School is ridiculous. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love it, and I'm actually happy that I'll be in it for at least the next seven years (oh my god, I'll be 30...), but I think there's a slight problem with the format. For September and October, I'm excited about school, I do all my reading, I get into the material. I'm not yet swamped with stuff, so I do extra thinking and reading. Then midterms come. And papers. And assignments. And tests. And no free time and I'm behind on my reading and I'll never catch up at this rate and oh my god that paper is due in two days?! And I fall asleep in classes or spend them half-listening, half-studying for the test in the next class, and I don't do extra reading or really ponder what is being presented to me, and so it never soaks in and I miss all of these astounding thoughts because I just don't have the energy to invest the time and effort needed to really get them. I hate that, because that's the part of school that I like, and it's the first thing to get ditched when the semester gets crazy.

So, I think that should change. Surely there's a better way to structure it.

In other news, I got some marks back:

Language, Power and Persuasion midterm: A+
Phonological Analysis midterm: B+
Grammatical Analysis midterm: B+

So, yeah. That'll work for grad school applications. B+ is the bare minimum for grad school, by the way. I'm hoping that my assignment marks will pull my grammar/phonology marks up a bit. I'm not complaining about a B+, but when you know that you could pull off the A+ if you just put in a little more effort (i.e. spent my time doing homework instead of hanging out with my boyfriend), then... well, I feel a little disappointed in myself when I don't do what I think should be normal for me. When you know that you're smarter than the average bear, you kind of feel a responsibility to get the As... plus, a GPA of A or higher is almost guaranteed scholarship/bursary money, always a bonus.

Crap, I'm supposed to be writing a 15-page paper, and here I am blogging. Okay, okay, I'll get back to working on that...