by Tori M.
5. November 2009 02:03
Tonight was such a good night. As a die hard Yankee fan I got to watch my beloved team win their 27th World Series Championship! It’s just such a great feeling to be a winner again, what will also be amazing is Friday. That’s right, I’m heading off to NYC bright and early Friday morning to the parade. I mean we’re so close, just a train ride away, it would be a sin not to go. I know I shouldn’t be skipping class, but this kind of opportunity hasn’t happened in almost a decade, so I think it’s my duty as a Yankee fan to watch the players take the trip up the Canyon of Heroes.
So besides being consumed with the World Series for the past week, I’ve also been consumed with sickness, bronchitis to be exact. It really sucks. I’ve been in bed resting and trying to go to my classes. I’m starting to feel better and tomorrow is my last day on the antibiotics so I should be fine for Friday :-)
While I was confined to my bed I was determined to be very productive, and even managed to get half of the things I wanted done. I planned out my schedule for next semester, which I’ve heard a lot of people complaining about, but I found really easy. I went to http://soc.ess.rutgers.edu and clicked on the schedule planner, and it let me pick all the classes I wanted to take, and built schedules around them. To decide what courses I wanted to take I went to degree navigator, rate my professor, and the schedule of classes. I switched between all three screens, when I found a class I was interested in I made sure it fulfilled one of my requirements for SAS, my major, or minors. Then I looked the professor up, I won’t take a class if the professor doesn’t have good feedback. After that I go to my planner and add the class, and I have a schedule. When you’re done and registration period begins, you just hit the “register for classes” link, and you’re done. I manage to have the perfect schedule, I’m so excited. I don’t have a class before 11 and have no classes on Friday, it’s amazing. It’s not even like I’m slacking either, I’m still taking 6 classes. I just can’t believe I’m already registering for classes.
Over the last week I’ve gained a very large beef with Rutgers, one that many people have, and there’s nothing I can do about it. Rutgers restricts the amount of bandwidth that each dorm resident is allowed to use to just under 5,000MB. Coming in I thought that was a lot and because I wasn’t a gamer or someone who downloaded a ton of stuff I didn’t really think it would affect me. I learned that it really does affect me because it’s so easy to burn through that usage. Let me put it this way, to download an episode of House take 1,000MB which is more than 1/5 of my usage. My average skype call is about 80MB and I skype more than once a day so that over 1,000MB a week. Watching Gossip girl is 200MB, downloading the new Taylor Swift album is 600MB. I also watch about two shows a day on Hulu, because I have night classes so I watch the shows from last night, that’s around 400MB a day. And then I’m left sitting here, wondering where all of my internet usage went. I just find it difficult to understand that I pay so much for tuition and I can’t have enough internet to watch some TV, download a little music, and video chat my best friend. I’ve asked all of my friends if their schools limit their internet usage and none of them could even comprehend that mine is. So Rutgers I ask you this, why can’t you find me enough internet and not let the system get run down when every other school can? Okay, rant over.
Okay now it’s time to talk about expos, every freshman’s favorite topic. I just finished my rough draft for my fourth paper, which means there’s only one more to go. The class itself isn’t that hard. As a college freshman one should be able to write a five page paper pretty easily, especially when you get two chances and peer editing to do it. So the class is pretty easy, it’s just the basis of the class I don’t like. I’m a strong believer that reading good writing is one of the best ways to become a better writing, and even according to my teacher, what we are reading is not good writing. Also every paper is the same, we have the same format, the same ideas, the same type of writing. As a student I don’t feel like I’ve learned anything from the class, I have a formula for the papers and just insert my ideas into the paper and out comes a good grade. That’s not what writing is about, and while right now I’m guaranteed at least a B+ in the class, I have not learned to write better at all. I just feel like there is a better way to have an English class. Okay rant over.
Well now that I’ve ranted about the two things that have really been bothering me perhaps it’s time for some more happy thoughts. I’ve learned the art of napping, which is possibly the most important skill for a college student. If you happen to be able to see the time that I’m posting this, you can tell that sleeping doesn’t really occur, so napping is important. As I told you before I have at least a B+ in expos, which is good. I actually have at least a B+ in all of my classes, except this one evil Friday class that I tend not to go to. Which leads me into another point that seems obvious, go to class, it’s an easy way to bump up your grade.
Okay as the clock ticks later and later, and I go through more and more songs on my iTunes I feel like it is time to finally go to sleep. Thanks for listening to my many thoughts tonight!
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