Summer

             I know I have talked about summer a lot in my other blogs, but there is honestly nothing else to write about. Right now there is fourteen days until summer. I’m feeling a mixture of anxiety and excitement. These last two weeks I have literally so much to do. It sucks when professors wait and pile on the assignments for the last two weeks. I’ll get everything done, but it just isn’t my favorite to have seven things due all at once. Right now I have half of my paper done for this class and I’m already freaking out. But once the school year is over, I’m not done with school. My math class that I’ll be taking starts in the middle of June, so I’ll have a little break between classes. I’m so excited to just go out to the pool and relax. Since it was blazing hot in March, I hope it’s a really hot summer. A lot of my friends babysit so when I go to the pool with them they always have their kids with them. I don’t know if I’ve explained but I am not a baby person at all. I’m sure they’ll grow on me in the future, but as of right now I hate babies. I don’t have a break from my job at Student Accounts, but I’m happy about that. I love all the people I work with and it’s a chill environment. My family and I aren’t going on a vacation this summer, but my mom called me the other day and said she booked reservations for Florida for this winter break. At first I was sad because I thought we weren’t going to be home for Christmas, but we leave the 29^th. Also the Lolla lineup came out a little while ago and it looks amazing! I’m so so so excited about it this year. This summer I will be busy as ever, but I’m looking forward to it very much.  

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Choose Your Own

 

So this week was choose your own. I don't really know what to say for this blog. So I’ll just kind of ramble. This week was not too bad. I registered for classes Wednesday and I got all the classes I needed except for Economics. I was freaking out because I thought you needed Econ in order to apply for the accounting program, but come to find out I don’t. I just need 44 hours or less to apply. I really hope I can get into the class spring semester sophomore year. I know people who got to register the week after Spring Break and I’m so jealous of them. Making my schedule was a little harder because I had to leave room for a couples hours a day for work. I’m going to be living in Cardinal Court, which is so far away from campus, so I am probably going to get a bike. Over the summer I am going to still be working at the Student Accounts office at ISU and also Shoe Carnival. I think I am going to work all week at Students Accounts and then over the weekend I’ll work at Shoe Carnival for a few hours over the weekend. On top of work, I’ll be taking a math class at Heartland. So you can say I’m going to be busy as hell over summer. I hope I enjoy my summer as much as possible and hope everyone else does J   

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Close Reading and Reader Response

               I have learned many things about close reading over the past week. You observe facts and details about the text. You may focus on a particular passage, or on the text as a whole. As a college student, I have noticed a significant difference on what I notice when I am reading compared to freshmen year in high school. Back then I just skimmed through many books and literature. We dissected the text a bit, especially during junior and senior year. Now in college, we are noticing all striking features of the text, including rhetorical features, and structural elements. We are diving deeper into the text than I ever have before. I look for patterns in the things I have noticed about the text; such as repetitions, contradictions, similarities.  I ask questions about the patterns I have noticed; especially how and why. But I can’t lie, understanding everything from a certain text is hard for me. I am more of a math person, so fully understanding oppositions and correspondences, or particular historical references in texts is difficult for me. Now that I have learned how to correctly close-read, my understanding of texts have improved so much. It makes me ask more questions than ever before. This skill will take me far in my college career and also my job. Some benefits that will come from being able to understand close-reading are appreciating how a particular perspective on the events and a particular selection of facts can lead to particular understanding. I can now recognize the various ways in which each and every text is the unique creation of a unique author. Close reading puts emphasis on the particular over the general, paying close attention to individual words, syntax, and the order in which sentences and ideas unfold as they are read. This ability will take me far in life, I just know it.

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