FREEDOM !!!!!!

It’s a Wednesday, but not just any Wednesday, it’s the LAST DAY OF CLASSES for the summer. As of 9:30 AM today, after turning in all the remaining homework I had and posting my last participation posts, I am FREE! I have been in class 7 days a week since January 8th, 2009 and am so looking forward to this break in homework and BS-ing papers daily for nit picky instructors who are searching for a reason to doc my grade. This past six weeks was by far the worst, not only in the two classes I had to take, but also in one of my two instructors.

Cultural diversity, that dreaded general education requirement, and Western Geography, seem like harmless classes on the surface. I was hoping to learn at least something from each of them though I wasn’t looking forward to taking them in the least. I began the first week with an open mind and hoped for the best. Unfortunately, I quickly discovered that I had landed in the class of a nit picky instructor who gives 0 credit for posts with spelling or typo errors, not just reduced credit for the assignment but NO credit for it even for one simple spelling mistake or forgotten comma. As a natural born writer, even I had trouble with this in the first week and after much loud complaining from every student in the class, she began to simply give partial credit for these simple mistakes rather that pretending you didn’t do the assignment at all. With a possible 1000 points in this six week class, I managed to fail the first week and bring my final grade up into the B or B- territory.

Western Geography is a course that didn’t excite me, geography never does. However, it fit nicely with cultural diversity and I am glad that I decided to take them together. Some assignments overlapped a bit and I managed to get all the homework done with a lighter load some weeks thanks to already writing that paper for cultural diversity the week prior. I began this class with a near perfect score in the first two weeks, and found myself slacking off so that I could spend more time on Cultural Diversity assignments. This unfortunately meant that my near perfect score has dropped to the B range in this class as well. I suppose I can handle trading an A+ and an F for two B somethings, it seems like a fair trade and will result in men NOT having to retake either class again.

Classes now over I can once again refocus on things I like to do, and possibly have time to knock out the writing project I started last December and dropped cold about even weeks ago. I have volunteered to take on the Facebook group page development for DOB Detroit, a group Jen and I are members of, and I have a meeting after work Thursday with a potential client to begin development of his company’s web site. It’s not a paying job per say, more like a I’ll do your basic site design if you come help replace my door wall and sub floor from water damage deal. It works out for both of us really. I get my door wall replaced, Dad could use the help, and he gets a web presence for his company. Oh and I can add it to my portfolio of web design projects for future use as a self employed freelance designer … win-win as I see it.