I started this blog as a way to get things off of my mind, but unfortunately, I have been so busy with school and life in general that I have had very little time to get anything off my mind! As a result, I am sitting here with an over-full brain and a bad headache.
We are entering the final week of the Fall I school term. I *might* have bitten off more than I could realistically chew this term. My classes have been very time-consuming and taxing. "Well, stupid...you're in college!", you might be saying. Yes, I know - I should expect to be challenged. After all, what good is any education if you don't learn anything, right?
Actually, this whole blog thing stemmed from being in a really difficult (for me) English writing class; I was feeling quite stifled and my fingers were itching to type all sorts of random, sassy things that would have ensured a reward of a big fat 'F' for the term. Writing essays based on essays in our textbook is not very exciting stuff, let me assure you! Honestly, I think the textbook authors went and found the most obscure, boring essays they could - in fact, I think "obscure", "boring", and "difficult to read" were required elements in order to be considered for inclusion into our textbook!
In case you haven't picked up on it yet, I struggled with this class. Ultimately, now that I am nearing completion, though, I have developed a new appreciation for the goals and core learning outcomes of this writing course. This appreciation does not mean that I want to take a bunch of other classes like it, and I am going to study like the dickens so I don't have to worry about repeating EN106, but all in all, it really wasn't as bad as I made it out to be in my mind. Amazing thing, that brain of ours...it can make a pebble feel like a 1/2 ton rock, and make the task of reading a simple essay feel like wading through War and Peace.
Don't even get me started on my Management class (I'll do that all on my own)! I think my favorite saying in reference to this class was, "She (meaning my instructor) hates me!" Does she really hate me? Probably not... She's been teaching for ages, and I am sure that once she finishes grading my final assignment, I will instantly leave her memory. Is she a good instructor? Yes, there is no doubt she knows her stuff. So why do I think she hates me? We had a little run-in during Week 2. Long story short, she approved my research paper topic in an email, and then did not approve it in the classroom. Don't tell anyone, but I got mad enough (and stressed enough) to leak out a few tears over this. This paper, which is worth 20% of our grade, was supposed to be about a business or organization that we had first-hand knowledge of. Because of my limited work experience in larger organizations, I ended up choosing the last company I worked for (which is no longer in business). Let me make this clear...I was a manager there! I could easily apply the principles of management to my experience there! Anyway, I ended up having to write about my husband's last squadron. Guess who has never been in the Air Force - yours truly... I have no first-hand knowledge of the squadron or general Air Force functions/structure. That paper was a NIGHTMARE!!
So now that I have spent multiple paragraphs ranting and whining to you all, let me share with you some of the positive things that have come out of Fall I. First, I started this blog because of one of my classes. Second, I have a much better appreciation for academic writing (but I'm still going to avoid it like the plague). Third, I learned a lot about the Air Force, (probably more than I'll ever need to know), which may come in handy when making small-talk at the next Air Force function that I have to attend. Finally, I learned that homework gets done a lot faster when you don't keep stopping to cuss and whine!
Until next time...
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