Block 2

"I'll be there on Monday nine o'clock and we will see who walks the walk. No, no, I can't wait! I will be there at eight when they unlock the door."

Today was the first day of class and it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. He acknowledged that it is a lot of work, but reassured us that the chapters we will be reading are short. The longest chapter in one of our books is apparently only eight pages, so that's really good news. I'm still waiting for my books to come in the mail, though, but he promised to make copies for me if they aren't here by the end of his office hours.

As for the paper, I feel no less prepared than anyone else in the class. There are only three of us, and one of the others hasn't written anything longer than nine pages, and that was for a class last year. She's also concerned about the essay exam, but compared to the ones my adviser gives in her classes, these exams won't be too bad. I can tell this girl is worried, though, so maybe I'll see if they want to do a study group one night. She hasn't had class with either of us before and she even referred to herself as an outsider during her introduction, so we will definitely have to fix that.

Overall, I'm way less worried than I was before. And I hate to admit that the stupid honors director may have been right. But he may have been. Maybe. There are still seventeen days left of class for him to be wrong. Even worse, though, I want him to be right because I want to graduate with honors. Failure is not an option, lol.

Whew!

That better blogger thing is apparently not working out! Time for another round of catch up :D

Good News:

*My shawls were sent to their new home and the recipients loved them. It always feels good when hard work is appreciated and I know that this is definitely the case. Mom's friend was so surprised that she got a shawl, too. She and her daughter can't wait to wear them to football games.

*I made it through my first class and got an A! I have yet to hear back about whether or not I earned my honors component, but I loved the book that I had to read for it and I enjoyed writing the report. Fingers crossed that I get it, because I am SO close to graduating with honors.

*Work study is still going great and tutoring hasn't been a strain on my schedule. I was a little worried I was taking on too much, and I still might be. Which brings us to the not so good news.

Not So Good News:

*This next class might just kill me. We have sixteen days to write a twenty page paper using twenty four academic sources. I promise you that this will be the most I have written on the block schedule. It is also more pages and sources than the minimum requirements for my honors thesis. On top of this, we have to read nine chapters of leadership textbooks every night. That whole bad blogger thing is just going to get worse.

*I'm not a fan of our new honors director. Every conversation I've had with him steers back to what he wants the students to do about reviving the program. At our first council meeting he even stated that he was going to get everything organized so that if he handed it over to someone else, they wouldn't have to do so much work. Really? I can't get over feeling like he doesn't care about the students themselves, just how many he can get to sign up. And if he's already thinking about stepping down from a position he just took over, he isn't very reliable. I'm just really disappointed that out of all of the professors here, he's the one who ended up with it.

But, I saved the best for last!

BEST News:

Remember that exciting news I was going to share soon? Here it is: I am officially a sorority girl! My dream almost ten years in the making has come true, and it is even better than I could have imagined. I am now a member of Beta Sigma Phi, a non-collegiate social sorority that allows their members to stay active for life. I have a lifetime to make up for the fact that I fell in love with a school with no Greek life. My chapter, Online Kappa, is full of such wonderful women and I couldn't be prouder to call them my sisters. I can't wait for my pledge ritual so that I can wear my tiny pin at every appropriate opportunity. I've cut out fabric to make a lettered tote bag and I have more fabric waiting to be cut for a sweatshirt. I will definitely post pictures of them as soon as I'm done. In the meantime, the promise of sewing letters and completing pledge training will be a bribe to finish my school work in a timely manner. We'll see how it works, lol, but I will definitely get my school work done!