Monday, May 29, 2006
Vacation
Well, I don't think I could have been any lazier this vacation. Sleep, Nintendo and hanging with the boys was an almost daily schedule. I hope that this lull in my lifestyle will serve to energize me, because I leave for camp in under one week, and simply living there is a draining, albeit very fun, endeavor. My friends who were home have now flown the coop to various camp-related activities, some for outside training and some for camp itself. This leaves me rather alone and bored (surprise) until another entertaining friend comes home from abroad. Also, the feast of Weeks is approaching, and with it, my Grandma, who I will undoubtedly entertain from a lack of anything else to do, though that is not a bad thing.
The shopping has begun for camp, today I braved the mob at target to buy sunscreen and other toiletries that I will buy again at wal-mart later in the summer. I need to consolidate my belongings from my two houses, so packing is my lone task this week. That and making blintzes.
Mario Tennis is way underrated,
-Daniel
The shopping has begun for camp, today I braved the mob at target to buy sunscreen and other toiletries that I will buy again at wal-mart later in the summer. I need to consolidate my belongings from my two houses, so packing is my lone task this week. That and making blintzes.
Mario Tennis is way underrated,
-Daniel
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
I know.
I may need to rethink my whole vacation means not doing anything I don't want to credo. As explained in my previous post, there was not a whole lot of homework-doing over my pesach break. This led to an incredible amount of homework-doing in the final two weeks of school, and more than I thought in the week building up to my going home. My uncanny procrastination skills allowed me to goof off more than I thought was physically possible, and when I was done with that, I loafed about and went to bed. Seriously kids, just do your essays. Tell yourself they are due tomorrow, tie yourself to to your desk, unplug the LAN cord and shut down the wireless (the horror) and just do them. It is so much easier. Then, once they are done you can dance and frolic about and stick out your tongue at people who not only think you are crazy, but also hate you because you are done and they are not.
I find that exams are less of a problem because they are not going to be moved (unless your teacher almost does not show up...) and they are almost always more objective than essays. Duh, there are essay questions and essay-only exams, but they will always be more specific than: Pick a topic related to our class and write a 8-10 page paper on it (that was the instruction for two of my essays this semester and don't be surprised if it happens again). Also, exams get my adrenaline pumping. While I am sitting in the classroom, there is no greater thrill than to go head to head with an difficult objective exam, filled with maliciously wrong answers (whats a henway?), making me work for every minute of the exam. Thanks Mr. Feeney.* I honestly don't think I have done that since high school, that is just another reason to take the GRE or the LSAT.
Oh, another thing. If anyone knows a Professor, they should convey this to them immediately: Do not give a final exam and a final paper, particularly if there were already a number of graded assignments for the class! This makes everyone hate you, including you, because of the double amount of worrying and thinking (and grading) that everyone has to do. Even if studying for the exams somehow helps to write the essay, this is still inexcusable.
I am going to be relatively bored until Camp starts June 5, so my posts ought to be correspondingly more often and boring.
*Not a Boy Meets World reference,
Daniel
I find that exams are less of a problem because they are not going to be moved (unless your teacher almost does not show up...) and they are almost always more objective than essays. Duh, there are essay questions and essay-only exams, but they will always be more specific than: Pick a topic related to our class and write a 8-10 page paper on it (that was the instruction for two of my essays this semester and don't be surprised if it happens again). Also, exams get my adrenaline pumping. While I am sitting in the classroom, there is no greater thrill than to go head to head with an difficult objective exam, filled with maliciously wrong answers (whats a henway?), making me work for every minute of the exam. Thanks Mr. Feeney.* I honestly don't think I have done that since high school, that is just another reason to take the GRE or the LSAT.
Oh, another thing. If anyone knows a Professor, they should convey this to them immediately: Do not give a final exam and a final paper, particularly if there were already a number of graded assignments for the class! This makes everyone hate you, including you, because of the double amount of worrying and thinking (and grading) that everyone has to do. Even if studying for the exams somehow helps to write the essay, this is still inexcusable.
I am going to be relatively bored until Camp starts June 5, so my posts ought to be correspondingly more often and boring.
*Not a Boy Meets World reference,
Daniel
