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Oct. 4th, 2009 11:49 amOne of the few things better about living in the dorms, I must say, is that at least there were more than one washing machine and one dryer. I mean, granted, last year I had 2 washers and 2 dryers on my floor for 40 people, and this year I have 1 washer and 1 dryer for 15-20 people, but I never once had to actually wait to do laundry last year. The day that I get my own washer and dryer will be one of the happiest days of my life, not even exaggerating a little.
I finally got my HIMYM S4 and TBBT S1&2 DVDs! I'm so happy. Of course, I should watch them. HIMYM S4 I have less of an urge to watch. Not that I don't absolutely adore it, because I do, but because I watched all of season 4 (well, all that had aired) in April, and then I watched the entire season again with my parents over the summer. And I have been known to watch random episodes from that season when I'm bored (as you can see from my TV episodes watched list on my listography). I mostly just want to watch the S4 special features, but since my parents are coming this weekend, I can make myself wait so I can watch it with them (since I know they'll want to see them). TBBT is kind of harder to make myself watch since I've only seen all the episodes from each season once (...well, okay, I've rewatched a couple episodes. But not too many. And it was awhile ago) and I've had an urge to rewatch both seasons for a few months now. And I want to see the special features, and my parents won't be interested in those since they have never watched the show before so I have no reason to make myself wait. We'll see. I still haven't even finished Fringe yet. ugh, I really need to be prioritizing school over TV. I always do this. sigh.
Speaking of Fringe, there was more German in episode 1.07! I'm trying to use the fact that this show includes a lot of random German (or at least, more than 99% of other shows I've seen) to justify watching this instead of doing work. I mean, it's helping my German listening comprehension, which can only be beneficial in the long run for my German classes, right? ...of course, I should be doing Directed Research homework, so I don't know that that justification really works; maybe if I was blowing off German homework for it instead. Oh well.
My Directed Research adviser sent back my draft of my Introduction with comments, and even though were some things I needed to fix, overall she said she was very impressed, the writing was clear and persuasive, and that I did a great job. So, yay! The thing is, in this class we have a bunch of assignments throughout the semester (Annotated Bibliography, draft of Intro, draft of Methods, IRB form, draft of Results, etc) that are basically just pass/fail (as long as she sees we spent time and effort on the assignments and that we've taken her comments and the comments of our group of DR students into consideration, then we get credit), but our final grade in the class is essentially determined by our final paper. So if the final paper isn't perfect, then... that's our ultimate grade in the class. Which... kind of sucks and is kind of good? It's good because I don't need to stress out as much throughout the semester. I just need to make sure I put in the effort, and then I'll get a bunch of criticism and ways to improve my work. However, that puts a lot of weight on the final paper, and so I'll need to make sure that the paper is absolutely an A paper for me to get an A in the class. But in any case, it's a good sign that she was impressed with the draft and my writing; if she didn't like my writing style, then I would probably have some issues with the final paper. What I'll probably try to do is have everything done at least a week before the due date for the final paper and then go over it with her to see what criticisms she has so that my final draft has absolutely nothing wrong with it. Since, I mean, now that I'm taking Discrete Math pass/fail, I really need to be putting every effort into my other classes.
I finally got my HIMYM S4 and TBBT S1&2 DVDs! I'm so happy. Of course, I should watch them. HIMYM S4 I have less of an urge to watch. Not that I don't absolutely adore it, because I do, but because I watched all of season 4 (well, all that had aired) in April, and then I watched the entire season again with my parents over the summer. And I have been known to watch random episodes from that season when I'm bored (as you can see from my TV episodes watched list on my listography). I mostly just want to watch the S4 special features, but since my parents are coming this weekend, I can make myself wait so I can watch it with them (since I know they'll want to see them). TBBT is kind of harder to make myself watch since I've only seen all the episodes from each season once (...well, okay, I've rewatched a couple episodes. But not too many. And it was awhile ago) and I've had an urge to rewatch both seasons for a few months now. And I want to see the special features, and my parents won't be interested in those since they have never watched the show before so I have no reason to make myself wait. We'll see. I still haven't even finished Fringe yet. ugh, I really need to be prioritizing school over TV. I always do this. sigh.
Speaking of Fringe, there was more German in episode 1.07! I'm trying to use the fact that this show includes a lot of random German (or at least, more than 99% of other shows I've seen) to justify watching this instead of doing work. I mean, it's helping my German listening comprehension, which can only be beneficial in the long run for my German classes, right? ...of course, I should be doing Directed Research homework, so I don't know that that justification really works; maybe if I was blowing off German homework for it instead. Oh well.
My Directed Research adviser sent back my draft of my Introduction with comments, and even though were some things I needed to fix, overall she said she was very impressed, the writing was clear and persuasive, and that I did a great job. So, yay! The thing is, in this class we have a bunch of assignments throughout the semester (Annotated Bibliography, draft of Intro, draft of Methods, IRB form, draft of Results, etc) that are basically just pass/fail (as long as she sees we spent time and effort on the assignments and that we've taken her comments and the comments of our group of DR students into consideration, then we get credit), but our final grade in the class is essentially determined by our final paper. So if the final paper isn't perfect, then... that's our ultimate grade in the class. Which... kind of sucks and is kind of good? It's good because I don't need to stress out as much throughout the semester. I just need to make sure I put in the effort, and then I'll get a bunch of criticism and ways to improve my work. However, that puts a lot of weight on the final paper, and so I'll need to make sure that the paper is absolutely an A paper for me to get an A in the class. But in any case, it's a good sign that she was impressed with the draft and my writing; if she didn't like my writing style, then I would probably have some issues with the final paper. What I'll probably try to do is have everything done at least a week before the due date for the final paper and then go over it with her to see what criticisms she has so that my final draft has absolutely nothing wrong with it. Since, I mean, now that I'm taking Discrete Math pass/fail, I really need to be putting every effort into my other classes.
