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Name: Olivia
Country: United States
State: Mississippi
Metro: Jackson
Birthday: 6/24/1987
Gender: Female
Interests: God, my sweetie Charles, theatre, good books, nerdy stuff in general
Expertise: Charles (I think...). Eating. Dealing with rowdy "academically gifted" children. Being me & living for GOD
Occupation: Student, Camp Counselor, Mento
Industry: Education/Research
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AIM:  onlitec62487
Member Since:
5/13/2005
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| Everybody left me here alone on xanga...guess this is it for xanga...it's been fun ya'll!
Much love!
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| So up until tonight, I thought it might be possible to graduate in December '08, provided that I took a few classes in the summer. I talked with the undergrad. coordinator on Thursday to double check some transfer credits that weren't showing up like they should have, and was assured that they would appear shortly. So I thought everything was good, and I was on track to possibly graduate early.
Then I started doing the math. 124 required hours to graduate; I have 39 hours worth of required classes left. That was definitely possible between now and next December.
But:
124 required hours - 72 hours I'll have after this semester - 39 more required hours to go = 13 more hours.
Where the heck am I supposed to find another 13 hours worth of classes to take???
And I really don't think it's possible to get 52 more semester hours in 2 full semesters and a summer.
This is annoying. I'm looking at having to add another semester (which won't really be another semester...it would be my 8th semester) just to take 13 hours of random electives. Yuck.
I'm not happy. 
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| So I'm feeling absolutely NO love from my xanga friends. What's wrong with you people?
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| Long time no post...so here goes! Classes are all going well...you'll all be happy to know that, for the first time in my college career, I'm completely and totally caught up in ALL my reading! It's pretty exciting. I'm actually managing my time well, for once, and have come to a pivotal realization: if I manage my time well, and make full use of the "free time" that I have, I will wind up with even MORE free time! And life will just be much easier in general. It makes me happy. Charles and I went on our first real "date" in Hattiesburg last night. It was awesome...roses, dinner at Olive Garden, and then "Becoming Jane" at The Grand. Such a bittersweet movie. Apparently somebody went to the security people at the movie theater about us though...he had his arm around me, which translated to, "we've received a complaint about you being in his lap and inappropriate, so if you can't behave, we'll have to ask you to leave." In our 5.5+ years of movie-going together, we have NEVER been complained about. And no, I most certainly was not in his lap, nor were we being inappropriate. It was pretty funny. My AIM is still screwy at my apt., and I can't seem to figure out how to fix it. I miss all my friends!! | | |
| Classes started Wednesday. I'm lucky enough to only have one class on MWF, so the only class I got to go to was French 1. My instructor is VERY French...she's only been in the USA for 3 years, and has been teaching French for 2 of them. I think I'll like it...the book package was expensive ($278), but it will last me for 4 semesters, so I guess it averages out to be ok. Thursday was when the real work started. Four classes between 8 am. and 5:05...and all 4 held the class the entire time. Here's a little recap, for anyone interested... - World Civ 1 shouldn't be too bad. The prof. is nice, and seems like he really wants us to do well. Three exams, including the final, and a relatively short paper on a novel we'll read outside of class. Not too big of a deal, I don't think.
- American Lit 1...LOVE the prof. Dr. Weinaeur (prounounced wine-our) is awesome. It'll be challenging though...7 novels, including Uncle Tom's Cabin, which we'll read in 2 weeks in October--it's 640 pages long. Reading-heavy, but I'm pretty sure I'll enjoy the class.
- Analysis of Lit looks like it will keep me busy. I have to reread Frankenstein (guess I deserve it, right Caitlin?
 ), and then there's a small (but expensive!) textbook. Lots of 2-3 page papers, and my prof is quite a hippie, I think, but I like analyzing, so we'll see. - Intro to Children's Lit is gonna be lots of fun. 13 novels, but they'll all be fairly easy reads. Looks like a pretty substantial final paper, but I'm not totally sure. It'll be a challenge, but quite a welcome one.
So, to sum it all up...3 textbooks, 2 workbooks/readers, and 22 substantial novels in 17 weeks. I'm going to have to discipline myself SOOOOOO much this semster...but I'm really excited about it.  And if you read this far, thank you! Cool points for you! | | |
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