Blog 75!!!!!!!

Dear English Student,

In looking back over these last few months, I can honestly say that I have learned a lot about myself as a writer.  I have never really liked to write very much, and I can honestly say that I don’t really like it a lot more now, but I am better at free writing now than I was before after writing all of these blogs.  It  wasn’t always convenient, but I think it was a small price to pay to get as much credit as we did for doing them, Leslie allowed us to make up for any poor grades we might have gotten early on in the class by giving  us credit for practice.  It wasn’t always easy keeping up with the comments after a while either, but it was interesting to learn about the people in our class. Everyone is so much more interesting after reading their thoughts, something I haven’t had a chance to learn about anyone in any of my other classes.  Watching the tv episodes were not so bad, I know I would have rather done that than read a bunch of articles, and I have been exposed to things I would have never done on my own.  I guess that is why we are here, right?  I also appreciated getting credit for rough drafts and then having the ability to improve on them, especially the big paper we had in the beginning.  Writing a few pages at a time and adding to it was not as overwhelming as it could have been.  Good luck, and just start writing!

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I think we are supposed to write about how we feel about science fiction now as opposed to how we felt about it at the beginning of the class. Well I must say that when I realized how this class was going to go, with the sci fi, I would have probably changed sections if I had known how to do it.  I have never been drawn to this genre, ever.  Then I realized that there are aspects of things that I do really like that could be considered scifi.  For instance, I have said before how much I love Avatar.  That is totally scifi.  I also have been into the Twilight movies, and there are aspects of that series that could be considered Scifi as well.  I would normally not have given these shows much of a chance, but I do like the human elements to these shows and there is much more to them than I ever gave them credit before.  If you would have told me that I could write a 7 page paper from an idea that I got from watching Firefly the first day of class, I would have thought you were crazy.  In fact, I had to take away information and ideas from that paper because I needed to narrow my topic.  I would have to say overall, I do like the genre and I will be more open minded to it in the future.  I don’t think I am a Battlestar Gallactica fan though!  

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Last blog about anything.  Wow.  That is quite something.  I think I will talk about what I want to do when I get home for break.  First, I am going to sleep for a really long time in my queen sized, comfy bed.  Everyone at my house will be at school or work so I will have the place to myself until about 3:30.  I will get up and eat junk food and watch TV for as long as I can stand it.  Then I will get cleaned up in a shower that I don’t feel like I have to wear flip flops in order to not catch some horrible fungus on my feet.  I will then go to my very own bedroom and throw stuff all over the place without worrying about it bothering anyone but me!  I will drive my car into town and get my friends and we will go to wherever we want to go, without depending on someone else for transportation or walking in the cold for blocks on end to get to where we want to go.  I will have dinner at home on real plates that doesn’t taste like plastic wrap, or isn’t from Mark Pi’s.  I will eat until I am ready to bust.  I will then ask by best friend to come over and we will watch movies and play Wii until we are so tired we can’t stand it anymore.  This will all take place in the first twenty four hours!  Thanks to everyone for making their blogs fairly entertaining over these last few months.  I feel like I have learned a lot about most all of you!  Good luck on finals!

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It was so cool to go to my last class for this quarter today.  It really felt like an accomplishment, which I know probably sounds stupid to some of you that have been in school longer than I have been.  I am really pretty proud of how things have gone my first quarter here at Ohio State.  I come from a small school in a small town.  We had AP and Honors classes, but we certainly didn’t have classes that prepared me for everything that we had to do this quarter.  I remember leaving this class the first time thinking, Blog?  I’ve heard of it, but why would I want to do that?  Why would anyone want to read anything I have to say?  I am sure you still really don’t want to read what I have to say, but I am not as self-conscious about posting things to this blog as I was in the beginning.  I had never used my credit card before, and the first time I did I was buying that Common Place publication.  Geez, that was crazy.  Then I had to download that Firefly movie, and my internet was so slow that it wouldn’t work.  I thought I was going to lose it!  Then, it all began to fall into place a little bit.  Now this is just how I felt about English, my other 3 classes each had their own challenges.  But I am leaving here with fairly decent grades this quarter, and I think I am a better person for the experience.  I know next quarter will be easier for sure.  

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Well I guess I’m supposed to blog about Caprica tonight right?  Hopefully that is right because I’m going it anyways!  So I’m not going to lie…I was completely lost the whole entire time.  I had no idea what was going on or what they were trying to do.  Why was that guy wearing black gloves and how were they going to change the world?  That girls that was her “avatar” was freaky and I felt as though she was evil…but when we got kind of to the middle I felt like the dad was.  I felt like he was only using his daughter’s creation to get ahead in his job and have technology his competitor either did have or didn’t…we never got to know!  Maybe he had it planned all along!  He just seems very sketchy to me and I don’t like him very much anymore.  I almost wanted to like rent it on hulu or something but then I remembered that I really didn’t care enough to!  I know that sounds bad but I just really don’t care for that kind of stuff.  I don’t really know what else to say about it because like I said before I was very lost during that entire thing…and it was very umm… naked!  Kind of awkward if you ask me!  I didn’t know if I should look away or what!  And how they sacrificed people, that was disgusting and I didn’t like it one bit!! That was gross, but over all I guess it wasn’t that bad.  

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Tonight started the 25 Days of Christmas on ABC family!  I’m so excited that it is December and that I will be home right now in exactly 6 days!  I can’t wait to see all of my friends again but I will miss all of my friends here too.  It is going to be weird going home for tthat long though because I have a feeling that I am going to get super bored really fast and want to come back here by Saturday.  I’m hoping that doesn’t happen though and I know I will be soooo sad when I have to leave at the beginning of January.  If I cry after 2 days, who knows how I’m going to be after like 3 weeks.  It is going to be horrible I can tell you that for sure!  I also can’t wait to sleep in my bed once again but for more than 2 nights in a row! Nothing compares to my bed at home, it is the best thing I have ever experienced and I miss it more and more every night.  Actually last night I was semi asleep and I thought I was at home in my bed and was thinking that the week went by really fast and I didn’t remember coming home, but then I woke up and I was very depressed and couldn’t go back to sleep… story of my life!!  I am counting down the hours and you better believe as soon as my last final ends my dad will be in front of my dorm ready to pack the car up with all of my clothes that must be brought home!

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Today was so dreary, I just felt like sleeping or lying around.  I had to concentrate on psych today because we have a quiz tomorrow, and even though it is only worth 8 pts., it does make me start to study early for the exams.  The bad thing is that if I don’t do well on it I start to really panic when getting ready for the exam.  You wouldn’t think that would be the case  but . . .I think psych has been a lot harder than I expected.  I took it in high school and did really well, in fact I was thinking of changing my major to psych.  After the first midterm I knew that wouldn’t be the case.  I don’t really understand how memorizing 75 vocabulary words in such a way that helps you answer multiple choice questions is really learning.  I found flashcard maker on the internet, so I just keep practicing the words using this “game” and I began doing much better on the tests.  The thing is, I don’t think I am really learning very much.  I  learned so much last year, this class not so much.  That is disappointing to me.  Now I am looking at the extra credit paper that is due on Friday, it is only half a page single spaced, and I don’t have a clue exactly what it is that they want.  Is it so difficult to explain things in straightforward English so as not to make the class any more confusing than it has already been?