I'm so happy, today is the last day of summer term classes. I took my final for Anthropology this morning. It was so easy and almost a joke to take. I mean that whole class has been a joke. I can't even believe that it was a college level class. It felt like 7th grade science or something. Nothing about the class was hard or thought provoking. I guess taking engineering classes and math classes for 4 years has made me numb to anything that isn't math or engineering and it makes it easy. So sweet.
Tonight I have my last SOC class. I'm sort of sad about it. I really enjoyed that SOC class. It was fun, people were cool, everyone was eager to discuss whatever we were talking about(even me) and I really started to have a different view on society. But now its over and I'll probably never have a class where I constantly laugh for 2 hours straight and listen to crazy stories of people's intimate lives. Over all it was one of the most cognitively stimulating classes I've taken in college. I really never thought that I'd like the class. Especially from the first day, but I really did come to like it a lot, and now its all over. So one more night of fun and then I really need to buckle down and write my 10 page paper for the class. Its going to blow. But I suppose I don't care that much about the paper because I am taking the class pass/fail and I'm sure I'll do fine and pass the class, even without the paper probably, but I can't just not do it because it would make me feel lazy and like I failed myself in some way.
After class Tony and I are going to go back to Swartz Creek. I'm excited to get back there. See the puppy, help Ryann move to Allendale and then spend the rest of the weekend with my love. He wants to take me to see a movie on Saturday. "The Time Travelers Wife" It looks really good, but I'm pretty sure its going to be very sad. So I cant' wait to cry! haha.
I need to go gather my thoughts for my paper and start looking for some resources. Hopefully this doesn't take that long, I have to have 10 resources for this 10 page paper. SICK I will write later.
-JRA
I have a headache. I'm pretty sure its because I have done NOTHING today. I really feel alright besides that. Usually when I have a day like today, I feel all guilty about it because I didn't get anything accomplished. Well today I haven't gotten anything accomplished and I do not feel one bit ashamed about it. I'm actually happy that I didn't do much of anything today. :) I did watch some TV and laid around thinking about my paper that I have to write. However I haven't really started it, just thought about it. Perhaps I will start that tonight? Doubt it. I really need to get it done one of these days though. 10 pages is going to be pretty hard to pull out of my ass. :(
Tomorrow I'm pretty busy. I have class at 9 to 11, but I don't know if I'm going to go because its a review session. Every test we've taken in the class I've gotten far above average so I'm pretty sure I'm going to fine over all, and plus I really don't feel like this last test is going to be that hard. It does however have a pretty lengthy written essay that we have to do in class. Maybe I should put some thoughts down on paper about it. I mean seeing as the professor gave us the topic question a WEEK before the exam, I'm sure she's going to expect something sort of though out and not just thrown down when I get to class to take the test on Thursday.
See these are the things i COULD have done today, but I didn't and I don't really even feel bad about that. O well. I mean the day is pretty much over so I can't really get the time back.
I think I'm gonna go make some dinner, maybe that's why I have a headache.
later
-JRA
This week is my last week of being productive... at least being required to be productive. Please don't get me wrong, I enjoy being productive. I like getting up in the morning and making my day worth while, however I do not enjoy the productivity that I've been forced to have since June 29th. Summer term classes end on Thursday and then I am on my own until September 8th. can't wait to have some ME time and have time to actually do all the things that I've wanted to do all summer. I really can't wait to have some time to decorate my apartment. However, I have very very little money, pretty much zero dollars, to decorate this place, and every thing that I like costs a lot of money. Looks like I'll be drawing art for my walls on the free newspapers that I get in the mail and hanging them with no frames. Maybe I should just leave my walls white.
This weekend felt like summer. It was hot, we went to my grandma's for dinner, Tony and I smiled, laughed and just were excited to be in the company of each other. It felt like summer. I felt free from responsibility and over all my life felt complete. I just haven't felt like that this summer. I guess its been because I have been working, researching and taking classes. I guess that's what happens. O well. I feel better now.
Speaking of research, our project is going VERY well. We got the serial wireless transmission system to work. Its flawless and beautiful. I never thought that I would call circuit boards beautiful, but really when we saw the messages we were sending show up across the room on the VGA monitor, man that was like the highlight of my entire summer. I felt complete. I have to be the biggest nerd on the face of the plannet... or does that make me a geek? I really don't know the difference between a nerd and a geek? O well. We are now going to get the camera system to work and life should be pretty stellar from there.
I found a job that I NEED. Its working for an engineering firm in Grosse Point and they are being contracted by an automotive company(scary i know), to create a wireless camera system for back up sensors and equipment. Pretty much the same project I've been working on all summer. Its a full time position with the company and they are hiring 12 people to fill the team(all electrical engineers). The position has a very nice salary of 98 to 120K a year dependent on experience and its entry level. So while I fit EVERY aspect of this job, the position starts Immediately and I have a year before I obtain that stupid piece of paper that is my EE degree. Such is life. some day some day.
Well I suppose I am going to take a power nap before I give my tour in the 120 degree humid heat. yippie.
Later
-JRA
