Holy crap, my mind is all over the place these days!
And I know I haven't blogged on here in a while. I apologize! I've been rather busy, and haven't really felt like writing blogs (especially with all of the papers I've had to write for school)..
Where to begin.
Spring break just ended. Keeper and E. and I took a few days off and went to Madison. It was really fun to get away, and even share a childhood memory with my two favorite people in the world. :)
The second half of Spring Break was spent working. I worked a 10 hour day on Saturday, after a pretty poor night's sleep. But, on the brighter side, I also got to see my first Roller Derby bout! Keeper's parents came into town (to celebrate Keeper's mom's birthday), and took Keeper and I to the Brew City Bruisers' semi-finals at the U.S. Cellular Arena. Considering my sister also participates in Roller Derby, it was cool to see the kinds of stuff she's been doing, even though I didn't get to see her play (she's in Minnesota).
Yesterday was back to classes, and that was... well.... Hell, to put it lightly. Work was not bad, but I spent the entire time writing (yet another) a paper. the subject of this paper wasn't so bad, as it was on my best friend, Twin. This paper was for my Creative Thinking class, and I got to write a 3-5 page Creative Profile on Twin. After work, I had my Creative Thinking class, and then after that, I had my Microeconomics class. I hate that class.
I should elaborate.
I love the subject. I find economics to be quite interesting. But my professor is a JERK. With a capital J. Every class, he insists on slipping in at least one bashing comment on President Obama. On top of that, this guy has us read the text book (the text book which I actually understand), but then teaches us his own idea of what microeconomics is. He calls on students to answer his questions, but we (the students) rarely have the right answer and when we answer wrong, instead of actually teaching us, he corrects us and moves on. I'm failing to learn anything from him. All he's been able to do is fluster me. It's incredibly discouraging to be spending so much money to not learn a damn thing. And it's incredibly, incredibly frustrating to know that I'm spending so much time and money to not be learning what I should be learning, and getting punished for it in my GPA, which will affect my future job prospects. GAH! (also, I should mention that there are two professors at MSOE who teach this course, and they're both incredibly difficult.)
So. What am I doing to help myself? I'll tell you. I'm trying to continue the course. BUT, in an effort to keep an F from going on my transcripts, I'm looking at possibly taking the same course, online, at MATC over this summer. If I can swing it, I'm hoping to take the MATC course and not have to take it ever again here at MSOE. Because here, it just blows.
In other news, I've been applying for internships! I've got my first phone interview tomorrow for a part-time (school year) internship that would change into a full-time internship over the summer. I'm pretty stoked! This interview is with a company called RedPrairie, which is located out in Waukesha. I've also applied at a place called Zywave, and I'm working on applying at FIS Global. I'm pretty hopeful for these job prospects.
I think things are looking up. Keeper is working full-time now, E. is looking at getting a freelance writing gig (last I heard), and I'm hopefully getting something full-time soon also! Our cats are all doing really good, and it's spring time!
Time to go outside and do something fun!
