Sunday, February 24, 2013

Midterms.

This picture feels very relevant right now.




That is all.
Back to studying!
Good luck to everyone else!

Saturday, February 9, 2013

Excuses, excuses.

The beauty of college is supposed to be that you have more freedom over your schedule; in the sense that showing up to class becomes "optional", depending on how you feel about your grades and overall abilities to cram. As my history professor last semester once said:
"You don't have to show up to class, but make sure the Gods of bullshit are on your side come test time."
This semester, however, I have apparently enrolled in a class where attendance is mandatory. Not to sound like I'm not a good student (I really do go to class pretty regularly), but being faced with such time constraints is something that I'm not used to nowadays and is posing a problem for me.

First of all, this class sucks. And by sucks I mean my teacher has the thickest French accent imaginable - the Graduate student who leads the discussion sections is plain rude and regularly gives me the evil eye - and the content of the class is neither Psychological or Anthropological (which is what you would expect from a PsychAnthro class), and should really have been labeled Philosophy, which is a subject I despise. 

Secondly, the day in question that I am really not wanting to show up to this class happens to be Valentine's Day next Thursday. Yes, I am "that girl" who makes her boyfriend take off work the day of some holiday or anniversary because it feels more special that way. In fact, if I was President I would most definitely declare more of the smaller holidays to be official government holidays off. But Valentine's Day is my second favorite holiday, behind Christmas of course, and I refuse to be held to such obligations like my least favorite class of the semester. 

And I know in reality I could just not show up and take a tiny hit to my grade, but the Grad Student Instructor frankly frightens me a little bit, so I am trying to come up with an "on the spot" excuse e-mail ahead of time as to why I can't be there. I've been toying back and forth with "I came down with the stomach flu" and "my car got a flat tire on the freeway this morning and I was stuck for hours!" Not sure if I should go for the dramatic effect, but anyway you get the picture. 
However it plays out I am determined to not be there, so I guess as long as I've already made up my mind there isn't too much I can worry about. And I hope the rest of you decide to ditch on Valentine's day and make the most of that beautiful Thursday! 

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