Blog 75- letter to English 110 student

Dear English 110 student for Winter 2011,

I have definitely developed as a writer throughout this entire quarter. I feel that I was pushed way over my limit but I think that was a good thing because I learned how to become a better writer. At first when I came into this class and found out the theme the class was going to be structured around was science fiction I was really bummed out because I’m not a fan of science fiction. I have to admit that I did not like every show we watched in class; some were better than others. I would suggest that you go into this class with an open mind because that will definitely help you to succeed. After learning the theme, I had somewhat of an open mind and that kind of made writing papers for this class more difficult because my mind was not completely open. I feel as though if you have a completely open mind to everything that deals with science fiction in this class, you will be a successful writer. I also recommend that you go to the Writing Center. Those tutors really helped me out into thinking differently about subjects for my papers. I would also recommend that you schedule your appointments with the writing center a week in advance because they get booked up pretty fast. Good luck with this class and I hope that it pushes you just as it did for me.

With love,

English 110 student from Autumn 2010

Blog 74- science fiction

When we first started this English class I was not excited at all about how the topic of this class was going to be about science fiction; I was not a fan at all about science fiction. I thought it was kind of ridiculous that our class was going to be based on science fiction because for those of us who do not like science fiction, like me for instance, I thought that it was a bit unfair. I thought the English 110.01 was going to be just basic English as we learned throughout high school. I thought we would get to choose our topics and decide for ourselves what we wanted to learn about. I did not think that our papers were going to be based on science fiction television shows that we watched in and outside of class. I have to say that after watching Firefly, it is not that bad of a series. I definitely would not have ever chosen to watch it on my own but since it was required for this class I thought I should just give it a shot. So that’s why I decided to watch more episodes for my ARP paper. After watching more episodes, I decided that you could almost relate anything to this series if you really tried and worked hard at it. I have to say that I liked Caprica better than BSG. I thought that Caprica kept my attention better and that I could easily relate to that plot better than that of BSG.

Blog 73

Today’s going to be kind of a busy day! I have some studying to do but I think that I’m going to mostly revise my papers today and start studying for my Spanish final that’s on Monday. My roommates and I are also looking at some apartments today sort of as a little study break. I really hope we can finally find an apartment so I’m not homeless for next school year! The other two girls, that I’m living with next year, and I will be so excited if something works out with an apartment today because all of the other apartments we’ve looked at have not worked out, unfortunately. Then my one roommate and I are going to go ice-skating later with a bunch of our friends. It’s at the OSU ice rink so we thought that could be another little study break later tonight. It will be a fun study break because I haven’t been ice-skating in so long. I used to go in middle school to the Chiller on Friday nights for “Friday Night Melt Down”. Those were so fun because all of my friends went. After ice-skating, I’ll probably come home and study for a little bit more then my roommate and I are going to make hot chocolate and watch a Christmas movie. I love watching Christmas movies and drinking hot chocolate! I absolutely love this time of year! My mom told me that it’s supposed to snow a lot today/tonight. I hope it does because fresh snow is so pretty!

Blog 72

So today I woke up and ate some Reese’s Puffs for breakfast. I was running late to math so I hurried at ate my bowl of cereal. Then I went to my last math lecture of the quarter and was actually surprised that I understood most of what my lecturer talked about today. That math lecture was my last class of the quarter too! It’s weird to think that next week we don’t have classes, just finals. I still think that I have classes next week. It hasn’t hit me yet that I will be on winter break next Thursday. I’m kind of upset that I have a final on Thursday because I have one on Monday too. I wish I could move my math final to Monday but my lecturer said that there was absolutely no way that anyone could move there final, that we had to take the final on our scheduled exam times. I just wish that I didn’t have to wait around from my Spanish final on Monday to my math final on Thursday. So after math, I had to make my Big’s present for her because I’m giving it to her tonight! I decided to make her a tie blanket because it’s really easy to make and it’s really not that expensive. I got her a baby blue and white plaid pattern on one side and the other side is white. I wanted to get baby blue instead of white but Jo Ann’s didn’t have the right color of blue.

Blog 71- Caprica

The show we watched in class today was very odd. I was extremely confused because I thought it was supposed to be a mini series, but I guess it wasn’t? I’m not really sure. I was also confused because I didn’t know if this was like the second episode of a mini series or if it was a movie or what. I liked this show much better than BSG I’ll have to admit. I thought it was much more intriguing and kept my attention better than BSG. I did not like how Ben was the terrorist who blew up the subway thing. I really thought he was a good kid and would go with Zoe to “happiness”. I was kind of expecting him to do something though because when Zoe was talking to him the whole time on the bus he was sweating and had an expressionless face. But I was not expecting him to bomb the whole bus! That was really unexpected. I felt really bad for Zoe’s mom because I really feel she regretted slapping Zoe in the face. I really feel that she truly regretted doing that when Zoe passed away. I cannot believe her dad did that move when he was in the club with Lacy. I did not realize that he would do that. I thought that when he was hugging her that he would be happy to see her but obviously he wasn’t since he basically “killed” her with his flash drive. It was very odd.

Blog 70

So today was such a good day today! I got my final back final back from Food Science and Technology and I got an 86 so I got and 88 in the class which is a B+. Thank goodness because I am so excited because I have one final down now and only two to go. I only have to finish revising my ARP and CP papers for English and I think that I pretty much have my CP done. The ARP is going to be harder I feel like because it’s longer and a harder topic. So tonight I’ve been working on my paddle for my Big in Kappa. I think it’s going to be super cute. It’s the colors of Kappa; dark blue and light blue. But there are a lot of different dark and light blues. Then I put the K’s and the gamma on the paddle in a medium blue. I also put a fleur de lis on it with a big diamond on it. I also put a key and a “Big Sis” on it since the paddle is for my Big. I cannot wait to give it to her and see her face when she gets it. I also get a paddle from my Big. The paddle I made my Big is a little paddle since it’s from me (I’m her little). The paddle I will be getting is going to be a bigger paddle since she is my Big. I get to give it to her on Saturday and I’m so excited!