i've been contemplating teach for america for the past year, ever since my eds 201 class taught by two doctoral candidates. one of them had just returned from doing tfa in baltimore and she always raved about what a great experience it was and how much she felt she had impacted the lives of her kids. i was never really sure if it was for me but i ( Read more... )

please note that the previous entry's references to my depression are in regards to high school. i am nowhere near depressed right now! i am very happy! haha.

man. for my going mad in america class, or as i call it, my madness class, we have to make online posts of our thoughts on the reading for the previous night. i posted this really long thing last night about depression and how far down it goes and how suicide is the only logical way out for someone in that much pain and anyone who doesn't agree has ( Read more... )

so i tutored darren as usual today and then a new girl, leila, who lives 5 minutes down the road from him with a mcdonald's on the way. GLORIOUS. i ended up staying at leila's house for a half hour after tutoring was done just talking to her parents. turns out her dad went to oxford! and emory of course, but oxford is always a more interesting ( Read more... )

i edited the novel a little yesterday. only for about ten minutes but it was a good ten minutes. i need to do that more often. because looking at it, i realize it's workable. it's not that bad of a story. there are all these connections and weird twists and i could make something out of them. if i actually sat down to do it and focused ( Read more... )

i can't believe i did all my sociology homework last night. read and outlined the two hardass articles and then wrote the stupid paper on my motivations for taking the class. it felt SO GOOD to finish my homework. that's the second time i've done that this semester so far and i am not sure if i ever did it last semester. it's a great feeling. ( Read more... )

so some insurance companies did a study and found that the astrological sign that gets in the most car accidents a year is.... LIBRAS. haha, that explains EVERYTHING ( Read more... )

today i had my other three classes, one of which i'm dropping right now. comparative education. professor sucked. class description sucked. it was much more work than it let on and it seems like a writing requirement, even though it isn't. there were many oxfordians in there but none who were my friends. however, if i plan on passing my other ( Read more... )

so benjamin reiss is a funny man. he is my professor for lit and psych: on going mad in america. first class was today. it's a class of 25. and i counted 15 people that i knew. 10 people who are actually my friends. so that's awesome. there are several writing center kids who i'm close to, two oxford girls i'm close to (miss liz and meryl), and ( Read more... )

so dating is weird. haven't been on the dating scene in a long time because i am a relationship kind of girl. last night's boy, or i guess man, was 27. born in 1979. insane. too old. he didn't like football and he doesn't follow music. he plays in a band and all that but doesn't follow mainstream stuff. and the football thing? fuck that. we'll see ( Read more... )