Unit 9

I have to admit that I am actually kind of sad that this term is coming to an end. At the same time, I am excited because I am one step closer to finishing. I really enjoyed my classes this term and was surprised at how much I liked this class. Usually, I hate English classes. When I was at Purdue, I dropped a couple of them. I know that wasn't the smartest choice but they were always SOOOOO boring and I just felt I was wasting my time. I know writing is an important skill to have and this class actually made it bearable. I feel much more confident in my abilities and don't mind the APA citations nearly as much as before. I wish I could have more professors like Julie. I am not trying to be a brown noser but just stating the truth. I think it is important for a person to enjoy their job as she seems to. I loved having someone that was encouraging and participated so much in the discussion. The contributions she made to my paper were great. It was a completely different experience than my comp professor last term. I would email her at the beginning of the week and not hear back til the end of the week. She was always complaining about being so busy and having too many papers to grade and really didn't seem to care about teaching at all. Seminars were terribly boring. I was really dreading this course and it turned out to be great. Thank you all for that. I hope to see some of you in my future classes.

Unit 8

Wow. What a week I have had. Or more accurately, what a year it's been. Things have been crazy lately and I feel like I have been struggling to keep up. I have been working a lot this term and I can really tell the difference when it comes to finishing my school work. I have an 'A' in both my classes right now, and hopefully it will stay that way over the next few weeks. I am a little worried about keeping my grade in my nutritional planning class because we have a final exam that might be difficult. I need to figure out a better schedule for completing my work next term because right now I struggle every week to get everything finished and I can never seem to get my DB posts in by Saturday. I work in the afternoons and am home with my daughter during the day. I usually don't get home from work until 10 and am too tired to do schoolwork. I also work wed-sunday so monday and tuesday are my main days to get things done. I will not be keeping this blog after class is over because I am more of a private journal type of person. Not really one to air all my laundry on the net although it has been a good place for me to vent about my crazy life.

UNIT 7

Peer reviews...hmmm. Well I don't have a problem having my work reviewed by my peers, actually I welcome any advice I can get because lord knows I can use it. Reviewing my peers papers, however, not my favorite way to spend my time. I try to provide as much useful praise and criticism as I can, but I just feel like I am not the best person for the job. Who am I to tell them what to do? Oh well, I will just do my best and that's all I can do I guess:)

I just finished my rough draft! Now you might not find that as exciting as I do but I am so excited because until seminar last night I did not realize it was due today. I don't know where my head was this week but for some reason I just thought we had to turn in an outline. So I stayed up late last night and went at it again this morning and I finally finished. I still have a ways to go until I am happy with it but I think I got a pretty good start for my "rough" draft. It wasn't too hard to write because I had a decent start with prewriting and research. Plus the topic of sex ed really interests me. I just can't understand why we're still teaching abstinence-only programs in our school when it has been proven that they don't work. Let's give our kids an education. You wouldn't give someone a loaded gun but not teach them how to use it safely. Same concept here. Luckily, sex ed is starting to undergo some changes under the Obama administration. Well I think that's all for now because my child is screaming in my ear because I won't let her "type"