Log #15

Monday Dec. 1

today we went over the portfolio requirements. we found out that it has to be 18 pages long. "but don't put filler in." so the minimum is 16... we were told to bring our laptops in for the rest of class this semester for revising my papers. 

Wend. Dec. 3

first day of in-class revising. very quite. this was the day that i worked with casey on revising my gary sotos in class essay. it worked out great because he made me write really fast and not get side tracked which i do a lot... really bad.

Friday Dec. 5

i got all excited to go to class this day because i was ready to go papers written and done with.  i even got there about ten minutes early. and...

i forgot my laptop. 

so i sat here in this chair and watched you all for the whole class. haha

good weekend!!

casey.... i think it would be pretty sweet if you would follow our class throughout the years of english we have to take...

 if possible, you should look into that??

this is something that is hard for me to remember to do. i have been revising my papers, and i feel that my writing has improved a whole lot since to begining of this class. i am quite pround of myself:)

thanksgiving

i think that this break was needed by me... spending time with family and friends=HAPPY!!

dont get me wrong though.. i missed all of you

this was probally the best dinner my mother has ever cooked

i hope everyone had a good break:)

gangster

today was very helpful with the paper writing.. we learned a website to go on.

there was just a discussion between james and casey.. i guess james does no wanna pass this class?? hahaha

i have recently also decided no to transfer.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

yeah.. so this is the first time my internet has been working here for a while now. there are others that have a bad connection problem for some reason. weird??

well this monday we had class and it was in the "regular" class room.

tuesday, there was a fire in the one of the dorm complexes on campus.

the next day in class... it did not last very long. because of the fire, are class was moved across campus. casey told us what we had to do for the next class... which was to do peer review over aaron's and andrew's papers.

friday i walked into class a few minutes late and aaron was already reading his paper..

that was my birthday by the way:) haha

very fun class.. other than keeping us 3 minutes late...:(

yeppers...

once again i forgot to write.

this week i had a meeting with casey and he helped me with my papers tremendously. 

on friday the class seemed unusually small.

maybe no one was there? haha

todays class was the shortest english class that we have all had this year. casey seemed pretty angry?

i hope everything is alright:)

more people should go see him during his office hours.. including me

welp.. it is pretty late and i think i should go to bed

peace out!

Amanda (don't forget about me:)

today.. i was in a new group.. i liked it. they were pretty cool:)

we went over "Black Hair". i thought i talked a lot today in class, so sorry about that.

learning to what other people have to say about things really makes you learn a lot in the end

funny?

And thinking about that, makes me think about the time when that bus barely missed my toe in the middle of winter. I got to thinking that i probally would not have felt to because it was so mother f'in cold in the wilderness. Soo now saying that, how long have there been buses in the woods? Not very long said mother hen. The big snow will take over the galaxy. it wil destroy the sun and make everyone pee themselves. then jesus comes

english 101

1. very comfortable. you must know how to read to understand

2. true dat

3. useing metaphors helps people understand better what you are talking about. creates mental pictures

4. very true. when writing you must discuss the main topic and no "bunny trails"

5. revising all of the papers i have written helps alot also. everytime i look back on one i have written before, i write it even better after reading it again

6. research... helps you learn more on the subject? 

7. in this class, we work with others often. i like doing that. i feel like i learn more
8. i have learned how to write better than before, you all know that i have never written a paper before

9. i feel like i do my homework to the best of my ability

welp... let just say that this class is pretty sweet.. everyone in it is pretty nice to me

your turn article?

intro: milan, in
there needs to be more things to do around town so kids don't turn to drugs.
kids don't have enough homework.. easy a's

after school the go smoke with freinds cause there is "nothing better to do".
there are not activties to do around town
i think that people should be required to be in at least one after school activity a year... or maybe even per semester.
offer more activities after school

welp... what to say..

i was not in class on monday, due to being sick

stress sucks real hard. but i was told that mondays class was not to important. ha

yesterday, in class, ryan and i looked up Miss Teen Louisiana who got arrested for dine and dash and the mary jane.

pretty lame. she got her crown taken away.. 

i guess you can use either, 

stupid people do stupid things  or,

things happen..

i don't know.. you pick

going over the letters to the editors today made me learn alot more about writing. i wrote about the stadium parking and not i have more things to wirte about to make it not have any holes in it. my group is very helpful. sarah and lacy rock!!:)

i was not in class on friday because i had to go home for homecoming at my former high school. it was pretty sweet. i got all dressed up and my brother was up for kin. he told me that if his name was called he was going to give me a hug. his named got called and the crowd sighed in aw. (hehe)

but then he got crowned and my fam was soo happy:)

hope friday was not to boring without me. 

today in class we went over the letters to the editor questions. i had not checked my email until just about now, soo... i didn't know

??

purpose: safety

writer:Me

text: stadium

soo... yesterday in class, i got my in class writing back and it was terrible. maybe someday i will learn how to write well. we also looked at the letters to the editor. i think that writing that will give me more experience on writing good papers:)

on monday, i was in bed sick all day. i hope that nothing to big happened in class and no one missed me to much. i am now feeling a little better, but not completely. 

well # 1. i didn't write for wednsday. so here it goes...
i read my paper and everyone in the class at that time found out that i have written a paper before, kinda embarrassing??
its all good though.
today there was a disagreement in class.
if you read this, its all good:)

sitting here. bored. sick. it sucks. homework overwhelms the average college student, im sure.

yeah!!

today in class we talked about our this i believe papers. i learn some more things i could write about it make it more understanding to the readers.

i think that lacy and i helped sarah a little with her paper.

i also learned alot about jehovahs witnesses.

friday in class we watched some "this i believe" things on the internet. the tony hawk one, i found very good. when he talked about stereo types... it got me thinking.. people who are stereo typical bother me very bad because they judge people before they evey get to know them.

Today was the first in class writing assignment. i thought that i was going to be rough.. but it really wasn't to bad. i kid of feel bad for casey though because he has to read it and it probally doesn't make to much sense. i talked to a few people after call and they said they they did not do to hot on it either.

have fun casey:)

yeah!!

and this is my phone.. i love it..

the lifeline of amanda holland:)

on monday night, i left campus to go back to my home town. my brother had a baby:) she is beautiful. her name is brettlynn josine. normally i think that babys are very ugly and that they all look the same, but she was the exception. here i am... aunt amanda

Today in class, i actually learned something that could be useful later. i liked how we sat in a circle and everyone got to say what they wanted. this is going to help me finish my paper. the opinions were repeated alot, but i guess that is a good thing

Today in class, we got into our groups and talked about our papers. i learned about making my paper flow better. i hope it works:)

i am not sitting here listening to slipknot fixing it. pretty sweet huh??

writing papers stress me out.

Today, we had a big discussion about the log and blog. everyone was very confused. i thought i knew what i was doing.. but i don't think that i did. the teacher, Mr. Casey, talked about his hair many of times and i complimented him on it today. i think i might have an A now:) j/k

Mariah

This evening is was talking to my friend Mariah on the telephone and she was making EASYMAC.

We talked about the good ol' days back when we were at Milan High School. She was telling me about IUPUI because that is where she is going. It interests me. Transferring sounds nice.