Friday, July 30th, 2010
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 [...]
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Thursday, June 24th, 2010
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 [...]
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Friday, June 11th, 2010
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 [...]
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Thursday, February 11th, 2010
This has been one of those weeks. Some successes and some challenges. My research paper for English Lit was a big hit with my instructor. MTH 065 is another story though. I have scrambled all week getting ready to take a Module test for this class. Keeping up with the homework for the next module [...]
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
I was noticing today that again, the wheat has been separated from the chaff after the first week of Winter term. Like last term, which was crazy crowded, a large number of students have disappeared from my classes. I would assume that a lot of the drops came from rescheduling and not needing certain classes. [...]
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