silentdescant | Entries tagged with class: comm 103

college quarter grades and SAT scores!!! I win. :D except, I'm going to take the SAT again in the fall because I wanna do better. >.< I think I'm also gonna take the ACT then too, which is like the SAT, only not really. LOL anyway, onto the scores...

( this quarter's grades )

( SAT scores )

oh, so, a random funny story about the SAT: the room I took it in was an English-as-a-second-language classroom, so there were alphabet posters and stuff that you might find in an elementary school. anyway. it's me and about 12 other teenagers, and we have to copy out this statement that says we won't cheat or whatever. except the rule states that it has to be copied out IN CURSIVE. >.< the funny/sad part: barely any of us could WRITE in cursive, and we had to use those stupid posters in order to write the letters correctly. LOL printing is so much better. and typing's even better than that. cursive is just... hard. lol it took us longer than the allotted time to complete the statement. >.< hahahahaha

( college search stuff )

also, an interesting and amusing tidbit: Tony's parents (and mine) all went to Georgia Tech, whose mascot is a yellow jacket; SCAD's mascot is a bee; and the place where Tony wants to go, Southern Polytechnic, has a hornet. I find that very amusing. LOL goes to show how easily amused I am...

also! thank you all for the feel-better-wishes and the prompts! am working on those now. and I do feel better. :) ♥

Current Mood: ecstatic

1) an email from my professor:

Thanks Jennifer. Ironically, I just found the grade recorded in my "old" grade book from the first half of the quarter - but thanks a lot for sending it! You've done wonderfully this quarter! You've received the best grades not only on the essays, but on the exams as well! Wish I could have you in all my classes.

at the moment, I'm at like 105% in that class, LOL! I can totally bomb the group presentation on Monday and still get an A+. *\o/*

and 2)

USA Today recommended that Dom get an Emmy nomination. (via

domweek)

also, 3) I got compliments from just about everybody at the shoot about my dress. *\o/* For the first shoot (my unit's), the teacher said something like "oh, you look cute," and for the second shoot, when I'd changed into my pretty Chinese dress, he was like "oh, that color looks really good on you," and all that and I was like *BIG GRIN*

annnd, 4) last day of shooting is tomorrow, and I also have another secret movie festival thing, and then a psychology final on Thursday and that's fucking IT. I'm so ready for summer omg.

I love my professor. Even if he is a bit scattered at times...

This is just terrific, Jennifer - well written with excellent observations throughout. I'm giving you a 100% on this but, you know, you never turned in your first essay. With your high grades it would be a shame to see your grade lowered a great deal. Try to send it to me via email ASAP.

Um, yeah, I sent in my other essay and got a grade on it already; 97%. >.< But anyway, YAY 100% on this one!!! (this is the one about the book that I never even read, LOL!)

( some stressful school stuff )

OH YEAH. I nearly forgot. Tomorrow, I AM GOING TO SEE THE POLICE IN CONCERT. *\o/* Which I toootallly forgot about until about a week ago, and even then, I thought it was next week-Thursday instead of tomorrow-Thursday. But yeah, that should be VERY FUN, and kind of a celebration for the end of classes. Even though I'm not completely finished until next Thursday. At least all of my stressful work is done, now's just a time for doing as much backdated work as I can before the end of the quarter.

Filming on Sat/Sun. Cute Guy is an idiot and forgot to return the light kit the other day; I'm hoping he didn't have to pay the $200 late fee, but then again, he kinda deserves it for being such a flake. >.< Oh, but on Sunday, I have to bring a dress suitable for being an extra in a prom scene. I only have one dress, and it's a Chinese dress that I wore to the last piano recital. Luckily, it fits and everything just fine. I just hope it's appropriate...

Psych final on Thursday, and then THAT'S IT FOR SCHOOL. omg I really really really really really can't wait. My mom even said, "Thursday evening, you can read whatever you want, write whatever you want, go on livejournal, and chat with whoever." hahahaha YAYNESS. but then she said, "but not until Thrusday evening." >.< ONE WEEK UNTIL FREEDOM OMG. There's gonna be a party, just you wait and see.

Current Music: VAST - Flames

art show is friday thru sunday, and i'm going to be painting (in public with people watching me omgggg) sometime on fri, i think. but anyway. the boromir picture that i never finished is now semi-complete. enough for the art show, anyway. >.< my mom woke me up at 6:30 and said i should finish it up so she could take it to my art teacher today. >.< poor boromir looked like patchy from lost for the looongest time. i couldn't ever get his right eye to line up with his left. >.< still didn't, but at least he HAS an eye now, lol. i'm sure i'll have pictures soon.

have to write an essay by tomorrow night on a book that i'm only about 25 pages into. *dies*

( mini-rant about lost... well, more about the theorists, really )

ok, so anyway. last week of classes is this week and next week is finals (of which i only have one, i think), so OMGYAY.

( my schedule )

also, my mom and i looked at my grades so far for psychology and media & messages and if i can pull out a high-B or (hopefully) an A, i'll get an A in both of those classes. \o/ i got a 97/100 for my research project in psych, but none of the other students commented on it, which makes me sad. >.< and i have no idea where i'm at for english, because i can't even stomach looking at all the things i've missed...

i'll talk about my film shoots later, because OMG I HAVE TO STUDY NOW. and i know i say i'll do stuff later ALL THE TIME, and then never do, but it's the last week of classes, so after this, i'll have about ten years of free time. LOL

*sigh*

I finally went to bed around 3am. *headdesk* I'm honestly not worried about my own journal and most of the comms that I'm a member of being affected by this mess. For some reason, though, I've been following the whole thing closely and I even made a link-post of my own! Why? No idea. I guess to make it easier for me (and hopefully you) to stay in the loop. So anyway, after an hour this morning of checking things out and updating links, I'm gonna do my usual random RL post.

Yesterday: had auditions - only two people came in (I'm not counting the two 5-year-olds, but they were so adorable), so we had to cast them. Filming starts on Sat, and we don't have half the cast set yet... >.< Also, the evil producer girl was acting decidedly un-evil, which unnerved me a bit. Maybe she was in a bad mood when she sent that email? Maybe her English is really that bad? Dunno. But she was acting perfectly polite and everything, so. Strange.

Today: ack, English paper due by tonight! Oh noes! Also, class today - meeting in groups (again, oh joy.). I still haven't taken detailed notes on the movie we're analyzing (The Butterfly Effect). I'll have to do that before noon...

3 more weeks of school (or thereabouts). I really cannot wait for summer.

also! At the end of my second week of Weight Watchers, I'm down another 2 pounds. I'm feeling rather good about this. :D

eta: OMG. I totally forgot that there was a test today in Media. Fucking hell. *facepalm*

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and finally, I love you all. :) Thanks for being here and everything. /sappy omg >.<

♥

Current Music: The Beach Boys - God Only Knows

so it looks like i'm at least going to survive the test tomorrow. i've been getting high 3's and low 4s (out of 5) on the practice tests, and 3 is the passing grade. so now the question is just how WELL i'm going to do, because i think i will end up passing (yayomg).

i've also finally gotten into a routine in psychology, but the problem with my routine is that i haven't been reading the chapter until about two hours before the quiz. >.< somehow i'm managing, though. and hopefully after the bio test i'll be able to devote more time to psych.

tomorrow will be the first day of intentionally skipping a class. with my favorite professor too! *headdesk* i told him and he says it's fine, but i wanna know what i'm missing!! although it will be nice NOT to be with my group. i don't like my group. and i really wish the final wasn't a group project. i work better on my own than with idiots. and i'm sorry, but why does it always end up with the good students paired with the really horrible ones? *headdesk again*

also,

babybrothalova - i may email you a bit of one of the fics that i'm working on, because i don't think it's working out right... >.< but i dunno when i'll be emailing it, so don't hold your breath, lol. just didn't want it to be a total surprise when i did email it. *g*

and speaking of writing. runaway is kinda sorta almost done. except for the end. lol. but it really shouldn't be too much longer. i hope. i just wanna get it finished so i can not worry about it any more. *sigh* i'll work on it some more soon, i promise.

Current Music: Howard Shore - A Journey In The Dark

First of all, Cute Guy is going to be Dead Guy very soon, because he didn't do what I SPECIFICALLY told him to do, which was to give my right email address to the producer. So she's been emailing me, but to the wrong address, and I haven't gotten any of it. So I talked to her today and gave her my private email address, which I didn't want to do, and she gave me the script with her and the director's notes on it to rewrite by tomorrow or Wednesday. It's not gonna be hard, per se, but omg I'm annoyed at ~~Cute~~ Dead Guy.

Another email problem: I emailed my essay to my prof (who was wearing a cute corduroy jacket today ~~I don't have a crush on him, I swear!)~~ last week, and never got a reply, which I didn't think was too weird, but still, I kind of expected a "thanks, I got your email" kind of thing. Anyway, he was handing back everyone's essays today, and when he got to the end of the stack, mine wasn't there! He asked me if I sent him one, and I said yes, and then he gave me a different email address to send it to. So now I've resent the essay from both the school email and my personal email, to both his school email and his personal email. OMG EMAIL.

Had a big talk with my mom about my friend and why she's grounded and what kinds of problems her family's having and omg it's just so COMPLICATED. (Tiffany: you can't tell anyone ANYTHING about this, because I'm not supposed to know, and nobody's supposed to talk about anything at all, which is why everything's a problem in the first place.) Mainly the problem is with the group of friends that this girl hangs out with. I think they're all guys, and they're all older than her, and they're all like, high school drop-outs or failing out of high-school, and their idea of fun isn't what I would call fun at all. Anyway, she hangs out with them all the time, and basically they're getting her into trouble, and there's a whole peer pressure issue, and I wish she would just hang out with me, but that's inconvenient because I live 45 min away while all these guys are like, 2 min away. >.< *sigh*

And last but not least, I'm going to get rid of my Rock & Roll icon, but I dunno what to replace it with. Also, I was an idiot and only saved these as .jpeg and not .psd, so I'm going to have to try to remake it if I want to change anything. *facepalm*

( eight personalized icons )

So, opinions on any of these? suggestions? different pictures I should use? anything, please.

ps: ~~I'm still workin' on fixing my index. >.<~~ HA! Index is fixed and I am PROUD. AND, I have the raw html saved so I can just add to it there and copy/paste it in. \o/

apparently I wrote my school-issued email address wrong on the contact info sheet last night, so I haven't gotten any emails. well at least now I know that I'm not being ignored or anything... >.< so, have txted Cute Guy with my CORRECT email address, so he should be hooking me up with the group any time now. O.o

both essays are close to being done. 1 needs a final touch-up before 5pm, and the other needs a little bit of finessing before 11pm. and then I should be mostly caught up with schoolwork (except biology, because biology is a bastard). I'm hoping that once I get on my right schedule with all my work and stuff that things will go a bit easier, especially after the biology test, which is in like, three weeks. *cue major panic attack*

well, kinda.

I'll give you a list.

1) I got the Script Supervisor position in my production unit! *dances around omg*
2) I have Cute Guy from last quarter in my unit! *giggles* he is camera operator. dunno how that's gonna work out for him...
3) I do NOT have the scriptwriter or the annoying suck-up girl in my unit! \o/ (which is really good, because in this first production meeting, we TOTALLY tore apart her script. sorry! >.<)
4) it seems like my group pretty much agrees with me on the poor quality of the script.
5) I'm going to be the official script rewriter!! *dances around more omg*
6) the director, who I'm going to be working closely with, is both cute (\o/) and he seems like he'll be easy to work with, so yay!
7) even though the teacher switches from total wanker to awesome in the blink of an eye, he was mostly awesome today. and, he mentioned his wife, which totally surprised me, because he was acting a bit gay. LOL

so, other stuff:

my unit seems generally awesome. yay! the script = crap, but at least we all agree! one of the French girls (of which there are 4 in this class, I think) is the producer, and she seems very organized and on-task, so yay!

during the script read-through, I got assigned the LEAD ROLE. wtf! I am not an actress. >.< but the producer chose me because there are only three girls in the class (including her), and I'm the only one with English as a first language, therefore, lead character = me. >.< luckily, I think this was a one-time read-through, and we're not going to do that again until we have ACTUAL actors.

OH, at the beginning of class, the teacher handed out standardized tests! WTF! apparently our class was RANDOMLY CHOSEN to do a test on SCIENCE. we are a MOVIE-MAKING class. we do not do science. >.< I think I actually got a lot of the questions right (that I answered), and it did help being somewhat of a science-type-person, and also that I took Astronomy a while back.... but luckily this test won't be graded; it's just for the college's general... info or something or other. I dunno. I wished we'd gotten to take the writing section though, I could'a aced that.

UNFORTUNATELY, I realized that I have 2 essays due tomorrow: one just needs a conclusion, but the other needs to be written period. it only has to be 2 pages though (I was like "really? REALLY? YAY!"), but I still need to think of something to SAY, y'know? but anyway, 2 essays due tomorrow, and I'm gonna be gone alllllll morning doing biology. fuck. also, I hafta post stuff in psych tonight too. *headdesk* oh, and I gave my movie unit my school email address, which means I'm actually going to have to check that email address. >.< hopefully I can figure out some kind of rule to make it auto-forward to my normal one. O.o

1.5 hours until midnight. first order of business: psych posting. 2nd: Media & Messages paper, because it would be better to turn in a first draft than nothing at all. 3rd: English paper, because even though it's crap right now, at least it's partially written. *runs off*

lotr book test tomorrow, but it's open-book, so yayness.

just barely got in my psych and english posts before midnight tonight, even though they were supposed to be done this MORNING. instead, i watched Lost, since i was still 2 weeks behind. i then geeked out and watched

( spoilers )

i've also been listening to my "midnight storm" cd, which is classical music with thunder sounds over parts of it, and it's really cool and a great find at a library book sale. anyways, i have much love for Bach's Toccata & Fugue in D minor, and of course, Beethoven's 5th. and actually, there's a Mozart song on here that i really love, even though i'm not really a Mozart kind of girl. he's usually too happy-sounding for my taste. Beethoven's my fav because i can PLAY some of his stuff (moonlight sonata, and actually now that i said that, i'm surprised that's not on this cd!). /music geek omg

but anyway, i was mentioning the music because it kinda gets me in the zone for writing that new church monaboyd fic, which is a completely different style than i usually write in, so i have to concentrate to keep consistent. and Raquel said she likes the new style, and that it is very different, so it's not just my imagination. and now i'm all happy from that little review, so yay for writing.

and speaking of writing, i just remembered i have an essay about lighting in one scene of a film of my choice due by wednesday. and i haven't picked a movie yet. i'm going to watch Contact again, even though it's on vhs, because i seem to remember some dramatic lighting in that, and just because i love it and want to watch it again. i also have Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, which is black and white and should have some really good lighting, plus director commentary so maybe i can pull stuff from that for my essay.

oh, back to the music for a second. anybody know what the song is that's played in the background of the new lost promos? i've heard it before, i know i have, but i can't place it and now i really want that song. because it's pretty. *g*

and omg, tiffany i'm sorrrrrry. i meant to copy the table of contents yesterday, and then today, and now i've totally forgotten until now. >.< i WILL scan tomorrow. or something. sorrrrryyyyyyy. >.<

( news about Tony's Vex and FRC teams )

( today's SIFF Volunteer Orientation )

( Easter weekend; WSU visit and a dog trail )

( interesting stuff in class )

( random stuff about my favorite prof )

And last but not least, a meme snagged from a few people including

babybrothalova and

rebel_blue

Comment and I'll--
1 - Tell you why I friended you. Assuming I can remember :)
2 - Associate you with something. A fandom, a song, a colour, a piece of fruit. SOMETHING.
3 - Tell you something I like about you.
4 - Tell you a memory I have of you.
5 - Associate you with a character/pairing.
6 - Ask something I've always wanted to know about you. (Or else I'll just ask a random question. I reserve that right.)
7 - Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
8 - In return, you must post this in your own LJ.

eta: OKAY I REMEMBERED. At the SIFF thing today, I WON SOMETHING. I was all "OMG RLY?" LOL. I had a ticket taped under my chair, so I went up to the front desk and she pulls out this huge bag and is like "Oooh yay, here's some swag!" The contents: Turner Classic Movies SceneIt (OMG YAY, even though I already have the original SceneIt; my dad will love this one. also, I can't believe they're giving away SCENEIT! lol), a SIFF t-shirt (and omg, it's my size. O_O), a $3 Starbucks Gift Card (meh, whatever. I'll use it sometime, I guess.), and two MORE tickets to the Janus Film Festival (I already have a bunch from volunteering and going to that other swag thing.), oh, and also, a pen. LOL!

omg, I STILL haven't gotten back to a bunch of comments. I'm sorry! I'll reply eventually, really.

Making Movies
( list + notes )

( non-spoilery comments for a Coppola film, The Conversation )

Media & Messages
( list + notes )

English Expository whatever the class title is >.<

um.. not much goin' on here yet.

readings to do, but haven't done them so far. >.<

Psychology

semi-yay for interesting textbooks! and I'd read about John Locke (Lost) being named after a psychology person, but now that this John Locke is in my textbook, it's phenomenally more interesting. lol

the prof sounds nice, but she seems to expect a lot. >.<

Biology

do I even have to say anything here?

approx. 5 weeks until death.

Other news: yay for flatscreen monitors. I have sooo much more room on my desk now, and I even organized my little bookshelf thingy with all my current textbooks instead of the ones from three years ago! \o/ Also, computer memory got fixed a bit, so my computer's much faster now. \o/ Also, WSU visit on... Friday. Dunno how it's gonna go, as I've never really visited a college before as a prospective student. O.o

Raquel news: She got off the plane and the locals immediately recognized her as queen and declared their loyalty. Revolt expected. ♥

Current Music: Moby - Porcelain

First day of class. yay! For the one "class" I have on-campus, I have the same instructor as my last quarter's scriptwriting class, and since he was my FAVORITE EVER, this is a Very Good Thing. The class is: Media & Messages, and he's gonna talk about things like how colour schemes affect emotion and stuff like that. Today, he talked about violence and censorship, so that was interesting. An interesting note that I kinda already knew: in the US, it's pretty much okay to show violence, but NO SEX WHATSOEVER, whereas in the UK, you can show sex, only no (or less) violence. >.<

My other two classes are both online, which is both good and bad. Today, I tried to go online to check everything out and get assignments, but there was a problem. A couple of Vista's servers are down, so NOBODY has access to the online classes. >.< This is what my tech-support email said:

Instructors are getting updates every few hours via the faculty list serve we have for them. Everyone is in the same situation, and the suggestion from my office staff is to "read chapter 1 and then try again later tonight or tomorrow."

LOL, good advice, techies. *giggles* Hopefully everything will be working tomorrow. >.<

My last class starts tomorrow; the Movie Making class, where we'll be making a movie from start to finish, using a script written by a girl in my script class (who also happens to be in this Media & Messages class). Dunno how that's gonna work out. Annoying Old Guy from last quarter's classes is apparently going to take this class, so that'll be a nightmare. Oh, and Annoying Superman Guy is in Media & Messages. OH FUN. I asked him about his grades from the last class (because I didn't really rate him very high on the peer review), and he said he hasn't even checked yet! I was very "wtf!?" because when your grades come out, you go check them ASAP, right? I certainly do. >.<

Biology is still teh suckage, so nothing new to report there. Other than class has been moved from Friday to Wednesday this week, because I'm gonna be gone on Friday. And Sat and Sun. Somewhere in that time, I'm going to take some kind of tour of WSU, which means I need to do a little tiny bit of research on their media/english program before I go. >.<

And I just realized I ended every paragraph with a ">.<" LOL and now it looks like it has ears. O.o

Also, I haven't replied to comments yet. I'm sorry! I'll be dealing with some email/comments shortly...

eta: oh, Billy, PLEASE DO THIS this year. thank you. *diez* LOL
ps: nsfw, btw.

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things that make me very happy...
yay grades!
*flops* SCHOOL.
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mini-lost-rant and my finals schedule
a non-fanish post
highs and lows
school, school, school, and WRITING!
some RL stuff and some icons
oops
I am happpppy
ramblings of the day
some news, and a meme
class updates
school starts... again

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Entries tagged with class: comm 103

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things that make me very happy...

yay grades!

flops SCHOOL.

blah blah art blah blah blah

mini-lost-rant and my finals schedule

a non-fanish post

highs and lows

school, school, school, and WRITING!

some RL stuff and some icons

oops

I am happpppy

ramblings of the day

some news, and a meme

class updates

school starts... again