YEah i know i was gone frome blogging. btu i have an excuse. 1) i forgot about wednesdays post and 2) i had finals at school. Anyway, i'm bakc now and this may or may not be myh last post here before i go to Greece for an Earlhma May Term on the 17th.
That actually seques us into the intro section, so here we go.
The "Intro" Section
Ok, so as youj probably know i'm studying abroad in Greece for 3ish weeks through earlham We'll be traveling all around and given the irregulairty of potential connectivity to the internet and the fact that my laptop is nto exactly light means i wont be taking it. So yea, i'll be handwriting the essays and quizes. fun! ugh. Anyway, thats not to say i wont be on this blog. In fact, this page may get more traffic as this;ll be the main way i update everyone whenever i cna get to and internet cafe. so yea. if i dont get to post agian before i leave on the 17th, then look for the "Greece Trip 2010 update" posts beginning shortly thereafter. i'll update as often as i can with the trip schedule, work and such.
now on the heart of the post:
the "Meat and Potatoes" section
So its been a while since i've posted, and i'll be mroe rgular with these soon. anyway, i'm home for the summer now, so you're probably wondering what the last few days of class went and such. Well, they were fun, anticlimactic. studied my butt off for the last human dev test and yea. Friday the 3oth was fun and chill after my last class and Saturdya and sunday i some preliminary studying while working on hte take home part of my lit final Monday and tuesday i did the greece orientation class final and then studied my butt off for lit.
Wednesday was the lit final. Everywhere on the final exam site and on the syllabus it had said 2:30 for the exam, so thats when i showed up. but apparently the prof had said 2pm in the last class, which i has missed, so i showed up 30 minutes late. can you say awkward??? So i go up to prof, i apologize and he breifs me. I go down to the room, and get crackin on the exam. we essentially had 2 hours to write 2 theory papers taking one of a list fo theories he gave us and one fo the texts we didint do our big theory paper on. My big thoery paper had been on frankensteind so i had to wrtie on Death of a Salesman and White Tiger.
Qucik point: Why is it that every novel that has to do with India (i've read 2: life of pi and White Tiger) is so widely praised??? I didnt like life of pi, and White tiger was interesting, but not revolutionary or such other things claimed by the praise.
so my death of a salesman paper ended up being on a feminist literary theory critique of it. It was pretty good for a rushed paper, IMO. My White Tiger paper was bad though, i knew the theory i was just blanking on all the ways it applied to the novel. I'm lucky i did well on that paper.
So after that final i was done with my main classes for junior year. The past 2 years when spring semester has ended, its always been reallly bittersweet for me. I've been happy i'm done with the academic year, but i've also felt very "ok, now what?"
Wednesday evening was pretty low key and chill lots of videogaming and such. Thursday i threw out stuff i didnt need and cleaned out my room's closet and just generaly schmoozed wiht people. Friday my dad came and from 10-3:45 we boxed up my sutff and moved me out of Bundy 222 for good. It's sad to leave that room for good, i've got a lot of happy memories in that room. I've got less happy ones to, but i've definitly grown as a person in the 2 years i lived there. Onto bundy 319 in the fall.
My dad and i were done putting stuff into storage aroudn 5, so we went to his hotel, relaxed and i changed into my outfit for a dance thign that ngiht. We went to our usual mexican place up the road from Earlham for dinner and then headed over to the dance thing. it was a thign called soul to sole. its essentially just Gospel Revs and a few dacne alloy dances kciking off the commencement weekend.
YEah i know i dance, Its fun, and to be honest, i dont een realize how awkward i am wiht it until i see the footage on playback. Makes me think that my vision of myself is clouded slightly. though i do accept the fact i am awkward.
Saturday was fairly low key just getting up, eating at bob evans by the hotel for brekfast, shipping a box, going to Wallmart for a couple minor things and then heading over to commencement. I had to leave commencement at like 3:30 because Air tran moved my return flight home up a half hour, which is lame.
So to my now graduated friends who are reading this, i'm sorry i couldnt stay to see you get your diploma, but i am so very proud of all of you. Keep in touch!
the flight home was fast (thank you tailwind) and uneventful. got home saturday night, unpacked, watched house. Sunday was mothers day and my sister had to go back up to new york.
And that night i saw iron man 2. I'll post something here once my youtube video about it is up. Very good movie though, go see it.
Think thats it everyone. so until the next post, be it a bonus one or a "Greece update", rock on!
--ZB
Monday, May 10, 2010
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