encroaching?
Hopefully I will produce about two and a half pages of academic material before turning in for the night, and not just keep playing my game of X-Com until I win (since I've already got flying armor, four functional bases, and am a few days away from finishing research on the first new interceptor craft less than 7 months in-game on Veteran difficulty). Problem is, X-Com is a game that addicts like few others in this world.
And here I am planning on picking up a retail copy of Laser Squad Nemesis tomorrow afternoon--when, tomorrow, I need to produce about four and a half pages of academic material (though it be more a very rough draft than a finalized paper which I must finish tonight).
Last night I went to the last play being officially produced by the school this semester--The Grapes of Wrath. It was an hour longer than any of the plays I have seen in DeKalb, but, though not without its weak-links, was a powerful show. Tom Joad was played by the good TA from my Intro to Theatre section last semester--and he demonstrated his superior ability (over the other TA and the professor). Production values were also among the most detailed I've seen in a show here, which was sadly countered by the smallest audience I've looked across my shoulder to notice.
It was after the play that I started playing X-Com again. Went to bed about 3:45am since the new roommate is at some national guard training program until Tuesday.
My desire to succeed academically this semester is wanting. I plan on finishing but three of the classes I started, and one of them is jokingly easy (which makes it even more a joke that I hear fellow classmates struggling with the material--this would be Intro Statistics). I had missed all but two days of lecture, missed two of three days of review, and still managed to score a 90% on the second exam. Test three is a week from Monday, and half the material is theoretical, with the other half using tables.
I do want to prove my best material in my 100-level Philosophy and English courses, but I have a sinking feeling that the only way I am going to feel challenged in either course is if I continue waiting until the dead last minute to write the papers the professors ask for. Which I want to change this weekend.
But instead I update a number of my own blogs, read dozens of other folks', and have yet to lift a finger toward academic writing in the last 70-some hours.
Topping things off, I have maybe 6 loads of laundry I really should get around to before it gets later tomorrow evening.
And here I am planning on picking up a retail copy of Laser Squad Nemesis tomorrow afternoon--when, tomorrow, I need to produce about four and a half pages of academic material (though it be more a very rough draft than a finalized paper which I must finish tonight).
Last night I went to the last play being officially produced by the school this semester--The Grapes of Wrath. It was an hour longer than any of the plays I have seen in DeKalb, but, though not without its weak-links, was a powerful show. Tom Joad was played by the good TA from my Intro to Theatre section last semester--and he demonstrated his superior ability (over the other TA and the professor). Production values were also among the most detailed I've seen in a show here, which was sadly countered by the smallest audience I've looked across my shoulder to notice.
It was after the play that I started playing X-Com again. Went to bed about 3:45am since the new roommate is at some national guard training program until Tuesday.
My desire to succeed academically this semester is wanting. I plan on finishing but three of the classes I started, and one of them is jokingly easy (which makes it even more a joke that I hear fellow classmates struggling with the material--this would be Intro Statistics). I had missed all but two days of lecture, missed two of three days of review, and still managed to score a 90% on the second exam. Test three is a week from Monday, and half the material is theoretical, with the other half using tables.
I do want to prove my best material in my 100-level Philosophy and English courses, but I have a sinking feeling that the only way I am going to feel challenged in either course is if I continue waiting until the dead last minute to write the papers the professors ask for. Which I want to change this weekend.
But instead I update a number of my own blogs, read dozens of other folks', and have yet to lift a finger toward academic writing in the last 70-some hours.
Topping things off, I have maybe 6 loads of laundry I really should get around to before it gets later tomorrow evening.
posted by SJ at 4/16/2005 06:44:00 PM
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