdom teeth pulled.  I'm one person who cannot stand taking medicine, but I've been religiously taking it for the past week to try and reduce the pain. It hasn't been helping.
On a brighter note, I really like how my informative essay is coming along.  I have seven sources so far and I have roughly two more paragraphs to clean up and expand on.  I'm not too sure how long it will end up being when all is said and done, but I don't think this will be one of my longer papers. I'm definitely in love with this paper more than I was with a lot of my other papers.  I feel like that might be because I was able to pick this topic and I was able to find all of my sources.  Usually I don't like finding sources, but this was super easy to find sources for that I liked and that went well with y theme.
I have so much to do today and all I want to do is sleep.

Reflection

To say that this week has been stressful would be an understatement.  I was so busy this week that I didn't have time to send in my work from Friday that I was supposed to have for my conference until last night.  Honestly, I don't have a draft done, but what I have in my ideas paper on Google Drive is the start of an amazing paper.  I had two ideas, but I know which one I am going to do now.  I still need to add a conclusion, references, and more information on my topic.  When all is said and done, I feel like I'm going to love this paper.  It's going to be on role models for young girls and how their self esteem is effected when they see photoshopped/unrealistic ads and toys (such as Barbies).  I'm hoping to do this paper correctly and get a good grade on it.
If this paper was due after Thanksgiving, I would really appreciate it.  I feel like the long weekend will be a good time for me to get my paper the way I want it to be.  If the paper was due on Monday, I wouldn't be satisfied with my work and would feel uneasy about my grade for it.

Papers on Papers on Papers

I feel like this is the time of year where all of the professors give papers that are due.  This two week period before Thanksgiving is crazy with papers.  I'm happy it's now rather than at the last two weeks of the semester, but still.  I feel like my brain can't think about papers anymore.  I'm lucky because I can write the new paper in college writing and my paper in cultural diversity on the same topic, but I don't think I want to.  I already started my cultural diversity paper (it's due on Wednesday), so I know my topic for that, but I have a few different ideas for the surprising paper.  I'm going to write down a few notes on each topic for college writing and then I'm going to talk them over with Dr. Kyburz on Tuesday at my appointment with her.  I'm leaning towards one topic, but I don't know if I'd be able to find information on it.  I have a few ideas as to what I'd do on that subject, but I think they'd take a while to come together... I don't know... My brain hurts...


If you couldn't tell, I'm bored and at work.  Seven minutes until I get to go home and nap!

Summary and Analysis Again...

I definitely need to change and add some things into my paper.  I'm regretting not changing my paper sooner, but I know that I needed to start new.  Hopefully everything turns out in the end.  As of right now, I feel good about how my paper is turning out.  I've been super busy and haven't gotten as much homework/essay time as I wish I could have, so it's almost 10:00 at night and I'm still working on fine tuning this to make it the best that I know it can be.  My brain is shutting off and I need to push through until the end.  I don't have that much left to work on and fix, which is a good thing.

I hate being allergic to caffeine.  I need something to keep me awake at times like this.

Summary and Analysis

At the last minute I decided to change my entire paper.  I didn't like how my first one was turning out, so I scrapped the old one and started writing a new one. I honestly don't think i'm going to have four to six pages done by tomorrow, but I'll have three.  I wish I had realized how much I didn't like my paper earlier, but I honestly think I'll like my paper more when Wednesday comes and I need to turn it in.