Today is Thanksgiving day. After driving three hours home, I arrive at my Mamaw's (grandmother's) house. I had planned on going to my home, where my father, stepmother, and brothers live. However, they are busy and left to go to my stepmother's side of the family for lunch. Am I the only one that thinks they are rude? I am their only daughter, who barely ever gets to come home to visit, and they just leave right before I get home. Plus, it's Thanksgiving, geez.
Anyways, me and my Mamaw are the only ones here at the moment. We are supposed to be eating here at 4:00pm. Therefore, everyone will probaby arrive around 4:30pm and act as if they are on time.
I'm very bored. I picked at some of the food that is already prepared, so I'm not hungry anymore. I checked my emails and looked at my grades just because I was trying to occupy my time. My Mamaw decided she wanted to do some ironing while the turkey finishes cooking. So, I figured right now is the perfect time to write my final blog post.
I have never had a blog nor did I really even know what a blog was until this semester.
Hold that thought.
I find it very annoying for everyone to send out mass text messages about Thanksgiving. I am pretty sure everyone knows that today is Thanksgiving, so there is no need to send a text message to every contact in your phone saying, "Happy Thanksgiving!" I have received at least twenty of the exact same mass text messages so far today. It is really annoying. Stop it.
Okay, back to what I was saying. The whole blog thing is actually kind of nice. I have never been one to keep a diary or anything like that. However, I have always enjoyed writing. Especially if I am writing about a topic that partains to me, or writing about myself and my experiences. English has always been my favorite subject, so I do well in it because I enjoy it. I am not a big fan of reading and memorizing, but writing comes rather natural to me.
I am pretty busy with a lot of different things so I am not sure if I will continue blogging immediately after this class is over. But, I am definitely not hanging up my hat as a blogger for good. I hope to make time for another blog in the future. Not only do I want to be an English professor, I want to be a writer so I think that blogging will do nothing but help me find ways to develop my ideas and thoughts in order to successfully write longer works one day.
I recently re-read all of the posts I have written in my blog this semester and it was very pleasant to relive those memories for a short moment. Even though some of the blogs were about an unpleasant experience, it is easier to laugh at my struggles now instead of at the time they had happened.
For now, I am done blogging and I hope everyone that has read my posts have enjoyed.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Registering for Classes
It is that time of the semester again. And just about any student at MTSU would vouch for me when I say that registering for classes is a pain in the ass every single time. First, I have to meet with my old advisor just to tell her I am changing my major. Then, I have to wait nearly a week and a half to get a response email from my new advisor, so I can set up an appointment time to meet with her. I made my appointment for a time that I could go directly after class and not worry about being late. So, I get to the McFarland building ten minutes before my scheduled appointment time. Before I knew it, it had became twenty minutes AFTER my appointment time and my advisor was no where to be found. I was not very happy. Why make an appointment if the person you are meeting with does not keep that time available for you? That makes no sense to me. However, I seemed to be patiently waiting even though I was slowly beginning to fume inside from anger. Thiry minutes after my appointment, my advisor walks out and casually calls my time. She does not even mention the fact that she was thirty minutes late. Can I get an apology or something? Apparently not. I decided to disregard her lack of respect for my precious time and change my attitude into a seemingly delightful one.
We decided on which classes I needed to be registered in for the upcoming Spring 2012 semester and I left her office. She had given me the time for my availability to register on Pipeline, so I was excited for that date to come.
November 17 at 1:00pm was my time to register. At 12:30pm, I was wasting time on Facebook and Twitter until the clock struck 1 o'clock. Finally, 1 o'clock arrives and to my dismay, Pipeline is not working. I am sarcastic when I say that this is a shocker, because this exact problem happens to me every semester. I immediately become irritated and begin to be very dramatic. After a short temper tantrum, I shut down the computer, and made myself some macaroni and cheese. My roommates witnessed my dramatic act of frustration and invited me to watch the movie "Dear John" with them, because they had just rented it. I ate and watched the movie. Then, I did some laundry and went to the gym. It was now 7:00pm and I had decided to give Pipeline another shot.
Pipeline was up and running! I did not get a few classes that I needed, but I will hopefully be able to get into those classes after the purge day.
The moral of the story is when your advisor sucks, everything else sucks. Also, registering for classes sucks, and Pipeline sucks. I love Middle Tennessee State University, but every semester I want to pull my hair out after dealing with my advisors and Pipeline. Get it together, MTSU.
We decided on which classes I needed to be registered in for the upcoming Spring 2012 semester and I left her office. She had given me the time for my availability to register on Pipeline, so I was excited for that date to come.
November 17 at 1:00pm was my time to register. At 12:30pm, I was wasting time on Facebook and Twitter until the clock struck 1 o'clock. Finally, 1 o'clock arrives and to my dismay, Pipeline is not working. I am sarcastic when I say that this is a shocker, because this exact problem happens to me every semester. I immediately become irritated and begin to be very dramatic. After a short temper tantrum, I shut down the computer, and made myself some macaroni and cheese. My roommates witnessed my dramatic act of frustration and invited me to watch the movie "Dear John" with them, because they had just rented it. I ate and watched the movie. Then, I did some laundry and went to the gym. It was now 7:00pm and I had decided to give Pipeline another shot.
Pipeline was up and running! I did not get a few classes that I needed, but I will hopefully be able to get into those classes after the purge day.
The moral of the story is when your advisor sucks, everything else sucks. Also, registering for classes sucks, and Pipeline sucks. I love Middle Tennessee State University, but every semester I want to pull my hair out after dealing with my advisors and Pipeline. Get it together, MTSU.
Monday, November 14, 2011
The End of the Semester
The end of my Fall 2011 semester cannot come quickly enough. I am tired of writing essays, sick of taking quizzes, over staying up late while trying to study, and I'm just over school altogether. I will never drop out of school, but I definitely would have to consider a few different things if it were not for the breaks we get. I'm very happy that MTSU gives us almost a month for Christmas break. I remember thinking the two week break we got for Christmas in high school was extremely long. This upcoming break is exactly what I need to recooperate for my Spring 2012 semester. However, I have learned a lot this semester. I have grown up and started being more responsible. I pay my own bills, live on my own, work at least 30 hours a week while being a full time student, and I have somewhat of a social life. I have finally decided on a major. I had a hard time making a concrete decision on what I wanted to do with my life. Finally, I decided that I want to be a college English professor. I feel as if English is my best subject, and I definitely think I will be a good college professor. I also made the relationship with my dad a better one. We have not always seen eye to eye on certain subjects, but my new found maturity has allowed for a healthy, blossoming father-daughter relationship.
This semester has really made me realize that hard work truly pays off. I have also realized that whatever effort I put into something, is in direct correlation with what reward I will get out of it in the end. I used to half-ass a lot of aspects of my life, including school work. I am so happy that I have now grown up enough to put aside all of the parties and superficial characteristics of the normal college life.
As this semester comes to an anticipated end, I want to make sure I finish out strong. I want to make sure that I do not miss anymore classes. I want to ace all of my finals. I also want to continue to balance school, work, and my social life. So, hopefully my new habits will come with me into Spring 2012 semester and all of the rest of my college career. The combination of all of my classes this semester have helped me firm my decision of finally choosing a major course of study. As a sophomore, I feel like I was late choosing what I wanted to do after college, I just really wanted to make sure I chose something that I will enjoy for many, many years as a career after college. Choosing a major that I am very happy with is definitely my biggest accomplishment this semester. I hope that everyone does not put off big decisions as much as I do, because procrastination can make life for college students, and anyone at all, very stressful. Do not procrastinate.
This semester has really made me realize that hard work truly pays off. I have also realized that whatever effort I put into something, is in direct correlation with what reward I will get out of it in the end. I used to half-ass a lot of aspects of my life, including school work. I am so happy that I have now grown up enough to put aside all of the parties and superficial characteristics of the normal college life.
As this semester comes to an anticipated end, I want to make sure I finish out strong. I want to make sure that I do not miss anymore classes. I want to ace all of my finals. I also want to continue to balance school, work, and my social life. So, hopefully my new habits will come with me into Spring 2012 semester and all of the rest of my college career. The combination of all of my classes this semester have helped me firm my decision of finally choosing a major course of study. As a sophomore, I feel like I was late choosing what I wanted to do after college, I just really wanted to make sure I chose something that I will enjoy for many, many years as a career after college. Choosing a major that I am very happy with is definitely my biggest accomplishment this semester. I hope that everyone does not put off big decisions as much as I do, because procrastination can make life for college students, and anyone at all, very stressful. Do not procrastinate.
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