D is for Demi

ANOTHER D.

ANOTHER D on a paper for advanced comp!!!!!!!! I AM LIVID. She gave us instructions, which I followed to a T, and I got a 60.

Whatever. So now I will have to work my ass off.

Here is a list of things I need to do over my fall break....

• Start my semester project that I should have been doing over the past two months... 
• Start my math project that I am dreading...
• Start my essay for Advanced Comp... UGH
• ^I have to find a preverse topic because my professor has a sick sense of humor 

And to add to the stress...

I have picked up a job... today in fact.

I signed up to be a note taker.... Basically, I go to these classes and take notes on the lecture and then upload them onto this website for the person who will be using them. 

Each class I take notes for, I get $100 at the end of the semester... I signed up for two of them.... Hopefully I can handle this... I need the money though.

I mean, I will be going to a class on Tue/Thur and I don't even have classes that day, only a lab later in the day on Thursdays. 

But the other class is during my break on MWF.

THIS IS A BETTER DEAL THOUGH...

Normally, the notetaking will take place at the beginning of the semester, not the middle of the semester... So basically I'm doing half the work for all of the cost. 

My dad says it isn't worth it, but I mean, it's free classes, and they seem interesting.

BUT, for my stress level............

UGH we will see how this goes.... 

PS... Why is it October and still 90 degrees outside?

The Sophomore Slump Is Real!

This semester has been kicking my ass. My classes are much harder than my easy breezy freshman year, and I am the biggest procrastinator. So all the posts I promised, probably won't be coming anytime soon or at all. Sorry about that, but let's get a quick update about what's going on in my life right now...

This semester I've made an abundant amount of friends for some reason, more than I did in my freshman year. I've been trying to balance my social and academic life, and it's taken a deep toll in my academic life, so this October I've been grinding my butt off trying to get my life where I want it to be.

My personal life is a mess, my social life is a mess, my academic life is a mess, and my love life is a mess. Did I forget to mention that I went on a date with someone and that since then we've been seeing each other, but then it stopped? I have been so busy, I truly forgot to answer this person and he probably assumed that I ghosted him. But I mean, if I didn't really care to keep in touch while I was busy, I don't think I was really into him at all. I think he was perfect on paper, but he has too many issues at the moment that I am not willing to deal with as I have no time for my own problems. Oh, but not to worry! Just another person to avoid on campus now!


My hardest classes I would say are math and advanced composition.

My math class is titled "College Mathematics" and it's a lie. The class is all about statistics and surveys. Life would have been so much easier with algebra and just solving for x rather than finding all this other shit out that I don't care about. Surprisingly, I am not failing the class, just passing with a solid B-.

Advanced Comp, I am taking online. It's so hard because I have all my other classes to worry about and I cannot focus on this online one. Plus the teacher grades so hard and makes us post on blackboard discussion boards multiple times each week for a grade. AND I have never ever made a D on a paper, UNTIL THIS CLASS. She basically told me I was a bad writer. IN MY LIFE, I have never been told that, I've been told the opposite.

So with that, I have come to the conclusion that all those other teachers who told my I am a great writer, were liars, or this professor knows nothing! I have chosen to believe that all the teachers who told me so, were liars. I have decided to humble myself and instead, focus on becoming a better writer--after all, the stupid me decided to major in ENGLISH, what!

Other than that... my grades are okay. They are not where I'd like them to be, but they are better than a D. I was honestly expecting to see one D, but there were none, so I'm happy about that.

And here I am editing my blog when I should be working on my paper for advanced comp that is due at midnight that I have only barely started on today....

As usual, I need to get my shit together.

First week of school..

Well technically, it wasn't the first week because it was only three days of school. But, it still was. I like all of my classes, except for my environmental science class.

My professor is SO into the involvement of the class and group work. And we have a semester-long project about how we can help the environment. Kill me now.

Granted, I am only taking this class because I need one more science class with a lab. And also, because whenever I meet Leonardo DiCaprio, I don't want to be completely unknowledgeable about the world. (That us not a word lol)

OTHER THAN THAT, I made an abundant amount of friends in my classes who constantly want to hang out. Funny since my friend described me as "the most social anti-social person" ever. Ha!

I will post more when I have time.

Summer 2016 Travels

This blog inconsistently tracks certain aspects of my life, so here is an update. Finals came faster than I thought it would. I moved back to Oklahoma for the Summer and moved completely out of my dorm. (I'll be getting a single this fall, yay!) I started working again, then I went on a week vacation to Minnesota (St. Paul & Minneapolis.) Then went back to work, then back on another vacation for the 4th of July to Chicago and Milwaukee to Lake Michigan and then back to Minnesota for a day or two to visit with family...

Now here I am off work finally writing a post for my invisible readers. Up until mid-August, I will be working as much as I can to save money for textbooks! Yikes!

But here are a few pictures from my Summer so far...

June

Okay, here we have Sencha Tea Bar. Avocado, so good. This was in Woodbury, MN. 

This is Sunfish Lake. I was here for a birthday party. A cute place to cookout, they even had volleyball nets all set up too. 

This has been on my list for a long time.... This is in St. Paul and it's F. Scott Fitzgerald's home! It's where his genius self wrote, This Side of Paradise!

It looks like one big house, but it's not. It's a bunch of town homes all lined up together. 

 July

This was taken July 3. This was in St. Louis, it was super rainy and muggy all the way up to Chicago. 

Me at The Bean! It was crowded!

July 4th at the Navy Pier! You can see all the heads, I tried to crop a lot of them out, but they wanted to be seen. The Pier was so crowded, they reached max capacity at only 7 PM!

Lake Michigan from the pier. Across on the left hand side, is Lincoln Park. 

Joyyee! (Taken July 6) In New China Town. This boba is avocado, again ;) 

As you can tell, it's my fav and Oklahoma has zero boba shops that have a good avocado.

Fire works! 

My chacos! The shore line was filled with rocks, I had to wear shoes! But the rocks were so pretty because they were perfectly round. There was also a lot of sea glass. Luckily, I had my little sister with me and she has a sharp eye. 

This is the view from above the Lake. (I don't want to give away where exactly I was, because the location was so secluded.)

I don't know whether I am in a lake or an ocean in Mexico!

Last day in Chicago (7/6 sorry pics are not ordered correctly...)and spent the day at Lincoln Park and Montrose Beach. Can I say the beach was SO crowded. 

Happy Leap Day!

LEO WON AN OSCAR. THAT'S IT. THAT'S THE POST.