8th day o' school

My seventh day of community college was a snow day for me and Max. My best day of community college ever!

Here is my recap of my eighth day:

English:

I turned in my paper draft of my example essay, and am eager to see what my grade will be.
We started discussing our next paper, a narrative, descriptive essay. I'm thinking about writing about the
first twenty-four hours of Jason's cancer diagnosis, but I'm not sure, if I'm ready to start to digging at that wide open wound, yet. I do like how our professor told us we could not write about the birth of babies, or our graduation day. I can't imagine what is has to be like to be her. Just to sit and devote at least a half a day to reading so many clunk-il-ly written papers. It's a struggle sometimes to read good writing, much less developing writing.

Algebra:

We got our first tests back, and I got a 95%! We were given an additional 5 points because our instructor was unable to display the information through our blackboard program. The couple of errors that I made were just stupid little ones, like leaving off a negative sign, or basic arithmetic. At least I'm getting the gist, I just need to be more careful with the details.


Oral Comm:

I got an A- on my first test. We broke into groups in order to discuss our next presentation. Me and my group of four are doing a version of "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?", and are to engage our audience with some of the terms we have learned about perception. I really hope me and my community college oral comm class are smarter than fifth graders, but that remains to be seen until Tuesday. I should bring Max in to assist.

Media:

I turned in my 3 page paper on "How I am Perceived In My Race." My introduction started: "I am a wonder bread, honky, poppin' fresh, uncle daddy, vanilla, mayonnaise mama. At least, according to the Racial Slur Data Base (www.rsdb.org)."...and it went on and on from there. RSDB is really one of the worst sites in the world. There are over 2000 slurs, and it just keeps growing. It really is amazing how stupid we people is.
This class wasn't as much fun as normal, as we just went over terms from the first chapter. Oh well, can't be a party all the time.