D'Izzy Words

This week, which is the official midterms week for my college, is a little less daunting, though I still have a lot of reading to do, and of course tons of papers/assignments due the week after fall break. Oh, fall break, you double-edged sword.

Monday, Oct. 4
1. English Quiz #3

Tuesday, Oct. 5
1. Comp Sci paper
2. Comp Sci reading quiz

Thursday, Oct. 7
1. Personality Psych Paper #1 due

Friday, Oct. 8
1. Anthro lab quiz (osteology) Canceled!!!

I'm also contemplating what to wear for Halloween this year, if anything at all. My two close female friends are going away for a conference that weekend (BOO). However my boyfriend's coming up that weekend! I'm so excited and awed that he actually asked more than a month in advance if he could come. (With his jobs and all, sometimes he needs to work weekends, depending on scheduling.) It is not often someone will make plans at least a month in advance to spend time with me. ♥ Well, unless plane tickets are involved, but even then it's usually me flying to visit them.

I may see if there's time enough during fall break to go costume hunting. I wasn't really anybody proper last weekend. People's comments ranged. I may just wear my old Ren Faire costume again. I may try to put together some kind of Wednesday Addams costume. :P I saw it last fall break in a store, but the smallest they had then was Small and it didn't fit well. Online it seems XS is available, but I don't know if I want to try and hope for the best fit. Especially considering the look of the costume. I already have a short-ish black skirt (the one I wore to the Fetish Ball in April) - all I'd need are the striped stockings and a black-and-white school-girl like blouse. Or maybe I'll do some kind of dichotomous costume... Matt went as Dexter last year. Inventive and resourceful guy he is.

I have to finish H.G. Wells's The Time Machine for tomorrow. It's a short book, novella, what have you. 96 pages, excluding the introduction, preface, notes, appendix and additional readings. I'm still having a hard time getting into it. I suppose it's the style of writing. I always have a hard time getting into a book where it's noticeable the story is recounted through someone else. Like in Shelley's Frankenstein, too. Through the letters, and the stories within stories. Hopefully when the Time Traveller goes to the future, that type of narrative style will end. It always makes me feel removed from the grit and meat of the story and I feel like I'm not...allowed? to be pulled in because the author consciously chose to put those layers between me and the story. If that makes sense.

Besides just the normal daily readings, here are things that need to be turned in, or exams/tests/quizzes I will be taking.

Thursday, Sept 23
1. Personality Psych Exam #1
2. Reading quiz for comp sci

Friday, Sept. 24
1. Final paper project topic for Visual Perception and Art

Monday, Sept. 27
1. Anthro Exam #1
2. English Quiz #2
3. Visual Perception and Art Psych Presentation

Thursday, Sept. 30
1. Comp Sci reading quiz

Friday, Oct. 1
1. English Paper #1 due
2. Visual Perception and Art Psych Exam #2
3. Refinement of final paper project topic for Visual Perception and Art

Monday, Oct. 4
1. English Quiz #3

Tuesday, Oct. 5
1. Comp Sci paper
2. Comp Sci reading quiz

Thursday, Oct. 7
1. Personality Psych Paper #1 due

Friday, Oct. 8
1. Anthro lab quiz (osteology) Canceled!!

Mmm. Helps me see it all listed on one sheet, instead of various pages of my planner...

This week, I have to

pack up the apartment

watch several DVD's I have overdue (due last Friday, and I can't renew them. The fine is $1.00/each/day and they count Sunday as a day despite the library being closed then) -> visit the public library

visit the post office to send off international post cards and a confirmed delivery envelope

visit the bank

try to squeeze in a/several workouts

email a professor about setting up meetings discussing being my duties of being her TA

visit a friend Wednesday evening

decide which photos to upload on Facebook and actually do it

update friends on the Disney trip through email/LJ-IJ entries/FB messages

clean the apartment

and

move out Saturday with a spic and span apartment and back into my dorm room

I feel so scattered.

Don't belong in a 5-in-1 gratitude post! It deserves one of its own!

Got the email yesterday officially letting me know I made the Dean's List for Spring 2010! At my college, it's a term GPA of 3.4 and above (with no incompletes) to count. I did get a Spring GPA of 4.0 but this whole Dean's List thing is still so new to me I get chills and big smiles everytime I get notified I made it!

YAAAY!

Under the LJ-cut are the notes I took from Crazy Love, in case anybody's interested in personality disorders

 

( Notes, Cluster A and B )

I cannot wait until my class next semester! Also, sorry for the formatting. It's copy-and-paste from Word.

With my finals. My hand was really cramped after writing the two essays for my Memory & Cognition Final. They were worth 35 points each, and multiple choice questions were worth 30 points (15 with 2 pts each).

I've got 20 hours to pack up my room and do laundry.

I guess I'm not sleeping tonight...

Though I really must watch Glee tonight, just to relax, and to actually watch it on TV, not on Hulu like a busy college kid. :P

One more to go, due in 23 hours!

One more exam to do! In less than 4 full days!

And stupid packing to do!

We found out our classes yesterday! I'm so happy! I got every first pick I had, included one that was 20 people over subscribed! Woohoo!

Here's my schedule!

Monday, Wednesday, Friday
8:00-9:50am: The Human Animal (Anthro)
10:00-11:05am: Science Fiction: Past and Present (English)
1:30-2:35pm: Visual Perception and Art (Psych)


Tuesday, Thursday
10:00-11:50am: Personality Psychology (Psych)
1:00-1:50pm: Great Ideas in Computer Science (Comp Sci)

TA for Introduction to Psychology (TTH 12:00pm-12:50pm)
Possibly also for Life-Span Developmental Psychology (TTH 7:10pm-9:00pm)

( Class descriptions! )

Tuesday night this email conversation occurred between the professor I worked with for my cognitive science major proposal and me:

From: my professor
Date: Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:15 PM
To: me

I can't believe I forgot to email you yesterday!  Congratulations,
Cognitive Scientist! :)

From: me
Date: Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:26 PM
To: my professor

What?? WHAT, seriously??? OHMYGOD YES!!!! OHMYGOD!!!! YAY!!!!!

From: my professor
Date: Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:30 PM
To: me

Haha, I thought Ann had already told you! I told her she should send
the official notice to you and that I would just congratulate you
after the fact.  I figured she would have told you by now.  I would
have sent a more informative notice if I had known you still didn't
get the word!

Yes- the committee approved your major, and you will be Beloit's very
first Cognitive Science major :)  Ann will probably be sending you an
official notice at some point soon :)

I didn't say anything on LiveJournal/InsaneJournal because I didn't want to put it as a gratitude until I got the official notification from Ann (Dean of College). Then Wednesday morning another IDST committee person congratulated and I was going "Thanks, but I still haven't heard from Ann!"

So I sucked it up yesterday afternoon and emailed Ann, asking about the congratulations and all that, and she said an email to me was on her to-do list and she'll cc the registrar, too.

( 42 minutes ago, look what popped up in my inbox!! )

YES!! I am officially, officially a cognitive science major!!

Wisconsin lost.

So decisively.

87-69.

To Cornell University.

Frickin' Ivy League school.

Michigan St. managed to squeak by a victory by Maryland, 85-83. It was so close in the end. I'm glad! I have a friend who goes to MSU, so yay! Celebration time! (We bonded last spring over MSU and the NCAA, too, besides other things.)

Georgia Tech lost to Ohio State, though. :-(

I tend to choose teams by associations I have with them. Either direct ones or by my friends'/family. *laughs* That's why I chose Wisconsin (seeing as how my college is in Wisconsin and I've visited Madison, WI a few times), MSU and Georgia Tech (Farah and Garrett used to live in Georgia, and a former boyfriend's cousin goes there now).

If there are no associations with teams playing one another I just choose randomly or try to go for upsets.  Of the remaining games today I'm hoping Pittsburgh wins against Xavier (only cause a high school friend went to UPenn (and a few other middle school friends to Penn St.) which is at least the same state as Pittsburgh), West Virginia against Missouri (for this one W. Virginia was just a random choice), California over Duke (I know Duke is the no. 1 seed in South Regionals and California is an 8th seed, but I want an upset today, besides Cornell wining over Wisconsin. An 12th seed beating a 4th seed. GRRR!) and Purdue over Texas A&M (I'm choosing Purdue cause I almost applied there for my undergrad degree!)

Otherwise, I'm just reading for my psych and philosophy classes. :D