Day 13 o' school

English Comp:

We turned in our essays today. As I turned in my paper, she handed me a contract for the honor's program. Wow, it's so very official looking, like mortgage paperwork or something. We then went over our third essay which will be a comparison/contrast paper. I had asked her if I could turn in a paper that I had all ready wrote for another class. She said as long as it met her specifications, it would be fine. So I may just tweak and turn in my paper on THe Daily Show and NBC Nightly News. I'm trying to figure out what to write about for this honor's paper. Maybe our surrogacy experience, or how Starbucks went to, over, and around the moon and stars for us with Jason's illness.

Algebra:

I got a 93 on my test. There were eight of the tests lying on the table by the entrance, and mine was swimming in a pile of papers with nothing higher than a 58%, so that made me feel pretty good. I was a little late getting into class, since one of my classmates asked me if he could "check his answers". This new street term or "cred" that I have now learned really means copy your work, as there were no "answers" on his blank pages. He actually took a phone photo of my cumulative review. It was all so very Watergate just for 20 points. Now I have to change my route from getting to English to Algebra, so I can dodge this guy in the halls.

Oral Comm:

Today we worked more on our group project. One of our members was not there, and that's a shame, because she was really good on our last presentation. We have it narrowed down to three topics: Food, Entertainment, and Health. Now we need to hammer down six objects that will need to go into our time capsule. I'm about ready to put "the mouth of Golem" in our capsule, just for shuttin' up purposes.

Media:

This was doozy. We finished the rest of our gender movie. Before it even got started, "Steel Trap" was asking if they are working on something that could be shot into gays and lesbians to "fix" them. She actually said she viewed them all as mutants like X-men. Unbelievable. The professor actually had to explain to her that X-men aren't real. And her retort was people with seven fingers are mutants just like gays. The rest of the documentary went on about other cultures and genders, such at the Thai ladyboys, and hishra's of India. This group of youngin's was just coming undone over this. Our professor came down pretty hard on them for not taking it seriously. She told them there was no point in them even showing up to school if they weren't there to learn, and they were not going to get anywhere in the world, with their little St. Louis mentalities, when there is a world of over a thousand cultures. Man, I like her.