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whogeekI'm in a strange mood, and I don't want to do laundry, or go to the dry cleaners. Or clean dishes, which are all things I should do today. So I'm posting this random ramble, because I'm procrastinating on things.
So, in the bookstore at my college they have these three display tables for the special displays/sales/new books. And that Level 26 book has been on one table for a month. And I've got to walk through the bookstore at least once every weekday except fridays to get to classes. So each time I see that book, I have to fight the urge to pick it up and buy the damn thing. And it's really annoying, because I don't have the money to buy a new book before it's in paperback, and I've still got books from last Christmas that I haven't finished reading yet, so I don't need to buy it. But I want to.
And in one of my classes, we've been writing research papers, and I think we've been going about this entirely wrong. At the beginning of the class, we were told to pick a topic that we felt strongly about, and then come up with a question about that topic, and we would write papers on those topics. Well, when you're writing an essay, it's your opinion for the most part, and you're trying to pursuade others to your point of view. When you're using source materieal for a research paper, it's less opinion and more about what the research says, but still has some type of bias. Only, some questions would be really hard to find good sources for, so it would be hard to write a good paper on that specific question. When you're going to write a research paper, you chose a broad topic- in my case, gay rights- and then focus on an area of that topic- in my case, gay couples with kids- and then try to find material on that. From your initial skim through of the materieal you find, then you figure out what question your paper will respond to, and go from there. Because, sometimes, if you chose a question first, you can't find any sources that have any sort of information on that specific topic. So the way the teachers went about having us do these papers just rubs me the wrong way.
Got to watch "Child's Play" last night, and finally caught Danny's "I went to bed at 5:30" line. Got annoyed with Lindsay when she went to talk to Danny down in the morgue.
Oh, and I've been short a roommate for almost 3 weeks. SHE'S NEVER HERE!! I mean, seriously, I feel like I'm living alone. I'm wanting to switch rooms with someone, but I'm not sure if that will happen. I'm thinking I may just switch unofficially, and tell the RA. I'd have to talk to roomie for that though, and I'm not sure what she'd think.
So I've been:
A) thinking too much
B) way too bored for my own good, and
C) vaguely annoyed at my roomie
So, in the bookstore at my college they have these three display tables for the special displays/sales/new books. And that Level 26 book has been on one table for a month. And I've got to walk through the bookstore at least once every weekday except fridays to get to classes. So each time I see that book, I have to fight the urge to pick it up and buy the damn thing. And it's really annoying, because I don't have the money to buy a new book before it's in paperback, and I've still got books from last Christmas that I haven't finished reading yet, so I don't need to buy it. But I want to.
And in one of my classes, we've been writing research papers, and I think we've been going about this entirely wrong. At the beginning of the class, we were told to pick a topic that we felt strongly about, and then come up with a question about that topic, and we would write papers on those topics. Well, when you're writing an essay, it's your opinion for the most part, and you're trying to pursuade others to your point of view. When you're using source materieal for a research paper, it's less opinion and more about what the research says, but still has some type of bias. Only, some questions would be really hard to find good sources for, so it would be hard to write a good paper on that specific question. When you're going to write a research paper, you chose a broad topic- in my case, gay rights- and then focus on an area of that topic- in my case, gay couples with kids- and then try to find material on that. From your initial skim through of the materieal you find, then you figure out what question your paper will respond to, and go from there. Because, sometimes, if you chose a question first, you can't find any sources that have any sort of information on that specific topic. So the way the teachers went about having us do these papers just rubs me the wrong way.
Got to watch "Child's Play" last night, and finally caught Danny's "I went to bed at 5:30" line. Got annoyed with Lindsay when she went to talk to Danny down in the morgue.
Oh, and I've been short a roommate for almost 3 weeks. SHE'S NEVER HERE!! I mean, seriously, I feel like I'm living alone. I'm wanting to switch rooms with someone, but I'm not sure if that will happen. I'm thinking I may just switch unofficially, and tell the RA. I'd have to talk to roomie for that though, and I'm not sure what she'd think.
So I've been:
A) thinking too much
B) way too bored for my own good, and
C) vaguely annoyed at my roomie
