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Jun. 1st, 2002 03:08 pmSAT IIs are over!! ::dances::
my mouth tastes really bad. ugh. (I just woke up from nap.)
Anyway, I took math, which went well, I think. Math IC, that is. XD I'm too dumb for IIC as of now, but that's ok. Anyway, I omitted 6 out of 50. And I should have omitted 7 but I had so much fun doing the problem I just had to keep the answer. . . even though I realized later that I used the wrong formula. XD lol. Well, I didn't know any others, and they only had conic pyramid on the sheet! (I needed cylinder, and I can't read.)
I think I could definitely get between 30 and 35 right. More if I'm lucky.
::looks at journal:: ::frowns:: no, I didn't make it a private post. . .
hmm.
Global did not go well. ugh. It was a lot of stuff that I didn't remember, and since I didn't have a review book I had really no idea at all what was on it (the teacher didn't even know if there was a test we could take after this course) and I didn't have time to study at any rate because my teachers are assholes. ::twitches:: (really)
So I ended up guessing a lot and putting whichever answer I liked best and whatever. I didn't leave any out. . . I don't know. I don't think I did well, unless I got really lucky.
But that's ok. I'm still glad I took it.
We went to see Godot again last night. . . and we're going again this evening. Last night it was still fantastic, but they did soooo many ad libs!! It was really hysterically funny, but I think it complicated the meaning even more. I couldn't figure out what Beckett wanted to tell us and what was just them being silly. And I have difficulty understanding it to begin with. (and I want to!) I mean, normally I hate symbolism with a passion but this is kinda cool. except that I feel anyone can interpret it so that it has meaning to them, which is sorta nifty, but I feel that if Beckett had something to say, or any author in fact, they should say it outright. Because otherwise their meaning will be misunderstood (more than otherwise). I dunno. . . I think that in my opinion, clarity is one of the most important qualities of a book/play/whatever.
Ben in particular was hamming it up, which worried me a little, because not only did his character get really lost, I felt that he was stealing the show from poor Rob, who did an incredible job, and did not muck things up. There were a lot of graduates there and they tend to favor Ben, who is in choir like they all used to be. :-/ Although Rob was in some productions last year (and wonderful in those too! I love Rob! :D) so maybe that'd help. He's just a quieter person than Ben, so I hope the latter doesn't steal the show from him.
Ben did come up and scream in my face at one point. lol. They kinda brought the audience into it a little (Ben also sat on Meghan's lap! lol!) and he's kinda examining their surroundings, and as he looks around he says something along the lines of "interesting prospects!" or something, and he decided to yell it in my face. which was fun. ;)
:: how jedi are you? ::
just thought I'd stick that in.
I like that result :) Qui-Gon is cool. And sexy.
My French oral went well, I think. I'm just glad to have it over with. I don't know if I got full credit, because I tend to repeat verbs, but I know I had enough clauses--I never really blanked out.
My situations were as follows.
First, I was at the airport and my flight was delayed. This one I had trouble thinking of what to say so I babbled and stumbled a fair bit. I asked her for my money back, and she said I couldn't have anything!! :O lol. But then I totally ran out of stuff (this was my last set of 2 clauses) so I started saying that I have a meeting. . . near the airport. . . soon after I land. . . that I can't go to now. Or something like that. When I think I repeat verbs I just add random babbly clauses. (I got lucky cos I could start that with some of our cheatish clauses: Excusez-moi, madame, mais j'ai une probleme. Which is "Excuse me, ma'am, but I have a problem." Rather than going right into the real stuff.)
My second clause was that I'd just gotten back from winter vacation and was telling my French teacher about it. (I guess they want situations where you'd really have to use French, cos I don't know why I'd be telling my French teacher about my winter vacation. . .) So I said I went to London and stayed in a cheap hotel, and I saw my cousin who is named Kate (and she is) and saw some historical sites. (I didn't know how to say this so I guessed "place historique" and apparently that's correct. whoo hoo!) And then she asked me how the weather was. (I wish she'd continued to ask about my cousins, people are so much easier to talk about!!) And I told her that it was nice and I went to the park. Well, then the conversation was over, I'd gotten all my stuff, but it looked like she was going to start talking again. She said, "No, you're done, I'm just wondering what you were doing at the park in London in winter." Ack!! That's when I realized it was winter vacation. Damn. This is how bad my memory is. Anyway, I didn't lose any credit, so that's all right.
We got our teams mapped out for the faculty challenge. We have 6 teams, so poor Katie has to be a captain!! She has a bad team (in terms of people she knows) but it's actually not too bad. lol. My team is good--Me, Aron, Lee, and Adam. Yay for Aron and Adam!! And Lee is very smart. :D whew. I hope we do ok.
I'll end it here. I hope it's not too long. XP
actually, I just want to say I'm worried about my brother. he's died his hair again and is behaving rather poorly. :-/ I wish I could do something. I realized that I hardly know him!! O_O That's so upsetting! I hope nothing happens to him because of his behavior. Or actually, I hope nothing happens to him in general. Oh dear.
my mouth tastes really bad. ugh. (I just woke up from nap.)
Anyway, I took math, which went well, I think. Math IC, that is. XD I'm too dumb for IIC as of now, but that's ok. Anyway, I omitted 6 out of 50. And I should have omitted 7 but I had so much fun doing the problem I just had to keep the answer. . . even though I realized later that I used the wrong formula. XD lol. Well, I didn't know any others, and they only had conic pyramid on the sheet! (I needed cylinder, and I can't read.)
I think I could definitely get between 30 and 35 right. More if I'm lucky.
::looks at journal:: ::frowns:: no, I didn't make it a private post. . .
hmm.
Global did not go well. ugh. It was a lot of stuff that I didn't remember, and since I didn't have a review book I had really no idea at all what was on it (the teacher didn't even know if there was a test we could take after this course) and I didn't have time to study at any rate because my teachers are assholes. ::twitches:: (really)
So I ended up guessing a lot and putting whichever answer I liked best and whatever. I didn't leave any out. . . I don't know. I don't think I did well, unless I got really lucky.
But that's ok. I'm still glad I took it.
We went to see Godot again last night. . . and we're going again this evening. Last night it was still fantastic, but they did soooo many ad libs!! It was really hysterically funny, but I think it complicated the meaning even more. I couldn't figure out what Beckett wanted to tell us and what was just them being silly. And I have difficulty understanding it to begin with. (and I want to!) I mean, normally I hate symbolism with a passion but this is kinda cool. except that I feel anyone can interpret it so that it has meaning to them, which is sorta nifty, but I feel that if Beckett had something to say, or any author in fact, they should say it outright. Because otherwise their meaning will be misunderstood (more than otherwise). I dunno. . . I think that in my opinion, clarity is one of the most important qualities of a book/play/whatever.
Ben in particular was hamming it up, which worried me a little, because not only did his character get really lost, I felt that he was stealing the show from poor Rob, who did an incredible job, and did not muck things up. There were a lot of graduates there and they tend to favor Ben, who is in choir like they all used to be. :-/ Although Rob was in some productions last year (and wonderful in those too! I love Rob! :D) so maybe that'd help. He's just a quieter person than Ben, so I hope the latter doesn't steal the show from him.
Ben did come up and scream in my face at one point. lol. They kinda brought the audience into it a little (Ben also sat on Meghan's lap! lol!) and he's kinda examining their surroundings, and as he looks around he says something along the lines of "interesting prospects!" or something, and he decided to yell it in my face. which was fun. ;)
:: how jedi are you? ::
just thought I'd stick that in.
I like that result :) Qui-Gon is cool. And sexy.
My French oral went well, I think. I'm just glad to have it over with. I don't know if I got full credit, because I tend to repeat verbs, but I know I had enough clauses--I never really blanked out.
My situations were as follows.
First, I was at the airport and my flight was delayed. This one I had trouble thinking of what to say so I babbled and stumbled a fair bit. I asked her for my money back, and she said I couldn't have anything!! :O lol. But then I totally ran out of stuff (this was my last set of 2 clauses) so I started saying that I have a meeting. . . near the airport. . . soon after I land. . . that I can't go to now. Or something like that. When I think I repeat verbs I just add random babbly clauses. (I got lucky cos I could start that with some of our cheatish clauses: Excusez-moi, madame, mais j'ai une probleme. Which is "Excuse me, ma'am, but I have a problem." Rather than going right into the real stuff.)
My second clause was that I'd just gotten back from winter vacation and was telling my French teacher about it. (I guess they want situations where you'd really have to use French, cos I don't know why I'd be telling my French teacher about my winter vacation. . .) So I said I went to London and stayed in a cheap hotel, and I saw my cousin who is named Kate (and she is) and saw some historical sites. (I didn't know how to say this so I guessed "place historique" and apparently that's correct. whoo hoo!) And then she asked me how the weather was. (I wish she'd continued to ask about my cousins, people are so much easier to talk about!!) And I told her that it was nice and I went to the park. Well, then the conversation was over, I'd gotten all my stuff, but it looked like she was going to start talking again. She said, "No, you're done, I'm just wondering what you were doing at the park in London in winter." Ack!! That's when I realized it was winter vacation. Damn. This is how bad my memory is. Anyway, I didn't lose any credit, so that's all right.
We got our teams mapped out for the faculty challenge. We have 6 teams, so poor Katie has to be a captain!! She has a bad team (in terms of people she knows) but it's actually not too bad. lol. My team is good--Me, Aron, Lee, and Adam. Yay for Aron and Adam!! And Lee is very smart. :D whew. I hope we do ok.
I'll end it here. I hope it's not too long. XP
actually, I just want to say I'm worried about my brother. he's died his hair again and is behaving rather poorly. :-/ I wish I could do something. I realized that I hardly know him!! O_O That's so upsetting! I hope nothing happens to him because of his behavior. Or actually, I hope nothing happens to him in general. Oh dear.
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Date: 2002-06-01 08:49 pm (UTC)You really like going to play, huh? That's great. I don't. I'm always scared the actors are going to mess up or I'm going to laugh at the wrong thing or something. It's the same reason I can't watch the Olympics and why I'll run away when some player does something really stupid in a baseball game. (I've even been known to run out of the theater during a movie that totally embarassed the main character. I don't know, I think I have too much empathy for the characters or something, and I hate seeing actors or athletes do something wrong after all their hard work. Especially the Olympics -- it's just heartbreaking!) Well, I'm glad you enjoyed Godot. Seeing in again, wow.
Is your brother hanging with the wrong crowd or something? Do you suspect drug use? What?
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Date: 2002-06-01 08:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-06-01 09:12 pm (UTC)I get the feeling that made no sense whatsoever. lol.
Oh, I know!! I hate when people fall at the Olympics (I watch skating the most, so that's what comes to mind) I'm always so nervous watching them!! And then I feel sooo bad. I can't watch those movies where everything goes wrong and its supposed to be funny, because I feel too bad for them!
Plays I'm ok with. I worry, but the student production is a pretty friendly crowd. It's not on stage, they set up risers with chairs and everything in the cafeteria, so it's all moderately relaxed. And Erikk did a great job directing.
I did enjoy Godot. I'd actually like to read some. . . I don't know. . . literary criticism on it (!!!! agh!! there must be something wrong with me!!) and get some other people's opinions on what it means and all. (now I'm scaring myself ;)
No, I don't suspect Mike of drug use. . . but I know he drinks, and he smokes like, cigars or something. And both of those are things that I really wish he didn't do, and I never talk to him, and i have no control over him, and I hardly know him, so there's so little I can do about it. :(
I'm not sure about hanging with a bad crowd. His best friend is Matan, who I like, but I dunno. I know he's friends with some girls who I don't like, approve of, or respect, and I really really wish he wouldn't hang with them. ugh. That's another one of my major worries. But when he leaves he'll be free of them. . . I just hope he like, falls in with a good crowd. (I should look for people from Fredonia on LJ--get my spies to watch him!)
Also, lately he's had a kinda bad attitude, he keeps getting in really late, he never does any work, he wouldn't apply for the honors program at Fredonia, probably because he thinks it'd be too much work. He doesn't think about the future, you know? :-/
[note for my english paper because I just closed it and I have a terrible memory: this shows vonneguts feelings on when people place science over humanity.
I always have these ideas and forget them, so just ignore this. sorry. lol.]
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Date: 2002-06-02 06:01 am (UTC)yay for French oral! I'm sure you did fine. :)
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Date: 2002-06-02 07:00 am (UTC)I hope so :) I know I did well enough to get a good grade, even if I didn't get full credit.
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Date: 2002-06-02 12:43 pm (UTC)Literary criticism, eh? Some of it is actually fun, especially when it's on things you really like. For instance, I read litcrit of Robert A. Heinlein and Virginia Wolfe just so I know what other people think of them and their stories and styles. Sometimes you learn things you didn't get from the reading of the story or about the author and it adds a whole new demension of coolness to the story.
Good luck with your brother.
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Date: 2002-06-02 02:57 pm (UTC)yeah, that's what I'm thinking. I want to try to get something else out of this. Its difficult though. . . I don't know. I'm just rambling. (I think I jumped between two thoughts without posting the connection. . . soz ;)
thank you. I'm going to try to introduce myself to some Fredonia people on LJ and get spies ;)