Whoa man
We celebrated my brother Will's birthday today. I guess he must be 19 now...man, I feel like I wasn't 19 that long ago. I picked him out a nice longboard to ride around at campus and wherever.
It's finally getting pretty hot here in Grand Rapids. I saw 81 degrees on the little weather center we have on the wall...and it was so miserable a few days ago. Two weeks ago I skipped a class because the snow was so bad it wasn't worth trying to drive.
On the matter of classes, I'm almost done with my two for this semester; a 10 page term paper to put together by Tuesday for Lit and a bunch of polish on my online content for Tech English Teaching. It's been an interesting semester for me, I guess; Tech was a great class, with a lot of stuff I could do well and a great Prof too. It reminded me of the honors classes from LETU--a one-off class with a lot of experimenting on the part of the Prof and a fair amount of "what do you want to learn, and how do you want to learn it?" Renaissance Lit has been fairly straight-forward...less out of class than I was figuring on, although this paper will haunt me if I don't work on it a lot harder before it's due. I enjoyed getting more exposure to a lot of historical literature; I mean, I've always loved to read, but not so much classical material.
I should be looking at getting registered for the Fall term soon here. I don't have an assistantship yet, and I probably won't wind up with one this go-through, but there are definitely some great benefits to doing one (tuition paid, $7000 in your pocket). I told them I didn't want one when I applied, but I've since been told that I should think about one if an opening came up. It's an intimidating thought; sounds like you teach 6 credit hours of Comp 101, and I suppose that's not bad, but it's still getting up and teaching. I guess the really intimidating thing to me is just what next year means to my lifestyle. I don't think I'll have time for much playing around, especially not if I do get an assistantship. I've had a lot of free time this semester and have not had the motivation to do pretty much anything. It's been rediculous.
Anyways, hopefully this summer will put me into some semblance of shape; I'll be working full time grounds crew at the country club at the cottage. The most important part is that it's going to be the early shift. I need to go to bed on time, get up early, and get outside, every day.
Back to work, yar!
It's finally getting pretty hot here in Grand Rapids. I saw 81 degrees on the little weather center we have on the wall...and it was so miserable a few days ago. Two weeks ago I skipped a class because the snow was so bad it wasn't worth trying to drive.
On the matter of classes, I'm almost done with my two for this semester; a 10 page term paper to put together by Tuesday for Lit and a bunch of polish on my online content for Tech English Teaching. It's been an interesting semester for me, I guess; Tech was a great class, with a lot of stuff I could do well and a great Prof too. It reminded me of the honors classes from LETU--a one-off class with a lot of experimenting on the part of the Prof and a fair amount of "what do you want to learn, and how do you want to learn it?" Renaissance Lit has been fairly straight-forward...less out of class than I was figuring on, although this paper will haunt me if I don't work on it a lot harder before it's due. I enjoyed getting more exposure to a lot of historical literature; I mean, I've always loved to read, but not so much classical material.
I should be looking at getting registered for the Fall term soon here. I don't have an assistantship yet, and I probably won't wind up with one this go-through, but there are definitely some great benefits to doing one (tuition paid, $7000 in your pocket). I told them I didn't want one when I applied, but I've since been told that I should think about one if an opening came up. It's an intimidating thought; sounds like you teach 6 credit hours of Comp 101, and I suppose that's not bad, but it's still getting up and teaching. I guess the really intimidating thing to me is just what next year means to my lifestyle. I don't think I'll have time for much playing around, especially not if I do get an assistantship. I've had a lot of free time this semester and have not had the motivation to do pretty much anything. It's been rediculous.
Anyways, hopefully this summer will put me into some semblance of shape; I'll be working full time grounds crew at the country club at the cottage. The most important part is that it's going to be the early shift. I need to go to bed on time, get up early, and get outside, every day.
Back to work, yar!
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