Sun Tans: They Don’t Happen Overnight
Here is some fun data. Or disturbing data. Depending on how you see things.
Points of interest:
- Pima Community College, where I currently work, has the third-highestgraduation numbers of all the community colleges in the US. Which doesn’t surprise me; it has like eight campuses across Tucson.
- Idaho’s higher education stats…they really blow.
Those two bars below Idaho are Alaska and Washington, D.C.
The national average percentage of students graduating in four years or less is 31.3%?
The national average percentage of students graduating in six years or less is 56.0%??
Good lord.
Of course, this is to be considered.
You say tomato, I say existential crisis
Hello for the 2,178th time! Wow, that’s a lot of blogs.
Anyway.
Due to reasons that are still up in the air in terms of whether or not they’ll actually be reasons, I might—might—be coming back to Moscow in the fall.
Yeah, yeah, I know, “make up your damn mind already.” I would if I could, man. This “up in the air” stuff isn’t good for a planning, goal-oriented, future-focused person like myself.
But anyway.
If I come back, I’d like to go back to school (while working, of course) if at all possible. So in order to be able to implement that plan should it become a feasible option in the future, I reapplied for admission and subsequently signed up for just a few credits in the fall.
Better safe than sorry, no?
And I’d be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy making a schedule that might actually happen.
Happy birthday, grandpa, we miss you!
DUDES UI FALL SCHEDULE TIME!
Here’s what I’d take. Clicky clicky.
Purely hypothetical, of course…or IS it?!
DUN DUN DUUUUUUUN!
Fisher’s LSD: My Anti-Drug
As much as I blather on about loving statistics, I realized that I’ve never really explained what I like about it. So I figured I’d give it a shot.
Surprisingly (considering how obsessively in love I am with stats now), I was hesitant to take the University of Idaho’s intro statistics course that was required for my psych major. But I had to, so I did, and though I had no issues with the class or concepts and did well, I still wasn’t all that enthusiastic about the material in the end. Mean, median, mode, z-tests, and chi-squares. Who cares, right?
I wanted to go to grad school for psychology at that time, and I’d heard from my advisor and several other people that psychology graduate programs really liked students who knew their statistics. So grudgingly I made up my mind to complete at minimum a statistics certificate (like 15 credits of stats courses), or at best get a full minor (which was only two or three more stats/math courses, I can’t remember now).
To help facilitate my weak stats understanding (and to have the class on my transcript), I took PSYC 456: Tests and Measurements in my third semester.
And that’s when things changed.
This class introduced me to the useful aspects of statistics in an applied setting—inter-item correlations and their ability to reveal good and poor test items, predicting student’s final exam grades by their previous assignment and test scores, assessing personality and determining correlations between proposed traits…holy freaking crap.
And it went from there. The next semester I took STAT 401 and STAT 422, the latter full of grad students whose mental asses I kicked on every exam. You all know me and know how insane I get about things once I decide I like them. I had gotten that way about statistics.
Every stats class after this made me love the subject more. Why? I guess because I love how statistical procedures are able to extract meaning from gallons of data that, at first glance, may just appear to be a jumble of meaningless numbers without any pattern. Human beings love to measure things. Statistics allow us to measure with meaning. Take factor analysis. This procedure allows you to take a set of multivariate data (data in which each subject has measurements on multiple components) and “reduce” it down to a smaller number of “factors,” or components responsible for the most variation amongst the subject’s measurements.
Despite the negative reputation statisticians and their methods have gotten thanks to crappy researchers and phrases like “there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics,” statistics are incredibly useful, incredibly revealing, and interesting as hell. To me, it’s really exciting to be able to describe data in totally new ways by bringing the meaning of huge datasets to the surface for everyone to see and understand what the data are actually saying. Not to mention the power of statistical visualizations—when done appropriately, graphs and figures can speak volumes. Hundreds or even thousands of subjects and numbers can be meaningfully reduced to a couple lines and colors and yet make an incredible statement. THAT’s powerful.
It’s also fun, especially if you don’t quite know what the data will reveal. And regression’s like the psychic component of the math world. How cool?
I love stats. Love, love, love.
We Found Dove in a Soapless Place
I want to take the SAT again. Actually, I want to (read: need to) take the GRE again, but before that I want to see how I’d do on the SATs now compared to how I did back when I thought college was dumb and thus didn’t care about some stupid standardized test that required me to sit locked in a room for like five hours on a Saturday back in 2005 (2006?).
Oh my, times change.
And so do the focus topics of these blogs (though this is somewhat related to the SAT): why in the hell don’t some colleges accept students pursuing a second Bachelor’s degrees? Taken directly from the University of Chicago’s “transfer students” page: “Students who already have a Bachelor’s degree are not eligible to apply to the undergraduate College at the University of Chicago as the College does not grant second Bachelor’s degrees.” I have found similarly-worded disclaimers on many college’s transfer students pages. I don’t understand.
It’s not like the students getting their second (or third, or fourth, etc.) degrees aren’t going to, you know, pay the school tuition fees. Seriously! It’s not like having that initial degree somehow exempts them from handing the new school thousands and thousands of dollars.
And what other possible issues could there be to preclude already degreed students from returning to further their education? Are they afraid they’re going to take spots away from first-timers? Is it a credit issue? Are these schools afraid that the returning students are going to whip through the curriculum because their core classes/credits/whatever will have already been taken care of during their first degree? If that’s the case, then I see at least one major flaw with this logic: these schools still accept transfer students who have completed some (most often, at least a year or two) schooling at another university or community college. These students have no “upper limit” on how many credits they have already completed. Hell, they could be one class away from a Bachelor’s degree and still be able to be accepted by the new school.
So if it’s a money thing, what the hell? If it’s a credit thing, what the hell? Unless I’m just being dense (which is a real possibility) and missing something major, I really don’t understand why schools don’t let those who have already completed degrees get another degree.
Blarfhslkfsgaherlasfalaksdeegfartfart.
I want more undergrad, dammit!
In the beginning, Al Gore created http://
As everyone who knows even the slightest bit about me is aware, I am obsessive about school and would like to return ASAP. The magical thing about Tucson is that it’s home to the University of Arizona. The magical thing about the University of Arizona is that it’s not the U of I it’s got a lot of really cool majors and appears to be a very good school overall.
One particularly interesting-sounding major I came across this evening arises from the engineering department: systems engineering. On the U of A engineering department’s website, systems engineering is defined as a field “…concerned with the design, modeling, and analysis of technological systems that employ people and machines, software and hardware, material and energy for such diverse purposes as communication, health care, transportation or manufacturing…if complex systems are to do what is intended, without unwanted side effects, they must be designed not only with imagination and technical skill, but with rigorous attention to the design process itself and to the interactions among the system components and with other systems and society.”
And, “…the curriculum provides students with design viewpoints and methodologies that emphasize system integration, and with subject matter and tools for modeling and analysis especially appropriate for large complex systems, e.g., probability and statistics, system theory, decision analysis, and simulation.”
So…it’s basically like statistics with an engineering bend, or so that’s what I gather.
HOW COOL?
Also, they explicitly list Raytheon as one of the major employers of system engineers, and Raytheon has a special polar exploration sector that I’d totally love to worm my way into someday. Antarctica, I’m coming for you soon, I swear.
I must conduct further research on this field…
Is it Friday?! GOTTA GET DOWN!
So I just found out today that if you ended your time at the U of I in good academic standing, you’re guaranteed readmission if you decide to re-apply.
And I’m sure I’ve told you of my not-so-secret desire to just stay an undergrad and get a major in every single subject offered by a school.
Therefore, this little tidbit of information makes it SO TEMPTING to just go back to undergrad, even though it WOULD be back in Moscow and I WOULD have to deal again with the most incompetent university on the planet.
But of course I won’t. I’m going to Western.
OH, and that got pushed back a few days for several reasons. I’m leaving Wednesday instead of Monday, so maybe we can all hang out at some point after all.
WOO!
UI schedule fun
So I should have been born in like 1991, because the U of I has had some really great classes these past two years. Here are the 25 credits I would like to take this semester, if I were there (click on image to bring to full size):
These plus MATH 452: Mathematical Statistics, which is a video course.
Nice, eh?
Mother Teresa called — she HATES you
So because I’m me, I’ve decided to plan out a hypothetical “this is what I’d take next semester if I were still at the U of I” schedule. No Flash-made chart this time, ‘cause CS3 blows and I can’t find the CD for good ol’ Flash 5.
Monday/Wednesday/Friday
STAT 507: Experimental Design (9:30 – 10:20)
PHIL 446: Metaphysics (1:10 – 2:20)
MATH 430: Advanced Linear Algebra (2:30 – 3:20)
Tuesday/Thursday
PHYS 111: General Physics I (9:30 – 10:45)
THE 305: Intermediate Acting (11:00 – 12:15)
ENGL 492: Advanced Fiction Writing (3:30 – 4:45)
Monday/Tuesday
STAT 404: Statistics for the Life and Behavioral Sciences (5:30 – 6:45)
Thursday
CASP 509: Psychometrics (5:30 – 8:20)
All week
MUSA 119: Marching Band (12:30 – 1:20; 12:30 – 1:45)
Yeah, it’s only 25 credits, ‘cause I’m sure if I’d petitioned for more than that again they’d deny me again (and because, of course, none of the physics labs would fit with this schedule, so I’d just take the lecture component). ‘Cause it just works like that. This semester would be the “let’s take the next level in all the class strings that I started (like linear algebra, writing, and acting). It’s also the “fuck anyone who gets in my way, I’m TAKING METAPHYSICS” semester.
Today’s song: Opus 36 by Dustin O’Halloran
This blog is worth 60% of your final grade
I have a bit of an issue with this article. Not because I’m like “oh hey, I got straight A’s through college and I don’t regret it one bit LOL,” but because half the things he cites as reasons to “regret” the experience are things that can be easily avoided.
1. No one has ever asked about my GPA.
Not after you graduated, probably not. But did you ever apply for scholarships? GPA certainly matters for financial reasons while still in school, so if some scholarship/funding/what not requires high grades in order to hand you cash, why not give it a shot? Research supervisors also look at this before they decide whether or not they want to work with you.
2. I didn’t sleep.
The only time I really had the “there’s physically no way I can fit sleep into my schedule” problem was during the 25 credit semester of doom, but that was also because I would spend four hours a night watching YouTube videos, talking to Sean, making dumb Flash, and just generally dinking around. Honestly, you CAN sleep and get a 4.0.
3. I’ve forgotten 95% of it.
If what you’re studying isn’t important enough to you for you to even attempt to remember it past the tests, you’re probably studying the wrong thing. Hell, I know I didn’t retain anything from my core requirements classes ‘cause I was like “pfft, this stuff is boring and irrelevant and I feel like making dumb cartoons instead.” But if I had been like that in every class, I would think I would have realized that I was not studying the right thing.
4. I didn’t have time for people.
Take a class with some friends (band, anyone?). Organize study sessions with those people who fall into the “we know each other from class fairly well” group of friends. Make one day of each week a day where you don’t do anything school-related (for me, this was and still is Saturday…it kept me sane, and it IS possible to do).
5. Work experience is more valuable.
It depends on the major, really. The physical sciences and engineering? Sure. Business and law? Definitely. The fine arts and things like philosophy? Maybe not so much. Also, it’s pretty difficult to find relevant work experience for some majors.
What about Graduate School?
Haha, yeah, no kidding. I think this should have been listed as a preface. “Does grad school apply to you? Ignore this entire list.”
Today’s song: American Cowboy by Jada
A Brief History of My Time at the U of I
Alternate title: Claudia took too many goddamn classes and gave the U of I way too much money.
1. Biology 102: Biology and Society
2. CORE 116: The Sacred Journey
3. CORE 166: The Sacred Journey
4. English 101: Introduction to College Writing
5. English 102: College Writing and Rhetoric
6. English 175: Introduction to Literary Genres
7. English 208: Personal and Exploratory Writing
8. English 258: Literature of Western Civilization II
9. English 292: Creative Writing: Fiction
10. English 392: Intermediate Fiction Writing
11. Geography 100: Physical Geography
12. Geography 100L: Physical Geography Lab
13. History 111: Introduction to U.S. History I
14. History 112: Introduction to U.S. History II
15. Math 143: Pre-Calculus Algebra and Analytic Geometry
16. Math 160: Survey of Calculus
17. Math 330: Linear Algebra
18. Music 119: Marching Band
19. Music 121: Concert Band
20. Music 319: Marching Band
21. Music 319: Marching Band
22. Music 321: Concert Band
23. Music 321: Concert Band
24. Philosophy 103: Ethics
25. Philosophy 202: Introduction to Symbolic Logic
26. Philosophy 240: Belief and Reality
27. Philosophy 307: Buddhism
28. Philosophy 320: History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
29. Philosophy 321: History of Modern Philosophy
30. Philosophy 351: Philosophy of Science
31. Philosophy 442: Philosophy of Mind
32. Philosophy 447: Theory of Knowledge
33. Philosophy 490: Senior Seminar
34. Psychology 101: Introduction to Psychology
35. Psychology 218: Intro to Research in the Behavioral Sciences
36. Psychology 305: Developmental Psychology
37. Psychology 310: Psychology of Personality
38. Psychology 311: Abnormal Psychology
39. Psychology 320: Social Psychology
40. Psychology 330: Human Sexuality
41. Psychology 390: Psychology of Learning
42. Psychology 421: Cognitive Development
43. Psychology 430: Tests and Measurements
44. Psychology 456: Psychology of Emotion
45. Psychology 499: Directed Study – Industrial/Organizational Research
46. Psychology 499: Directed Study – Industrial/Organizational Research
47. Psychology 499: Directed Study – Industrial/Organizational Research
48. Psychology 499: Directed Study – Stumbling on Happiness
49. Statistics 251: Statistical Methods
50. Statistics 401: Statistical Analysis
51. Statistics 422: Sample Survey Methods
52. Statistics 514: Nonparametric Statistics
53. Statistics 519: Multivariate Analysis
54. Theatre 100: Freshman Theatre Seminar
55. Theatre 105: Basics of Performance
WOOHOO NO BLOG POST IS COMPLETE WITHOUT A GRAPH LOL
Yes, it keeps going EVEN THOUGH I’M DONE WITH SCHOOL
Because I’m a loser and love to do these things, here is my college career in review. In BAR CHART FORM!!!! MUAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! Higher scores = the better that semester was in that aspect.
Damn you, Linear Algebra
SO CLOSE. I was SO CLOSE to getting another 4.0 this semester.
But no.
Because I’m stupid.
At least 3.98 is still above the summa cum laude cutoff.
What the last three years have taught me
The last three years of college have taught me that:
- the rubber from the Kibbie Dome field will stay embedded in your socks for eternity.
- they don’t call it “Wish You Were Dead Week” for nothing.
- the Dollar Store is a good place at which to lose money and gain worthless yet awesome crap with which to decorate the house/lawn/car.
- if you work your ass off, you can get a Bachelors in 2 ½ years.
- it doesn’t take much to ruin the movie 300 for your friends.
- marching band pretty much rocks.
- our upstairs neighbors are stupid.
- drag shows are awesome and lead to interesting stories.
- 1-800-BUTTSEX is a real number.
- Wallace sucks.
- the U of I in general sucks.
- no matter how many times you wash the floor, if you live in a room in Wallace, the sand from the sidewalks in winter will NEVER go away.
- the table in the Commons will keep you entertained. Forever.
- Kermit’s loins are soft and pants-shaped.
- Ren’s boobs are god.
- relationships are always better if they begin by making out in a random place.
- stereotypical philosophy teachers = sexy.
- I still can’t do algebra.
- the Enlightenment was the best time period ever.
- carving genetalia out of erasers actually does reduce the stress of a 25-credit semester.
- you shouldn’t take 25-credit semesters.
- GPA miracles DO happen.
- Dr. O’Rourke is badass.
- the Quote Book is law.
- weird things happen in multidimensional spaces (thanks, Dr. Lee).
- parties at Maggie’s are fun and often result in me wearing bras that don’t fit.
- Leibniz is the greatest person that has ever lived.
- Newton is a thief and a liar.
- we will never know if love is universal or not (long story).
- Rock Band is quite possibly the best thing ever.
- sometimes things just work out.
- Pink Pearls are valuable tools in keeping one’s sanity.
- leftover Flex Dollars will earn you friends as well as a huge bag of candy at the end of the semester.
- noodles with shredded cheese on them are the food of the gods.
- spaghetti is pretty awesome, too.
- college drama is even more ridiculous than high school drama.
- late night discussions with Sean over MSN Messenger are worth staying up until 4 AM, even when you have class at 8:30 the next morning.
- in heaven there is no beer. Thus explaining why we drink it here.
- Karmic debt can be repaid in worrying about how the universe will make you repay your karmic debt.
- I still suck at Flash.
- fall semesters are substantially worse for your morale than spring semesters.
- everybody needs an Orgy Couch.
- zeppelins are hilarious.
- midnight runs to Shari’s are made of win.
- Sean is not allowed to wear socks (another long story).
- clown music, funny as it may be, is not suitable for concert band.
- drawing naughty pictures is always an appropriate and productive activity, regardless of what you’re supposed to be doing at the time.
- the Clock Crew is my second family.
- finals = panic attacks.
- the progression from “box of random magnetic words” to “series of naughty phrases on the fridge” is a law of nature.
- Aaron is a robot killer.
- if you spend enough time there, the Ag Sci computer lab is like your home.
- there are few things funnier than Ballroom Blitz sung in a Scottish accent.
- Benny Lava requires a bun in order to be bitten.
- the Registrar is not to be trusted.
- apparently my dad is a good enough professor to warrant his own Facebook fan group.
- 1 + 1 = 1…in BOOOOOOOOLEAN ALGEBRA!!!!
- you should never underestimate the Papin brothers.
- mice families are hard to kill once they start to make babies in your microwave (again, a long story).
- milking he-brides is an appropriate concert band activity.
- so is doing the Macarana.
- working at the U of I is quite possibly the worst thing you can do to yourself.
- you are still forced to make collages in 300-level classes.
- you can make a “your mom” joke out of anything (e.g. “This milk is expired.” “So’s YOUR MOM!”).
- Soylent Glitter is people!
- math 143 can suck it.
- you can survive solely on instant mashed potatoes and M&Ms for at least 10 months.
- Symbolic Logic is scary as shit, but is totally worth it.
- islands sold on eBay make great conversation topics.
- Millard Fillmore = best president ever.
- I ON DA COLE TRAIN!!!!
The cylinder may have graduated, but the thermometer has many degrees
YAY GRADUATION! Again…
So today I woke up at 7:00 AM to go and graduate. And yes, they definitely make a bigger deal of it in the spring than in the fall.
They also forgot to put “summa cum laude” on my reader card (I had to write it on there) and they got my major wrong in the commencement book (they had last semester’s degree).
Let’s see, what else happened…
There was a major technical difficulty and the two front screens shorted out after about 15 minutes…Walt Minnick’s speech was the most depressing thing I’ve ever heard…people with air horns are stupid…
Also, even though there were six (I think) philosophy majors graduating, I was the only one who actually walked. This wasn’t awkward at all except for the college receptions after the main ceremony. CLASS was in the Memorial Gym, and when I went inside there were all these different signs for the different majors, under which the graduates were supposed to gather.
I was the only one under the “philosophy” sign. But it’s okay, ‘cause my mom got a picture of me giving a big thumbs up underneath the sign. And the department head came up to me—apparently I went to school with his son—and congratulated me on finishing in three years.
It was fun.
Long, but fun.
Oh, but what was really cool was that the last song I heard the band play as we were leaving the Kibbie Dome was “School’s Out for Summer.”
That’s the first song we played in band camp my first semester here.
I love you, mom!
Happy birthday!!
Also, can you make me good at math? ‘Cause I’ve got my Linear Algebra final in less than three hours.
Stats + Primes
So I finished my stats final today. The 3 questions asked resulted in 27 pages of answers, and I think I did pretty well. Here are some things on which we were tested:
- starplots
- biplots
- principle components analysis (PCA)
- exploratory factor analysis (EFA)
- computing the variance of a set of principle component scores (stupid eigenvalues)
- explaining why fitting an EFA model to original data is the same as fitting it to the standardized data
- finding the Fisher direction and standardizing it to unit length, then finding the related Fisher ratio
- finding the value of the Fisher ratio along the first PCA direction
- finding within group variance/covariance matrices
- computing posterior probabilities using the Bayes formula and the normality pdf’s.
Freaking awesome!
I think my favorite’s the non-primes.
Forget Everything You Ever Knew about Knowing!
Actually, don’t. It’s probably all still relevant anyway.
I had to write the rough draft of my Epistemology final during that week I was so sick, so the revision process was not so much a revision as it was a “let’s start from scratch” kind of thing. I’ve been working on it all day and I took like 400 shots of some energy spray thing last night just for fun (MENERGY!). Couldn’t sing in Rock Band ‘cause my voice was all shaky, but then I got a 100% on expert singing Livin’ on a Prayer and another on More Than a Feeling, so I guess shaky = good (or shaky = Bon Jovi, one of the two).
What was I doing?
Oh yeah.
So…since classes are done with and that essay is done with and I am in denial about the hell this week will be, I decided to take the night off and just dink around. During said dinking around, I decided to figure out how many pages of essays I’ve written since I started college.
Numbers are as follows:
FALL 2006
143
SPRING 2007
183
SUMMER 2007
48
FALL 2007
82
SPRING 2008
62
SUMMER 2008
52
FALL 2008
142
SPRING 2009
381
TOTAL:
1093
Let’s see…college started on August 21, 2006, which means that, counting today, I’ve been here too long 992 days. This equates to about 1.1 pages of written material a day.
It also means that about 35% of the total number of pages I’ve written in college have been written over the past 16 weeks. Scary stuff. Also, notice Spring 2008. Not too bad for a 25-credit semester, eh? Thank you, stats classes.
The Matrix
Oh GOD.
Last night I had this dream I was stuck in a 3×3 matrix and was subtracted to zero when they reduced it to echelon form.
It was scary as hell. Mainly because it was a DREAM ABOUT ALGEBRA.
I want to shoot myself.
Well this shows how much of a genius I am
So today I was in the physics/engineering building for stats, and I got there a few minutes early. I went to go get a drink of water and I got a brief glance at one of those “cover your cough” posters that are everywhere. The words looked kind of weird to me, so I thought, “oh, this must be some special mathematical puzzle one for the physics students.”
Then I realized it was just in Spanish.
Yeah, I’m a genius.
Go Go Gadget BLOG
Here are, again, a bunch of titles I give my school documents. Enjoy. Apparently titles deserve all-caps.
- “Jesus called, he wants his Hume paper back”
- “SO-SO-SO-SOCRATES!”
- “The ExistentialShamWow holds 20 times its own weight in angst”
- “DIONYSIUS, WHYYYYYYYYYYY?!?!?!”
- “PROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOF”
- “College is fun except for this Locke paper”
- “This SERIOUSLY is the intro…FINAL VERSION!!”
- “That’s no essay…it’s a space station.”
- “It’s distressing that I derive so much pleasure from titling my documents in a silly manner”
- “OHSHITOHSHITOHSHITOHSHITOHSHIT”
- “Where’s your gravity NOW, Newton?!”
- “OH GOD THE PAIN OF EPISTEMOLOGY”
- “My Vaio hates me”
- “WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO”
- “Locke your doors!”
- “SYMBOLIC LOGIC OH GOD NO”
- “Pantsssssssss”
- “SHAZAAM! QUINE!”
- “Pseudo-intellectual ramblings regarding philosophy and other crap that’s important”
- “IGNORE THIS IT’S POINTLESS”
- “Nietzsche can suck it, I’ve got pasta”
Why doesn’t somebody buy Godot a watch?
“The revolution almost started today, but it ceased as quickly as it began due to the discovery of the 1.3511 trillionth digit of pi—it was Three this time, and we all congratulated him for being the last in the longest string of continuous digits identified, all the while knowing full well that pi was infinite and that Three would not be the “last” digit for long—but we celebrated, as per usual, congratulating each other on being masters of the universe—jokingly, but with a hint of truth, as was the norm—letting aside for the day all the qualms with the Negatives who, having no parallel conception of pi or e or any of our other numerous (pardon the pun) successes, could not be trifled with on a day such as this; no, the revolution would start tomorrow in the celebration’s wake, the dissonant relationship between ourselves and the Negatives reemerging as the talk of the day, given fuel by our recent success, and we would again unite ourselves with the resolution to rid our ordered, rational world of our negative counterparts with the claim that they were not needed in pure mathematics—that everything could be explained and calculated using us only—and that they should be banished to another category of numbers all together, perhaps grouped with the Irrationals or the Imaginaries or even given their own category, all the while never quite realizing as a group the irony of us as Rationals acting with such blatant illogicality towards our fellow numbers.”
Our assignment for my English class today was to write a 250+ word sentence using only one semicolon (if necessary). Fairly easy ‘cause I use a lot of dashes in my sentences anyway. I think I might use this as a premise for my second long story for the class, but I’m not sure.
Progress
Yay! My degree came in the mail today!
Pic:
The cactus is right!
Guess who’s now enrolled in Intermediate Fiction?!
ME!
19 was unacceptable. Had to push it up to 22. ‘Cause I’m me and I’m weird.
Also, YAY FICTION CLASS! Tuesdays are going to be awesome, ‘cause I have concert band at 12:30 and then Fiction at 2, and then I’m done.
Best day ever.
Yay.
Edit: schedulescheduleschedule!
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