Category Archives: school

I’m coming up on the end of my AA degree, a nominally-two year process that will have stretched out for three years by the end of it. I have good reason for this. If I’d started off with a full … Continue reading →

So, Tuesday, in the space of about 60 seconds, I found out way more about a Japanese classmate’s vocabulary, fetishes, and imagination than I ever expected to. See, we were covering a new grammar point, basically “Have you, in the … Continue reading →

Nine hours being the amount of time that today’s Geology homework took, and this actually being the quickest all term that I’ve finished my week’s homework in the course.  I started at noon, as usual, and I’m actually going to … Continue reading →

Got up this morning a little after seven, went to work, worked a full day, went to school for an appointment with my advisor to make sure I’m on track to graduate in the spring.  Finished going over what credits … Continue reading →

OK. So I took an online chemistry course last term and it was an exercise in frustration, not the least because the instructor took his own bloody sweet time about getting our assignments graded. Put this way:  During the course … Continue reading →

Back in high school, I was an unabashed science geek. The requirements for graduation were, I think, 6 terms of science. I took 24. Chemistry, Biology, Physics, assorted applied sciences… I was pretty damn nerdy. So I didn’t expect a … Continue reading →

School is done for the term, so I have a blissful couple of weeks where, instead of juggling homework + Japanese studying + work, I just have to worry about work. My  last final – and it was quite a … Continue reading →

And then I hated “The Purple Rose of Cairo” which I saw after I was told “Oh, Last Action Hero was just a rip off! You should see the original!” And now I have found a new level of hate … Continue reading →

My statistics class is the single strangest math class I’ve ever been in.  Day one of class, we all got put in to little 4-person groups and we’ve been doing 90% of our work in these little 4-person groups.  The … Continue reading →