FINALS WEEK. OH BOY!

(Funny story, I had this ready to post on Saturday night, but the snowstorm knocked out our internet, so I couldn’t do much of anything. Here’s hoping it still gets a decent grade. Fingers crossed.)

This semester actually hasn’t been too bad for finals week. I have a PowerPoint due in my Introduction to Technical Writing class about the data I collected for my Final Report, which wasn’t really that hard. I did procrastinate on that one, eventually finishing it about two hours after the class where it was due. I presented it to the teacher for revision in class, though, so the late submittal was fine.

I just have a reflection due in Educating Exceptional Students, and we’re going to spend the finals time updating our efolios, so that’ll be fun. I believe the reflection statement needs to be on the pajama drive we did that’s in the newsletter. I think it’s on Effective Citizenship.

I believe that the only thing I have due in Introduction to Education is a revised form of a previous assignment, along with a reflection statement concerning Communication, I think.

For the final in Psych 250, we have a group presentation on the Maori for New Zealand and their cultural rituals from birth to death. It’s boring as balls, but it has to be done. Here’s hoping I don’t screw up too bad on that one.

The one that’s really twerking my buns is the Comm 200 portfolio. I’ve got the notes we took in class on what all is supposed to be included in the portfolio, but I’m still having trouble figuring out what all is due and how it should be organized. I believe that there is a reflection statement due with every one of the seven sections, and I believe that I have everything but those reflection statements done, but it’s wacking my gasket trying to put everything together into a cohesive whole.

Overall, though, I think I’m in a good place for the finals. Here’s hoping I can keep the ship above water.

This Week: SNOW. SO MUCH SNOW.

The assigned topic this week was the recent snowstorm. I don't like snow. I don't like cold. Some would ask: "Why Robert, if you don't like snow or the cold, what are you doing in North Dakota?" To which I would respond: "I ask myself that same question." I awoke the morning it started (Tuesday or Wednesday, I forget) with an omen of bad portents. I showered, thinking that the floor was kinda cold, got something to eat, and got ready for class without once looking in a window. I got in my car in the garage, opened the door, and backed out INTO A GODDAMN WINTER WONDERLAND.








Like this, but with more rage and cursing.

Now, as I've already established, I don't like snow. I don't like winter. I think that the only time that snow is appropriate is from the hours of 4pm to midnight on Christmas Eve. Before or after that, snow is a nuisance. It makes otherwise rational people drive like complete morons. If someone is driving a 2-ton death machine near me, I don't want ANYTHING impairing their limited ability.



Like this, but with more rage and cursing.

I've heard so many people start conversations this week with "isn't that snow great?" and I have to refrain from screaming at the top of my lungs: "NO. NOT AT ALL." This much snow might be the polar opposite (see what I did there?) of great. It is the antithesis of great. If this storm and a similar volume of essence of great were to come into contact, they would both be annihilated in an antimatter reaction. That is how not great this snowstorm was.

In conclusion, f*ck snow. That is all.