Summer Time

I took my one and only final this morning at 8! Besides having to get up and take a final at 8 the rest of the day has been good, and now I have finished up my freshman year of college, well except for having to write project 4, and now it is summer time. Summer is my favorite time of the year. Swimming, working at camps, and hanging out with friends and family members is what I plan on doing this summer and I am so excited. And it all starts now!! Hope everyone has a great summer!

No More Comp Classes

Comp II is over and for most of us that means no more comp classes. No more comp classes doesn't mean that writing is over with also. There will still be term papers and other essays that will have to be written in other classes that aren'r related to English. I hope that everything I have learned in Comp I and Comp II will stick with me and help me in my writing when I am having to write a term paper or another essay in the future.

Dracula

I have never read the book of Dracula or seen the movie. This week while reading the book of Dracula I am finding it not as good as I thought it would be. A lot of people talk about it like it is the best, but I am not seeing it. I think what made it so big is that it was the first vampire story that was easy to understand and had the sexual desires and other aspects that young adults like. I must say that going over the book in class discussion is helping me out, because while reading the book in the journal and diary way it is written I miss some stuff. Maybe that is one of the reasons I am not liking the book as much as I thought I would, the way a book is written is very important and I am not liking the journals and the diaries.

Elizabeth Bathory

I am looking up information about Elizabeth Bathory for a project in my comp class. That girl was nuts! The things that I have read about her are crazy and I can't believe she lived like that. She would take baths in the blood of virgins to make her seem younger and more beautiful, which is why she is called the Blood Countess. Taking baths in blood makes her insane enough without considering all the other horrible things she had done.

Stage Fright

In my comp2 class we are having to do presentations. I really like the topic that my group is working on and I am okay with the presentation until it is my turn to go. I have horrible stage fright and our instructor is going to let us have an audience to present our presentations to. I am going to have the worst stage fright ever come this Friday when I get to talk about a topic that most people won't know about in front of people I don't know. Speaking in front of people for me is always better when I know the people, but since I won't know the people on Friday I am sure I will mess up somewhere. I can't wait to get the presentation over on Friday. I am already getting nervous and that's not good.

Group Projects

It seems like at least once a semester a person will have a group project in a class. Group projects can be fun if it is under the right circumstances. I am having to do a group project in my comp2 class and I'm not sure exactly how i feel about it. I like group projects and they can be interesting. The problem I am having with this group project though is we don't have enough time it seems like to make 10-15 minute presentation about our topic. We are having to rush around to find the right sources that we can use and on top of finding the correct academic sources we must find time to acutally meet as a group and work on the project, which is hard in college since we all have different schedules and activities to work around. Group projects...I like them, but then I don't at the same time.

Education Oberservation Class

I am an education major and for one of the classes I am taking we go to other schools and get to observe a teacher there. So far I have observed a 6th grade math teacher, a high school medical procedures teacherm, and a 5th grade english teacher. I really like observing the teacher an with have such a wide variety of subjects and grades it helps me decide more of what I am wanting to teach. I think I would like to teach a 7th grade math or history class. I would prefer teaching math over anything else. With observing these classes I have also realized that I would like to teach upper lever elementary and into the middle school level grades.