In my American Theater class, we learn about how theater reflects modern life. Arthur Miller's The Crucible, for example, can be seen as an allegory to the Red Scare, while Susan Glaspell's Trifles is an obvious statement on women. Instead of going into a more "practical" field of study, I chose theater for the main reason. I love it. I am glad that reading these plays touches on the human condition, and teaches us about life rather than blood cells. Again, I don't ever dare to knock those that are studying biology or anything else, because I know that it is damn hard and rewarding. I just chose to stick with political science and theater because those are the two topics that I am very passionate about. I don't believe in slaving away at something that doesn't bring me joy, so I had to do what was right for me. I believe the best people in any field are those that clearly enjoy what they are doing.

Studying

Schedule and a bunch of other books and all...

FINALS WEEK!!!!

Finals weeks is here and the sleep has left. I have been living in the library so far finishing up all my homework, studying for finals, and trying to catch up on these blogs. Why did I wait 'till now to finish them??!! I'm such a procrastinator and it's REALLY bad. Coffee and energy drinks are going to be my best friends this week. Can't wait until finals week is over and I can start my summer vacation!!! Puerto Rico and Florida here I come! I already have my tickets. :-) The library has been packed with students every night so everyone is getting there work done and studying. This is no joke. School is sooo not cool. Thank God for Bagels and a Whole 'lot More on 347 so that we can get breakfast at 4 in the morning. yayyy

Studying

The worst part of studying is trying to concentrate. I mean everything works out perfectly for like the first hour or so but after that its jus trying to ignore the fact that it’s nice and sunny outside and no matter how beautiful it is I have to study for my finals. I just keep telling myself that I have one more week until summer vacation. Yayyy! And then summer class  isnt life great!

Time

Is there anything more valuable than time? I have been sitting in my office for five hours now, and while I've gotten a lot of blog posts done, I can't help but feel like I've wasted a lot of time sitting down. It makes me feel so unproductive to just sit down staring at a computer all day. If I added up all the hours I spend each week doing this, the number would be depressing. It is my goal to be active at least an hour a day. I'm officially off work and now I can get back to studying! (yay)

Wasted Opportunity

I had all day free yesterday so why didn't I do anything productive? Did I somehow forget that it was Finals Week? I must have because I got next to nothing done studying wise. I did however sleep too much, eat too much, and watch too much television. Today shall be different. I am finishing my blog posts come hell or high water, and will immerse myself in Foreign Policy. I have a review session to attend tomorrow and will be studying my butt off until Thursday, which is my first final! I will get this done! I will not only do an okay job, I will do an excellent job on all of my finals! I have to strive toward perfection if I want to have any chance at getting there. I may have had a late start, but I will still make the finish line.

oh no!

oh no, oh no, too little time left...must study, i hope i do well this term. I tried really hard. I worked really hard. Lets go FINALS! I know I can do this! MOTIVATE YOURSELF!!

must be focused....

These two weeks I must be focused. In fact, ALL of must be focused...this is an important two weeks for us! We must motivate ourselves to study and force ourselves to stay awake longer than our body can handle...lets hope we all survive after these two weeks. GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE!!!

Why am I so bad at studying?

I have 3 tests this week. One in sociology, one in astronomy and one in math. My sociology test is later today. I have been sitting here looking over notes for the past hour, and I realized that I am so bad at studying! I hate doing it! I have a roommate who is in the library 90% of the time and it seems like she's always studying and always got work to do. Don't get me wrong - I too, always have some sort of work to do, but when it comes to studying I just can't do it. I sit there and I re-read notes and I look over practice questions and I do all this stuff, but sometimes I feel like it doesn't help at all. This may just be my studying tactics. My best way to study is to teach people, but I'm not going to give my friends a lesson in scoiology, astronomy or math anytime soon, because I'm guaranteeing they'll stop listening after 10mins of me talking. I just know that I 100% dislike studying and I'm so bad at it. It's hard for me to stay focused on re-reading the things that I wrote no more than a week ago. I know what I wrote - it's just whether I remember what I wrote when it comes down to test-taking time. Anyway - I guess we'll find out later....