Extra Credit.

So I vaguely remember some of my high school teachers refusing to give us extra credit because "they don't give extra credit in college."

I got a 68% on my biology lab final. It dropped my overall grade to 104%.

Extra credit is alive and well in college, my friends. Alive and well.

Tip of the Day: If extra credit is ever offered, DO IT. It will probably help you a lot.

But since the semester is over and this is slightly irrelevant now, a better tip of the day would be to enjoy the month or so off!

Grown up.

So I've felt like I've really grown up and matured as a person over the past few months. You know, you have all these new experiences and adjustments and everything, I don't think it's possible not to change at least a little bit.

I learned the same is not true for boys today when we were learning about the reproductive system in biology lab.

Boys do not grow up. They are hilarious, yes. Mature...not so much.

But I'm ok with that. It keeps things interesting.

Tip of the Day: Hang out with boys, just don't take them seriously or expect them to be responsible. I haven't decided if you should trust them or not. I'm leaning towards no.

Back to school...sort of.

Today was our first day back after fall break. It was kind of disappointing. It even rained all day, which I think that means we shouldn't have come back to school.

Fall break was amazing. It was kind of crazy since practically everyone went home, so it was pretty empty here. I think there were like 3 girls on my floor that stayed. I wasn't here very much though, so it wasn't bad.

I also had a bio test today, and I answered 20 of the 50 questions with "e, all of these." So hopefully our teacher just really likes having questions with that as an answer, cuz that kind of made me nervous.

Oh, and apparently our dorm is haunted, so they're doing ghost tours tonight. Can't wait!

Tip of the Day: Don't listen to the weather report. Open the window instead. I checked online this morning and it said it was 61 degrees out. It definitely wasn't.

Homework!

So this is the first time I've actually had legit amounts of stuff to do.

I've literally been spending like 5 hours a day on homework since Saturday. It sucks.

I had a 5 page paper (3 hours), a powerpoint/research project (5+ hours), a French presentation (1 hour), an online quiz (half an hour), and a biology lab write up (1 hour so far and I have half a page done...it was a 12 page lab and we also have to graphs and explanations...it's due tomorrow...fml).

And it sucks because I didn't even leave all this stuff for the last minute. I've been working on all of it for days.... ugh.

Sleep is overrated anyway.

Tip of the Day: Don't take BIOS 101. The class is great. The lab is horrible.

Gettin outta here...

So I've officially decided that I need to get out of Lincoln, Nebraska.

There's nothing wrong with it, except I've lived here for eight years and I'm going to school here and I need to be somewhere else. I'm just tired of it.

I'm not gonna go transfer schools or anything, I love UNL and all the people here, I'm just kind of stuck in a rut. (Ah cliche. We learned not to use cliches today in English class, but I think it works).

So I'm going to France this summer.

Hopefully.

I think I can swing it so I can go and take classes and live in France for like a month and get an automatic minor, so it's educational, right?

That just means I need to get a job like...now. And I really don't want to.

:Sigh:

If France doesn't work out, I'm going to go do biology for a few weeks this summer up at Cedar Point in Western Nebraska. Not quite as cool as Arles, France, but still, somethin' different.

Tip of the Day: Do something different every day. Shake things up a bit.

Wednesdays.

I officially hate Wednesdays.  Not only are they the middle of the week, but my Wednesdays are my biology days...meaning I'm in class until 5:30.  Not so much fun.

My normal M-W-F schedule is:

French at 9:30

English at 12:30

Biology at 1:30

Not so bad, right?

Wednesdays, I get Biology Lab at 2:30...which lasts until...5:30.  Ugh.

I think I've expressed my feelings about biology lab. (I don't like it)  

Today we squished termites.  Yep, termites.  We squished them.  Our lab procedure honestly said "....and this will result in a termite squish!"  (Yep, with the exclamation point, like it's some really cool, exciting thing)

I really don't like squishing things, and they crunched!  Did you know termites are crunchy?  I definitely didn't, and I definitely would've been just fine not knowing that.  

We actually had to pick out a live termite, put it on a microscope slide, drip some salt water on it, and then put another slide on top of it, and squish it!!  And it crunched!!  (Sorry, I still can't get over that)

It was awful.

Tip of the Day: Make sure you know exactly what you're getting from the dining hall before you eat it.  (This is not related to the termite story, they just get a little...uh...creative with their cooking sometimes)

What I learned in school today...

I just got back from my biology lab where we literally spent almost three hours "learning" how to measure stuff.  I'm not even kidding, we had to learn about the metric system and scientific notation.  And then we weighed pecans and measured the length of dead animals they borrowed from the museum.  I'm pretty sure we did that in like 6th grade... well not the dead animal part, just the measuring.  I guess that's why it's Biology 101...

On a related note, I also learned it's a good idea to invest in an umbrella.  The city of Lincoln had a freaking monsoon this morning, and trekking across campus in the rain is not a whole lot of fun.

Tip of the Day: Always know where you're going.  I went on a run last night, and I started out on this bike path and I just decided to see where it went.  I ended up in the sketchiest neighborhood ever.  And instead of just turning and making a loop back to campus, there was a huge, fenced-in train yard so I had to end up going like a mile out of the way.  But I survived and I made it back.

Now I'm off to dinner and yoga class....whoo hoo!