Ealain

This semester I decided to take a class called Fairy Tales. I did this because I like them, and I thought “oh cool.” However, what I didn’t realize, was that there were many books that analyze fairy tales and that the alleged meanings were…quite interesting. Amanda originally convinced me to take the class and, knowing her, I’m starting to wonder if she knew ahead of time what fairy tales really mean. In a previous post Rilla wanted to know what we actually did in this class.

Well, for our midterm, we had to write fairy tale. Sounds fun, however, it had to keep to the form of a Grimms fairy tale as laid out by two texts we had to read that analyzed fairy tales. Then, we had to write an analysis of the fairy tale that we wrote. Hear that? An analytical essay analyzing and picking apart your own writing. Needless to say, this fairy tale isn’t what I would normally write and, when I did write it, I was not putting these meanings in there because I believe its what they mean. It’s what my mind has been warped into having to think. O_O

You can read my tale here. It’s called “Weeping Willow”. And you can read the analysis below.

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My life, the first half of the semester:
also known as “when I thought it couldn’t get worse”

Monday: read 30 pages, go to class
Tuesday: read 50 pages on Hitler
Wednesday: ready 50 pages on Hitler, go to class
Thursday: read 30 pages, go to class, read 100 pages
Friday: go to class
Saturday: work
Sunday: work
repeat

My life, second half of the semester (so far):
also known as “when I realized I was wrong”

Monday: read 30 pages, write article, go to class
Tuesday: read 50 pages
Wednesday: read 50 pages, go to class
Thursday: read 30 pages, go to class, read 100 pages, write essay
Friday: go to class
Saturday: work
Sunday: work
Monday: read 30 pages, go to class
Tuesday: re-read (well, skim) 700 pages, study for exam
Wednesday: re-go through powerpoints, take pages of notes, go to class, take midterm
Thursday (today): read 30 pages, go to class, blog this

Second half of the semester (from now on):
also known as “internet withdrawal”

Thursday (today): read 100 pages
Friday: go to class, work on a take-home midterm (first half aka multiple choice)
Saturday: work, work on take-home midterm (short answer)
Sunday: work, work on take-home midterm (short answer), write article
Monday: read 30 pages, go to class (take-home midterm due)
Tuesday: read 50 pages, work on analysis essay
Wednesday: read 50 pages, go to class
Thursday: read 30 pages, go to class, read 100 pages, finish analysis
Friday: go to class, read 30 pages
Saturday: work, write article
Sunday: work
Monday: finish reading 30 pages that didn’t finish friday, go to class
Tuesday: read 50 pages
Wednesday: read 50 pages, go to class, work on oral presentation for friday
Thursday: read 30 pages, go to class, read 100 pages
Friday: go to class, work on educational psycology essay
Saturday: work
Sunday: work; anniversary of day my mom died
Monday: woo-hoo, no class (veteran’s day observed); spend all day on essay
Tuesday: read 50 pages, work on essay
Wednesday: read 50 pages, go to class, finish essay
Thursday: read 30 pages, go to class, read 100 pages
Friday: go to class, read 30 pages
Saturday: work, write article
Sunday: work
Monday: go to class
Tuesday: read 50 pages, work on Holocaust essay
Wednesday: read 50 pages, go to class
Thurs: Thanksgiving! No Class! work on Holocaust essay
Friday: Day after Thanksgiving! No class! work on Holocaust essay, read 30 pages
Saturday: work, write article
Sunday: work
Monday: go to class, work on holocaust essay
Tuesday: read 50 pages, finish Holocaust essay
Wednesday: read 50 pages, go to class, work on take-home final, work on lit essay
Thursday: go to class, read 100 pages, work on lit essay
Friday: go to class (lit essay due), work on take-home final
Saturday: work, work on take-home final
Sunday: work
Monday: go to class (take-home final due)
Tuesday: read 50 pages, study for final on Hitler
Wednesday: read 50 pages, go to class, study for final on hitler
Thursday: No Class! School appointed study holiday! study for final on hitler, read 100 pages
Friday: go to class, study for hitler final
Saturday: work, read 30 pages
Sunday: work
Monday: go to class, study for hitler final
Tuesday: study for hitler final
Wednesday: study for education psychology final, go to class for hitler final
Thursday: study for education psychology final, go to class for ed.psych. final, study for lit. final
Friday: go to class for lit final
Saturday: work
Sunday: work
Monday: collapse

And, despite all this, for some reason, I signed up for NaNoWriMo

In the past few days I’ve been looking to find out more about what I’ll need to do for my Elementary Education major. At the end of this semester, I’ll have enough credits to be classified as a Junior.

So, in the class I’m taking (my first one on teaching), Applied Learning Theory, I asked some of the others if they knew the details since they were talking about other classes and seemed to already know / already into it. One guy let me copy his list of classes required and one of the girls explained to me the first exam listed. She said that you have to take it before entering into the program, and then after the test you get an advisor and they explain more of the details / help you pick out what classes are best for you.

So, I look up this test on our school website. According to the site, you have to take the test to be admitted into the program (as she said), but contact your program advisor (which you can’t get until you are in the program) for more information on the test. ?

Then, I read on, and find that I also have to take a Florida mandatory test called the CLAST. It gives the passing scores but not what the scores are out of. After digging away on Google, I find out. It’s basically a 73% passing on three of the subtests but I still can’t find out about the essay. Passing is a 6. 6 out of what?

Then, I find (on the school website) a list of required classes. However, these add on many classes to what the paper the guy gave me said. This is supposed to be a two year thing but all the classes required make it more like three. So, I’m basically looking ahead into the future at complete overload:
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