extra credit results

9 points out of 12.

hell yeah.

extra credit

My professor offered an opportunity for extra credit (pretty rare in the college world). Basically, we had to get in groups and prepare for an oral exam based off of our very first test. We can get an extra 12 points (not percentage points, just points) added to our grade. Getting the whole 12 would (assuming I get a C or higher on the final on wednesday) secure me an A for the year- so I’m really hoping that my group is ready!

that’s one of the problems with group work- it can either be super productive and take a huge load off (if everyone participates), or it can leave 1-2 people super stressed and doing all the work. In this case, another member and myself were the only ones who showed up to meetings and we basically did all the work, which sucked.

We were really nervous about the other two members- we didn’t care if they did the work, we just wanted them to study the answers so we do well in the oral exam. Luckily, one of them backed out this morning, and we don’t get penalized if someone flakes out, so that makes me feel better. The other member seems to need the points a lot, so I hope that he pulls through as well.

Off to the public policy building- I’ll let you know how it goes!

finally

I’m officially the SGA Vice President (as of 6pm yesterday). It feels like it too- I spent 5 straight hours doing interviews for the executive branch yesterday. (PS- if you are an incoming student and want to be part of the SGA, let me know- we deifnitely have space!).

Anyways, last night was fun- I went to a joint bday party off campus. There were a lot of people there- including some I haven’t hung out with for a while. Good times.

Tonight, I’m just hanging out with my boyfriend at his house. We just watched Midnight Meat Train (not a good movie, btw) and he’s just chilling reading a book while I type this on his laptop

Tomorrow, I’m going to be studying allllll day. I’ve already had two finals and a paper (I think I did okay on them), but I still have a 5 pg paper due Monday, a final Tuesday, and a final + 12-15 pg paper due Wednesday. Throw in SGA interviews & work, and I’m going to be pretty damn busy. I figured I might as well get as much done tomorrow as I can so I’m not stressed.

Going back to hang with the boy- ttyl!

reading day/stress free zone

So UMBC has this sweet thing known as “Reading Day”- basically it’s a day between the last day of classes (yesterday) and the first day of exams (tomorrow) where no academic events are scheduled- it’s a day intended to let people study and review for exams for a full day.
It also is a day where people can relax and go to fun events before finals start and everyone starts getting stressed out.

Speaking of stress…something that the SGA does each semester starting reading day and going to the end of finals is the Stress Free Zone. Basically, its a combination of free food, games, puzzles, crafts, and other relaxing things to let people chill out and de-stress during finals week.

I’m really excited about this SFZ because 1) The T Shirts are AWESOME (see pic below) and 2) We have dogs coming to campus at 1pm today that we can play with! We can’t have our own pets on campus (other than fish), so this should be a really fun activity.

Stress Free Zone Free T Shirt!

finished my project

hell yes. going to bed.

finals are almost here….

gotta stop…

…going out so much. Overdid it this past week. Fo’ reals.

This week will be filled with schoolwork + SGA stuff (except monday night…i’m going to have to go out for jay’s birthday).

Seriously, though. Getting my game face back on. Hold me to it, please

fml

3 exams tomorrow.

paper wednesday.

paper + exam friday.

research.

campaigning (i’m running for SGA vice president).

 

FML. 

On a serious note, that’s one thing about college that I love/hate. Even though this week will be HELL, it’s been my experience that you will only have one or two weeks a semester that are exam/paper-filled, but the rest are relatively laid back (you of course need to do reading/study, but big graded assignments tend to come all at the same time).

So, while this week sucks, I won’t have much else to do until finals. Like I said- love/hate it.

campaigning

Sorry I haven’t updated…I’ve been super busy with my campaign. Yes, that’s right, my campaign.

I’m running for Student Government Vice President in this year’s election (april 20-22). My running mate for President is Yasmin Karimian- she’s the current SGA Treasurer. We are running unopposed, which makes it easier to win (haha) but harder to get a high number of votes. We’ve been working really hard to bring people out to vote- the more people who participate in the election, the more legitimacy our SGA has with the administration (we seem more representative of the student body).

 

Anywho, we kicked off our campaign today with an event on Academic Row (where all of the classes are held). We had music, free food, candy, flyers, and really cool t-shirts to give out to people. We had a lot of students stop by, which was really exciting. Now that our kickoff event is over, however, we will be going into full force to get our name out there. We will be flyering, attending student organization meetings, gathering endorsements, handing out flyers/food to commuters in the mornings, doing interviews, and a ton more between now and April 22.

On top of that, I have a paper due tomorrow for a book I havent finished (ahhh) and 3 exams on Tuesday, plus a paper due that Friday.

Busy busy busy.

 

-Jen

 

PS our website is up- check it out!

www.umbcprovote.com

exams

Not to jinx myself or anything, but the two exams I took today….

I’m pretty sure I rocked them and got As on both. One was a logic exam (philosophy 346- really interesting class and professor, and the subject comes easily to me) and the other was a economics class dealing with finance (econ 374- not as interesting, a lot of statistics, but the way the professor set up the class makes it a lot easier).

I’m 99.9% positive I got an A on the philosophy test, and like 85% positive I got an A on the finance one. I guess 6+ hours in the library paid off

long day

Today is going to be so longgggg [[and I didn't sleep well last night, so I'm already tired]].

Here’s my day:

Class 9-950am

Class 10-1050am

Work 11-430pm

Meeting with Paula (an SGA member) 430-5pm

Short break (possibly food?) 5-5:30pm

SGA Senate Meeting 5:30-8pm

Library for Phi Sig Study Hours 8-10pm

Study more for my two exams tomorrow 10-???

BED!

and then wake up at 730 for an exam at 830….followed by another exam at 4.

 

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K i feel better now