Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Some things I am thinking of doing

So...I have been a bit un-creative lately. I have been trying to get my grades up and have been trying to keep myself sane. I think my reasons for not letting my creative juices flow are just but I wish I could let them flow.

I have been having plenty of ideas on things to write and things to do so I'd like to share them and maybe I can cross them off when I accomplish them.

1. Finish the Kesler piece (a story I will eventually post here).
2. Edit The Spartan Burger (a script I wrote in High School about the Spartans and Burghermites. I will also post it here).
3. Make an Eiffel Tower out of Stride Gum wrappers (a daunting task).
4. Start a blog about my Crohn's disease (this is not really a creative thing, but more of a project of awareness) www.ccfa.org
5. Learn about photo editing so I can get better at my editing.
6. Write a short story about politicians.

I think this is it for now, but I can't be sure. I will edit this post if I discover more things I want to do.

Here are some of the pictures I have edited:





I hope you like them. I know everyone of my readers thus far is on Facebook also and has already seen these but in the hopes of future readership I will post them here as well. Maybe you will be able to see my talents progress. :D

Thanks for reading.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Recently, I was accused and "convicted" for cheating by a professor of mine. She is my Government professor and is something like a hard-assed bitch. My vulgar language is due to how stupid I think this situation is. Let me shed some light on why I think that I am not guilty.

I was doing an online quiz with a friend of mine from said Government class. On such quizzes it is common to use the book and any other resources you may find helpful, this goes for any class. We were in the midst of a quiz when she came down to the room we were in and proceeded to at least sound like she was joking in saying that we were cheating. We thought she was joking and proceeded with the quiz as they are timed. When we finished we went to her class and she told the class that "two students" had been cheating on the quizzes and that she was going to change how she administered the quizzes. She then proceeds to give us zeros on that quiz and that drops my grade to a 70. I cannot, as I have explained before, get below a 80 in any of my classes and so this pissed me off especially considering that I did not think that I was cheating.

I sent her an email saying that I did not believe I had been cheating and that she should have thoroughly given her definition of cheating in the syllabus because I felt as though I had been misinformed.

She tells me that I am "getting an attitude with her" and that the quizzes should be done using only the brain to take them and that they are a test of your knowledge. She refuses to outline her definition of cheating, which I thought a very reasonable request, and I feel that leaves us in the dark as to what she expects form us on these quizzes.

Basically, this class is hell and I would not recommend it to my worst enemy.

Do not, I repeat, do not take a class with Gretchen Lockett. EVER.