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Jan. 12th, 2006 07:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ruHoly FRIGMUFFIN. Whoever said that the last stretch of the race is the hardest was not kidding. Well, maybe not in the sense of "OMG! The end is near! Oh this is so hard because I can see the end!", but in the sense of "SHIT how the hell did I end up with this much work?!?"
As if I wasn't the past seven semesters, I'm going to be a busy little bee this last one. I suspect I'll be spending a lot of time in the herbarium and in the library measuring plants and/or researching.
Oh, that reminds me. Something I found insanely cool today was that one of the samples I've got for my senior project is a dried vine clipping, complete with hand-written label and whatnot, from 1798. I KID YOU NOT. It's a piece of vine that's over 200 years old, and is still hanging around. Cool? Very cool.
But anyway, getting back on topic, among other things I have to do this semester is write several papers for ancient/medieval history, do my senior project, do my honors project for anc/med history(because I'm tired of writing it all out XD), and lead a discussion on exotic/invasive speces for my grad level class. I am just a liiiiiiittle bit intimidated by this prospect. Not only am I the only undergrad in the class, but I have to get viable research papers together, and actually lead a discussion? Gods. I'm worried that I'm going to get up there, and no matter what I bring forth, they'll be going "Yeah. Know that already. Know that too." and so on. I think I may be spending a lot of time talking with the instructors beforehand so I can get together something that's actually worthwhile. Le sigh.
I don't seem to have a lot of exams this semester. Instead, I have a lot of projects, a fair number of assignments I have to get done for each week, and a frickin' monkeyload of reading. So yeah. Hopefully I won't drop from exhaustion before the end of the semester. All this week I've been driving something along the lines of 7TH GEAR RUN RUN RUN sleep 7TH GEAR RUN RUN RUN sleep. Maybe it'll get better once the semester falls into a more stable pattern.
Oh, one other thing I have to complain about. My dear school? As much as I love you and all, your administration has serious problems. ENOUGH with the construction already!! They've gone seriously rennovation happy, and it's driving me CRAZY. It feels like I go to school at a construction site. Everywhere I look, construction. Construction on the buildings, construction on the sidewalks, construction on the roads, construction on what is probably the main conduit of the school and is the easiest way to get from one side of the railroad tracks that run through the campus to the other. Because that's closed, I have to go all the way over to the side tunnel and double back in order to get to the gym in the afternoons. That's only one course correction I have to make. They seem to be doing construction(and have subsequently blocked off) every single walkway that has any resemblance of being convenient. On Mondays and Wednesdays I have to make something like four course corrections in order to get to my class because everything's blocked off.
And no wonder people think that the school doesn't look good. The whole place is a rat's maze of wire fencing and coverings and the sound of power tools fills the air with a lovely cacophony and whole building sections are shut down and blocked off and there's construction equipment everywhere and have I mentioned that you can't walk anywhere without seeing construction and GOD DAMN IT OPEN UP MY WALKWAYS AGAIN. ARGH.
I'm fine. Really. Just a little peeved at what they've been doing to my school. Just once I'd like to have a semester where the school looks nice and pristine, and with the sudden explosion of rennovations, things have come to a head.
As if I wasn't the past seven semesters, I'm going to be a busy little bee this last one. I suspect I'll be spending a lot of time in the herbarium and in the library measuring plants and/or researching.
Oh, that reminds me. Something I found insanely cool today was that one of the samples I've got for my senior project is a dried vine clipping, complete with hand-written label and whatnot, from 1798. I KID YOU NOT. It's a piece of vine that's over 200 years old, and is still hanging around. Cool? Very cool.
But anyway, getting back on topic, among other things I have to do this semester is write several papers for ancient/medieval history, do my senior project, do my honors project for anc/med history(because I'm tired of writing it all out XD), and lead a discussion on exotic/invasive speces for my grad level class. I am just a liiiiiiittle bit intimidated by this prospect. Not only am I the only undergrad in the class, but I have to get viable research papers together, and actually lead a discussion? Gods. I'm worried that I'm going to get up there, and no matter what I bring forth, they'll be going "Yeah. Know that already. Know that too." and so on. I think I may be spending a lot of time talking with the instructors beforehand so I can get together something that's actually worthwhile. Le sigh.
I don't seem to have a lot of exams this semester. Instead, I have a lot of projects, a fair number of assignments I have to get done for each week, and a frickin' monkeyload of reading. So yeah. Hopefully I won't drop from exhaustion before the end of the semester. All this week I've been driving something along the lines of 7TH GEAR RUN RUN RUN sleep 7TH GEAR RUN RUN RUN sleep. Maybe it'll get better once the semester falls into a more stable pattern.
Oh, one other thing I have to complain about. My dear school? As much as I love you and all, your administration has serious problems. ENOUGH with the construction already!! They've gone seriously rennovation happy, and it's driving me CRAZY. It feels like I go to school at a construction site. Everywhere I look, construction. Construction on the buildings, construction on the sidewalks, construction on the roads, construction on what is probably the main conduit of the school and is the easiest way to get from one side of the railroad tracks that run through the campus to the other. Because that's closed, I have to go all the way over to the side tunnel and double back in order to get to the gym in the afternoons. That's only one course correction I have to make. They seem to be doing construction(and have subsequently blocked off) every single walkway that has any resemblance of being convenient. On Mondays and Wednesdays I have to make something like four course corrections in order to get to my class because everything's blocked off.
And no wonder people think that the school doesn't look good. The whole place is a rat's maze of wire fencing and coverings and the sound of power tools fills the air with a lovely cacophony and whole building sections are shut down and blocked off and there's construction equipment everywhere and have I mentioned that you can't walk anywhere without seeing construction and GOD DAMN IT OPEN UP MY WALKWAYS AGAIN. ARGH.
I'm fine. Really. Just a little peeved at what they've been doing to my school. Just once I'd like to have a semester where the school looks nice and pristine, and with the sudden explosion of rennovations, things have come to a head.