Famous Last Words: Surviving the First Week

The readings this week went well for me. I expect them to be longer next week, as they were a little bit short this week since we mostly searched through the text on our own and read an anthology to introduce us to the different types of stories. I found it easy to read like a writer, I'm not sure why that is, but I spent most of my reading time looking for things that might have been useful for writing my story.

I actually wrote my story for the week in the art building at OCCC while my daughter was on the other side of the building in her History class. I found a quiet place to sit, and just went for it. I did some minor revisions at home the next morning, but I was able to write easily there. I think this is good information, as I will be able to make good use of the two days a week I need to hang out and wait for her. On Tuesdays she has to go to her school library and wait an extra hour for me. I'm hoping she either learns to use the time well, or it makes her want to work harder at learning to drive, because at this point she really has very little interest in it. It makes our schedules a little more complicated, but we are finding ways to make it work the best we can for now.

Since blog comments aren't open yet until Tuesday and I'm way ahead, I haven't really looked at anyone else's writing yet. I'm looking forward to looking at some of the story posts next week when I work on the comments. I spent some time doing a little extra credit today, partly because I just didn't want to do the reading for my other class. Since I'll be doing that all day tomorrow, I figured I should fit in some extra credit today. I really had fun doing the Wikipedia Trail.

My other classes are all going to be somewhat challenging this semester. I am taking advanced personality, my psychology capstone, and working in the personality lab on campus for credit. Those classes are all with the same teacher, and all very discussion based or hands on. Something they have in common with this class is that there are no quizzes or tests. Not at all, in any of my classes this semester. It feels weird to think about, but it's also sort of cool that I'll be mostly graded on my own thoughts, with a presentation and a couple of papers thrown in there. And I'll be doing an internship for my capstone class, and working in a research lab. So I will be working more than studying I think. It will definitely be a different kind of semester for me.

Next week I'm looking forward to new readings and more research for my project. In my other classes I hope to survive getting used to class discussions, and I will learn more about my internship. The lab I will be working for should be having a first meeting to talk about what we will be doing this semester as well.

(Photo from my personal collection. Mario helping with my assignments.)