One Week Down. One Week To Go.

Finals start next week. I have a final paper due in IS on monday a spanish final this Thursday. On Friday I have a Biology final and a presentation for IS. Then next Monday I have my Chemistry final and then I am officially free to go on break. I have to finish all of my community service hours this break and I WILL be working over this break if it is the death of me because I will not be able to have a sufficient cash supply without it. But this time over break I won't have to worry about any school work because classes will have just gotten over and then on top of that we get a longer break and its Christmas so it just automatically just makes it better. I am just really excited for this break and I can't wait for it to be here because a break with all the crap that is going on lately would be GREATLY appreciated.

First Week Back

So the first week back from Thanksgiving break is almost over and so far it has been a very very long week. I have been struggling with just about everything there is to struggle with. My relationship, friends, and school/homework. I feel like I am just constantly "dragging ass" as I have been describing my struggle and am just finding it hard to do even normal, everyday tasks like doing homework, taking notes in class and even just being social. Hopefully I am able to pick up enough slack to make it through all my homework and keep on track with it.

Back to School

Well, I just got back and I have all my stuff in my room again. I'm not finished unpacking and putting it all back quite yet but hopefully I'll get some of it done tonight and then I will finish all of the rest tomorrow. Thanksgiving break didn't feel like it was as long as I thought it was but I did manage to get some productive stuff done. I finished all of my Christmas shopping for my family, although I still don't know what to do for all my friends, I also got some school work done. I got my service paper done for IS, I did a blog and right now I'm finishing up my last one for this week, I have everything ready to write my final paper and even watched the movie for my book, and I finally managed to get my community service hours all ready and set up so that I can complete the twenty hours over winter break. I only slacked on one thing which was to write my convocational review and so I think I'm going to write that tonight to get it done so I have more time to focus on my other work this week.

Community Service

Tomorrow I finally start my community service hours. I am supposed to go around taking down signs, flyers and posters down off of light posts, telephone poles, and other places that they aren't supposed to be all around downtown Iowa City. I need to do a total of 20 hours of community service by January 15th. I'm not exactly sure how many hours I will actually be able to do. Im hoping to get as many hours done as I can but considering the task and how cold it is outside I'm not sure if I will even get 10 hours done. Hopefully I will have enough done that I can easily finish my hours over Christmas break.

Thanksgiving Break is here!

Thanksgiving break starts after classes tomorrow! I have been struggling this whole week to keep going and keep up with school work and not just give up and slack off. Now it is only one day away and I won't have to worry as much about finishing homework assignments until break is coming to an end. I get to go home and relax, see my girlfriend, see my family and complete some, if not all, of my 20 community service hours that I need to do. Maybe I will be able to work some too. I can't wait to eat all of the delicious food, to not have classes, and to go Black Friday shopping for the second time ever.

Trying to Figure out What to Give and Get for Christmas

Christmas is around the corner and I have to attempt to think of things to tell my family that I want for Christmas. I have a pretty steep deadline too because once Thanksgiving comes I know everyone is going to be asking me what I want and if I don't know I'm going to be subjected to looking at ads half the time I'm at our Thanksgiving. I don't really need anything or have anything that I really want. The only thing I really need is money. So I can make that into a few items: money, Walmart gift cards, Casey's gas cards, and gift cards to other stores I like. I don't really feel like I really want anything either maybe a new North Face jacket, clothes, Uggs and I would probably enjoy an Ipod touch, but that isn't really many things for my family to try to choose from. I also am having the issue of thinking of what to make my friends for Christmas and what to get my family. I like to make things or get cool little useful things for my friends and it's hard to think of creative, fun and useful gifts to give that they all will like.

The Mensa Struggle

There is one ongoing internal battle that every college student here at Wartburg. Where to eat. A lot of times the Mensa just doesn't have anything that seems appetizing, or they just really want to go out to eat instead. The big dilemma we all have is whether or not to go to the Mensa to eat because it is part of a package with our tuition so there is no out of pocket cost, or go out to eat because it is much more delicious and you get to pick exactly what you want but you have to pay for it out of pocket. This is definitely an ongoing struggle in my life and the lives of some of my friends as well. The lure of going out to eat is just so tempting and sometimes its really hard to keep myself from going out and spending money. To help in this issue I have decided that I am not going to allow myself to go out to eat more than 3 times a month but make it a point to go out at least one time every month to treat myself.