Exams, Brownies and Birthdays

Sept 20
Got my Soc exam back and I did better than I thought :). Ditto with my Lithuanian quiz. Pretty good way to start the week, too bad it’s only going to get a lot worse very soon…

Sept 21

Thanks to Calvin’s massive craving for brownies, a few study abroads got together to attempt to make some. We had most of the ingredients, kind of, or at least similar enough for us to attempt the recipe. Though most people here had no idea what brownies were, I believe, “a super moist, fudgey chocolate cake” kinda helps explain it. But, they didn’t quite turn out as normal brownies usually do. We’ll have another attempt at perfecting the recipe. But hey, they weren’t a total failure. Oh, and we’ll actually try to watch the movie which was the whole point of the evening. Well, that and studying…

Sept 22

My life is officially exploding. Here’s what my life looks like for the next two weeks:

          Thursday: Motivation and Emotion exam; Social Research exam; leave for Latvia and Estonia around 10. Friday-Sunday: travel around, perhaps go to Finland also? Attempt to study for… Monday: World Literature exam; Cross-Cultural Seminar presentation… Tuesday: Social Research proposal paper due… Wednesday: Lithuanian quiz; World Lit paper; leave for “4 for 4 Countries” trip including… Thursday-Monday morning: traveling around Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia… Monday: go to class after a severe sleep deprived weekend… Tuesday: Motivation presentation… Wednesday: Lithuanian quiz… Friday: Sociology project paper. Saturday: pass out… Sunday: study for Lithuanian midterm. So in about 2ish weeks, my life will become more manageable again. Until then… I don’t even want to think about it.

I don’t mean to complain because I know I’m very lucky and I love traveling, but I’m sorry, I think my academic life majorly sucks right now. You’re probably wondering why I’m taking my academics so seriously while I’m studying abroad, and everyone else keeps asking me this, but my answer is I just can’t help it. They are still real classes, and the grades are still counting towards my GPA. Call me an overachiever if you want, but hey, I am who I am. One of my best/worst qualities is caring more than I should.

Sept 23

Don’t ask me when I wrote this. All I have to say is I’m sick of studying…

I love it when what I studied isn’t on the exam. That’s how I felt through both tests, but we’ll see how I did on Tuesday, so til then, I don’t care anymore. I still need to pack for this weekend trip. We leave tonight at 10, and I still need to write a paper to send to my research partner before then. But, I did buy the tickets I needed for my trip next week. I’ll talk more about that during next week’s post. Oh, and the reason why this post is shorter than usual is because I figured I would have some pretty exciting stories to tell from my weekend trip, so I’ll let that be a special weekend post when I come back. A very special weekend ;)

P.S. Happy 20^th Birthday Squini, my fellow Birthday Girl :), and Happy 21^st Birthday Chelsea the day after!! Sorry I couldn’t be there to celebrate them with you!!!! I’ll make it up to you, I promise ;)