Saturday, May 31, 2008

1st year of college complete!

It's been awhile since I wrote that blog post in April about how much schoolwork I had piling up. I recently realized that I never updated about how it all turned out. How very inconclusive of me. I think I will do that now. It's about time. I finished my first year of college almost a month ago!

Alright. Back when midterm grades were posted, I was a little nervous. Some of my grades weren't very good. Mostly Geology, Geology Lab, and History (Math and English were fine.) My grades weren't terrible I guess, but they weren't great either. Let's put it this way: I was passing, but It looked like if I didn't get my act together quickly, I could possibly lose my scholarship. Then as the end of the semester was approaching I had a mountain of work assigned to me which I mentioned in April. I basically was a giant ball of stress for a couple weeks and my social life pretty much vanished. It seemed like all I was doing was reading 400 page history books and writing papers.

I'm happy to report that everything ended up okay, and by okay I mean spectacular! All of my hard work paid off in the end. I got A's on all of my final papers and did well on my tests which resulted in my grades raising and I now get to keep my scholarship! Woohoo!

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Happy Earth Day

You should love the Earth today... because it's Earth Day. Go plant a tree or recycle something I guess. Shouldn't we treat every day like it's Earth Day? I mean... it kind of is Earth Day everyday. Since it's Earth... Yea... I think you get my point.



Anyway, here's a list of annoying things I have to do & worry about before I can rejoice that my first year of college is completed:
  • 5 page History paper on the Civil Rights Movement & a 400+ page book that I had to read in like 4 days. (Due 4/25)
  • Geology Lab Final (4/28)
  • Math Test (4/28)
  • 8 page English paper on a drugs, prison or gang related topic, using a movie off of my teachers list (I haven't seen ANY of them yet) as one of my sources. (Due 5/2)
  • 11 page History paper (yep same history class) on "the changing nature of citizenship in North America from the early seventeenth century through the early years of the twenty first century" (this is worth HALF of my grade.. oi) (Due 5/5)
  • Geology Final (5/7)
UGH. I hate the end of semesters. Well... I better go do all that stuff.

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Oh and P.S. I was asked to be featured on this Women of YouTube podcast thing. It's basically just 2 videos that you've already seen. But if you want to watch it you can go here. There's a little button on the left-hand side of the website that says "play." Click that and there you go. :)

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Related Channels

A lot of you YouTubers have probably noticed the somewhat new feature which is: when you subscribe to someone, a little box pops up and lists two "related channels." Well, I was curious as to what channels appear in the little box when people subscribe to me. The lovely Tina aka AurianSky, helped me out. I don't know how they figure out who's related to who, but this doesn't make a lot of sense. haha
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Monday, April 7, 2008

Entertaining YouTube Message #1


(Click it to enlarge.)

Honestly, that was a really nice message. Flattering really. But definitely made my mom and I chuckle a bit haha.