Why does it have to be cold?!
February 6th, 2009 • chatter
It’s been cold all week, comparatively. Sunday was nice, sunny, and in the 80s. On Monday, it plunged down to the mid 40s. Very annoying when I have to ride home from class at 10PM and the wind blow straight through my gloves. Needless to say, it hasn’t been a fun week to ride the motorcycle. I wanted to go down to Keys this weekend for some camping and fishing but that’s going to be a terrible idea. The one time I could really use the sleeping bag I bought for my birthday and returned because I got too hot in it. Now if we went, I’d freeze. This probably means no fishing this weekend as well. I moved down here to avoid the cold and now it’s the coldest winter I can remember since I moved down almost six years ago.
Fishing was probably out of the question anyway as I have a 5 page paper to write and I’ve been majorly procrastinating on it. The essay question is pretty ambitious from Professor Keshodkar given that it’s more fitting for a final paper rather than a first paper. It’s not that big of a deal but I have a feeling that many people won’t be getting the grades they’re expecting, based on how they were sweating bibliographies and citations. I’m surprised that he used such a general yet deep question for this paper. It should be interesting how I’m going to pull resources for “Is there a universal religion?”.
Overall, school’s going fine but my Music Appreciation class is a huge waste of time so far. The professor tries to make the class very interesting and interactive but since most of the students are freshmen, they’re more interested in looking cool and talking amongst themselves or screwing off on Facebook. When I was a freshman, I don’t remember doing that at all, even though it was nearly 10 years ago. If this was high school, I could understand this level of disrespect but these kids are paying a good bit of money to come to class and ultimately do nothing. Kind of like the kid who comes in, plugs in his laptop, pops on his iPod, and plays on his laptop the entire time. For all I know, he’s playing an MMO or something. I know he’s never heard anything Professor Joella has said so I don’t know what he expects to get from the class. It’s going to be hilarious when these kids get to 4000 level classes and much of their grade is based on participation and they fail. Or they have to cram for everything because they never listened or came to class and end up on academic probation. Ah well, their loss, not mine.
It’s about 2AM and I need to get to bed. Thankfully, it’s FRIDAY.