My Near Future…To Look Forward to or Not?
This purpose this post serves is mainly to remind myself of what I’m supposed to be doing. Maybe it will help me get my work done, so I can enjoy my “reasons to be cheerful”
Let’s start with things to be cheerful about. I’m trying to be an optimist, since they seem like the happier people. It wouldn’t hurt to be one of them, would it?
1. I get to go home for Thanksgiving! I miss home. I’ve been away since the end of August, so it’s only natural to want to go back.
2. It’s almost the end of the semester. Then, I get a break for about a month. Maybe I should try to get a job this time, since I have been unemployed for a while.
Now, what not to look forward to:
1. My scientific article project
This isn’t due until Tuesday December 2, but my flight’s coming in at about 6:00 am that morning, so I will have no time to work on it that day. I’m also going home for Thanksgiving break and don’t want to have to bring my laptop and articles with me, so my personal deadline for this is before I leave on Wednesday. I have to find 15 scientific articles and tease scientific terms out of them from a predetermined list the professor gave us. Then, we have to summarize the article while embedding the term. I was supposed to be working on this all semester, but I chose to wait until the very end. It’s much more difficult to find suitable articles than I had anticipated, because they not only have to be suitable for certain scientific terms but also have to be related to the environment. Since I only have to
2. My business law final. It’s probably not too big of a deal, because it’s just going to be multiple choice and fairly general, but I still need to review my notes. And, it’s on the same day the project is due, when my flight comes in at 6 am. I’ll be exhausted that day, sigh.
3. Studying for my calculus 3 final that will take place on December 9. I can’t say I fully understand vectors at this point. I can just follow examples and do problems. If I can get over this hump, I’m not too concerned about my other final exams, since this one is the most difficult.
4. Oh yeah, my final section of my accounting annual report project is due tomorrow too. Maybe I’ll skip this one and spend the time working on the scientific article instead (I say that, but I’ll probably just be wasting time on the internet). It’s only one section out of 10, and the whole project is only worth 10 percent of our grade. So, I’m only losing out on one percent of my final grade if I don’t do it. I’m glad the previous test had extra credit that was definitely worth more than 1 percent of the final grade. I’m probably going to end up doing the assignment tomorrow morning anyway, because accounting actually somewhat interests me.
I guess compared to some of my friends with majors with classes that require multiple term papers that each have to be pretty long in length, I’m lucky. Theoretically, I can concentrate on the scientific article project before I leave on Wednesday for Thanksgiving break and do a little looking over my business law notes. After that, I can then shift my focus to Calculus 3, since my grade is not in jeopardy in any of my other classes. The key word here is theoretically, which will only work if I am able to keep up my plan.
It’s funny how all the things to be cheerful about are directly related to one of the things not to look forward to. In other words, in order for me to enjoy anything I am looking forward to, I have complete one of my dreaded tasks. In order to enjoy Thanksgiving break, I have to get my scientific article project out of the way. Otherwise, I’ll have to go through great inconvenience to bring home all the materials I need to do the project and take time out of the few days I have there to do my project. In order for me to enjoy winter break, I have to get a decent grade in Calculus 3. Otherwise, a bad grade in that class will bother me throughout the break.
Other things to do:
1. Talk to another dean (not the one who was being as “unaccomodating” as she possibly could) so I can declare a minor in math (hmm…ideally, I can’t fail calculus 3 too badly if I want to do this, either. Otherwise a minor in math wouldn’t make much sense, would it?). I know that it’s allowed, because other people with my same major are doing the same thing, but it just seems like I always speak to the wrong people.
2. Redesign my stepmania site
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