It has been a crazy summer!! I am taking 16 credits with a Math class and a full year of German. We just finished our second “term” this Summer. It works out to about a term (GER111, GER112, GER113) every 12 days. I received a B+ for my German 111 and a “shaky” B for [...]
Ich muss mich verrückt!! As a Nontraditional Student, I always set high expectations for myself. Taking a full year of German in the space of one Summer Term may just test this theory. Hence, the title of this post which translates to German class is not impossible!! Here it is, only Thursday, 4 days into [...]
This post comes to you from the Valley Library on Oregon State University main campus! This may not seem like a big deal to most of you, but it is HUGE for me. As a Non Traditional Student Reaching Lifelong Goals, (catchy title, yes?) my coursework is now all on the OSU campus. Yes, this [...]
My final research paper for my ENG203 class was a look at the Elizabethan sexual references made by Shakespeare. Today’s audiences miss some of these juicy, sexy and downright bawdy jokes. Censorship was rampant during Shakespeare’s times but he still had to entertain his groundling and penny stinkards at the Globe Theater. This paper only [...]
I have two more research papers to post from my Shakespeare English Studies classes. The play this paper was written about was The Tempest. I have gotten A+ grades on all of these papers. Being a History Major, I have taken my study of the works of Shakespeare and looked at them from a historical [...]
